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Adenovirus-mediated CD40 Ligand Immunotherapy of Prostate and Bladder Cancer
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- Dzojic, Helena, 1978- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Enheten för klinisk immunologi
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Essand, Magnus (thesis advisor)
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H Tötterman, Thomas (thesis advisor)
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- Eliopoulos, Aristides, Ass.professor (opponent)
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Basic Sciences Division, Heraklion
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- ISBN 9789155468514
- Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2007
- English 53 s.
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Series: Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, 1651-6206 ; 248
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- Cancer immunotherapy aims at reversing the immunosuppressive tumor environment and enhancing anti-tumor immunity. This thesis comprises studies on murine models for prostate (TRAMP-C2) and bladder (MB49) cancer with the aim to explore if the introduction of an adenoviral vector expressing CD40 ligand (AdCD40L) can induce anti-tumor immune responses.We show in subcutaneous mouse models that AdCD40L treatment suppresses tumor growth. Bladder cancer is known to secrete immunosuppressive IL-10 which may inhibit T cell function. We show that introducing AdCD40L into mouse bladder tumors inhibits IL-10 production and reverses immunosuppression. AdCD40L-transduced mouse prostate cancer cells showed caspase activation and reduced cell viability. Vaccination with CD40L-modified prostate cancer cells induces anti-tumor responses and protects mice against rechallenge with native TRAMP-C2 cells. In order to enhance AdCD40L therapy, we explored the possibility of combining it with the histone deacetylase inhibitor FK228, also known as depsipeptide. We show that FK228 upregulates coxsackie and adenovirus receptor expression and thereby enhances adenoviral-mediated CD40L expression in both murine and human prostate cancer cells. Increasing amounts of FK228 or AdCD40L reduces prostate cancer cell viability, while the combined treatment gives at least an additive therapeutic effect. Moreover, we show that AdCD40L transduction of prostate cancer cells induces endogenous CD40 expression and sensitize them for CD40L-mediated therapy.In order to conduct prostate-specific gene therapy, prostate-specific promoters can be used to drive transgene expression. However, there are no reports on prostate-specific promoters that are transcriptionally active in mouse cells. Here we show that by using the two-step transcription activation system (TSTA), we can enhance the activity of a recombinant human promoter sequence and obtain activity in mouse prostate cancer cells as well. This finding paves the way for future studies of prostate-specific gene therapy in immunocompetent mouse models.
Keyword
- Medicine
- immunotherapy
- gene therapy
- prostate cancer
- bladder cancer
- adenoviral vector
- CD40 ligand
- promoter
- PPT
- TSTA
- depsipeptide FK228
- TRAMP-C2
- Medicin
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- vet (subject category)
- dok (subject category)
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