Abstract:
:The efficiency of gene therapy strategies against cancer is limited by the poor distribution of the vectors in the malignant tissues. To solve this problem, a new generation of tumor-specific, conditionally replicative adenoviruses is being developed. To direct the replication of the virus to breast cancer, we have considered one characteristic present in a great proportion of these cancers, which is the expression of estrogen receptors (ERs). On the basis of the wild-type adenovirus type 5, we have constructed a conditionally replicative adenovirus (Ad5ERE2) in which the E1a and E4 promoters have been replaced by a portion of the pS2 promoter containing two estrogen-responsive elements (EREs). This promoter induces transcriptional activation of the E1a and E4 units in response to estrogens in cells that express the ERs. Ad5ERE2 is able to kill ER(+) human breast cancer cell lines as efficiently as the wild-type virus, but has decreased capacity to affect ER(-) cells. By complementation of the E1a protein in trans, Ad5ERE2 allows restricted replication of a conventional E1a-deleted adenoviral vector. When a virus expressing the proapoptotic gene Bc1-xs (Clarke et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1995;92:11024-11028) is used in combination with Ad5ERE2, the ability of both viruses to induce cell death is dramatically increased, and the effect can be modulated by addition of the antiestrogen tamoxifen.
journal_name
Hum Gene Therjournal_title
Human gene therapyauthors
Hernandez-Alcoceba R,Pihalja M,Wicha MS,Clarke MFdoi
10.1089/10430340050143435keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2000-09-20 00:00:00pages
2009-24issue
14eissn
1043-0342issn
1557-7422journal_volume
11pub_type
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更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2000-07-20 00:00:00
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