Polyethylenimine-mediated suicide gene transfer induces a therapeutic effect for hepatocellular carcinoma in vivo by using an Epstein-Barr virus-based plasmid vector.

Abstract:

:The present study aimed to establish a novel efficient nonviral strategy for suicide gene transfer in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in vivo. We employed branched polyethylenimine (PEI) and combined it with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-based plasmid vectors. The HCC cells transfected with an EBV-based plasmid carrying the herpes simplex virus-1 thymidine kinase (HSV-1 Tk) gene (pSES.Tk) showed up to 30-fold higher susceptibilities to ganciclovir (GCV) than those transfected with a conventional plasmid vector carrying the HSV-1 Tk gene (pS.Tk). The therapeutic effect in vivo was tested by intratumoral injection of the plasmids into HuH-7 hepatomas transplanted into C.B-17 scid/scid mutant (SCID) mice and subsequent GCV administrations. Treatment with pSES.Tk, but not pS.Tk, markedly suppressed growth of hepatomas in vivo, resulting in a significantly prolonged survival period of the mice. These findings suggest that PEI-mediated gene transfer system can confer efficient expression of the suicide gene in HCC cells in vivo by using EBV-based plasmid vectors.

authors

Iwai M,Harada Y,Tanaka S,Muramatsu A,Mori T,Kashima K,Imanishi J,Mazda O

doi

10.1006/bbrc.2002.6383

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-02-15 00:00:00

pages

48-54

issue

1

eissn

0006-291X

issn

1090-2104

pii

S0006291X02963837

journal_volume

291

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