Suicidal gene therapy in an NF-κB-controlled tumor environment as monitored by a secreted blood reporter
The nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) is known to be activated in many cancer types including lung, ovarian, astrocytomas, melanoma, prostate as well as glioblastoma, and has been shown to correlate with disease progression. We have cloned a novel NF-κB-based reporter system (five tandem repeats of NF-κB re...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/gt.2010.1562 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php http://www.nature.com/gt/journal/v18/n5/abs/gt2010156a.html |
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| Summary: | The nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) is known to be activated in many cancer types including lung, ovarian, astrocytomas, melanoma, prostate as well as glioblastoma, and has been shown to correlate with disease progression. We have cloned a novel NF-κB-based reporter system (five tandem repeats of NF-κB responsive genomic element (NF; 14 bp each)) to drive the expression cassette for both a fusion between the yeast cytosine deaminase and uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (CU) as a therapeutic gene and the secreted Gaussia luciferase (Gluc) as a blood reporter, separated by an internal ribosomal entry site (NF-CU-IGluc). We showed that malignant tumor cells have high expression of Gluc, which correlates to high activation of NF-κB. When NF-κB was further activated by tumor necrosis factor-α in these cells, we observed up to 10-fold increase in Gluc levels and therefore transgene expression in human glioma cells served to greatly enhance the sensitization of these cells to the prodrug, 5-fluorocytosine both in cultured cells and in vivo subcutaneous tumor xenograft model. This inducible system provides a tool to enhance the expression of imaging and therapeutic genes for cancer therapy. |
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