PMID: 15248913Jul 14, 2004Paper

HSV-TK gene therapy of lung adenocarcinoma xenografts using a hypoxia/radiation dual-sensitive promoter

Ai zheng = Aizheng = Chinese journal of cancer
Wei-Dong WangZheng-Huai Cao

Abstract

Radio-genetic therapy is a novel strategy for cancer treatment; however, a limited success was shown due to lower sensitivity of tumor cells to radiation under hypoxia, which is a unique feature for solid tumors. In order to improve the efficacy of radiogenetic therapy for lung cancer, a hypoxia/radiation dual-sensitive promoter was constructed to enhance the expression of HSV-TK in transfected cells exposed to radiation under hypoxia. The chimeric promoter HRE-Egr was generated by insertion of hypoxia response elements (HREs) upstream of the Egr-1 (early growth response gene-1) promoter. HSV-TK expression vector was constructed by cloning HRE-Egr promoter upstream of HSV-TK gene, which was transfected into A549 cells via liposome. The expression of HSV-TK in transfected cells exposed to irradiation (6 Gy) and/or hypoxia (1% O2) were analyzed by Northern blot, and the relative survival rate of cells in presence of prodrug ganciclovir (GCV) was tested using MTT method. To examine the efficacy of this HRE-Egr-TK gene therapy in vivo, the A549 adenocarcinoma xenografts were planted in BALB/c nude mice. The tumor volumes and the suppression rates were assayed in nude mice bearing xenografts infected with plasmids and exposed to rad...Continue Reading

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