Enhanced antitumor immunotherapeutic effect of B-cell-based vaccine transduced with modified adenoviral vector containing type 35 fiber structures

EK Kim, HS Seo, MJ Chae, IS Jeon, BY Song, YJ Park… - Gene therapy, 2014 - nature.com
EK Kim, HS Seo, MJ Chae, IS Jeon, BY Song, YJ Park, HM Ahn, CO Yun, CY Kang
Gene therapy, 2014nature.com
For successful clinical tumor immunotherapy outcomes, strong immune responses against
tumor antigens must be generated. Cell-based vaccines compromise one strategy with
which to induce appropriate strong immune responses. Previously, we established a natural
killer T-cell (NKT) ligand-loaded, adenoviral vector-transduced B-cell-based anticancer
cellular vaccine. To enhance tumor antigen delivery to B cells, we established a modified
adenoviral vector (Ad-k35) that encoded a truncated form of the breast cancer antigen …
Abstract
For successful clinical tumor immunotherapy outcomes, strong immune responses against tumor antigens must be generated. Cell-based vaccines compromise one strategy with which to induce appropriate strong immune responses. Previously, we established a natural killer T-cell (NKT) ligand-loaded, adenoviral vector-transduced B-cell-based anticancer cellular vaccine. To enhance tumor antigen delivery to B cells, we established a modified adenoviral vector (Ad-k35) that encoded a truncated form of the breast cancer antigen Her2/neu (Ad-k35HM) in which fiber structure was substituted with adenovirus serotype 35. We observed increased tumor antigen expression with Ad-k35HM in both human and murine B cells. In addition, an Ad-k35HM-transduced B-cell vaccine elicited strong antigen-specific cellular and humoral immune responses that were further enhanced with the additional loading of soluble NKT ligand KBC009. An Ad-k35HM-transduced, KBC009-loaded B-cell vaccine efficiently suppressed the in vivo growth of established tumors in a mouse model. Moreover, the vaccine elicited human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A2 epitope-specific cytotoxic T-cell responses in B6. Cg (CB)-Tg (HLA-A/H2-D) 2Enge/Jat mice. These findings indicated that the Ad-k35 could be appropriate for the preclinical and clinical development of B-cell-based anticancer immunotherapies.
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