DNA vaccination against HuD antigen elicits antitumor activity in a small-cell lung cancer murine model.
There is a clinically significant correlation between the presence of an antibody against the paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis antigen HuD and the limitation of tumor spread in patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). This suggests that HuD is a possible target molecule for antitumor immunotherapy against SCLC. We have hypothesized that anti-HuD immunity suppresses in vivo growth of HuD-expressing tumor cells. In this study, Colon 26, a murine adenocarcinoma cell line, stably transfected with the HuD gene (Colon 26/HuD cell) was used as a target cell, and the immunity against HuD was evoked by intramuscular injection of a HuD-expressing plasmid, a technique of DNA vaccination previously used in BALB/c mice. Colon 26/HuD cells were injected subcutaneously and tumor size was calculated as a product of width and length. Antitumor activity was investigated by using two different lots of Colon26/HuD cells in two protocols: Protocol 1, in which either Colon 26/HuD or Colon 26 cells were injected in each side, and Protocol 2, in which Colon 26/HuD cells alone were injected. The size of Colon 26/HuD tumors obtained from mice vaccinated with HuD-expressing plasmid was significantly smaller than those from negative control plasmid-vaccinated mice (86.6 +/- 29.9 versus 195.3 +/- 48.1 mm2, P < 0.05 in Protocol 1; 107.7 +/- 12.8 versus 156.6 +/- 22.8 mm2, P < 0.05 in Protocol 2). Moreover, the de novo DNA synthesis of spleen cells obtained from HuD-vaccinated mice was significantly enhanced. In addition, anti-HuD antibody was found in individual sera obtained from HuD-vaccinated mice. DNA vaccination with mouse HuD antigen suppressed HuD-expressing tumor growth in a murine SCLC model.[1]References
- DNA vaccination against HuD antigen elicits antitumor activity in a small-cell lung cancer murine model. Ohwada, A., Nagaoka, I., Takahashi, F., Tominaga, S., Fukuchi, Y. Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. (1999) [Pubmed]
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