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Veldwijk, M.R. et al.

Suicide gene therapy of sarcoma cell lines using recombinant adeno-associated virus 2 vectors.

Soft-tissue sarcomas are mesenchymal tumors that respond poorly to systemic chemotherapy. Suicide gene therapy may be an alternative treatment strategy. Here we show a high susceptibility of human sarcoma cell lines for recombinant adeno-associated virus 2 (rAAV-2) suicide vectors: connective tissue sarcoma (HS-1), fibrosarcoma (HT-1080), Ewing sarcoma (RD-ES), Askin tumor (SK-N-MC), rhabdomyosarcoma (A-204) and soft-tissue sarcoma (WSKL-1). Several vectors containing the thymidine kinase ( TK) gene under the control of either the cytomegalovirus promoter or the elongation-factor 1 alpha (EF1alpha) promoter were cloned and tested. Higher expression levels of the transgene were observed in the sarcoma lines when using the EF1alpha-suicide gene-containing vectors. A complete eradication of rAAV-2-EF1alpha- TK/eGFP ( TK/enhanced green fluorescent protein fusion gene)-transduced tumor cells was shown following exposure to ganciclovir (2.5 microg/ml) in vitro, while at this dose level > 90% of mock-transduced tumor cells survived. Xenotransplantation tumor models (intraperitoneal, subcutaneous) for the human sarcoma cell line HS-1 were established in nonobese diabetic/severe-combined immunodeficient mice. Mice transplanted with rAAV-2-EF1alpha- TK/eGFP-transduced and ganciclovir-exposed tumor cells survived > 5 months while in the nontransduced group all mice had died approximately 1 month after inoculation. These data hold promise for further development of rAAV-2-based suicide gene therapy of sarcomas.[1]

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Suicide gene therapy of sarcoma cell lines using recombinant adeno-associated virus 2 vectors. Veldwijk, M.R., Berlinghoff, S., Laufs, S., Hengge, U.R., Zeller, W.J., Wenz, F., Fruehauf, S. Cancer Gene Ther. (2004) [Pubmed]

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