Doxorubicin improves cancer cell targeting by filamentous phage gene delivery vectors.
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Journal Article
Abstract
Merging targeted systemic gene delivery and systemic chemotherapy against cancer, chemovirotherapy, has the potential to improve chemotherapy and gene therapy treatments and overcome cancer resistance. We introduced a bacteriophage (phage) vector, named human adeno-associated virus (AAV)/phage or AAVP, for the systemic targeting of therapeutic genes to cancer. The vector was designed as a hybrid between a recombinant adeno-associated virus genome (rAAV) and a filamentous phage capsid. To achieve tumor targeting, we displayed on the phage capsid the double-cyclic CDCRGDCFC (RGD4C) ligand that binds the alpha-V/beta-3 (αvβ3) integrin receptor. Here, we investigated a combination of doxorubicin chemotherapeutic drug and targeted gene delivery by the RGD4C/AAVP vector. Firstly, we showed that doxorubicin boosts transgene expression from the RGD4C/AAVP in two-dimensional (2D) cell cultures and three-dimensional (3D) tumor spheres established from human and murine cancer cells, while preserving selective gene delivery by RGD4C/AAVP. Next, we confirmed that doxorubicin does not increase vector attachment to cancer cells nor vector cell entry. In contrast, doxorubicin may alter the intracellular trafficking of the vector by facilitating nuclear accumulation of the RGD4C/AAVP genome through destabilization of the nuclear membrane. Finally, a combination of doxorubicin and RGD4C/AAVP-targeted suicide gene therapy exerts a synergistic effect to destroy human and murine tumor cells in 2D and 3D tumor sphere settings.
Date Issued
2020-10-23
Date Acceptance
2020-10-19
Citation
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, 21 (21)
ISSN
1422-0067
Publisher
MDPI AG
Journal / Book Title
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume
21
Issue
21
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©2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open accessarticle distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Medical Research Council (MRC)
The Leverhulme Trust
Children with Cancer UK
Royal Thai Embassy
Embassy Of State Of Kuwait
IP2IPO Innovations Limited
Brain Tumour Research
Children with Cancer UK
Cancer Research UK
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Grant Number
G0701159
DMAID_P22361
2013/147
5302.3/1736
Student ID: 00989439
005988
n/a
N/A
25887
MR/T029226/1
Subjects
bacteriophage
cancer
doxorubicin
targeted gene delivery
Chemical Physics
0399 Other Chemical Sciences
0604 Genetics
0699 Other Biological Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 7867