Oncolytic herpes viral therapy is effective in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines |
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Authors: | Tae-Jin Song MD PhD David P Eisenberg MD Prasad S Adusumilli MD Michael Hezel BS Yuman Fong MD |
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Institution: | (1) Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 10021 New York, NY |
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Abstract: | The rising incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in western countries, along with the poor prognosis offered by present-day
treatment modalities, makes novel therapies for this disease necessary. Oncolytic herpes simplex viruses (HSV) are replication-competent
viruses that are highly effective in the treatment of a wide variety of experimental models of human malignancies. This study
seeks to investigate the effectiveness of oncolytic herpes viruses in the treatment of primary HCC cell lines. Sixteen commercially
available human HCC cell lines were studied. G207 is an attenuated, replication-competent, oncolytic HSV engineered to selectively
replicate within cancer cells. Cell lines were tested for viral sensitivity to G207 and their ability to support viral replication
using standard cytotoxicity and viral replication assays. Eleven of 16 cell lines were moderately to highly sensitive to G207
viral oncolysis. HCC cell lines additionally demonstrated the ability to support viral replication in vitro with as high as
800-fold amplification of the administered viral dose observed. G207 is cytotoxic to, and efficiently replicates within, HCC
cell lines in vitro. From these data, we suggest that oncolytic HSV therapy may have a role in the treatment of HCC, and in
vivo studies are warranted.
Presented in part at the 2005 American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association Congress, Hollywood, Florida, April 14–17, 2005.
Supported by grants R01CA75461 and R01CA72632 from the National Institutes of Health, and by grant MBC-99366 from the American
Cancer Society (Yuman Fong). |
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Keywords: | G207 gene therapy hepatocellular carcinoma herpes simplex virus |
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