Interleukin-6-controlled, mesenchymal stem cell-based sodium/iodide symporter gene therapy improves survival of glioblastoma-bearing mice

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New treatment strategies are urgently needed for glioblastoma (GBM)-a tumor resistant to standard-of-care treatment with a high risk of recurrence and extremely poor prognosis. Based on their intrinsic tumor tropism, adoptively applied mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be harnessed to deliver the theranostic sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) deep into the tumor microenvironment. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a multifunctional, highly expressed cytokine in the GBM microenvironment including recruited MSCs. MSCs engineered to drive NIS expression in response to IL-6 promoter activation offer the possibility of a new tumor-targeted gene therapy approach of GBM. Therefore, MSCs were stably transfected with an NIS-expressing plasmid controlled by the human IL-6 promoter (IL-6-NIS-MSCs) and systemically applied in mice carrying orthotopic GBM. Enhanced radiotracer uptake by 18F-Tetrafluoroborate-PET/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was detected in tumors after IL-6-NIS-MSC application as compared with mice that received wild-type MSCs. Ex vivo analysis of tumors and non-target organs showed tumor-specific NIS protein expression. Subsequent 131I therapy after IL-6-NIS-MSC application resulted in significantly delayed tumor growth assessed by MRI and improved median survival up to 60% of GBM-bearing mice as compared with controls. In conclusion, the application of MSC-mediated NIS gene therapy focusing on IL-6 biology-induced NIS transgene expression represents a promising approach for GBM treatment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Molecular therapy oncolytics - 30(2023) vom: 21. Sept., Seite 238-253

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kitzberger, Carolin [VerfasserIn]
Shehzad, Khuram [VerfasserIn]
Morath, Volker [VerfasserIn]
Spellerberg, Rebekka [VerfasserIn]
Ranke, Julius [VerfasserIn]
Steiger, Katja [VerfasserIn]
Kälin, Roland E [VerfasserIn]
Multhoff, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]
Eiber, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Schilling, Franz [VerfasserIn]
Glass, Rainer [VerfasserIn]
Weber, Wolfgang A [VerfasserIn]
Wagner, Ernst [VerfasserIn]
Nelson, Peter J [VerfasserIn]
Spitzweg, Christine [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Gene therapy
Glioblastoma
Interleukin-6 promoter
Journal Article
Mesenchymal stem cells
NIS
PET imaging
Sodium/iodide symporter

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Date Revised 14.09.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.omto.2023.08.004

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361991827