RUAN FELIPE VIEIRA MEDRANO
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LIM/24 - Laboratório de Oncologia Experimental, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Intratumoral Immunization by p19Arf and Interferon-beta Gene Transfer in a Heterotopic Mouse Model of Lung Carcinoma(2016) CATANI, Joao Paulo Portela; MEDRANO, Ruan F. V.; HUNGER, Aline; VALLE, Paulo Del; ADJEMIAN, Sandy; ZANATTA, Daniela Bertolini; KROEMER, Guido; COSTANZI-STRAUSS, Eugenia; STRAUSS, Bryan E.Therapeutic strategies that act by eliciting and enhancing antitumor immunity have been clinically validated as an effective treatment modality but may benefit from the induction of both cell death and immune activation as primary stimuli. Using our AdRGD-PG adenovector platform, we show here for the first time that in situ gene transfer of p19Arf and interferon-beta (IFN beta) in the LLC1 mouse model of lung carcinoma acts as an immunotherapy. Although p19Arf is sufficient to induce cell death, only its pairing with IFN beta significantly inducedmarkers of immunogenic cell death. In situ gene therapy with IFN beta, either alone or in combination with p19Arf, could retard tumor progression, but only the combined treatment was associated with a protective immune response. Specifically in the case of combined intratumoral gene transfer, we identified 167 differentially expressed genes when usingmicroarray to evaluate tumors that were treated in vivo and confirmed the activation of CCL3, CXCL3, IL1 alpha, IL1 beta, CD274, and OSM, involved in immune response and chemotaxis. Histologic evaluation revealed significant tumor infiltration by neutrophils, whereas functional depletion of granulocytes ablated the antitumor effect of our approach. The association of in situ gene therapy with cisplatin resulted in synergistic elimination of tumor progression. In all, in situ gene transfer with p19Arf and IFN beta acts as an immunotherapy involving recruitment of neutrophils, a desirable but previously untested outcome, and this approach may be allied with chemotherapy, thus providing significant antitumor activity and warranting further development for the treatment of lung carcinoma.
- Uncovering the immunotherapeutic cycle initiated by p19Arf and interferon-beta gene transfer to cancer cells: An inducer of immunogenic cell death(2017) MEDRANO, Ruan F. V.; HUNGER, Aline; CATANI, Joao P. P.; STRAUSS, Bryan E.Simultaneous reestablishment of p53/p19(Arf) and interferon-beta pathways in melanoma cells culminates in a cell death process that displays features of necroptosis along with the release of immunogenic cell death molecules and unleashes an antitumor immune response mediated by natural killer cells, neutrophils as well as CD4(+) and CD8(+) T lymphocytes.
- Reestablishment of p53/Arf and interferon-beta pathways mediated by a novel adenoviral vector potentiates antiviral response and immunogenic cell death(2017) HUNGER, Aline; V, Ruan F. Medrano; ZANATTA, Daniela B.; VALLE, Paulo R. Del; MERKEL, Christian A.; SALLES, Thiago de Almeida; FERRARI, Daniel G.; FURUYA, Tatiane K.; BUSTOS, Silvina O.; SAITO, Renata de Freitas; COSTANZI-STRAUSS, Eugenia; STRAUSS, Bryan E.Late stage melanoma continues to be quite difficult to treat and new therapeutic approaches are needed. Since these tumors often retain wild-type p53 and have a strong immunogenic potential, we developed a gene transfer approach which targets these characteristics. Previously, we have shown that combined gene transfer of p19Arf and interferon-beta (IFN beta) results in higher levels of cell death and superior immune-mediated antitumor protection. However, these experiments were performed using B16 cells (p53wt) with forced expression of the adenovirus receptor and also the mechanism of death was largely unexplored. Here we take advantage of a novel adenoviral vector (AdRGD-PG), presenting an RGD-modified fiber as well as a p53-responsive promoter, in order to investigate further potential benefits and cell death mechanisms involved with the combined transfer of the p19Arf and IFN beta genes to the parental B16 cell line. Simultaneous p19Arf and IFN beta gene transfer is more effective for the induction of cell death than single gene treatment and we revealed that p19Arf can sensitize cells to the bystander effect mediated by secreted IFN beta. Strikingly, the levels of cell death induced upon activating the p53/p19Arf and interferon pathways were higher in the presence of the AdRGD-PG vectors as compared to approaches using pharmacological mimetics and this was accompanied by the upregulation of antiviral response genes. Only combined gene transfer conferred immunogenic cell death revealed by the detection of key markers both in vitro and in vivo. Finally, whole-genome transcriptome analysis revealed unique expression profiles depending on gene function, including immune activation, response to virus and p53 signaling. In this way, cooperation of p19Arf and IFN beta activates the p53 pathway in the presence of an antiviral response elicited by IFN beta , culminating in immunogenic cell death.