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- Title
Adenovirus-TRAIL can overcome TRAIL resistance and induce a bystander effect.
- Authors
Seol, Ja Young; Park, Kyung-Ho; Hwang, Chang-Il; Park, Woong-Yang; Yoo, Chul-Gyu; Kim, Young Whan; Han, Sung Koo; Shim, Young-Soo; Lee, Choon-Taek
- Abstract
TRAIL is a cytokine with a unique ability to induce apoptosis selectively in many transformed cell lines. The instability of TRAIL and the resistance of some cancer cells to TRAIL present the main obstacles for clinical experimentation. We generated an adenovirus expressing full-length TRAIL and tested its efficacy in several cancer cell lines. Ad-TRAIL-infected cancer cells localized full-length TRAIL protein to the cytoplasm and released same-sized TRAIL in the media. Ad-TRAIL was found to induce apoptotic cell death in several cancer cell lines resistant to soluble TRAIL (A549, SKOV3, HT-29 and LNCap) and in TRAIL-sensitive cell lines. Ad-TRAIL, but not soluble TRAIL, induced apoptotic cell death in TRAIL-resistant cell lines, manifested by an increased sub-G1 proportion, caspase-3 activation and PARP cleavage. Ad-TRAIL also induced a media-transferable bystander effect, but only in soluble TRAIL-sensitive cell lines. In conclusion, two novel characteristics of ad-TRAIL were found during this study. First, that ad-TRAIL can induce apoptotic cell death in several cancer cell lines resistant to sTRAIL. Second, that ad-TRAIL induces a media-transferable bystander effect, which is expected to increase its therapeutic value by allowing TRAIL to overcome the locally acting nature and low transduction rate commonly encountered in clinical situation.
- Subjects
ADENOVIRUS diseases; APOPTOSIS; CELLULAR pathology; CELL death
- Publication
Cancer Gene Therapy, 2003, Vol 10, Issue 7, p540
- ISSN
0929-1903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.cgt.7700597