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- Title
Immune characterization of clinical grade-dendritic cells generated from cancer patients and genetically modified by an ALVAC vector carrying MAGE minigenes.
- Authors
Trakatelli, Myrto; Toungouz, Michel; Lambermont, Micheline; Heenen, Michel; Velu, Thierry; Bruyns, Catherine
- Abstract
Gene delivery into dendritic cells (DC) is most efficiently achieved by viral vectors. Recombinant canarypox viruses (ALVAC) were validated safe and efficient in humans. We aimed firstly to evaluate DC transduction by ALVAC vectors, then to investigate if such infection induced or not the maturation of the DC, and finally to assess the efficiency of ALVAC-MAGE-transduced DC to activate specific CTL clones. Clinical grade DC from melanoma patients were generated from blood monocytes and infected with a recombinant ALVAC virus encoding either a marker gene (EGFP) or the MAGE-1-MAGE-3 minigenes. According to the patient-donor, 22±16% of immature DC were successfully transduced. Flow cytometry analysis of surface markers expressed on DC after ALVAC infection did not reveal a mature phenotype. Moreover, ALVAC transduction did not interfere with the capacity of the DC to further mature under poly:IC stimulation. But most importantly, our results demonstrated that DC from HLA-A1 patient-donors infected with the recombinant ALVAC MAGE-1-MAGE-3 minigenes virus were capable of activating a MAGE 3/A1 CTL clone more efficiently than same DC loaded with MAGE 3/A1 peptide, as shown by increased IFN-γ secretion. These results could be the basis for the development of a new clinical strategy in melanoma patient's immunotherapy.Cancer Gene Therapy (2005) 12, 552–559. doi:10.1038/sj.cgt.7700804 Published online 21 January 2005
- Subjects
DENDRITIC cells; BACTERIOPHAGES; MELANOMA; THERAPEUTICS; ANTIGEN presenting cells; RETICULO-endothelial system; CYTOLOGICAL techniques
- Publication
Cancer Gene Therapy, 2005, Vol 12, Issue 6, p552
- ISSN
0929-1903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.cgt.7700804