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Efficient Delivery and Replication of Oncolytic Virus for Successful Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21197073. [PMID: 32992948 PMCID: PMC7582277 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21197073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Revised: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Head and neck cancer has been treated by a combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. In recent years, the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has made immunotherapy a new treatment method. Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy selectively infects tumor cells with a low-pathogenic virus, lyses tumor cells by the cytopathic effects of the virus, and induces anti-tumor immunity to destroy tumors by the action of immune cells. In OV therapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), viruses, such as herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), vaccinia virus, adenovirus, reovirus, measles virus, and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), are mainly used. As the combined use of mutant HSV-1 and ICI was successful for the treatment of melanoma, studies are underway to combine OV therapy with radiation, chemotherapy, and other types of immunotherapy. In such therapy, it is important for the virus to selectively replicate in tumor cells, and to express the viral gene and the introduced foreign gene in the tumor cells. In OV therapy for HNSCC, it may be useful to combine systemic and local treatments that improve the delivery and replication of the inoculated oncolytic virus in the tumor cells.
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Presage of oncolytic virotherapy for oral cancer with herpes simplex virus. JAPANESE DENTAL SCIENCE REVIEW 2016; 53:53-60. [PMID: 28479936 PMCID: PMC5405200 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdsr.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Revised: 10/02/2016] [Accepted: 10/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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A virus is a pathogenic organism that causes a number of infectious diseases in humans. The oral cavity is the site at which viruses enter and are excreted from the human body. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) produces the primary infectious disease, gingivostomatitis, and recurrent disease, labial herpes. HSV-1 is one of the most extensively investigated viruses used for cancer therapy. In principle, HSV-1 infects epithelial cells and neuronal cells and exhibits cytotoxicity due to its cytopathic effects on these cells. If the replication of the virus occurs in tumor cells, but not normal cells, the virus may be used as an antitumor agent. Therefore, HSV-1 genes have been modified by genetic engineering, and in vitro and in vivo studies with the oncolytic virus have demonstrated its efficiency against head and neck cancer including oral cancer. The oncolytic abilities of other viruses such as adenovirus and reovirus have also been demonstrated. In clinical trials, HSV-1 is the top runner and is now available for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma. Thus, melanoma in the oral cavity is the target of oncolytic HSV-1. Oncolytic virotherapy is a hopeful and realistic modality for the treatment of oral cancer.
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Ren K, Zhang W, Chen X, Ma Y, Dai Y, Fan Y, Hou Y, Tan RX, Li E. An Epigenetic Compound Library Screen Identifies BET Inhibitors That Promote HSV-1 and -2 Replication by Bridging P-TEFb to Viral Gene Promoters through BRD4. PLoS Pathog 2016; 12:e1005950. [PMID: 27764245 PMCID: PMC5072739 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2016] [Accepted: 09/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The human HSV-1 and -2 are common pathogens of human diseases. Both host and viral factors are involved in HSV lytic infection, although detailed mechanisms remain elusive. By screening a chemical library of epigenetic regulation, we identified bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) as a critical player in HSV infection. We show that treatment with pan BD domain inhibitor enhanced both HSV infection. Using JQ1 as a probe, we found that JQ1, a defined BD1 inhibitor, acts through BRD4 protein since knockdown of BRD4 expression ablated JQ1 effect on HSV infection. BRD4 regulates HSV replication through complex formation involving CDK9 and RNAP II; whereas, JQ1 promotes HSV-1 infection by allocating the complex to HSV gene promoters. Therefore, suppression of BRD4 expression or inhibition of CDK9 activity impeded HSV infection. Our data support a model that JQ1 enhances HSV infection by switching BRD4 to transcription regulation of viral gene expression from chromatin targeting since transient expression of BRD4 BD1 or BD1/2 domain had similar effect to that by JQ1 treatment. In addition to the identification that BRD4 is a modulator for JQ1 action on HSV infection, this study demonstrates BRD4 has an essential role in HSV infection.
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- Ke Ren
- Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- The Hoffmann Institute of Immunology, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- Medical School and State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- * E-mail: ;
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Hafezi W, Lorentzen EU, Eing BR, Müller M, King NJC, Klupp B, Mettenleiter TC, Kühn JE. Entry of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) into the distal axons of trigeminal neurons favors the onset of nonproductive, silent infection. PLoS Pathog 2012; 8:e1002679. [PMID: 22589716 PMCID: PMC3349744 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2011] [Accepted: 03/21/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Following productive, lytic infection in epithelia, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) establishes a lifelong latent infection in sensory neurons that is interrupted by episodes of reactivation. In order to better understand what triggers this lytic/latent decision in neurons, we set up an organotypic model based on chicken embryonic trigeminal ganglia explants (TGEs) in a double chamber system. Adding HSV-1 to the ganglion compartment (GC) resulted in a productive infection in the explants. By contrast, selective application of the virus to distal axons led to a largely nonproductive infection that was characterized by the poor expression of lytic genes and the presence of high levels of the 2.0-kb major latency-associated transcript (LAT) RNA. Treatment of the explants with the immediate-early (IE) gene transcriptional inducer hexamethylene bisacetamide, and simultaneous co-infection of the GC with HSV-1, herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) or pseudorabies virus (PrV) helper virus significantly enhanced the ability of HSV-1 to productively infect sensory neurons upon axonal entry. Helper-virus-induced transactivation of HSV-1 IE gene expression in axonally-infected TGEs in the absence of de novo protein synthesis was dependent on the presence of functional tegument protein VP16 in HSV-1 helper virus particles. After the establishment of a LAT-positive silent infection in TGEs, HSV-1 was refractory to transactivation by superinfection of the GC with HSV-1 but not with HSV-2 and PrV helper virus. In conclusion, the site of entry appears to be a critical determinant in the lytic/latent decision in sensory neurons. HSV-1 entry into distal axons results in an insufficient transactivation of IE gene expression and favors the establishment of a nonproductive, silent infection in trigeminal neurons. Upon primary infection of the oronasal mucosa, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) rapidly reaches the ganglia of the peripheral nervous system via axonal transport and establishes lifelong latency in surviving neurons. Central to the establishment of latency is the ability of HSV-1 to reliably switch from productive, lytic spread in epithelia to nonproductive, latent infection in sensory neurons. It is not fully understood what specifically disposes incoming particles of a highly cytopathogenic, fast-replicating alphaherpesvirus to nonproductive, latent infection in sensory neurons. The present study shows that selective entry of HSV-1 into the distal axons of trigeminal neurons strongly favors the establishment of a nonproductive, latent infection, whereas nonselective infection of neurons still enables HSV-1 to induce lytic gene expression. Our data support a model of latency establishment in which the site of entry is an important determinant of the lytic/latent decision in the infected neuron. Productive infection of the neuron ensues if particles enter the soma of the neuron directly. In contrast, previous retrograde axonal transport of incoming viral particles creates a distinct scenario that abrogates VP16-dependent transactivation of immediate-early gene expression and precludes the expression of lytic genes to an extent sufficient to prevent the initiation of massive productive infection of trigeminal neurons.
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- Wali Hafezi
- University Hospital Münster, Institute of Medical Microbiology - Clinical Virology, Münster, Germany
- Interdisciplinary Center of Clinical Research (IZKF), Münster, Germany
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- University Hospital Münster, Institute of Medical Microbiology - Clinical Virology, Münster, Germany
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- University Hospital Münster, Institute of Medical Microbiology - Clinical Virology, Münster, Germany
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- University Hospital Bonn, Department of Neurology, Bonn, Germany
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- University of Sydney, Sydney Medical School, Department of Pathology, Bosch Institute for Medical Research, New South Wales, Australia
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Molecular Biology, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Molecular Biology, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
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- University Hospital Münster, Institute of Medical Microbiology - Clinical Virology, Münster, Germany
- Interdisciplinary Center of Clinical Research (IZKF), Münster, Germany
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Kitagawa R, Takahashi Y, Takahashi M, Imazu H, Yasuda M, Sadanari H, Tanaka J. Hexamethylene bisacetamide can convert nonpermissive human cells to a permissive state for expressing the major immediate-early genes of human cytomegalovirus by up-regulating NF-kappaB activity. Virology 2008; 383:195-206. [PMID: 19027925 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.10.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2008] [Revised: 08/05/2008] [Accepted: 10/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Expression of the major immediate-early (MIE) genes of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in the human thyroid papillary carcinoma cell line TPC-1 is repressed at the transcriptional level. However, treatment of these cells with hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA), a chemical inducer of differentiation, for 12 to 24 h before infection enabled the cells to support IE1 and IE2 gene expression and consequently HCMV replication. In HMBA-treated cells the transcription factor NF-kappaB was induced and the MIE promoter (MIEP) was activated. The presence of a NF-kappaB inhibitory peptide SN-50 or expression of a dominant negative IkappaBalpha protein during the HMBA pretreatment period efficiently prevented the HMBA-induced MIEP activation and MIE protein synthesis. Moreover, introduction of mutations into the NF-kappaB binding sites in the MIEP in a plasmid expressing the IE1 protein diminished its ability to express the protein in HMBA-treated cells. Therefore, the NF-kappaB activity previously induced in HMBA-treated cells and the NF-kappaB sites in the MIEP were shown to be essential for HCMV to respond to HMBA action and to express the MIE genes. Investigation of the mechanisms by which HMBA activates NF-kappaB revealed that degradation of IkappaBalpha and translocation of the phosphorylated NF-kappaB p65 subunit to the nucleus, both of which are known to be critical steps in NF-kappaB activation, are stimulated in the HMBA-treated cells. These results indicate that treatment of nonpermissive TPC-1 cells with HMBA induces MIE gene permissiveness by up-regulating NF-kappaB activity.
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- Ryoko Kitagawa
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, School of Health Sciences, College of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kodatsuno, Ishikawa, Japan
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Naito S, Obayashi S, Sumi T, Iwai S, Nakazawa M, Ikuta K, Yura Y. Enhancement of antitumor activity of herpes simplex virus gamma(1)34.5-deficient mutant for oral squamous cell carcinoma cells by hexamethylene bisacetamide. Cancer Gene Ther 2006; 13:780-91. [PMID: 16645620 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cgt.7700957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Current oncolytic viruses exert only limited antitumor activity on their own. There is a need to increase their oncolytic capability. We evaluated the effect of a differentiating reagent, hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA), on the antitumor activity of a gamma(1)34.5-deficient herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) R849 for human oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cells. Hexamethylene bisacetamide increased the viral yield, especially at a low input multiplicity of infection (MOI), and the transcription of immediate early genes of HSV-1. Hexamethylene bisacetamide treatment promoted the cytopathic effect of R849 and increased the proportion of dead cells. Hexamethylene bisacetamide produced more apoptotic cells in R849-infected cells as compared with parental HSV-1(F)-infected cells. The growth of oral SCC xenografts in nude mice was markedly suppressed by treatment with R849 in combination with HMBA, and the survival of the co-treated animals was significantly prolonged as compared with that of animals treated with R849 only. Herpes simplex virus type 1 mRNA was expressed in tumors and trigeminal neurons, but not in brain, lung, liver, and kidney. These results indicate that HMBA enhances the antitumor activity of R849 through the expression of immediate early genes without increasing its toxicity. Hexamethylene bisacetamide can be used as an enhancing agent for oncolytic therapy with HSV-1 mutants.
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- S Naito
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery II, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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Kitagawa R, Hagihara K, Uhara M, Matsutani K, Kirita A, Tanaka J. Inhibitory effect of hexamethylene bisacetamide on replication of human cytomegalovirus. Arch Virol 2005; 150:1977-91. [PMID: 15959837 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-005-0556-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2004] [Accepted: 04/14/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The effect of hexamethylane bisacetamide (HMBA), a hybrid polar compound, on gene expression and replication of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) was studied. When HCMV-infected human thyroid papillary carcinoma (TPC-1) and human embryonic lung (HEL) fibroblast cells were maintained with medium containing 2.5 and 5 mM HMBA for 10 days, there was a greater than 2- to 3-log reduction in virus yield compared to that in untreated cells. Infection of TPC-1 cells with HCMV resulted in an establishment of persistent infection and the cells continuously produced virus with titer of over 10(5) PFU/ml, whereas HMBA prevented the infected cells from entering into the persistent infection. Moreover, treatment of the persistently infected cultures with HMBA reduced production of infectious HCMV more efficiently than did ganciclovir, and eventually ceased HCMV production. Western blotting analysis revealed that HMBA blocks accumulation of the immediate early 2 (IE2) protein in TPC-1 cells and delays synthesis of this protein in HEL cells, but has little effect on the level of the IE1 protein during the early times after infection. Synthesis of the viral early and late proteins in both cells was also substantially blocked by HMBA. The results indicate that the inhibition or the delay of the critical IE2 protein synthesis in the presence of HMBA would actually be a process that fails to proceed beyond the IE stages in HCMV replication cycle.
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- R Kitagawa
- Division of Virology, Department of Laboratory Science, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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Alderson T. New directions for the anti-retroviral chemotherapy of AIDS--a basis for a pharmacological approach to treatment. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1993; 68:265-89. [PMID: 8099295 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1993.tb00997.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- T Alderson
- Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge University, UK
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Yura Y, Iga H, Kondo Y, Harada K, Tsujimoto H, Yanagawa T, Yoshida H, Sato M. Heparan sulfate as a mediator of herpes simplex virus binding to basement membrane. J Invest Dermatol 1992; 98:494-8. [PMID: 1312567 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12499867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Explants of human lip and oral mucosa were infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV) in vitro and the expression of viral antigen was investigated by immunofluorescent antibody staining. Viral antigen was demonstrated in the cells of basal cell layer and lower prickle cell layers. Moreover, an accumulation of viral antigen in the epithelial-mesenchymal junction was observed. To examine the possibility that the basement membrane has an affinity for HSV, the interaction between HSV and major basement membrane components including type IV collagen, laminin, fibronectin, and heparan sulfate was investigated. When tested by a plaque-reduction assay, only heparan sulfate inhibited HSV plaque formation by competing for the virus adsorption to HEp-2 cells. The inhibitory effects of heparan sulfate and heparin were not affected by pre-incubation of these glycosaminoglycans with antithrombin III, whereas de-N-sulfation resulted in a significant reduction of their inhibitory activity. These findings suggest that heparan sulfate is involved in the binding of HSV to the basement membrane and that N-sulfated glucosamine residues of heparan sulfate are essential for HSV binding. The basement membrane may act as a reservoir of HSV in muco-cutaneous tissues.
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- Y Yura
- Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokushima University School of Dentistry, Japan
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