Adenovirus-Mediated Suicide SCLC Gene Therapy Using the Increased Activity of the hTERT Promoter by the MMRE and SV40 Enhancer
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Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex of which the function is to add telomeric repeats to chromosomal ends. Telomerase consists of two essential components, the telomerase RNA template (hTR) and the catalytic subunit (hTERT). hTERT is expressed only in cells and tissues positive for telomerase activity, i.e., tumor or stem cells. The aim of this study was to use increased telomerase promoter activity in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) gene therapy. The hTERT promoter and Myc–Max response elements (MMRE) in pGL3-Control vector containing SV40 enhancer resulted in strong expression of the luciferase gene only in telomerase positive and myc overexpressing SCLC cell line but not in normal human cell line. To investigate the possibility of the utilization of the MMRE, hTERT promoter, and SV40 enhancer in targeted SCLC gene therapy, adenovirus vector expressing HSV-TK controlled by the MMRE, hTERT promoter, and SV40 enhancer for the induction of telomerase positive and myc-overexpressing cancer specific cell death was constructed. SCLC cells infected with Ad-MMRE-hT-TK-enh were significantly suppressed and induced apoptosis more than those of Ad-hT-TK or Ad-hT-TK-enh infected cells. Telomerase and c-myc are activated in 60∼80% of SCLC, so the increased activity of telomerase promoter can be used for targeted SCLC gene therapy. These results show that the MMRE, hTERT promoter, and SV40 enhancer can be used in SCLC targeted cancer gene therapy.
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- 2005-01-23
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