Heat-inducible in vivo gene therapy of colon carcinoma by human mdr1 promoter–regulated tumor necrosis factor-A expression
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The promoter of the human multidrug resistance gene (mdr1) harbors defined heat-responsive elements, which could be exploited for construction of heat-inducible expression vectors. To analyze the hyperthermia inducibility of the mdr1 promoter in vitro and in vivo, we used the pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF vector construct for heat-induced tumor necrosis factor A (TNF-A) expression in transfected HCT116 human colon carcinoma cells at mRNA level by quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR and at protein level by TNF-A ELISA. For the in vitro studies, the pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF–transfected tumor cells were treated with hyperthermia at 43 C for 2 h. In the animal studies, stably transfected or in vivo jet-injected tumorbearing Ncr:nu/nu mice were treated for 60 min at 42 C to induce TNF-A expression. Both the in vitro and in vivo experiments show that hyperthermia activates the mdr1 promoter in a temperatureand time-dependent manner, leading to an up to 4-fold increase in mdr1 promoter– driven TNF-A expression at mRNA and an up to 3-fold increase at protein level. The in vivo heat-induced TNF-A expression combined with Adriamycin (8 mg/kg) treatment leads to the inhibition of tumor growth in the animals. These experiments support the idea that heatinduced mdr1 promoter–driven expression of therapeutic genes is efficient and feasible for combined cancer gene therapy approaches. [Mol Cancer Ther 2007;6(1):236–43] Introduction Inducible vectors are useful for the conditional expression of therapeutic genes in cancer gene therapy based on the inducibility of therapeutic gene expression by conventional cancer treatment modalities (1, 2). By this approach, the combination of conventional therapies, such as chemotherapy, radiation or hyperthermia, and gene therapy can result in considerable, additive, or synergistic improvement of therapeutic efficacy. This strategy has been successfully employed for the regulated expression of cytokine or of suicide genes (3–5). Hyperthermia is gaining acceptance for cancer therapy and is used in therapeutic settings of treatment for, e.g., breast or colorectal carcinomas and malignant melanomas (6–9). In the clinic, local, regional, or whole-body hyperthermia is used in combination with chemoand radiotherapy to enhance the efficacy of cancer treatment. Preclinical studies have shown that hyperthermia can sensitize tumor cells toward radiation and chemotherapy (10). Therefore, the combination of hyperthermia and gene therapy, in which hyperthermia mediates the expression induction of the transgene, is a promising strategy. This approach could be particularly beneficial if therapeutic genes that augment the effects of hyperthermia are expressed. Different promoters (e.g., the promoter of the heat shock protein 70) have been extensively used in numerous studies for the heat-inducible gene expression (5, 11–15). These studies showed that hyperthermia of 39jC to 43jC can efficiently induce the transgene expression in vitro and in vivo . The proximal promoter of the human multidrug resistance gene (mdr1) gene harbors different responsive elements, which are inducible by various stress factors (16–20). Particular heat shock elements mediate the heatinduced elevated expression of the mdr1 gene in a process of cellular stress response (21). In vitro studies have shown the binding of heat shock factor 1 to defined heat shock element motifs of the mdr1 promoter within the region from 178 to 152 and 99 to 66, suggesting that the mdr1 promoter can be employed for the construction of heat-inducible vectors (22–26). The use of the human tumor necrosis factor a (TNF-a) gene for heat-directed expression in tumors is of interest because this cytokine is known to improve the therapeutic efficacy of hyperthermia in experimental and in clinical studies (27, 28). However, systemic cytokine treatment or sustained high-level expression by constitutive vectors is often associated with side effects of cytokine-mediated toxicity, which favors the local cytokine treatment in the tumor vicinity at moderate but therapeutically effective doses. Thus, gene therapy with cytokine gene–expressing Received 2/6/06; revised 10/23/06; accepted 11/22/06. Grant support: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany, H.W. & J. Hector Foundation, Mannheim, Germany, and EMS Medical Systems SA, Nyon, Switzerland. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. Requests for reprints: Wolfgang Walther, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany. Phone: 49-30-9406-3432; Fax: 49-30-9406-2780. E-mail: [email protected] Copyright C 2007 American Association for Cancer Research. doi:10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-06-0070 236 Mol Cancer Ther 2007;6(1). January 2007 Research. on September 20, 2017. © 2007 American Association for Cancer mct.aacrjournals.org Downloaded from vectors is of particular interest to improve the therapeutic efficacy and to reduce toxicity. In this context, conditional promoters are particularly needed to mediate low basal and timely restricted but sufficiently induced transgene expression level, as, e.g., mediated by the mdr1 promoter. In this study, we describe the evaluation of heat inducibility of the human mdr1 promoter for the expression of TNF-a in stably transfected or jet-injected human colon carcinoma cells and tumors, permitting elevated gene expression in vitro and in vivo. More importantly, combined hyperthermia-induced TNF-a expression and cytostatic drug application leads to increased cytotoxicity in transfected tumors and reduced tumor growth in vivo. Materials andMethods Cell Lines The human colon carcinoma cell line HCT116 was cultured at 37jC and 5% CO2 in RPMI 1640 (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) medium, containing 10% FCS (Biochrom, Berlin, Germany; ref. 29). Construction of the TNF-A^ Expressing Plasmid Vector The 360-bp mdr1 promoter fragment ( 207 to +158) was cloned into the pcDNA3 (Invitrogen) expression vector, replacing the cytomegalovirus promoter (see Fig. 1) by insertion into the NruI/XhoI sites resulting in the pcDNA3mdrp construct (19, 20). The human TNF-a cDNA was inserted into the HindIII site of pcDNA3-mdrp, resulting in the pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF (Fig. 1; refs. 4, 24). Establishment of Stably pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF ^Transfected Tumor Cell Clones The pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF vector was transfected into 1 10 HCT116 colon carcinoma cells using lipofectin (Life Technologies) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Forty-eight hours after transfection, vector-carrying clones were selected in G418 (0.5 mg/mL, Life Technologies)containing medium. All isolated clones were screened for basal TNF-a expression. In vitro HyperthermiaTreatment of pcDNA3-mdrphTNF ^ Transfected HCT116 Cells In the in vitro experiments, pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF–transfected HCT116 cells were treated with hyperthermia for 2 h at 42jC or 43jC, and controls were incubated at 37jC. For the TNF-a ELISA, 200-AL supernatants of the cells were collected at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 24, 48 h after heat shock, and at the same time, points cells were harvested for the isolation of total RNA. In vivo HyperthermiaTreatment of pcDNA3-mdrphTNF ^ Transfected HCT116 Tumors For the establishment of tumors, female Ncr:nu/nu mice were injected with 1 10 pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF–transfected or pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF–nontransfected HCT116 cells into the left foot pad. At a tumor size of f6 6 mm, hyperthermia experiments were started. Hyperthermia was applied locally to the tumor for 60 min at 42jC in a temperature-controlled water bath. Before, during, and after hyperthermia, temperature of tumors was controlled. For the analysis of heat-induced TNF-a expression, animals (six animals per group) were sacrificed 0, 4, 6, 24, 48, and 72 h after hyperthermia; tumors were removed for the preparation of tumor lysates and total RNA. Serum samples were collected to evaluate the potential systemic distribution of TNF-a. For the therapeutic in vivo experiments, tumor-bearing animals (seven animals per group) were treated once with local hyperthermia at 42jC for 60 min, followed by the chemotherapeutic treatment with 8 mg/kg Adriamycin at days 1 and 8 after hyperthermia. During the in vivo experiment, body weight and tumor size were measured to evaluate the therapeutic effect of the combined treatment. Analysis of In vitro or In vivo Heat-Induced TNF-A Expression by ELISA For the in vitro experiments, supernatants of transfected HCT116 cells were collected for the TNF-a ELISA at defined time points before or after hyperthermia. Tumor lysates from the in vivo experiments were prepared using the snap-frozen tumor tissue. Tissue samples were homogenized in 500 AL ice-cold Tris-EDTA buffer (containing 10 mg/mL aprotinin and 0.1 mg/mL phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride) using the UltraTurrax (IKA-Labortechnik, Staufen, Germany), centrifuged at 14,000 rpm, 4jC for 10 min and subjected to ELISA. The TNF-a ELISA (Diaclone) was done according to the manufacturer’s instructions using 200 AL of cell culture supernatants in the in vitro experiments or 200 AL of tumor lysates in the in vivo experiments. Absorbance was measured in a microplate reader at 450 nm (SLT-Labinstruments, Figure 1. Schematic representation of the cloning of the 360-bp human mdr1 promoter fragment ( 207 to +153; mdr1-prom ) into the pcDNA3 expression vector. This promoter fragment harbors two heat shock elements (HSE; 178 to 152 and 99 to 66) and is driving the expression of the human TNF-a gene. The heat shock element at position 178 to 152 carries the consensus tandem repeat sequence (5¶-GAAnnTTC-3¶) known for heat shock factor 1 binding. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 237 Mol Cancer Ther 2007;6(1). January 2007 Research. on September 20, 2017. © 2007 American Association for Cancer mct.aacrjournals.org Downloaded from Crailsheim, Germany) in quadruplicates. The TNF-a values were calculated from the respective TNF-a standard curve using the EasySoftG200/Easy-Fit software (SLT-Labinstruments). For the in vivo analyses, TNF-a values were normalized to the corresponding protein content of the tumor homogenates, determined by Coomassie Plus Protein Assay reagent (Pierce, Rockford, IL). Quantitative RT-PCR for Analysis of Heat-Induced TNF-A Expression Total RNA from cells and tissue cryosections was isolated using the TRIzol method (Invitrogen). Reverse transcriptase reaction was done with 50 ng of total RNA (MuLV Reverse Transcriptase, Perkin-Elmer, Weiterstadt, Germany). Each quantitative real-time PCR (95jC for 30 s, 45 cycles of 95jC for 10 s, 62jC for 10 s, 72jC for 10 s) was done using the LightCycler (LightCycler DNA Master Hybridization Probes kit, Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany). Expression of TNF-a and of the housekeeping gene glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) was determined in parallel from the same reverse transcriptase reaction, each done in duplicate per sample. For TNF-a, a 144-bp amplicon (forward-primer: 5¶-AGCGCTGAGATCAATCGG-3¶; FITC-labeled probe: 5¶-GAGGACGAACATCCAACCTTCCCA-3 ¶– FITC; LCRed640-labeled probe: LCRed640–5¶-ACGCCTCCCCTGCCCCAA-3¶; reverse primer: 5¶-GAAGGAGGGGGTAATAAAGGG-3¶), and, for G6PDH , a 113-bp amplicon were produced, which were detected by gene-specific fluoresceinand LCRed640labeled hybridization probes (primers for TNF-a: BioTeZ, Berlin, Germany; probes for TNF-a: TIB MOLBIOL, Berlin, Germany; and primers and probes for G6PDH : Roche Diagnostics). The calibrator cDNA, derived from the human TNF-a–expressing myeloblastoma cell line HL60, was employed in serial dilutions (in duplicate) simultaneously in each run. Intratumoral Jet-Injection of Naked pcDNA3-mdrphTNFDNA and Hyperthermia Treatment For the nonviral in vivo gene transfer, female Ncr:nu/nu mice xenotransplanted with the nontransfected HCT116 human colon carcinoma cells were used. At a tumor size of f6 6 mm, the tumor-bearing animals (two animals per time point) were anesthetized and received four intratumoral jet-injections of the pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF plasmid DNA through the skin using the ‘‘SwissInjector’’ prototype (EMS Medical Systems SA, Nyon, Switzerland) as described (30). Each animal received a total dose of 40 Ag pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF plasmid DNA. The respective control animals were jet-injected with PBS. For analysis of TNF-a expression, animals were sacrificed before and 4, 24, and 48 h after hyperthermia, and tumors were removed and snap frozen in liquid nitrogen. Ten to twenty cryosections (15 Am) were collected, and tumor protein lysates or tumor RNA was prepared for the analyses. In the therapeutic experiments, the jet-injected animals (eight animals per group) were treated 48 h after jet-injection Figure 2. A, temperature dependence ofmdr1 promoter–mediated heat-induced TNF-a protein expression in two representative pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF– transfected HCT116 cell clones in vitro . Cells were heated for 2 h at 42jC or 43jC, and supernatants were taken to evaluate heat-induced cytokine expression by TNF-a ELISA. Induction rates are expressed as fold induction compared with the respective nonheated transfected controls. B to E, timedependent, heat-induced TNF-a expression in transfected HCT116 cell clones after hyperthermia (43jC, 2 h) at indicated time points. B and C, analysis of TNF-a mRNA expression rates by real-time RT-PCR, normalized to the expression of the G6PDH housekeeping gene; Points, ratios of TNF-a and G6PDH mRNA expression, determined in quadruplicates. D and E, analysis of TNF-a protein expression by TNF-a ELISA, normalized to the respective protein concentration; values were determined in quadruplicates. Heat-Inducible Gene Therapy for Cancer Treatment 238 Mol Cancer Ther 2007;6(1). January 2007 Research. on September 20, 2017. © 2007 American Association for Cancer mct.aacrjournals.org Downloaded from with hyperthermia and Adriamycin as described for the stably transfected HCT116 tumors. Tumor volume and body weight was measured to evaluate the therapeutic effect of the combined treatment. Statistical Analysis The levels of statistical significance were evaluated by using the nonparametric Wilcoxon signed rank test. The statistical significance was set at P V 0.05. For in vivo tumor growth evaluation, the Mann–Whitney U test was used (P V 0.05). Results Heat-Induced mdr1 Promoter ^DrivenTNF-A Expression in HCT116 Cells For the determination of heat inducibility of human mdr1 promoter–driven gene expression, we established stably pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF–transfected HCT116 cell clones. Figure 2A shows the temperature-dependent induction rates 2 h after hyperthermia at 42jC or 43jC in two representative HCT116 clones, indicating that the heatinduced expression is elevating with increased temperatures and reaches a maximum of 2.5-fold induction 48 h after heat shock at 43jC. These two clones were used for further detailed analyses of heat-induced TNF-a expression at mRNA and at protein level. The cell clones were treated 2 h at 43jC, and time dependence of induced TNF-a expression was determined using quantitative real-time reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and ELISA. Figure 2B and C clearly shows the rapid 2.5to 3-fold increase in mRNA expression as shortly as 1 h after hyperthermia. However, 24 h after hyperthermia TNF-a mRNA concentrations return to basal expression level. Timely delayed TNF-a protein expression starts to increase in the two clones (2to 2.3-fold) between 5 and 48 h after heat treatment (Fig. 2D and E). These results indicated that the mdr1 promoter is heat inducible in a timedependent fashion in the pcDNA3 plasmid-vector context confirming the in vitro findings described earlier, where a murine leukemia virus–based retroviral vector construct was used (24). Heat-InducedTNF-AExpression in Stably Transfected HCT116 Tumors In vivo The results of in vitro heat induction of TNF-a expression in pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF clones prompted us to determine the in vivo heat inducibility. The tumor-bearing animals were treated with hyperthermia for 15, 30, 45, or 60 min at 42jC to determine the optimal condition for heat-induced TNF-a expression. Figure 3A shows the TNF-a expression at mRNA level analyzed by real-time RT-PCR. As depicted, mdr1 promoter–mediated TNF-a expression increases with prolongation of hyperthermic treatment. The best induction rate was achieved at 60 min with a 3.5-fold increase. Because this time and temperature range was well tolerated by the animals, we used these conditions (60 min, 42jC) for all other in vivo experiments. For the more detailed evaluation of time course of heatinduced TNF-a expression, transfected HCT116 tumor– bearing animals were treated with hyperthermia at 42jC for 60 min, and tumors were removed for analysis immediately after heat treatment and 4, 6, 24, 48, and 72 h after hyperthermia. Figure 3B shows the result of realtime RT-PCR, where post-hyperthermia and 4 h after heat treatment, a rapid, up to 4-fold increase in TNF-a mRNA was detected (P = 0.004). Although 6 h after hyperthermia, Figure 3. A, In vivo correlation between duration of hyperthermia and induction level of TNF-a expression. pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF– transfected HCT116 tumor–bearing animals were treated with hyperthermia (42jC; 15, 30, 45, or 60 min; n = 5 animals per time point). The control animals did not receive hyperthermia. TNF-a expression was determined at mRNA level by real-time RT-PCR and was normalized to the expression of the G6PDH housekeeping gene. Columns, mean ratios of TNF-a and G6PDH mRNA expression that were determined in duplicates for each animal. Time course of in vivo heat induction of mdr1 promoter–driven TNF-a expression at mRNA (B) and at protein level (C; n = 6 animals per group). pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF– transfected HCT116 tumor–bearing animals were treated with hyperthermia (42jC, 60 min). B, at indicated times, TNF-a expression was determined at mRNA level using real-time RT-PCR (**, P = 0.004; *, P < 0.01). TNF-a mRNA expression rates were normalized to the expression of the G6PDH gene; Columns, mean ratios of TNF-a and G6PDH mRNA expression that were determined in duplicates for each animal. C, TNF-a protein levels were determined by TNF-a ELISA and were normalized to the respective protein concentration; values were determined in duplicates for each animal (*, P = 0.01). Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 239 Mol Cancer Ther 2007;6(1). January 2007 Research. on September 20, 2017. © 2007 American Association for Cancer mct.aacrjournals.org Downloaded from mRNA level decreased, the mRNA concentration remained at an elevated level during the observation time of 48 h compared with the nonheated control animals (P < 0.01). Almost similar to the in vitro kinetics (see Fig. 2D and E), an increase in TNF-a protein level seems again timely delayed in the heated tumors with a maximum of 2-fold (P < 0.01) elevation 4 h after hyperthermia (Fig. 3C). Over time however, TNF-a expression returns to basal expression levels 48 to 72 h after hyperthermia (P z 0.05). Hyperthermia-Induced TNF-A Expression for Combined In vivo Tumor Therapy The results of the in vivo heat-induced TNF-a expression indicate that this vector system is suited for therapeutic applications. We therefore tested the therapeutic effects of the combined heat-induced TNF-a expression with chemotherapy in vivo . For this, transfected HCT116 tumor– bearing animals were heated only once for 60 min at 42jC. At days 1 and 8 after hyperthermia, Adriamycin was applied. The control groups received either no hyperthermia, hyperthermia only, or Adriamycin only. As shown in Fig. 4A, the tumor volumes increased over the entire observation time in the nonheated control group. Although not significant, in the control group, which was heated only, tumor growth was suppressed compared with the nonheated animals. More importantly, if heat-induced TNF-a expression is combined with Adriamycin treatment, a reduction in tumor growth, significant up to 50%, is seen (P = 0.031). The histologic evaluation of sections from tumors, which received no hyperthermia (Fig. 4B), hyperthermia only (Fig. 4C), or the combined treatment of heatinduced TNF-a expression and drug (Fig. 4D), indicated different levels of necrosis: nontreated tumors showed only minor necrotic alterations of about 20% to 30%, whereas in hyperthermia-treated animals, 40% to 50% of the tumor is affected by necrosis, and in the tumors that received the combined treatment, more than 80% of the tumor tissue is necrotic. This indicates that the reduced tumor growth of the combined treatment accounts for the necrotic cell death of large portions of the tumor. Hyperthermia-InducedTNF-A Expression for Combined In vivo Tumor Therapy in Preestablished pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNFJet-Injected Tumors To test whether our hyperthermia-inducible gene therapy has also a therapeutic effect in a model of preestablished, Figure 4. A, In vivo therapeutic efficacy of combined heat-induced TNF-a expression and Adriamycin treatment in pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF–transfected HCT116 tumors (n = 7 animals per group). The control group of transfected HCT116 tumors was not heated. In the single-treatment groups, animals received either hyperthermia (42jC, 60 min) only or Adriamycin (8 mg/kg at days 1 and 8). The combined-therapy group received hyperthermia (42jC, 60 min) and Adriamycin (8 mg/kg at days 1 and 8 after hyperthermia). *, P = 0.031, significant differences in tumor growth compared with the control group. B toD, representative H&E-stained sections from pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF– transfected HCT116 tumors in nude mice. The tumors were removed at the end of the in vivo experiment (as in A) for evaluation of necrosis (arrows ) in the tumor tissue. B, a tumor of the nonheated control group; C, a section of a hyperthermia-treated tumor; D, a section of a tumor that was heated and treated with Adriamycin. Magnification, 100. Heat-Inducible Gene Therapy for Cancer Treatment 240 Mol Cancer Ther 2007;6(1). January 2007 Research. on September 20, 2017. © 2007 American Association for Cancer mct.aacrjournals.org Downloaded from nontransfected HCT116 tumors, we used the nonviral intratumoral jet-injection gene transfer of the pcDNA3mdrp-hTNF construct. In this approach, we first analyzed the heat inducibility of the vector. For this, tumors were jet-injected 48 h before hyperthermia and were then removed before and 4, 24, and 48 h after hyperthermia. TNF-a expression was analyzed at protein level by ELISA and at mRNA level by RT-PCR. Figure 5 shows the basal TNF-a expression at both protein and mRNA level, demonstrating the efficient jet-injection gene transfer into the tumor, although at a lower level compared with the stably transduced HCT116 tumors. This observation can be attributed to the fact that only a particular proportion of the jet-injected tumor tissue is transfected by jet-injection. In regard to heat inducibility, we observed an almost 2-fold increase in TNF-a protein expression 4 h after hyperthermia, which then rapidly returns to the basal expression level within 48 h (Fig. 5A). A similar time course of TNF-a mRNA expression was seen for these tumors by RT-PCR analysis (Fig. 5B). It was of great interest whether this level of TNF-a expression after the nonviral jet-injection gene transfer will also lead to a therapeutic effect in vivo . We therefore applied naked pcDNA3-mdrp-hTNF DNA by intratumoral jet-injection and started the same treatment schedule as for the stably transfected tumors 48 h after jet-injection. The control groups received either no hyperthermia, hyperthermia only, or Adriamycin only. Figure 6 shows the therapeutic effect on tumor growth in the different animal groups. It is evident that we were able to reproduce the significant reduction in tumor growth in the combined treatment group (P = 0.0078), which received hyperthermia and Adriamycin. Similar to the observation in the stably transduced tumor model, this growthinhibitory effect lasted for the entire observation time of 21 days. Therefore, this therapeutic experiment is a demonstration that, also in the jet-injected tumors, heatinduced TNF-a expression and application of Adriamycin are effective to achieve significant tumor growth inhibition.
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