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Activating Peripheral Innate Immunity Enables Safe and Effective Oncolytic Virotherapy in the Brain.


ABSTRACT: The oncolytic mutant vesicular stomatitis virus VSV?51 achieves robust efficacy in multiple extracranial tumor models. Yet for malignancies of the brain, direct intratumoral infusion of VSV?51 causes lethal virus-induced neuropathology. Here, we have developed a novel therapeutic regime that uses peripheral immunization with a single sub-lethal dose of VSV?51 to establish an acute anti-viral state that enables the safe intracranial (IC) infusion of an otherwise lethal dose of VSV?51 within just 6 hr. Although type I interferons alone appeared insufficient to explain this protective phenotype, serum isolated at early time points from primed animals conferred protection against an IC dose of virus. Adaptive immune populations had minimal contributions. Finally, the therapeutic utility of this novel strategy was demonstrated by peripherally priming and intracranially treating mice bearing aggressive CT2A syngeneic astrocytomas with VSV?51. Approximately 25% of animals achieved complete regression of established tumors, with no signs of virus-induced neurological impairment. This approach may harness an early warning system in the brain that has evolved to protect the host against otherwise lethal neurotropic viral infections. We have exploited this protective mechanism to safely and efficaciously treat brain tumors with an otherwise neurotoxic virus, potentially widening the available treatment options for oncolytic virotherapy in the brain.

SUBMITTER: Balathasan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5645178 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Activating Peripheral Innate Immunity Enables Safe and Effective Oncolytic Virotherapy in the Brain.

Balathasan Lukxmi L   Tang Vera A VA   Yadollahi Beta B   Brun Jan J   Labelle Melanie M   Lefebvre Charles C   Swift Stephanie L SL   Stojdl David F DF  

Molecular therapy oncolytics 20170915


The oncolytic mutant vesicular stomatitis virus VSVΔ51 achieves robust efficacy in multiple extracranial tumor models. Yet for malignancies of the brain, direct intratumoral infusion of VSVΔ51 causes lethal virus-induced neuropathology. Here, we have developed a novel therapeutic regime that uses peripheral immunization with a single sub-lethal dose of VSVΔ51 to establish an acute anti-viral state that enables the safe intracranial (IC) infusion of an otherwise lethal dose of VSVΔ51 within just  ...[more]

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