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A Novel Vaccine Targeting Glypican-3 as a Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.


ABSTRACT: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has a high morbidity and mortality rate worldwide, with limited treatment options. Glypican-3 (GPC3) is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoprotein that is overexpressed in most HCC tissues but not in normal tissues. GPC3-targeting antibody therapy shows limited response in a clinical trial due to the lack of a tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response. Here, in C57/B6 mice, we demonstrated that intravenous infusion of GPC3-coupled lymphocytes (LC/GPC3+) elicited robust GPC3-specific antibody and CTL responses, which effectively restricted proliferation and lysed cultured-HCC cells. Treatment with LC/GPC3+ induced durable tumor regression in HCC-bearing C57/B6 mice. Administration of LC/GPC3+ induced elevated levels of the cytotoxic T cell bioactive factors tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-?), interferon-? (IFN-?), granzyme B, and perforin, and substantially increased the number of infiltrating CD8+ T cells in tumor tissues. Moreover, immune responses elicited by LC/GPC3+ selectively suppressed GPC3+ tumors, but didn't affect the GPC3- tumors in BALB/c mice. Our findings provide the first preclinical evidence that intravenous infusion of the LC/GPC3+ complex can induce a strong anti-HCC effect through regulating systemic and local immune responses. These results indicate that the LC/GPC3+ complex could be developed as precision therapeutics for HCC patients in the future.

SUBMITTER: Wu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5628867 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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A Novel Vaccine Targeting Glypican-3 as a Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Wu Qunfeng Q   Pi Liya L   Le Trinh Thu T   Zuo Chaohui C   Xia Man M   Jiao Yu Y   Hou Zhouhua Z   Jo Sung S   Puszyk William W   Pham Kien K   Nelson David R DR   Robertson Keith K   Ostrov David D   Rameshwar Pranela P   Xia Chang Qing CQ   Liu Chen C  

Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 20170810 10


Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has a high morbidity and mortality rate worldwide, with limited treatment options. Glypican-3 (GPC3) is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoprotein that is overexpressed in most HCC tissues but not in normal tissues. GPC3-targeting antibody therapy shows limited response in a clinical trial due to the lack of a tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response. Here, in C57/B6 mice, we demonstrated that intravenous infusion of GPC3-coupled lymphocytes (  ...[more]

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