Adenovirus-mediated expression of pex, a noncatalytic fragment of matrix metalloproteinase-2, and it’s inhibition on angiogenesis and tumor growth
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Objective To develop an adenovirus system to deliver biologically active peptides or proteins such as angiogenesis inhibitors in vivo for the treatment of cancer. Methods DNA recombination techniques were employed to construct adenovirus shuttle vector, in which angiogenesis inhibitor was put downstream of rat growth hormone signal peptide, and the C-terminal was the myc-epitope 10-amino-acid peptide for the following up of the protein. Adenovirus was made using the bacteria recombination method. We tested this system using an angiogenesis inhibitor chick MMP-2 C-terminal hemopexin-like fragment (PEX) in Sarcoma 180 (S-180) bearing Kunming mice. The anti-angiogenic effect was performed by chick chorioallantoic membrane assay. Results PEX was readily secreted outside human stomach carcinoma BGC823 cells as demonstrated by immunofluorescent staining and western blot infected by adenovirus with rat growth hormone signal peptide (E-T-rGH-PEX). However, without signal peptide (E-T-PEX), PEX was expressed and localized in the cytoplasm of the infected cells, and formed large aggregates, which suggested that PEX was insoluble. The adenovirus E-T-rGH-PEX could inhibit angiogenesis, while E-T-rGH-PEX not. The adenoviruses of E-T-rGH-PEX inhibited the growth of S-180 tumor significantly compared with the empty virus control group E-T (P=0.026) and without signal peptide group E-T-PEX (P=0.006) respectively, while E-T-PEX had little effect. Conclusion These results suggest that this adenoviral system is likely to be used in the gene therapy of cancer to deliver angiogenesis inhibitors.