@misc{10481/37219,
year = {2015},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/37219},
abstract = {Colorectal cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers in the world. Patients in advanced stages often develop metastases that require chemotherapy and usually show a poor response, have a low survival rate and develop considerable toxicity with adverse symptoms. Gene therapy may act as an adjuvant therapy in attempts to destroy the tumor without affecting normal host tissue. The bacteriophage E gene has demonstrated significant antitumor activity in several cancers, but without any tumor-specific activity. The use of tumor-specific promoters may help to direct the expression of therapeutic genes so they act against specific cancer cells. We used the carcinoembryonic antigen promoter (CEA) to direct E gene expression (pCEA-E) towards colon cancer cells. pCEA-E induced a high cell growth inhibition of human HTC-116 colon adenocarcinoma and mouse MC-38 colon cancer cells in comparison to normal human CCD18co colon cells, which have practically undetectable levels of CEA. In addition, in vivo analyses of mice bearing tumors induced using MC-38 cells showed a significant decrease in tumor volume after pCEA-E treatment and a low level of Ki-67 in relation to untreated tumors. These results suggest that the CEA promoter is an excellent candidate for directing E gene expression specifically toward colon cancer cells.},
organization = {This research was funded by FEDER, Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación
Tecnológica (I+D+I), Instituto de Salud Carlos III- Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS) through
Projects PI11/01862 and PI11/0257.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Carcinoma embryonic antigen},
keywords = {Colorectal cancer},
keywords = {E gene},
keywords = {Suicide gene therapy},
keywords = {Promoter tissue specific},
title = {Specific Colon Cancer Cell Cytotoxicity Induced by Bacteriophage E Gene Expression under Transcriptional Control of Carcinoembryonic Antigen Promoter},
doi = {10.3390/ijms160612601},
author = {Rama Ballesteros, Ana Rosa and Hernández, Rosa and Perazzoli, Gloria and Burgos Poyatos, Miguel and Melguizo Alonso, Consolación and Vélez Fernández, María Celia and Prados Salazar, José Carlos},
}