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Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgical Service [M. A., K. S., E. A. C.], and Molecular Neurogenetics Unit [X. O. B.], Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114; and Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutic Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York 10001 [T. C. C.]
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EGFR glioma cells, infected and lysed by rRp450, also exhibit supra-additive sensitivity to both CPA and GCV, as determined by Chou-Talalay synergy analysis. DNA cross-linking, assayed by ethidium bromide fluorescence, was significantly inhibited in the presence of GCV, suggesting that interactions between the CPA/CYP2B1 and GCV/HSV-TK gene therapies occurred at the level of DNA repair. In vivo, regression of 9L s.c. tumor volumes in athymic mice was achieved only by the multimodal treatment allowed by rRp450 viral oncolysis combined with CPA/CYP2B1 and GCV/HSV-TK gene therapies, whereas all other treatment combinations produced only tumor growth retardation. |
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EGFR glioblastoma cells were a generous gift of Dr. W. Cavenee (University of California, San Diego, CA; Ref. 11
). Rat 9L gliosarcoma cells have been described previously (4)
. The hrR3 HSV-1 viral mutant (a generous gift of S. Weller, University of Connecticut Medical School, Framington, CT) has an insertion of the lacZ gene into the viral ICP6 locus (12)
. The rRp450 virus was derived from the hrR3 viral mutant by replacement of lacZ with the rat CYP2B1 gene, as described previously (4)
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Cell Culture Studies.
A stably transfected cell line (9L/TK-450) was used in some studies and was generated by polybrene-promoted infection of 9L/TK cells with a CYP2B1-expressing retrovirus that had been harvested from producer cells, transiently transfected with pBABE-Puro/CYP2B1. Infected cells were then cloned under selection in 5 µg/ml puromycin (Sigma). For viral infection of cultured cells, 3 x 105 cells were plated in 6-cm2 dishes and allowed to adhere for 6 h. Virus and/or CPA was added in 10% FBS-DMEM in a total volume of 200 µl. The plates were shaken every 15 min for an h, after which 4 ml of fresh medium (containing CPA for cells infected in the presence of CPA) were added. GCV was added at varying times after infection began. For temperature-shift experiments, plates were transferred to a separate 39.8°C incubator, and GCV was added to some plates.
Analysis of Interaction between Gene Therapies.
The multiple drug effect analysis of Chou-Talalay (13)
was used to quantify the interaction between the two gene therapies. The Chou-Talalay method determines the expected effect of a given combination if the agents are additive and quantifies synergy or antagonism by determining how much the experimental effect differs from the effect expected with additivity. The stepwise calculations performed using a computer program have been described previously (14)
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Ethidium Bromide Fluorescence Assay.
For the ethidium bromide fluorescence assay, 2 x 106 cells were plated in 25-cm2 flasks. The next day, different treatment groups were set up. Cells were exposed to 9 µg/ml GCV and/or 250 µg/ml CPA (or, as a control, medium alone) for 6 h, followed by a variable period of time (6, 12, or 24 h) without CPA (CPA-free period) to allow for repair of DNA cross-links. During the CPA-free period, GCV (9 µg/ml) or medium was present. This dose of GCV was selected because higher doses produced extensive cell death, impeding recovery of genomic DNA, whereas lower doses were not as effective in producing the observed result. For some experiments, cells were preexposed to GCV for 3 h, before the 6-h treatment with CPA and GCV. At each time point, DNA was prepared from harvested cells. The ethidium bromide fluorescence assay was slightly modified (15)
. The rationale for this assay is that cross-linked DNA will denature less rapidly and renature more rapidly than normal DNA, thus allowing for more ethidium bromide retention. Cells were suspended in 80 µl of PBS, to which 400 µl of lysing solution [4 M NaCl, 50 mM KH2PO4, 10 mM EDTA, and 1% sarkosyl (pH 7.4)] plus 40 µl of heat-inactivated pancreatic RNase (2 mg/ml) were added. Lysis was carried out at 37°C for 16 h. Next, 50 µl of heparin (500 IU/ml) was added to the lysates and incubated for 20 min at 37°C. Then, each sample was divided. The DNA in one half was denatured by boiling 10 min and was then allowed to renature at 4°C. Cell lysates as well as standards containing 0, 5, 10, 20, and 30 µg of salmon sperm DNA dissolved in 570 µl of water were then added to 3 ml of a solution containing 10 µg/ml ethidium bromide, 20 mM KH2PO4, and 0.4 mM EDTA (pH 12). Tubes were stored in the absence of light until the relative amount of cross-linked DNA could be determined by measuring the fluorescence of all samples using an excitation wavelength of 525 nm and an emission wavelength of 580 nm in 4.5-ml polystyrene cuvettes having four clear sides (F-4500 Fluorescence Spectrophotomer; Hitachi Instruments, Danbury, CT). Salmon sperm standards were used to confirm the linear relationship between amount of DNA and fluorescence and the elimination of most fluorescence upon denaturation. For cell samples, the cross-link index of drug-treated cells, Ct, an indicator of the percentage of DNA that is cross-linked, was calculated as follows:
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In Vivo Experiments.
9L cells (106) in 200 µl of DMEM (without FBS) were injected s.c. into the flanks of 6-week-old female nude mice (NCr/Sed, nu/nu, 20 g; Massachusetts General Hospital breeding colony). After 14 days, when the tumors had reached an average volume of 73 mm3 (range, 30–141 mm3), the mice were randomly divided into treatment groups with five mice per group. Intratumoral injection of virus (2.5 x 108 pfu) and/or 100 mg CPA/kg body weight in a total volume of 60 µl was performed on treatment day 1 and repeated on days 3, 5, and 7, with intratumoral manipulation of needle to ensure spread of virus. Thus, animals treated with virus received a total of 109 pfu. Some animals were given daily i.p. injections of 30 mg of GCV per kg of body weight dissolved in 200 µl of 0.9% NaCl from day 11 until day 21, when animals were euthanized due to the excessive size of saline-treated tumors. Tumor size was measured once a week using calipers. Tumor volume was calculated using the formula length x width x height, as described previously (14)
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. Infection at 37°C for 4 h and at an MOI of 0.5 did not produce oncolysis, as measured by cell counts 5 days later. Using these conditions, we found that single prodrug treatment with CPA present throughout and GCV added upon temperature shift produced ED50s of 48.1 µg/ml for CPA and 0.57 µg/ml for GCV (Fig. 1B)
. In parallel experiments, we determined that the ED50s for mock-infected 9L tumor cells were 685 µg/ml for CPA and 24.74 µg/ml for GCV. Thus, substantial HSV-TK and CYP2B1 antitumor activities were conferred during 4 h of infection, and under these experimental conditions, rRp450 was transformed into a pure gene delivery vector without intrinsic viral oncolytic activity. Additionally, mock-infected 9L cells grown at 39.8°C were not sensitive to the prodrug concentrations tested. Furthermore, 9L/TK-450 (9L cells stably transfected with both CYP2B1 and HSV-TK) cells did not experience altered prodrug sensitivities at 39.8°C (data not shown). Thus, the temperature increase itself did not affect the activity of the enzymes or the prodrug sensitivities of the cells.
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. With this combination, the ED50 for both prodrugs decreased. Chou-Talalay analysis revealed that combination indices were <1 for most effect levels, suggestive of no antagonism and of pharmacological synergism between the GCV/HSV-TK and CPA/CYP2B1 gene therapies in rat 9L tumor cells infected with the oncolytic virus, rRp450. Similar findings were also observed with stably transfected 9L/TK-450 cells, thus providing additional confirmation for the observed synergy (data not shown).
To show that the observed synergism was not exclusive to rat 9L gliosarcoma cells, we performed similar experiments using human U87/EGFR glioma cells. Fig. 1C
reveals that, to have no oncolysis for these cells, temperature shift after a 4-h infection at 37°C and an MOI of 0.1 (or 2 h at an MOI of 0.5; data not shown) was necessary. Longer periods of infection or higher MOIs produced gradual increases in oncolysis. Single and combined prodrug treatment of cells followed by temperature shift produced significant enhancements in oncolysis (Fig. 1C)
. Again, combination indices of <1 were calculated for most doses. These results indicated that prodrug augmentation of rRp450’s oncolysis and the observed synergism between the two gene therapies delivered by rRp450 were operative and reproducible in a second cell line of human origin.
GCV/HSV-TK and CPA/CYP2B1 Interactions Are Associated with Inhibition of DNA Repair.
The active metabolite of CPA, phosphoramide mustard, produces inter-and intrastrand DNA cross-links (15)
. Cross-links are repaired by excision of damaged DNA, followed by DNA synthesis mediated by polymerases 
and 
(16)
. Because GCV-triphosphate has a strong inhibitory effect against DNA polymerase (17)
, we reasoned that observed pharmacological enhancement may result from an interaction between the two gene therapies at the level of DNA repair. We thus used the ethidium bromide fluorescence assay to measure the amount of cross-linked DNA in 9L/TK-450 cells pulsed with CPA for 6 h and then allowed to repair their DNA in the absence of CPA for 24 h. Fig. 2
shows that the cross-link index (Ct) of DNA was 47% at the end of the CPA pulse and then gradually decreased over the next 24 h to 3%, suggestive of relatively rapid DNA repair. Addition of GCV to the CPA pulse did not affect the initial amount of DNA cross-linking, but it did significantly inhibit DNA repair at all times during the recovery phase. Preexposure of cells to GCV before the CPA pulse or addition of GCV during the CPA pulse did not produce more inhibition of DNA repair (data not shown). GCV alone did not induce significant cross-linking (data not shown). These findings suggest that the observed pharmacological enhancement between the GCV/HSV-TK and CPA/CYP2B1 gene therapies were mechanistically related at the level of DNA cross-linking.
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, compares the gross effects of treatment with saline alone, prodrug alone, or virus. In general, rRp450 alone or in combination with GCV, CPA, or GCV plus CPA significantly inhibited tumor growth when compared to the saline or CPA alone controls. As expected, hrR3 possessed a similar effect. It is evident that hepatic metabolism of CPA also produced inhibition of tumor growth (Fig. 3, A and B)
. In Fig. 3C
, a more detailed comparison did not show differences in the growth of tumors infected with rRp450 or hrR3 in the presence or absence of GCV, presumably because, under these conditions, this prodrug metabolites’ antiviral effects and anticancer effects were equal. As reported previously, rRp450 plus CPA significantly inhibited tumor growth (4)
, whereas rRp450 combined with CPA and GCV was even more effective and was the only treatment that achieved tumor regression (compare the growth curves for rRp450 plus CPA and rRp450 plus CPA plus GCV in Fig. 3C
). Because GCV alone did not have an effect on augmenting or inhibiting rRp450 oncolysis (see Fig. 3C
), its mode of action must have involved potentiation of CPA’s activity, thus providing further suggestive evidence for GCV/HSV-TK enhancing CPA/CYP2B1 gene therapy. Similar considerations apply to the comparisons between the growth of tumors treated with hrR3 and GCV versus hrR3, GCV, and CPA. Although hepatic activation of CPA increased hrR3 oncolysis, intratumoral CPA activation by rRp450 was clearly more effective, as evidenced by the growth curves of hrR3 plus CPA compared to rRp450 plus CPA (Fig. 3C)
. At the conclusion of the experiment, treatment with rRp450, CPA, and GCV caused 0.3-fold growth, the only experimental group that displayed tumor regression. Therefore, rRp450 provided three distinct modes of therapy against a tumor, and in treating s.c. 9L tumors, all three modes had to be used to achieve consistent tumor regression.
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The finding of synergism between different prodrug-activating gene therapies can provide an insight into mechanisms of action. In fact, we and others have previously shown that the GCV/HSV-TK and cytosine deaminase/5-fluorocytosine gene therapies interact synergistically, probably through the ability of 5-fluorocytosine metabolites to modify nucleotide pools in a manner that enhances GCV phosphorylation (14)
. Interestingly, in this study, GCV improves the efficacy of another gene therapy (CPA/CYP2B1) rather than having its own efficacy improved. Our experiments suggest that one potential mechanism for this synergy is GCV metabolite-mediated inhibition of the repair of DNA cross-links induced by CPA’s active metabolite(s). Despite its novelty, this finding should not be surprising, in light of the synergisms demonstrated in traditional chemotherapy between alkylating agents such as cisplatin or CPA and nucleoside analogues such as ara-C or fludarabine (18
, 19)
. These synergisms result from nucleoside analogues inhibiting the repair of DNA cross-links formed by alkylating agents. The recent finding that GCV-triphosphate inhibits DNA polymerase , an enzyme implicated in the repair of DNA cross-links (16
, 17)
, lends credence to our findings, suggesting that the GCV/HSV-TK and CPA/CYP2B1 synergism is associated with the same mechanism that gives rise to the nucleoside analogue-alkylating agent synergisms observed with traditional chemotherapy. Detailed biochemical studies using DNA polymerase , nucleic acid oligomers, and activated prodrugs may provide a confirmation of the veracity of the hypothesis suggested by our study.
The analysis of transgene expression when an oncolytic virus mediates gene transfer can be complicated. The virus may lyse infected cells, expressing the gene of interest such as HSV-TK or CYP2B1, before the functional effects of transgene expression can be ascertained. We showed that a pulse of viral infection followed by viral inactivation through temperature shift abrogated viral oncolysis. Cells that were not lysed still expressed transgenes, and as a result, prodrug-mediated oncolysis was enhanced. That is, MOIs and infection times could be identified for two different cell lines for which rRp450 was transformed into a nononcolytic gene therapy vector. The significance of the synergism detected in infected cells may not be restricted to the temperature shift paradigm. Although in vitro temperature shift was used to merely limit viral oncolysis so that drug interactions can be analyzed, it may also mimic conditions found in vivo, where host immune response, fever, or the acidity associated with tumor necrosis would inhibit viral replication. Under these conditions, the addition of prodrug treatment would, thus, amplify the viral oncolytic effect.
An additional question may relate to the effect of each of the prodrugs and their metabolites on the replication of the oncolytic rRp450 virus at the permissive temperature (37°C) in vitro and in vivo. In published experiments, we have shown that CPA treatment does not inhibit rRp450 replication either in vitro or in vivo at the doses used in the present report (4) , and it actually augments viral replication by inhibition of both innate and elicited immune antiviral responses (20) . Conversely, GCV’s metabolites can display both strong anticancer and antiviral effects. With the described cell lines and under the described culture conditions, GCV’s anticancer effect always predominated over its antiviral effect, if GCV was administered after the occurrence of viral replication and this type of result was previously observed with rat 9L tumor cells (10) . Instead, published experiments using human colon carcinoma cells in which GCV was also administered 3 days into a 5-day infection showed that GCV’s antiviral effects predominated over and antagonized its anticancer effects. The difference may stem from the infectivity of the cells or their levels of gap junctions: gap junctions may mediate a "bystander effect," in which toxic phosphorylated GCV is transferred from infected to uninfected cells. Antiviral effects of GCV may predominate over anticancer effects in tumor cell lines that allow for vigorous viral replication (such as most human tumor cell lines) and that have low levels of gap junctions (such as human colon carcinoma cells; Ref. 21 ), whereas the opposite may be true under conditions that may not be as favorable to viral replication (such as most rat tumor cell lines) or in cells with high levels of gap junctions (such as the rat 9L glioma cell line).
Comparisons of growth curves from the in vivo study led us to several conclusions. (a) GCV activation by hrR3 or rRp450 did not appear to significantly enhance or inhibit the oncolytic effect (Fig. 3C)
, suggesting a balance between the prodrug metabolites’ antiviral and anticancer action under these particular experimental conditions. We added GCV 4 days after the last administration of virus and CPA. It is likely that simultaneous oncolytic virus and GCV administration would have resulted in antiviral activity predominating over anticancer activity (i.e., before HSV-TK expression), whereas the effect of further delay in GCV administration may not be beneficial because there could be less CPA available for synergistic interactions. (b) CPA could be added simultaneously because it appears to possess minimal antiviral activity when compared to its anticancer effects (4)
. (c) There must have been hepatic metabolism of CPA, administered intratumorally, thus enhancing the anticancer action of both hrR3 and rRp450. However, the anticancer action of rRp450 was enhanced more than that of hrR3, presumably because of additional intratumoral conversion of prodrug by the CYP2B1 transgene delivered by the former virus. (d) GCV, which by itself did not augment hrR3 or rRp450 oncolysis, did enhance the oncolysis by rRp450 or hrR3 when CPA was present, providing further evidence for pharmacological synergy by these two gene therapies, even in vivo. In conclusion, rRp450 provides three distinct modes of anticancer therapy. Addition of other anticancer genes within rRp450’s genome that might potentiate CPA/CYP2B1 action could further expand the versatility of oncolytic viral delivery of therapeutic genes.
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1 Supported by NIH Grant CA69246 (to E. A. C. and X. O. B.). 
2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratories, Neurosurgical Service CNY 6, Massachusetts General Hospital East, Charlestown, MA 02129. Fax: (617) 726-5079; E-mail: chiocca{at}helix.mgh.harvard.edu
3 The abbreviations used are: RR, ribonucleotide reductase; CYP2B1, rat cytochrome P450 2B1; CPA, cyclophosphamide; GCV, ganciclovir; HSV-TK, herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase; FBS, fetal bovine serum; MOI, multiplicity of infection.
Received 3/11/99. Accepted 6/30/99.
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). Data points, means of triplicate evaluations; bars, SEs (<8.4% survival). B, dose-response curves for CPA (
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) treatment of 9L cells infected with rRp450 at a MOI of 0.5 for 4 h at 37°C, followed by temperature shift to 39.8°C. Prodrug concentration on the X axis is in units of 0.0625 µg/ml GCV (added upon temperature shift) and/or 7.5 µg/ml CPA (present from the start). Data points, mean concentrations, evaluated in triplicate; bars, SEs (<6.8% survival). Chou-Talalay analysis of these data (data not shown) revealed synergism. C, percentage survival as a function of MOI for U87/
