Oncolytic virus
An oncolytic virus is a virus that preferentially infects and kills cancer cells.[1][2] As the infected cancer cells are destroyed by oncolysis, they release new infectious virus particles or virions to help destroy the remaining tumour.[3][4] Oncolytic viruses are thought not only to cause direct destruction of the tumour cells, but also to stimulate host anti-tumour immune responses.[5][6]
The potential of viruses as anti-cancer agents was first realised in the early twentieth century, although coordinated research efforts did not begin until the 1960s.[7] A number of viruses including adenovirus, reovirus, measles, herpes simplex, Newcastle disease virus and vaccinia have now been clinically tested as oncolytic agents.[8] Most current oncolytic viruses are engineered for tumour selectivity, although there are naturally occurring examples such as reovirus and the senecavirus,[9] resulting in clinical trials.[10]
The first oncolytic virus to be approved by a regulatory agency was an oncolytic adenovirus, a genetically modified adenovirus named H101 by the Chinese company, Shanghai Sunway Biotech. It gained regulatory approval in 2005 from the CFDA, for the treatment of head and neck cancer.[11] The drug talimogene laherparepvec (OncoVex, T-VEC) was the first oncolytic herpes virus ( a modified herpes simplex virus), approved for use by the USFDA and by the EMA in the EU in 2015 for the treatment of advanced inoperable melanoma. In a combined decision, members of the FDA's Oncology Drug Advisory Committee and Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee voted 22-1 to recommend approval of the oncolytic immunotherapy.[12] Originally developed in the former USSR and now registered in Latvia, the oncolytic virus RIGVIR was also registered in Georgia in February 2015,[13] and in Armenia in 2016.
History
A connection between cancer regression and viruses has long been theorised, and case reports of regression noted in cervical cancer, Burkitt lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma, after immunisation or infection with an unrelated virus appeared at the beginning of the 20th century.[14] Efforts to treat cancer through immunisation or virotherapy (deliberate infection with a virus), began in the mid-20th century.[14][15] As the technology for creating a custom virus did not exist, all early efforts focused on finding natural oncolytic viruses. During the 1960s, promising research involved using poliovirus,[16] adenovirus,[14] Coxsackie virus,[17] ECHO enterovirus RIGVIR[18] and others.[15] The early complications were occasional cases of uncontrolled infection, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality; the very frequent development of an immune response, while harmless to the patient,[14] destroyed the virus and thus prevented it from destroying the cancer.[16] Only certain cancers could be treated through virotherapy was also recognised very early.[17] Even when a response was seen, these responses were neither complete nor durable.[14] The field of virotherapy was nearly abandoned for a time, as the technology required to modify viruses didn't exist and chemotherapy and radiotherapy technology enjoyed early success. However, now these technologies have been thoroughly developed, cancer is still a major cause of mortality and there is still a need for novel cancer therapies, hence the return to this sidelined therapy now using the recently developed genetic technology required to engineer viruses.[14][19]
Herpes simplex virus
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) was one of the first viruses to be adapted to attack cancer cells selectively, because it was well understood, easy to manipulate and relatively harmless in its natural state (merely causing cold sores) so likely to pose fewer risks. The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) mutant 1716 lacks both copies of the ICP34.5 gene, and as a result is no longer able to replicate in terminally differentiated and non-dividing cells but will infect and cause lysis very efficiently in cancer cells, and this has proved to be an effective tumour-targeting strategy.[20][21] In a wide range of in vivo cancer models, the HSV1716 virus has induced tumour regression and increased survival times.[22][23][24]
In 1996, the first approval was given in Europe for a clinical trial using the oncolytic virus HSV1716. From 1997 to 2003, strain HSV1716 was injected into tumours of patients with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly malignant brain tumour, with no evidence of toxicity or side effects, and some long-term survivors.[25][26][27] Other safety trials have used HSV1716 to treat patients with melanoma and squamous-cell carcinoma of head and neck.[28][29] Since then other studies have shown that the outer coating of HSV1716 variants can be targeted to specific types of cancer cells,[30] and can be used to deliver a variety of additional genes into cancer cells, such as genes to split a harmless prodrug inside cancer cells to release toxic chemotherapy,[31] or genes which command infected cancer cells to concentrate protein tagged with radioactive iodine, so that individual cancer cells are killed by micro-dose radiation as well as by virus-induced cell lysis.[32]
Other oncolytic viruses based on HSV have also been developed and are in clinical trials, most notably OncoVex GM-CSF, developed by Amgen, which has successfully completed a pivotal Phase III trial for advanced melanoma. This study met its primary endpoint (durable response rate) with a very high degree of statistical significance in March 2013, the first positive phase 3 study for an oncolytic virus in the western world.
Oncorine (H101)
The first oncolytic virus to be approved by a regulatory agency was a genetically modified adenovirus named H101 by Shanghai Sunway Biotech. It gained regulatory approval in 2005 from China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) for the treatment of head and neck cancer.[11][33] Sunway's H101 and the very similar Onyx-15 have been engineered to remove a viral defense mechanism that interacts with a normal human gene p53, which is very frequently dysregulated in cancer cells.[33] Despite the promises of early in vivo lab work, these viruses do not specifically infect cancer cells, but they still kill cancer cells preferentially.[33] While overall survival rates are not known, short-term response rates are approximately doubled for H101 plus chemotherapy when compared to chemotherapy alone.[33] It appears to work best when injected directly into a tumour, and when any resulting fever is not suppressed.[33] Systemic therapy (such as through infusion through an intravenous line) is desirable for treating metastatic disease.[34] It is now marketed under the brand name Oncorine.[35]
Mechanisms of action
Direct oncolysis
Direct oncolysis, the cell killing effect produced by viral infection of cancer cells, was the original concept of oncolytic viruses.[1][36] By specific infection of a tumour cell, the virus multiplies within it until it causes cell lysis, releasing a second generation of virus to then infect surrounding cells.[3]
Immunotherapy
With advances in cancer immunotherapy such as immune checkpoint inhibitors, increased interest was given to the prospect of oncolytic viruses as immunotherapies. There are two main considerations of the interaction between oncolytic viruses and the immune system.
Immunity as an obstacle
A major obstacle to the success of oncolytic viruses is the patient immune system which naturally attempts to deactivate any virus. This can be a particular problem for intravenous injection, where the virus must first survive interactions with the blood complement and neutralising antibodies.[37] It has been shown that immunosuppression by chemotherapy and inhibition of the complement system can enhance oncolytic virus therapy.[38][39][40]
Pre-existing immunity can be partly avoided by using viruses that are not common human pathogens. However, this does not avoid subsequent antibody generation. However, some studies have shown that pre-immunity to oncolytic viruses doesn't cause a significant reduction in efficacy.[41]
Alternatively, the viral vector can be coated with a polymer such as polyethylene glycol, shielding it from antibodies, but this also prevents viral coat proteins adhering to host cells.[42]
Another way to help oncolytic viruses reach cancer growths after intravenous injection, is to hide them inside macrophages (a type of white blood cell). Macrophages automatically migrate to areas of tissue destruction, especially where oxygen levels are low, characteristic of cancer growths, and have been used successfully to deliver oncolytic viruses to prostate cancer in animals.[43]
Immunity as an ally
Although it poses a hurdle by inactivating viruses, the patient's immune system can also act as an ally against tumors; infection attracts the attention of the immune system to the tumour and may help to generate useful and long-lasting antitumor immunity.[44][45] This essentially produces a personalised Cancer vaccine.
Many cases of spontaneous remission of cancer have been recorded, though not fully understood, they are thought likely to be a result of a sudden immune response or infection.[46] Efforts to induce this phenomenon have used cancer vaccines (derived from cancer cells or selected cancer antigens), or direct treatment with immune-stimulating factors on skin cancers.[47] Some oncolytic viruses are very immunogenic and may by infection of the tumour, elicit an anti-tumor immune response, especially viruses delivering cytokines or other immune stimulating factors.[48]
Oncolytic behaviour of wild-type viruses
Vesicular stomatitis virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a rhabdovirus, consisting of 5 genes encoded by a negative sense, single-stranded RNA genome. In nature, VSV infects insects as well as livestock, where it causes a relatively localized and non-fatal illness. The low pathogenicity of this virus is due in large part to its sensitivity to interferons, a class of proteins that are released into the tissues and bloodstream during infection. These molecules activate genetic anti-viral defence programs that protect cells from infection and prevent spread of the virus. However, in 2000, Stojdl, Lichty et al.[49] demonstrated that defects in these pathways render cancer cells unresponsive to the protective effects of interferons and therefore highly sensitive to infection with VSV. Since VSV undergoes a rapid cytolytic replication cycle, infection leads to death of the malignant cell and roughly a 1000-fold amplification of virus within 24h. VSV is therefore highly suitable for therapeutic application, and several groups have gone on to show that systemically administered VSV can be delivered to a tumour site, where it replicates and induces disease regression, often leading to durable cures.[50][51][52][53] Attenuation of the virus by engineering a deletion of Met-51 of the matrix protein ablates virtually all infection of normal tissues, while replication in tumour cells is unaffected.[50]
Recent research has shown that this virus has the potential to cure brain tumours, thanks to its oncolytic properties.[54]
Poliovirus
Poliovirus is a natural neuropathogen, making it the obvious choice for selective replication in tumours derived from neuronal cells. Poliovirus has a plus-strand RNA genome, the translation of which depends on a tissue-specific internal ribosome entry site (IRES) within the 5' untranslated region of the viral genome, which is active in cells of neuronal origin and allows translation of the viral genome without a 5' cap. Gromeier et al. (2000)[55] replaced the normal poliovirus IRES with a rhinovirus IRES, altering tissue specificity. The resulting PV1(RIPO) virus was able to selectively destroy malignant glioma cells, while leaving normal neuronal cells untouched.[56]
Reovirus
Reoviruses, an acronym for respiratory enteric orphan virus, generally infect mammalian respiratory and bowel systems. Most people have been exposed to reovirus by adulthood; however, the infection does not typically produce symptoms. The link to the reovirus' oncolytic ability was established after it was discovered to reproduce well in various cancer cell lines and lyses these cells.[57]
Reolysin is a formulation of reovirus that is currently in clinical trials for the treatment of various cancers.[58]
Senecavirus
Senecavirus, also known as Seneca Valley Virus, is a naturally occurring wild-type oncolytic picornavirus discovered in 2001 as a tissue culture contaminate at Genetic Therapy, Inc. The initial isolate, SVV-001, is being developed as an anti-cancer therapeutic by Neotropix, Inc. under the name NTX-010 for cancers with neuroendocrine features including small cell lung cancer and a variety of pediatric solid tumours.
RIGVIR
In the 1960s, a group of scientists in Latvia led by Dr. Aina Muceniece studied oncolytic activity of ECHO viruses, but in 1968 a clinical trial of 5 ECHO enterovirus strains began (in trials participated stage-IV cancer patients volunteers). Scientists decided to continue researching ECHO-7 strain of ECHO virus (later called RIGVIR), because it showed the most pronounced oncolytic properties. III-phase trials started in 1988 with the aim to compare effect of RIGVIR therapy with results of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. In 2004 RIGVIR was patented and registered in Latvia and since then it has been used in cancer therapy.[18] RIGVIR virus was approved in Georgia in February 2015,[13] but in 2016 it was approved also in Armenia. Recent retrospective study published in Melanoma Research revealed that IB-IIC melanoma patients treated with oncolytic virus RIGVIR were 4.39–6.57-fold lower mortality than those, who according to melanoma treatment guidelines did not receive virotherapy and were only observed.[59] In 2015 Rigvir was included into the Latvian National guidelines for treatment of skin cancer and melanoma, developed by the Riga Eastern Clinical University Hospital Task Force.[60] In July 2016 new positive results were published in APMIS journal about RIGVIR efficacy in treatment of lung cancer and histiocytic sarcoma.[61]
Semliki Forest virus
Semliki Forest virus (SFV) is a virus that naturally infects cells of the central nervous system and causes encephalitis. A genetically engineered form has been pre-clinically tested as an oncolytic virus against the severe brain tumour type glioblastoma. The SFV was genetically modified with microRNA target sequences so that it only replicated in brain tumour cells and not in normal brain cells. The modified virus reduced tumour growth and prolonged survival of mice with brain tumours.[62] The modified virus was also found to efficiently kill human glioblastoma tumour cell lines.[62]
Other
The maraba virus, first identified in Brazilian sandflies, is being tested clinically.[63][64]
Engineering oncolytic viruses
Directed evolution
An innovative approach of drug development termed "directed evolution" involves the creation of new viral variants or serotypes specifically directed against tumour cells via rounds of directed selection using large populations of randomly generated recombinant precursor viruses. The increased biodiversity produced by the initial homologous recombination step provides a large random pool of viral candidates which can then be passed through a series of selection steps designed to lead towards a pre-specified outcome (e.g. higher tumor specific activity) without requiring any previous knowledge of the resultant viral mechanisms that are responsible for that outcome. The pool of resultant oncolytic viruses can then be further screened in pre-clinical models to select an oncolytic virus with the desired therapeutic characteristics.[65]
Directed evolution was applied on human adenovirus, one of many viruses that are being developed as oncolytic agents, to create a highly selective and yet potent oncolytic vaccine. As a result of this process, ColoAd1 (a novel chimeric member of the group B adenoviruses) was generated. This hybrid of adenovirus serotypes Ad11p and Ad3 shows much higher potency and tumour selectivity than the control viruses (including Ad5, Ad11p and Ad3) and was confirmed to generate approximately two logs more viral progeny on freshly isolated human colon tumour tissue than on matching normal tissue.[65]
Attenuation
Attenuation involves deleting viral genes, or gene regions, to eliminate viral functions that are expendable in tumour cells, but not in normal cells, thus making the virus safer and more tumour-specific. Cancer cells and virus-infected cells have similar alterations in their cell signalling pathways, particularly those that govern progression through the cell cycle.[66] A viral gene whose function is to alter a pathway is dispensable in cells where the pathway is defective, but not in cells where the pathway is active.
The enzymes thymidine kinase and ribonucleotide reductase in cells are responsible for DNA synthesis and are only expressed in cells which are actively replicating.[67] These enzymes also exist in the genomes of certain viruses (E.g. HSV, vaccinia) and allow viral replication in quiescent(non-replicating) cells,[68] so if they are inactivated by mutation the virus will only be able to replicate in proliferating cells, such as cancer cells.
Tumour targeting
There are two main approaches for generating tumour selectivity: transductional and non-transductional targeting.
- Transductional targeting involves modifying the viral coat proteins to target tumour cells while reducing entry to non-tumour cells. This approach to tumour selectivity has mainly focused on adenoviruses and HSV-1, although it is entirely viable with other viruses.
- Non-transductional targeting involves altering the genome of the virus so it can only replicate in cancer cells, most frequently as part of the attenuation of the virus.
- Transcription targeting can also be used, where critical parts of the viral genome are placed under the control of a tumour-specific promoter. A suitable promoter should be active in the tumour but inactive in the majority of normal tissue, particularly the liver, which is the organ that is most exposed to blood born viruses. Many such promoters have been identified and studied for the treatment of a range of cancers.
- Similarly, viral replication can be finely tuned with the use of microRNAs (miRNA) artificial target sites or miRNA response elements (MREs). Differential expression of miRNAs between healthy tissues and tumors permit to engineer oncolytic viruses detargeted from certain tissues of interest while allowing its replication in the tumor cells.
Double targeting with both transductional and non-transductional targeting methods is more effective than any one form of targeting alone.[69]
Reporter genes
Both in the laboratory and in the clinic it is useful to have a simple means of identifying cells infected by the experimental virus. This can be done by equipping the virus with 'reporter genes' not normally present in viral genomes, which encode easily identifiable protein markers. One example of such proteins is GFP (Green fluorescent protein) which, when present in infected cells, will cause a fluorescent green light to be emitted when stimulated by blue light.[70][71] An advantage of this method is that it can be used on live cells and in patients with superficial infected lesions, it enables rapid non-invasive confirmation of viral infection.[72] Another example of a visual marker useful in living cells is luciferase, an enzyme from the firefly which in the presence of luciferin, emits light detectable by specialized cameras.[70]
The E. coli enzymes beta-glucuronidase and beta-galactosidase can also be encoded by some viruses. These enzymes, in the presence of certain substrates, can produce intense colored compounds useful for visualizing infected cells and also for quantifying gene expression.
Modifications to improve oncolytic activity
Oncolytic viruses can be used against cancers in ways that are additional to lysis of infected cells.
Suicide genes
Viruses can be used as vectors for delivery of suicide genes, encoding enzymes that can metabolise a separately administered non-toxic pro-drug into a potent cytotoxin, which can diffuse to and kill neighbouring cells. One herpes simplex virus, encoding a thymidine kinase suicide gene, has progressed to phase III clinical trials. The herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase phosphorylates the pro-drug, ganciclovir, which is then incorporated into DNA, blocking DNA synthesis.[73] The tumour selectivity of oncolytic viruses ensures that the suicide genes are only expressed in cancer cells, however a 'bystander effect' on surrounding tumour cells has been described with several suicide gene systems.[74]
Suppression of angiogenesis
Angiogenesis (blood vessel formation) is an essential part of the formation of large tumour masses. Angiogenesis can be inhibited by the expression of several genes, which can be delivered to cancer cells in viral vectors, resulting in suppression of angiogenesis, and oxygen starvation in the tumour. The infection of cells with viruses containing the genes for angiostatin and endostatin synthesis inhibited tumour growth in mice. Enhanced antitumour activities have been demonstrated in a recombinant vaccinia virus encoding anti-angiogenic therapeutic antibody and with an HSV1716 variant expressing an inhibitor of angiogenesis.[75][76]
Radioiodine
Addition of the sodium-iodide symporter (NIS) gene to the viral genome causes infected tumour cells to express NIS and accumulate iodine. When combined with radioiodine therapy it allows local radiotherapy of the tumour, as used to treat thyroid cancer. The radioiodine can also be used to visualise viral replication within the body by the use of a gamma camera.[70] This approach has been used successfully preclinically with adenovirus, measles virus and vaccinia virus.[77][78][79]
Approved therapeutic agents
- Talimogene laherparepvec (OncoVEX GM-CSF), aka T-vec, by Amgen, successfully completed phase III trials for advanced melanoma in March 2013.[80] In October 2015, the US FDA approved T-VEC, with the brand name Imlygic, for the treatment of melanoma in patients with inoperable tumors.[81] becoming the first approved oncolytic agent in the western world.[82] It is based on herpes simplex virus (HSV-1).[83] It has also been tested in a Phase I trial for pancreatic cancer and a Phase III trial in head and neck cancer together with Cisplatin chemotherapy and radiotherapy.[84]
Clinical research
In 2014-2015 period a number of clinical trials were initiated for a wide range of oncolytic virus products, reflecting the ongoing clinical development of this class of therapy.[85]
Agent | Indication | Phase | Status | Route | Notes | Ref |
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Ad5-yCD/mutTKSR39rep-hIL12 | Prostate carcinoma | I | Recruiting | Intraprostatic | As single agent | NCT02555397 |
Cavatak™ | Bladder carcinoma | I | Recruiting | Intravesical | Optionally combined with low-dose mitomycin C | NCT02316171 |
Melanoma | I | Recruiting | Intratumoral | Combined with ipilimumab | NCT02307149 | |
Combined with pembrolizumab | NCT02565992 | |||||
CG0070 | Bladder carcinoma | II | No longer available | Intravesical | As single agent | NCT02143804 |
Recruiting | Intravesical | As single agent | NCT02365818 | |||
DNX-2401 | Brain tumors | I | Recruiting | Intratumoral | Combined with IFNγ | NCT02197169 |
G207 | Brain tumors | I | Not yet recruiting | Intratumoral | Optionally combined with radiation therapy | NCT02457845 |
HF10 | Melanoma | II | Recruiting | Intratumoral | Combined with ipilimumab | NCT02272855 |
Solid tumors | I | Recruiting | Intratumoral | As single agent | NCT02428036 | |
Imlygic® | Hepatocellular carcinoma | I | Not yet recruiting | Intratumoral | As single agent | NCT02509507 |
Melanoma | n.a. | Enrolling by invitation | Intratumoral | As single agent | NCT02173171 | |
II | Recruiting | Intratumoral | As single agent | NCT02366195 | ||
Combined with surgery | NCT02211131 | |||||
III | Active, not recruiting | Intratumoral | Combined with pembrolizumab | NCT02263508 | ||
Available | Intratumoral | As single agent | NCT02147951 | |||
NCT02297529 | ||||||
Soft tissue sarcoma | I/II | Recruiting | Intratumoral | Combined with radiotherapy | NCT02453191 | |
JX-594 | Hepatocellular carcinoma | III | Not yet recruiting | Intratumoral | Combined with sorafenib | NCT02562755 |
MG1-MA3 | Solid tumors | I/II | Recruiting | Intravenous | Combined with a MAGEA3-encoding adenovirus | NCT02285816 |
MV-NIS | Gynecological tumors | II | Recruiting | Intraperitoneal | As single agent | NCT02364713 |
Multiple myeloma | II | Recruiting | Intravenous | Combined with cyclophosphamide | NCT02192775 | |
OBP-301 | Solid tumors | I | Not yet recruiting | Intratumoral | As single agent | NCT02293850 |
Reolysin® | Brain tumors | I | Recruiting | Intravenous | Combined with GM-CSF s.c. | NCT02444546 |
Multiple myeloma | I | Recruiting | Intravenous | Combined with dexamethasone plus a proteasomal inhibitor | NCT02101944 | |
NCT02514382 | ||||||
Toca 511 | Brain tumors | II/III | Not yet recruiting | Intratumoral | Combined with 5-FC and standard chemotherapy | NCT02414165 |
Solid tumors | I/II | Recruiting | Intratumoral Intravenous | Combined with 5-FC | NCT02576665 | |
Abbreviations: 5-FC, 5-fluorocytosine; GM-CSF, granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor; IFNγ, interferon γ; MAGEA3, melanoma antigen family A3; s.c.,sub cutem.*initiated between 2014, March 1 and 2015, October 31.
Approved somewhere
- Talimogene laherparepvec was approved by the US FDA in 2015, with the brand name Imlygic, for the treatment of melanoma in patients with inoperable tumors.[81] In Jan 2016 it was approved in Europe for some inoperable melanoma.[86]
- Oncorine, by Shanghai Sunway Biotech, was approved in China for Head and neck cancer in 2005.[87] It is based on the adenovirus H101.
- RIGVIR, approved for use in Latvia and Georgia for melanoma treatment.
Started phase III
- Reolysin, by Oncolytics Biotech, is in phase III for head and neck cancer.[88] An interim data release showed that this phase III had already obtained statisically significant tumor shrinkage in patients at their 6-week scan,[89] although the trial will not be complete until the overall survival data matures. Encouraging early results in colorectal cancer.[90][91] In total there are 31 clinical studies either completed or ongoing, including many testing Reolysin alongside standard chemotherapies in a variety of solid cancers.[92]
Started phase II
- JX-594, by Jennerex, is currently in phase II for hepatocellular carcinoma.[93] JX-594 is a thymidine kinase-deleted Vaccinia virus plus GM-CSF.[94][95]
- Seneca Valley virus (NTX-010) and (SVV-001), oncolytic picornavirus, is in phase II for small cell lung cancer and neuroblastoma.[9][87][96][97]
- ColoAd1 was developed by Psioxus Therapeutics Ltd using the process of directed evolution. ColoAd1 has successfully completed recruitment in a Phase I clinical trials of ColoAd1. The trial involved recruiting patients with metastatic solid tumours where no standard treatment options were applicable. Samples from these patients showed evidence of virus replication within tumour sites after intravenous delivery. The second phase of the ColoAd1 study is planned to commence in 2014 and will examine efficacy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. Unlike many other oncolytic viruses, ColoAd1 can be administered by intravenous injection rather than requiring intra-tumoral injection. A second trial is comparing the efficacy of the intravenous approach versus direct intra-tumoural injection to assess the most effective method of delivering ColoAd1 to cancer patients (see the EU Clinical Trials Register for further details). A third trial is examining the intra-peritoneal route of delivery for women with late stage ovarian cancer.
- Cavatak[98][99] is a coxsackie virus which is in phase II clinical trials for the treatment of malignant melanoma.[100]
Started phase I
- SEPREHVIR (HSV-1716), by Virttu Biologics,[101] completed phase I in glioblastoma, in squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck, and in melanoma. Ongoing phase I dose escalation study of intratumoral HSV-1716 in pediatric/young adult patients with non–central nervous system solid tumours and a new phase I/IIa study in mesothelioma commenced in 2012.[102][103]
- CGTG-102 (Ad5/3-D24-GMCSF), by Oncos Therapeutics,[104] while in phase I was already used to treat 200 advanced cancer patients in the company's Advanced Therapy Access Program.[105]
- GL-ONC1, by Genelux, is in phase I administered intravenously for solid tumours.[106] Additional trials are ongoing utilising alternative methods of administration including intrapleural administration for patients with malignant pleural effusion,[107] intraperitoneal injection for patients with advanced peritoneal carcinomatosis,[108] and in combination therapy in head and neck cancers.[109]
- MV-NIS, an engineered measles virus has shown to be effective in targeted destruction of myeloma plasma cells. Radioactive Iodine imaging provides a novel technique for NIS gene expression monitoring.[110]
- DNX-2401 is an oncolytic adenovirus with US Orphan drug status for glioma.[111]
- ONCOS-102 is an engineered human serotype 5/3 adenovirus coding for human GM-CSF optimized to induce systemic anti-tumor T cell response in cancer patients. It has completed a phase I trial and is starting another for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM).[112]
Oncolytic viruses in conjunction with existing cancer therapies
It is in conjunction with conventional cancer therapies that oncolytic viruses have often showed the most promise, since combined therapies operate synergistically with no apparent negative effects.[113]
Clinical trials
Onyx-015 underwent trials in conjunction with chemotherapy before it was abandoned in the early 2000s. The combined treatment gave a greater response than either treatment alone, but the results were not entirely conclusive.[114]
Pre-clinical research
Chen et al. (2001)[115] used CV706, a prostate-specific adenovirus, in conjunction with radiotherapy on prostate cancer in mice. The combined treatment resulted in a synergistic increase in cell death, as well as a significant increase in viral burst size (the number of virus particles released from each cell lysis). No alteration in viral specificity was observed.
SEPREHVIR (HSV-1716) has also shown synergy in pre-clinical research when used in combination with several cancer chemotherapies.[116][117]
The anti-angiogenesis drug Bevacizumab (anti-VEGF antibody) has been shown to reduce the inflammatory response to oncolytic HSV and improve virotherapy in mice.[118]
In fiction
In science fiction, the concept of an oncolytic virus was first introduced to the public in Jack Williamson's novel Dragon's Island, published in 1951, although Williamson's imaginary virus was based on a bacteriophage rather than a mammalian virus.[119] Dragon's Island is also known for being the source of the term "genetic engineering".[120]
The plot of the Hollywood film I Am Legend is based on the premise that a worldwide epidemic was caused by a viral cure for cancer.
See also
- Oncovirus, virus that can cause cancer
- Measles virus encoding the human thyroidal sodium iodide symporter (MV-NIS)
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Further reading
- Harrington, Vile, Pandha (2008). Viral Therapy of Cancer. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. ISBN 0470019220.
- Thorne, Kirn, Liu (2011). Oncolytic Viruses: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology). New York: Humana Press. ISBN 1617793396.
- Sinkovics (2005). Viral therapy of human cancers. New York: Dekker. ISBN 0824759133.
External links
- A number of oncolytic viruses were discussed on Columbia University Professor Vincent Racaniello's "This week in virology" podcast, including episodes on myxoma virus, reovirus, picornavirus, poxvirus, and measles virus.