US20210161979A1 - Chimeric vsv virus compositions and methods of use thereof for treatment of cancer - Google Patents
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- the invention is generally directed to recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and methods of use thereof to treat cancer, particularly glioblastoma.
- VSV vesicular stomatitis virus
- GBM glioblastoma
- a successful tumor resection may remove billions of tumor cells. But inevitably, due to its infiltrative nature, tens of millions of tumor cells remain within the brain after surgery (Croteau, et al., Cancer Research, 67(6), 2840-2848 (2007)).
- a critical feature of GBMs is that tumor cells are invasive, migrating away from the main tumor body, and continuing to divide elsewhere in the brain. This is one reason why approaches to treatment that focus on a tumor mass are ultimately not successful at eliminating the disease.
- viruses have been tested for potential oncolytic activity against glioblastoma (Parker, et al., Neurotherapeutics, 6:558-569 (2009)). These include human pathogenic viruses that were genetically attenuated to render them safe enough for human application, for example HSV (Todo T, Front Biosci., 13:2060-2064 (2008)) and adenovirus (Nandi, et al., Expert Opin. Biol. Ther., 9:737-747 (2009); Chiocca, et al., Mol. Ther., 16:618-626 (2008)), and viruses based on vaccination strains, including polio (Dobrikova, et al., Mol.
- HSV and retroviruses can either enter a latent mode and re-emerge later, or can integrate into host chromosomes, enhancing an oncogenic potential. Furthermore, many of these viruses share the potential problem that most humans have been exposed to these viruses before and their efficacy after systemic application may be challenged by pre-existing immunity.
- VSV infections do not integrate (and in fact do not even enter the nucleus), and in animals, including humans, are eliminated from the body within 1-2 weeks by the systemic immune system.
- VSV In regions of Central America where VSV is endemic, local human populations are seropositive for VSV, with no obvious link to substantive disease (Tesh, et al, 1969). VSV is rare in the US, indicating a very low level of pre-existing immunity. VSV has been approved for human clinical trials where VSV is used as a vaccine vector to immunize people against dangerous viral or bacterial pathogens (Roberts et al, 1999; Rose et al, 2000; Schwartz et al, 2010).
- VSV-M51 Another type of attenuated VSV, shows a reduced ability to block nuclear pores, thereby allowing normal cells to up-regulate antiviral defenses, and has been described as showing an enhanced safety profile (Stojdl, et al., Nat. Med., 6:821-825 (2000); Stojdl, et al., Cancer Cell, 4:263-275 (2003)).
- this attenuated virus can still generate lethal outcomes after CNS injection.
- oncolytic viruses have been tested in early phase 1 clinical trials, but although the viruses were found to be safe, little therapeutic effect was seen, and then only in a subset of patients (Zemp, et al., Cytokine Growth Factor Rev., 21:103-117 (2010)), underlining the importance of continuing efforts to find more effective oncolytic viruses and delivery strategies (Liu, et al., Mol. Ther., 16:1006-1008 (2008)). Accordingly, despite the advances in the development and use of oncolytic viruses for treatment of cancer, there remains a need for improved virus and methods of use therefore for safely and effective treating cancers such as glioblastoma.
- compositions including an effective amount of recombinant oncolytic viruses to treat cancer in a human subject.
- Methods of treating cancer including administering to a subject with cancer a pharmaceutical composition including an effective amount of a chimeric VSV virus are disclosed.
- the chimeric viruses are based on a VSV background where the VSV G protein is replaced with one or more heterologous viral glycoproteins.
- the VSV G protein is replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa virus or a functional fragment thereof.
- the Examples below show that replacement of the VSV G protein with a heterologous glycoprotein, particularly the glycoprotein from Lassa virus, results in an oncolytic virus that is highly attenuated and safe in the brain, yet still retains sufficient oncolytic activity to infect and destroy cancer cells such as glioblastoma and intracranial melanoma metastases.
- the chimeric virus can be further modified to express one or more therapeutic proteins, reporters, vaccine antigens, or targeting moieties.
- therapeutic proteins and reporters include, but are not limited to, IL-28, IL-2, FLT3L, GM-CSF, IL-4, IL-7, IL-12, TRAIL, carcinoembryonic antigen, secreted alkaline phosphatase, the beta subunit of chorionic gonadotropin, and green fluorescent protein.
- Methods can include administering to a subject an effective amount of the virus to reduce one or more symptoms of cancer, for example tumor burden.
- the cancer can be multiple myeloma, bone, bladder, brain, breast, cervical, colo-rectal, esophageal, kidney, liver, lung, nasopharangeal, pancreatic, prostate, skin, stomach, and uterine.
- the methods are used to treat brain cancer and brain metastases.
- Brain cancers include, but are not limited to, oligodendroglioma, meningioma, supratentorial ependymona, pineal region tumors, medulloblastoma, cerebellar astrocytoma, infratentorial ependymona, brainstem glioma, schwannomas, pituitary tumors, craniopharyngioma, optic glioma, and astrocytoma.
- the cancer is glioblastoma.
- the virus is typically administered in a dosage of between about 10 2 and about 10 12 PFU, more preferably between about 10 2 and about 10 12 PFU.
- the pharmaceutical composition can be administered locally to the site of the cancer.
- the composition can be injected into or adjacent to a tumor in the subject, or via catheter into a tumor resection cavity, for example, by convection-enhanced delivery (CED).
- CED convection-enhanced delivery
- the pharmaceutical composition can be administered systemically to the subject, for example by intravenous, intra-arterial, or intrathecal injection or infusion.
- the virus can be administered in combination with one or more additional therapeutic agents.
- the one or more additional therapeutic agents can be, for example, an anticancer agent such as a chemotherapeutic agent, a therapeutic protein such as IL-2, or an immunosuppressant.
- the immunosuppressant can be a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor or an interferon blocker, for example, valproate, the vacccinia protein B18R, Jak inhibitor 1, or vorinostat, which can be used to reduce or delay the subject's immune response to the virus.
- HDAC histone deacetylase
- the pharmaceutical composition can be administered in combination with surgery.
- the subject is pre-treated with an immunizing composition including a virus effective to immunize the subject to the chimeric VSV virus prior to administration of the pharmaceutical composition.
- the virus in the immunizing composition can be the chimeric VSV virus. Immunizing the subject against the virus can increase the ability of the subject's immune system to clear the virus following therapeutic treatment if needed.
- a method of treating a subject for cancer can include (a) infecting isolated cancer cells with an effective amount of a chimeric VSV virus and (b) administrating the infected cells to the subject in an effective amount to induce an immune response against the cancer cells in the subject.
- the method includes irradiating the cells to prevent their proliferation in the subject. The method can be used to therapeutically or prophylactically treat cancer in the subject.
- a particular embodiment of preparing cells for adaptive T cell therapy includes administering to a subject with cancer a pharmaceutical composition including an effective amount of a chimeric VSV virus to increase the number of cytotoxic T cells (CTL) which can directly kill the cancer, or to increase the number of CD4+ T and/or CD8+ T cells which can direct an immune response against the cancer.
- CTL cytotoxic T cells
- the T cells can be isolated from the subject and propagated in vitro.
- the T cells can be administered back to the same subject, or another subject in need thereof.
- compositions and kits including an effective amount of the disclosed chimeric viruses are also provided.
- FIG. 1A is a histogram showing percent infected cells (% GFP) for each of three gliomas tested (U87, U118 and CT2A, are represented by different shading) 24 hours after infection with 0.1 multiplicity of infection (MOT) of a VSV ((control) also referred to herein as VSV-wtG), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa (as referred to herein as Lassa-VSV, VSV-LASV-G, and LASV), rabies (also referred to herein as VSV-RABV-G and RABV), LCMV (also referred to herein as VSV-LCMV-G), Ebola (also referred to herein as EBOV, VSV-EBOV-G, and Ebola-VSV), or Marburg (also referred to herein as MARV and VSV-MARV-G).
- MOT multiplicity of infection
- FIG. 1B is a histogram showing the viral replication (Titer, pfu/ml) VSV-wtG (control), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa, rabies, LCMV, Ebola, or Marburg.
- FIG. 1C is an illustration of the relative mean diameter and the small vertical line surmounting each the SEM, of 60 randomly selected fluorescent plaques measured and normalized to VSV-wtG plaque size on monolayers of U87, U118 and normal human brain cells, 24 hpi with VSV-wtG (control), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa, LCMV, or Ebola.
- FIG. 1B is a histogram showing the viral replication (Titer, pfu/ml) VSV-wtG (control), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa, rab
- 1D is a histogram showing the fraction of infected cells of mouse brain cultures (% gila (top portion of the bar) versus % neurons (bottom portion of the bar)) for cells infected with VSV-wtG (control), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa, rabies, LCMV, Ebola, or Marburg (MOI 5).
- FIG. 2A is a Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the % survival of mice infected with chimeric Lassa-VSV, chimeric Ebola-VSV, attenuated VSV-M ⁇ 51, or attenuated VSV-1′GFP over time (in days post-inoculation) following intracranial inoculation with virus.
- FIG. 2B is a Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the % survival of mice infected with chimeric Lassa-VSV or VSV-IFN over time (in days post-inoculation) following intracranial inoculation with virus.
- FIG. 3A is a histogram showing infection of human neuronal cultures with VSV-wtG or chimeric Lassa-VSV (GFP expression %) with or without treatment with 100 IU/ml of interferon (IFN).
- FIG. 3B is a Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the % survival of normal mice infected with chimeric Lassa-VSV, and IFN ⁇ / ⁇ -R knockout ( ⁇ / ⁇ ) mice infected with VSV-wtG or Lassa-VSV (in days post-inoculation) following intracranial inoculation with virus.
- FIG. 3A is a histogram showing infection of human neuronal cultures with VSV-wtG or chimeric Lassa-VSV (GFP expression %) with or without treatment with 100 IU/ml of interferon (IFN).
- FIG. 3B is a Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the % survival of normal mice infected with chimeric Lassa-VSV, and
- FIG. 3C is a histogram showing virus binding and internalization (relative expression by qRT-PCR) of VSV-wtG and Lassa-VSV in neurons and giloma cells at 4° C. and 37° C.
- FIG. 3D is a dot plot showing the quantification of VSV-wtG viral replication in neurons ( ⁇ ) and U87 glioma ( ⁇ ) cells assessed by plaque assay at 15 and 24 hpi.
- FIG. 3E is a dot plot showing the quantification of VSV-LASV-G viral replication in neurons ( ⁇ ) and U87 glioma ( ⁇ ) cells assessed by plaque assay at 15 and 24 hpi.
- FIG. 5 is a line graph showing the % body weight of mice following intracranial glioma xenograph and subsequent systemic infection with Lassa-VSV, Ebola-VSV and uninfected control, respectively, over time (in days post-inoculation).
- isolated describes a compound of interest (e.g., either a polynucleotide or a polypeptide) that is in an environment different from that in which the compound naturally occurs e.g., separated from its natural milieu such as by concentrating a peptide to a concentration at which it is not found in nature. “Isolated” includes compounds that are within samples that are substantially enriched for the compound of interest and/or in which the compound of interest is partially or substantially purified.
- isolated includes any non-naturally-occurring nucleic acid sequence, since such non-naturally-occurring sequences are not found in nature and do not have immediately contiguous sequences in a naturally-occurring genome.
- nucleic acid(s) refers to any nucleic acid containing molecule, including, but not limited to, DNA or RNA.
- the term encompasses sequences that include any of the known base analogs of DNA and RNA including, but not limited to, 4-acetylcytosine, 8-hydroxy-N6-methyladenosine, aziridinylcytosine, pseudoisocytosine, 5-(carboxyhydroxylmethyl) uracil, 5-fluorouracil, 5-bromouracil, 5-carboxymethylaminomethyl-2-thiouracil, 5-carboxymethylaminomethyluracil, dihydrouracil, inosine, N6-isopentenyladenine, 1-methyladenine, 1-methylpseudouracil, 1-methylguanine, 1-methylinosine, 2,2-dimethylguanine, 2-methyladenine, 2-methylguanine, 3-methylcytosine, 5-methylcytosine, N6-methyladen
- nucleic acid sequences are denominated by either a three letter, or single letter code as indicated as follows: adenine (Ade, A), thymine (Thy, T), guanine (Gua, G) cytosine (Cyt, C), uracil (Ura, U).
- polynucleotide refers to a chain of nucleotides of any length, regardless of modification (e.g., methylation).
- the term “gene” refers to a nucleic acid (e.g., DNA or RNA) sequence that comprises coding sequences necessary for the production of a polypeptide, RNA (e.g., including but not limited to, mRNA, tRNA and rRNA) or precursor.
- the polypeptide, RNA, or precursor can be encoded by a full length coding sequence or by any portion thereof.
- the term also encompasses the coding region of a structural gene and the sequences located adjacent to the coding region on both the 5′ and 3′ ends for a distance of about 1 kb on either end such that the gene corresponds to the length of the full-length mRNA.
- genomic form or clone of a gene may contain the coding region interrupted with non-coding sequences termed “introns” or “intervening regions” or “intervening sequences.”
- Introns are segments of a gene that are transcribed into nuclear RNA (hnRNA); introns may contain regulatory elements such as enhancers. Introns are removed or “spliced out” from the nuclear or primary transcript; introns therefore are absent in the messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript.
- mRNA messenger RNA
- nucleic acid molecule encoding refers to the order or sequence of nucleotides along a strand of nucleotides. The order of these nucleotides determines the order of amino acids along the polypeptide (protein) chain. The nucleotide sequence thus codes for the amino acid sequence.
- polypeptide refers to a chain of amino acids of any length, regardless of modification (e.g., phosphorylation or glycosylation).
- amino acid residue sequences are denominated by either a three letter or a single letter code as indicated as follows: Alanine (Ala, A), Arginine (Arg, R), Asparagine (Asn, N), Aspartic Acid (Asp, D), Cysteine.
- a “variant,” “mutant,” or “mutated” polynucleotide contains at least one polynucleotide sequence alteration as compared to the polynucleotide sequence of the corresponding wild-type or parent polynucleotide. Mutations may be natural, deliberate, or accidental. Mutations include substitutions, deletions, and insertions.
- nucleic acid sequence alteration can be, for example, a substitution, a deletion, or an insertion of one or more nucleotides.
- amino acid sequence alteration can be, for example, a substitution, a deletion, or an insertion of one or more amino acids.
- immunizing virus includes infectious virus, viral subunits, viral proteins and antigenic fragments thereof, nucleic acids encoding viral subunits, antigenic proteins or polypeptides, and expression vectors containing the nucleic acids.
- a “vector” is a replicon, such as a plasmid, phage, or cosmid, into which another DNA segment may be inserted so as to bring about the replication of the inserted segment.
- the vectors described herein can be expression vectors.
- the term “effective amount” or “therapeutically effective amount” means a dosage sufficient to treat, inhibit, or alleviate one or more symptoms of a disease state being treated or to otherwise provide a desired pharmacologic and/or physiologic effect.
- the precise dosage will vary according to a variety of factors such as subject-dependent variables (e.g., age, immune system health, etc.), the disease, and the treatment being effected.
- Neoplastic cells As used herein, the, terms “neoplastic cells,” “neoplasia,” “tumor,” “tumor cells,” “cancer” and “cancer cells,” (used interchangeably) refer to cells which exhibit relatively autonomous growth, so that they exhibit an aberrant growth phenotype characterized by a significant loss of control of cell proliferation (i.e., de-regulated cell division). Neoplastic cells can be malignant or benign.
- an “immunogen” or “immunogenic amount” refers to the ability of a substance (antigen) to induce an immune response.
- An immune response is an alteration in the reactivity of an organisms' immune system in response to an antigen. In vertebrates this may involve antibody production, induction of cell-mediated immunity, complement activation or development of immunological tolerance.
- an “adjuvant” is a substance that increases the ability of an antigen to stimulate the immune system.
- Attenuated refers to refers to procedures that weaken an agent of disease (a pathogen).
- An attenuated virus is a weakened, less vigorous virus.
- a vaccine against a viral disease can be made from an attenuated, less virulent strain of the virus, a virus capable of stimulating an immune response and creating immunity but not causing illness or less severe illness. Attenuation can be achieved by chemical treatment of the pathogen, through radiation, or by genetic modification, using methods known to those skilled in the art. Attenuation may result in decreased proliferation, attachment to host cells, or decreased production or strength of toxins.
- subject refers to any individual who is the target of treatment using the disclosed compositions.
- the subject can be a vertebrate, for example, a mammal.
- the subject can be a human.
- the subjects can be symptomatic or asymptomatic. The term does not denote a particular age or sex.
- a subject can include a control subject or a test subject.
- identity is a relationship between two or more polypeptide sequences, as determined by comparing the sequences. In the art, “identity” also means the degree of sequence relatedness between polypeptide as determined by the match between strings of such sequences. “Identity” and “similarity” can be readily calculated by known methods, including, but not limited to, those described in (Computational Molecular Biology, Lesk, A. M., Ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 1988; Biocomputing: Informatics and Genome Projects, Smith, D. W., Ed., Academic Press, New York, 1993; Computer Analysis of Sequence Data, Part I, Griffin, A. M., and Griffin, H.
- Preferred methods to determine identity are designed to give the largest match between the sequences tested. Methods to determine identity and similarity are codified in publicly available computer programs. The percent identity between two sequences can be determined by using analysis software (i.e., Sequence Analysis Software Package of the Genetics Computer Group, Madison Wis.) that incorporates the Needelman and Wunsch, (J. Mol. Biol., 48: 443-453, 1970) algorithm (e.g., NBLAST, and XBLAST). The default parameters are used to determine the identity for the polypeptides of the present disclosure.
- a polypeptide sequence may be identical to the reference sequence, that is be 100% identical, or it may include up, to a certain integer number of amino acid alterations as compared to the reference sequence such that the % identity is less than 100%.
- Such alterations are selected from: at least one amino acid deletion, substitution, including conservative and non-conservative substitution, or insertion, and wherein said alterations may occur at the amino- or carboxy-terminal positions of the reference polypeptide sequence or anywhere between those terminal positions, interspersed either individually among the amino acids in the reference sequence or in one or more contiguous groups within the reference sequence.
- the number of amino acid alterations for a given % identity is determined by multiplying the total number of amino acids in the reference polypeptide by the numerical percent of the respective percent identity (divided by 100) and then subtracting that product from said total number of amino acids in the reference polypeptide.
- pharmaceutically acceptable carrier encompasses any of the standard pharmaceutical carriers, such as a phosphate buffered saline solution, water and emulsions such as an oil/water or water/oil emulsion, and various types of wetting agents.
- treatment means to administer a composition to a subject or a system with an undesired condition.
- the condition can include a disease.
- prevention or “preventing” means to administer a composition to a subject or a system at risk for the condition.
- the condition can include a predisposition to a disease.
- the effect of the administration of the composition to the subject can be, but is not limited to, the cessation of one or more symptoms of the condition, a reduction or prevention of one or more symptoms of the condition, a reduction in the severity of the condition, the complete ablation of the condition, a stabilization or delay of the development or progression of a particular event or characteristic, or minimization of the chances that a particular event or characteristic will occur. It is understood that where treat or prevent are used, unless specifically indicated otherwise, the use of the other word is also expressly disclosed.
- VSV a member of the Rhabdoviridae family, is enveloped and has a negative-strand 11.2-kb RNA genome that comprises five protein-encoding genes (N, P, M, G, and L) (Lyles, et al., Fields virology, 5 th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1363-1408 (2007)). It is a nonhuman pathogen which can cause mild disease in livestock. Infection in humans is rare and usually asymptomatic, with sporadic cases of mild flu-like symptoms. VSV has a short replication cycle, which starts with attachment of the viral glycoprotein spikes (G) to an unknown but ubiquitous cell membrane receptor.
- G viral glycoprotein spikes
- Nonspecific electrostatic interactions have also been proposed to facilitate viral binding (Lyles, et al., Fields virology, 5 th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1363-1408 (2007)).
- the virus-containing endosome acidifies, triggering fusion of the viral membrane with the endosomal membrane. This leads to release of the viral nucleocapsid (N) and viral RNA polymerase complex (P and L) into the cytosol.
- the viral polymerase initiates gene transcription at the 3′ end of the non-segmented genome, starting with expression of the first VSV gene (N). This is followed by sequential gene transcription, creating a gradient, with upstream genes expressed more strongly than downstream genes.
- Newly produced VSV glycoproteins are incorporated into the cellular membrane with a large extracellular domain, a 20 amino acid trans-membrane domain, and a cytoplasmic tail consisting of 29 amino acids. Trimers of G protein accumulate in plasma membrane microdomains, several of which congregate to form viral budding sites at the membrane (Lyles, et al., Fields virology, 5 th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1363-1408 (2007)).
- VSV matrix protein M protein
- VSV M protein's multitude of functions include virus assembly by linking the nucleocapsid with the envelope membrane, induction of cytopathic effects and apoptosis, inhibition of cellular gene transcription, and blocking of host cell nucleocytoplasmic RNA transfer, which includes blocking of antiviral cellular responses (Ahmed, et al., Virology, 237:378-388 (1997)).
- VSV strains have been shown to target several tumor types, including gliomas, and give a strong oncolytic action, both in vitro and in vivo (Paglino and van den Pol, 2011) (Wollmann, et al, 2005; 2007; 2010; Ozduman et al, 2008).
- glino and van den Pol, 2011 Wangmann, et al, 2005; 2007; 2010; Ozduman et al, 2008.
- VSVs that are both efficacious for treating cancer and exhibit low pathogenicity to healthy host cells. This is particularly important in the brain where mature neurons do not replicate, and once lost, are normally not replaced.
- CNS complications have been difficult to eliminate completely (Obuchi et al, 2003; van den Pol et al, 2002; 2009).
- VSV viruses where the G gene is substituted with a gene encoding a heterologous glycoprotein protein have oncolytic potential in targeting and destroying cancer cells with little pathogenicity to healthy host cells.
- Recombinant VSV viruses, pharmaceutical compositions including recombinant VSV viruses, and methods of use thereof for treating cancer are provided.
- the virus targets and kills tumor cells, and shows little or no infection of normal cells.
- the disclosed viruses are chimeric VSV viruses that are typically based on a VSV background strain, also referred to herein as a VSV backbone, wherein the G gene is substituted for a heterologous glycoprotein.
- the chimeric virus can also include additional genetic changes (e.g., additions, deletions, substitutions) relative to the background VSV virus, and can have one or more additional transgenes.
- VSV virus background strains can be viruses that are known in the art, or they can be mutants or variants of known viruses. Any suitable VSV strain or serotype may be used, including, but not limited to, VSV Indiana, VSV New Jersey, VSV Alagoas, (formerly Indiana 3), VSV Cocal (formerly Indiana 2), VSV Chandipura, VSV Isfahan, VSV San Juan, VSV Orsay, or VSV Glasgow.
- the VSV virus background can be a naturally occurring virus, or a virus modified, for example, to increase or decrease the virulence of the virus, and/or increase the specificity or infectivity of the virus compared to the parental strain or serotype.
- the virus can be a recombinant virus that includes genes from two or more strains or serotypes.
- the VSV background strain can be a recombinant VSV with all five genes of the Indiana serotype of VSV.
- the N, P, M, and L genes originates from the San Juan strain, and the G gene from the Orsay strain.
- VSV mutants have been described, see for example (Clarke, et al., J. Virol., 81:2056-64 (2007), Flanagan, et al., J. Virol., 77:5740-5748 (2003), Johnson, et al., Virology, 360:36-49 (2007), Simon, et al., J. Virol., 81:2078-82 (2007), Stojdl, et al., Cancer Cell, 4:263-275 (2003)), Wollmann, et al., J. Virol, 84(3):1563-73 (2010) (epub 2010), WO 2010/080909, U.S. Published Application No. 2007/0218078, and U.S. Published Application No 2009/0175906.
- VSVs derived from DNA plasmids also typically show weakened virulence (Rose, et al., Cell, 106:539-549 (2001)). Attenuation of VSV virulence can also be accomplished by one or more nucleotide sequence alterations that result in substitution, deletion, or insertion of one or more amino acids of the polypeptide it encodes.
- the VSV background strain is a VSV virus modified to attenuate virus growth or pathogenicity or to reduce the ability to make infectious progeny viruses.
- VSV strains and methods of making such VSV strains are known in the art, and described in, for example, U.S. Published Application No. 2012/0171246.
- one strategy is to attenuate viral pathogenicity by reducing the ability of the virus to suppress host innate immune responses without compromising the yield of infectious progeny.
- This can be accomplished by mutating the M protein as described, for example, in Ahmed, J. Virol., 82(18):9273-9277 (2008).
- the M protein is a multifunctional protein that is involved in the shutoff of host transcription, nuclear cytoplasmic transport, and translation during virus infection (Lyles, Microbial. Mol. Biol. Rev. 64:709-724 (2000)).
- Mutation and/or deletion of one or more amino acids from the M protein, for example M ⁇ 51, or M51A mutants can result in viral protein that is defective at inhibiting host gene expression. It may also be desirable to switch or combine various substitutions, deletions, and insertions to further modify the phenotype of the virus.
- the recombinant VSV background can have a deletion or mutation in the M protein.
- VSV is highly immunogenic, and a substantial B and T cell response from the adaptive immune system will ultimately limit VSV infection, which will halt long-lasting viral infections.
- a virus that shows enhanced selectivity, and a faster rate of infection, will have a greater likelihood of eliminating cancer cells before the virus is eliminated by the immune system.
- the use of VSV against cancer cells does not have to be restricted to a single application.
- G-protein for enhancing immune responses against foreign genes expressed by VSV
- Indiana VSV Indiana VSV
- serotype e.g., VSV New Jersey or Chandipura
- the disclosed chimeric viruses can have a VSV genome that is rearranged compared to wildtype VSV. For example, shifting the L-gene to the sixth position, by rearrangement or insertion of an additional gene upstream, can result in attenuated L-protein synthesis and a slight reduction in replication (Dalton and Rose, Virology, 279(2):414-21 (2001)), an advantage when considering treatment of the brain.
- VSV-rp30 (“30 times repeated passaging”) is a wild-type-based VSV with an enhanced oncolytic profile (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol. 79:6005-6022 (2005)). As described in WO 2010/080909, VSV-rp30 has a preference for glioblastoma over control cells and an increased cytolytic activity on brain tumor cells.
- the VSV background of the disclosed chimeric viruses is one that has been modified to attenuate the virus, increase specificity of the virus for a particular target cells, and/or increase the oncolytic potential of the virus relative to a wildtype or starting stain.
- the disclosed chimeric VSV viruses have a heterologous glycoprotein.
- the disclosed chimeric VSV viruses are viruses that lack the G protein of VSV. Instead the chimeric VSV viruses have a glycoprotein (e.g., G protein or GP protein) from a distinct, non-VSV virus.
- glycoproteins for a number of different viruses can be substituted into a VSV background to create a chimeric VSV that can infect cancer cells.
- Suitable glycoproteins can be from, for example, Lassa, rabies, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), Ebola, or Marburg virus.
- LCMV lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
- Ebola or Marburg virus.
- the Examples below show that an Ebola-VSV, and even more so a Lassa-VSV chimera, are particularly effective at killing brain cancers with little or no toxicity to healthy or normal cells.
- VSV chimeric viruses including an LCMV glycoprotein in place of the VSV glycoprotein may show some advantages over the VSV glycoprotein in infecting some cancer or sarcoma cells with enhanced innate immunity, such as the virus-resistant sarcoma cells described in Paglino and van den Pol, J. Virol., 85:9346-9358 (2011).
- the G protein in the VSV chimeric virus is a heterologous G, wherein the G protein is not a G protein from LCMV.
- the VSV chimeric virus can have a glycoprotein from another arena virus.
- Other arenaviruses may have the same, similar, or different cellular binding receptors to Lassa.
- the glycoprotein is a viral glycoprotein, preferably an arenavirus glycoprotein, that binds to one or more of the same cell receptors as Lassa glycoprotein.
- the glycoprotein is a viral glycoprotein, preferably an arenavirus glycoprotein that binds to one or more similar cell receptors as Lassa glycoprotein.
- the glycoprotein is an areanvirus glycoprotein that binds to different cell receptor(s) than Lassa glycoprotein.
- Such chimeric viruses may also be safe viruses for use in oncolysis or as vaccine vectors.
- Exemplary arenaviruses include, but are not limited to, Old World complex arenaviruses such as Kodoko, Lujo, Mobala, Dank, Gbagroube, Ippy, Merino Walk, Menekre, Mobala, and Mopeia, and New World arenaviruses such as Guanarito, Junin, Machupo, Sabia, Whitewater arroyo, Parana, Tamiami, Latino, plexal, and Chapare.
- New World arenavirus glycoproteins may target receptors different that those targeted by the Lassa glycoprotein.
- the G protein of VSV is substituted with a glycoprotein from a Lassa virus.
- Lassa virus is an Arenavirus. The genomic structure or Arenaviruses and the genetic diversity of Lassa virus strains are discussed in Bowen, et al., J. Virology, 6992-7004 (2000).
- Viruses of the genus Arenavirus, family Arenaviridae are enveloped viruses with a genome consisting of two single stranded RNA species designated small (S) and large (L). Each segment contains two non-overlapping genes arranged in an ambisense orientation.
- the viral polymerase (L protein) gene is encoded at the 3′ end of the L RNA in the genome-complementary sense, whereas the Z protein is encoded at the 5′ end of the L RNA in the genomic sense.
- the nucleoprotein (NP) gene is encoded at the 3′ end of the S RNA
- the glycoprotein precursor (GPC) is encoded at the 5′ end of the S RNA.
- the GPC is post-translationally cleaved into the envelope glycoproteins GP1 and GP2.
- the arenaviruses have been divided into two groups, the New World arenaviruses and the Old World arenaviruses. Lassa virus is an Old World arenavirus.
- the glycoprotein can come from any Lassa virus.
- the Lassa virus glycoprotein can be from a naturally occurring virus, or a virus modified, for example, to increase or decrease the virulence of the virus, and/or increase the specificity or infectivity of the virus compared to the parental strain or serotype.
- Suitable strains and serotypes of Lassa virus from which the glycoprotein of the chimeric VSV virus can be derived are known in the art and include, for example, fifty-four strains identified and characterized in Bowen, et al., J. Virology, 6992-7004 (2000).
- Lassa virus stains include Lassa virus strain 803213, Lassa virus strain Acar 3080, Lassa virus strain AV, Lassa virus strain Josiah, Lassa virus strain LP, Lassa virus strain Macenta, Lassa virus strain NL, Lassa virus strain Pinneo, Lassa virus strain Weller, and Lassa virus strain Z148.
- the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode the entire Lassa virus glycoprotein precursor (GPC), such that both GP1 and GP2 are expressed and contribute to formation of the chimeric virus's envelope.
- the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode less than the entire Lassa virus glycoprotein precursor (GPC).
- the viral genome or plasmid(s) encoding recombinant viral genome encodes a glycoprotein that is a truncated GPC, or only GP1 or only GP2.
- the glycoprotein can be from Lassa strain Josiah.
- the chimeric viral genome includes the nucleic acid sequence
- the chimeric viral genome includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide
- the G protein of VSV is substituted with a glycoprotein from an Ebola virus.
- Ebola virus along with Marburg virus, constitutes the family Filoviridae in the order of Mononegavirales (reviewed in Feldmann and Geisbert, Lancet, 377(9768): 849-862 (2011), and Sanchez, et al., Filoviridae: Marburg and Ebola viruses. In: Knipe, D M.; Howley, P M., editors. Fields virology . Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006. p. 1409-1448).
- Filoviruses are enveloped, non-segmented, negative-stranded RNA viruses with filamentous particles.
- Ebola virus particles have a uniform diameter of 80 nm but can greatly vary in length, with lengths up to 14000 nm.
- the genome includes seven genes in the order 3′ leader, nucleoprotein, virion protein (VP) 35, VP40, glycoprotein, VP30, VP24, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (L)-5′ trailer. With the exception of the glycoprotein gene, all genes are monocistronic, encoding for one structural protein.
- the inner ribonucleoprotein complex of virion particles consists of the RNA genome encapsulated by the nucleoprotein, which associates with VP35, VP30, and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase to form the functional transcriptase-replicase complex.
- proteins of the ribonucleoprotein complex have other functions, for example, VP35 is an antagonist of interferon; VP40 is a matrix protein and modulates particle formation; VP24, is structural, membrane-associated protein that also interferes with interferon signaling.
- glycoprotein is the only transmembrane surface protein of the virus and forms trimeric spikes consisting of glycoprotein 1 and glycoprotein 2—two di-sulphide linked furin-cleavage fragments (Sanchez, et al., Filoviridae: Marburg and Ebola viruses. In: Knipe, D M.; Howley, P M., editors. Fields virology . Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006. p. 1409-1448).
- the primary product of the GP gene is a soluble glycoprotein (sGP) that is also secreted from infected cells, a characteristic distinguishing it from other Mononegavirales (Sanchez, et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 93:3602-3607 (1996), Volchkov, et al., Virology, 214:421-430 (1995)).
- sGP soluble glycoprotein
- Ebola glycoprotein Nucleic acid sequences encoding Ebola glycoprotein, the mechanism of transcription/translation yielding functional Ebola glycoprotein, Ebola glycoprotein amino acid sequences, and the structure and function of Ebola glycoprotein are well known in the art and discussed in, for example, Lee and Saphire, Future Virology, 4(6):621-635 (2009), Sanchez, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 93(8):3602-3607 (1996), Volchkov, et al., Virology, 214(2):421-430 (1995), Gire et al, Science, 345: 1369-1372 (2014)).
- the Ebola virus glycoprotein can be from a naturally occurring virus, or a virus modified, for example, to increase or decrease the virulence of the virus, and/or increase the specificity or infectivity of the virus compared to the parental strain or serotype.
- Suitable species of Ebola virus from which the glycoprotein of the chimeric VSV virus can be derived are known in the art and include, for example, Sudan ebolavirus (SEBOV), Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV), Côte d′Irium ebolavirus (also known and here referred to as Ivory Coast ebolavirus (ICEBOV)), Reston ebolavirus (REBOV), and Bundigbugyo ebolavirus (BEBOV) (Geibert and Feldmann, J.
- the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode the entire Ebola virus glycoprotein (GP), such that the glycoprotein is expressed and contributes to formation of the chimeric virus's envelope.
- the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode less than the entire Ebola virus glycoprotein.
- the viral genome or plasmid(s) encoding recombinant viral genome encodes a glycoprotein that is a truncated or variant GP.
- the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode full length, truncated, or variant GP1, GP2, or a combination thereof.
- the chimeric viral genome includes the nucleic acid sequence
- SEQ ID NO:6 a nucleic acid encoding a full-length (non-secreted) glycoprotein gene found in GenBank accession NC_002549 nt 6039-8068. Note that the GenBank sequence over this region is 2030 nt long, whereas SEQ ID NO:6 is 2031 nt in length. This difference derives from the fact that the GenBank sequence is based on the genomic RNA sequence, whereas the sequence below is based on the mRNA sequence that has been ‘edited’ by the viral polymerase to include an extra ‘A’ nucleotide between 6918-6924 of the GenBank sequence.
- the chimeric viral genome includes a nucleic acid encoding SEQ ID NO:6, or the variant thereof encoded by GenBank accession NC_002549 nt 6039-8068, or a fragment or variant thereof encoding a functional glycoprotein.
- Variants can have at least 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:6, or to the sequence encoding an open reading frame thereof.
- the chimeric viral genome includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide
- the chimeric viral genome includes the nucleic acid sequence
- the chimeric viral genome includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide
- the Ebola G protein is lacking the mucin domain, (e.g., about amino acids 309-489 of a full length G protein), and/or has one or more substitutions (e.g. as described in Wong, et al., J. Virol., 84(1):163-75 (2010), and in the examples below).
- Viruses can be modified to express one or more additional transgenes, separately or as a part of other expressed proteins.
- the viral genome of VSV has the capacity to accommodate additional genetic material. At least two additional transcription units, totaling 4.5 kb, can be added to the genome, and methods for doing so are known in the art.
- the added genes are stably maintained in the genome upon repeated passage (Schnell, et al., EMBO Journal, 17:1289-1296 (1998); Schnell, et al., PNAS, 93: 11359-11365 (1996); Schnell, et al., Journal of Virology, 70:2318-2323 (1996); Kahn, et al., Virology, 254, 81-91 (1999)).
- the viruses are modified to include a gene encoding a therapeutic protein, an antigen, a detectable marker or reporter, a targeting moiety, or a combination thereof.
- the gene is placed in the first gene position in the VSV background. Given the nature of VSV protein expression, genes in the first position generate the highest expression of any gene in the virus, with a 3′ to 5′ decrease in gene expression.
- the chimeric VSV can also be constructed to contain two different and independent genes placed in the first and second gene position of VSV. For example, van den Pol and Davis, et al., J.
- Virol., 87(2):1019-1034 (2013) describes the generation of a highly attenuated VSV virus by adding two (reporter) genes to the 3′ end of the VSV genome, thereby shifting the NPMGL genes from positions 1 to 5 to positions 3 to 7.
- This strategy can be used to allow strong expression of genes coding for any combination of two heterologous proteins, for example two therapeutic proteins, a therapeutic protein and reporter, or an immunogenic protein and a reporter that could be useful to track the virus in a clinical situation.
- Chimeric VSV viruses can be engineered to include one or more additional genes that encode a therapeutic protein or a reporter.
- Suitable therapeutic proteins such as cytokines or chemokines, are known in the art, and can be selected depending on the use or disease to be treated.
- Preferred cytokines include, but are not limited to, granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF ⁇ ), tumor necrosis factor beta (TNF ⁇ ), macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF), interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-2 (IL-2), interleukin-4 (IL-4), interleukin-5 (IL-5), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-10 (IL-10), interleukin-12 (IL-12), interleukin-15 (IL-15), interleukin-21 (IL-21), interferon alpha (IFN ⁇ ), interferon beta (IFN ⁇ ), interferon gamma (IFN ⁇ ), and IGIF, and variants and fragments thereof.
- GM-CSF granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor
- TNF ⁇ tumor necrosis factor alpha
- TNF ⁇ tumor necrosis factor beta
- M-CSF macrophage colony stimulating factor
- IL-1 interleuk
- Suitable chemokines include, but are not limited to, an alpha-chemokine or a beta-chemokine, including, but not limited to, a C5a, interleukin-8 (IL-8), monocyte chemotactic protein I alpha (MIP1 ⁇ ), monocyte chemotactic protein 1 beta (MIP1 ⁇ ), monocyte chemo-attractant protein 1 (MCP-1), monocyte chemo-attractant protein 3 (MCP-3), platelet activating factor (PAFR), N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-[ 3 H]phenylalanine (FMLPR), leukotriene B 4 , gastrin releasing peptide (GRP), RANTES, eotaxin, lymphotactin, IP10, I-309, ENA78, GCP-2, NAP-2 and MGSA/gro, and variants and fragments thereof.
- IL-8 interleukin-8
- MIP1 ⁇ monocyte chemotactic protein I al
- Particularly preferred genes include those that encode proteins that up-regulate an immune attack on infected tumors such as IL-28, IL-2, FLT3L, and GM-CSF (Ali, et al., Cancer Res, 65:7194-7204 (2005); Barzon, et al., Methods Mol. Biol., 542:529-549 (2009); Wongthida, et al., Hum. Gene Ther., 22:1343-53 (2011).
- Other therapeutic proteins that have been successfully engineered into VSV or other viruses include IL2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-12, and TRAIL (Jinush, et al., Cancer Science, 100, 1389-1396. (2009)).
- the virus can also be engineered to include one or more genes encoding a reporter.
- the reporter can serve as a measure or monitor of in vivo viral activity.
- Exemplary reporters are known in the art and include, but are not limited to, carcinoembryonic antigen, secreted alkaline phosphatase, and the beta subunit of chorionic gonadotropin. These reporters are released by infected cells into the blood, and can be measured peripherally to determine viral activity, including viral activity in the brain (Phuong, et al., Cancer Res., 63:2462-2469 (2003); Peng, et al., Nat. Med., 8:527-531 (2002); Shashkova, et al., Cancer Gene Ther., 15:61-72 (2008); Hiramatsu, et al., Cancer Science, 100, 1389-1396 (2005)).
- the virus's genome is modified to encode a detectable marker or reporter, preferably in the first position.
- the detectable marker allows the user to detect and monitor the location and efficacy of the virus in vivo and in resected tissue ex vivo without the need for antibodies.
- Suitable markers are known in the art and include, but are not limited to, LacZ, GFP (or eGFP), and luciferase.
- chimeric VSV that include a marker such as GFP in the first position may have an improved safety profile compared viruses without it.
- the virus can be a vaccine vector that serves as an immunogen for eliciting an immune response against a disease. This can be accomplished by cloning an antigen of an unrelated disease into the chimeric VSV virus.
- VSV viruses expressing foreign viral glycoproteins have shown promise as a vaccine vectors (Roberts, et al., J. Virol. 73:3723-3732 (1999), Rose, et al., Cell, 106:539-549 (2001), Jones, et al., Nat. Med. 11:786-790 (2005)). Additionally, recombinant VSVs are able to accommodate large inserts and multiple genes in their genomes. This ability to incorporate large gene inserts in replication-competent viruses offers advantages over other RNA or DNA virus vectors, such as those based on alphaviruses, REO virus, poliovirus, and parvovirus.
- VSV viruses can be engineered to incorporate one or more nucleic acid sequences encoding one or more non-native or heterologous immunogenic antigens.
- One or more native VSV genes may be truncated or deleted to create additional space for the sequence encoding the immunogenic antigen.
- the immunogenic antigen When expressed by the VSV virus administered to a patient in need thereof, the immunogenic antigen produces prophylactic or therapeutic immunity against a disease or disorder.
- Immunogenic antigens can be expressed as a fusion protein with other polypeptides including, but not limited to, native VSV polypeptides, or as a non-fusion protein.
- the antigen can be a protein or polypeptide derived from a virus, bacterium, parasite, plant, protozoan, fungus, tissue or transformed cell such as a cancer or leukemic cell.
- Antigens may be expressed as single antigens or may be provided in combination.
- the chimeric virus can serve as a vaccination platform for a wide variety of microbial pathogens, including but not limited to, HIV, influenza, polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, hendra, and others.
- the fact that the Lassa-VSV chimeric virus is safe even in the brains of SCID mice lacking the normal T and B cell systemic immunity indicates that a vaccine based on chimeric Lassa-VSV would be safer than the corresponding vaccine based on VSV that retained its VSV glycoprotein, and therefore the chimeric Lassa-VSV might be useful in vaccinating people with depressed immune systems, for instance those with AIDS or those with genetically compromised immune systems, or patients with attenuated immunity related to ongoing cancer.
- the target of the vaccine could either be a type of cancer cell as a cancer treatment. Alternately, the target could be any of a large number of microbial pathogens.
- Viruses can be engineered to include one or more additional genes that target the virus to cells of interest, see for example U.S. Pat. No. 7,429,481.
- expression of the gene results in expression of a ligand on the surface of the virus containing one or more domains that bind to antigens, ligands or receptors that are specific to tumor cells, or are up-regulated in tumor cells compared to normal tissue.
- Appropriate targeting ligands will depend on the target cell or cancer of interest and will be known to those skilled in the art. For example, glioma stem cells are reported to express CD133 and nestin. Accordingly, in some embodiments, the viruses are engineered to express a targeting moiety that bind to CD133 or nestin.
- any additional targeting ligands or moieties engineered into the virus do not reduce and preferably enhance the oncolytic activity or profile of the virus.
- Exemplary chimeric VSV viruses with Lassa virus glycoprotein are known in the art.
- the viruses can be used in the disclosed methods of use and treatment with or without one or more modifications, such as those discussed above.
- VSV-GP-LASV recombinant VSV expressing eGFP and the Lassa virus glycoprotein
- telomere sequence was sequenced and cloned into the MluI and NotI sites of pVSVAG-eGFP-MN (Whelan, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 92(18):8388-92 (1995), and Wong, et al., J. Virol., 84(1):163-75 (2010)) thereby replacing the native VSV glycoprotein G coding sequence.
- Recombinant virus was recovered and amplified as described (Whelan, et al., supra).
- the genome of this Lassa-VSV includes an open reading frame encoding a GFP reporter in the first position. This allows easy detection of which cells are infected, as they turn green.
- having a gene added to the first position attenuates the virulence of VSV (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol, 84(3):1563-73 (2010)).
- a chimeric VSV with a reporter or other heterologous gene at the first position may be attenuated or less virulent compared to the same virus without a reporter or other heterologous gene at the first position.
- chimeric Lassa-VSV viruses are both efficacious and safe with or without a reporter, or another heterologous gene, in the first position. Therefore, the heterologous gene in the first position is optional.
- VSV-GP-EBOV Ebola virus glycoprotein
- a second exemplary virus is discussed in Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78(10): 5458-5465 (2004) and Geisbert, et al., PLOS, 2(6):537-545 (2005), which describe the construction of chimeric VSV viruses having a VSV, Indiana serotype background and a glycoprotein from Lassa virus, strain Josiah.
- a plasmid expressing the positive-strand RNA complement of the VSV genome with a site for foreign gene expression is described in Schnell, et al., J. Virol., 70:2318-2323 (1996).
- VSVXN2 This plasmid (VSVXN2) contains the five VSV genes (nucleoprotein N, phosphoprotein P, matrixprotein M, glycoprotein G, and polymerase L) in order, flanked by the bacteriophage T7 promoter, the VSV leader, and the hepatitis delta virus ribozyme, and the T7 terminator sequence. Between the G and the L genes, a linker site (XhoI-NheI) is present, flanked by a transcriptional start and stop signal for the additional gene to be expressed. As discussed in Garbutt, et al., J.
- the plasmid can be modified to delete the G gene, and the open reading frame encoding the transmembrane glycoprotein of Lassa virus (GPC) can be prepared, for example by PCR, and cloned into the XhoI and NheI sites of the modified vector where the G gene has been deleted.
- GPC Lassa virus
- competent cells for example, BSR-T7 cells
- the vector and support plasmids encoding the viral ribonucleoprotein constituents (e.g., pBS-VSV N, pBS-VSV P, pBS-VSV L) to generate recombinant infectious virus that can be recovered from the supernatant of the cultured cells.
- Rescued rVSV can be passaged, on VeroE6 cells, for example, to obtain a virus stock.
- VSV-LCMV viruses are described in U.S. Patent Application No. 2014/0301992, and 2011/0250188, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,440,730
- Immunizing and therapeutic viruses are typically administered to a patient in need thereof in a pharmaceutical composition.
- Pharmaceutical compositions containing virus may be for systemic or local administration, such as intratumoral. Dosage forms for administration by parenteral (intramuscular (IM), intraperitoneal (IP), intravenous (IV), intra-arterial, intrathecal or subcutaneous injection (SC)), or transmucosal (nasal, vaginal, pulmonary, or rectal) routes of administration can be formulated.
- a therapeutic virus is delivered by local injection, for example intracranial injection preferably at or near the tumor site.
- a therapeutic virus is injected directly into the tumor.
- the compositions can be formulated for and delivered via catheter into the tumor resection cavity through convection-enhanced delivery (CED).
- an immunizing virus is delivered peripherally, intranasally or by intramuscular injection.
- the virus can also be used as an immunizing virus.
- the immunizing virus can be the same as a therapeutic virus but administered prior to a therapeutic administration so that the subject's immune system is primed to eliminate the virus following the therapeutic administration.
- the immunizing virus can be modified as discussed above to carry a disease antigen and used as part of a vaccine protocol.
- Immunizing viruses can be delivered peripherally, for example, by the intranasal route or by intramuscular injection.
- an “effective amount” is that amount which is able to induce a desired result in a treated subject.
- the desired results will depend on the disease or condition to be treated.
- the precise dosage will vary according to a variety of factors such as subject-dependent variables (e.g., age, immune system health, etc.), the disease, and the treatment being effected.
- an effective amount of immunizing virus generally results in production of antibody and/or activated T cells against an antigen, or that kill or limit proliferation of or infection by a pathogen.
- An effective amount of the immunizing virus can be an amount sufficient to reduce neurovirulence of the therapeutic virus compared to administration of the therapeutic virus without first administering the immunizing virus.
- Therapeutically effective amounts of the therapeutic viruses disclosed herein used in the treatment of cancer will generally kill tumor cells or inhibit proliferation or metastasis of the tumor cells.
- Symptoms of cancer may be physical, such as tumor burden, or biological such as proliferation of cancer cells.
- the actual effective amounts of virus can vary according to factors including the specific virus administered, the particular composition formulated, the mode of administration, and the age, weight, condition of the subject being treated, as well as the route of administration and the disease or disorder.
- An effective amount of the virus can be compared to a control.
- suitable controls are known in the art.
- a typical control is a comparison of a condition or symptom of a subject prior to and after administration of the virus.
- the condition or symptom can be a biochemical, molecular, physiological, or pathological readout.
- the control is a matched subject that is administered a different therapeutic agent. Accordingly, the compositions disclosed here can be compared to other art recognized treatments for the disease or condition to be treated.
- the virus can be administered in an amount effective to infect and kill cancer cells, improve survival of a subject with cancer, or a combination thereof.
- the cancer is glioblastoma.
- viruses show little or no toxicity to normal or healthy cells (e.g., non-cancerous cells). Therefore, in some embodiments the effective amount of virus causes little or no destruction of non-cancerous cells.
- the level of pathogenicity to normal cells can be compared to the level of pathogenicity of other VSV oncolytic viruses that do not have G gene replaced with a heterologous G gene.
- viruses are known in the art and include, for example, VSV-1′GFP, VSV-rp30, or VSV- ⁇ M51.
- One important index of oncolytic potential is the ratio of viral replication in normal/control cells versus tumor or cancer cells. These ratios serve as an important index of the relative levels of viral replication in normal and tumor cells. A large ratio indicates greater replication in cancer cells than in control cells.
- the ratio of replication of normal cells:target cells is greater than about 1:100, preferably greater than about 1:250, more preferable greater than about 1:500, most preferably greater than about 1:1000.
- the oncolytic potential of the disclosed viruses is larger than the oncolytic potential of other VSV oncolytic viruses that do not have G gene replaced with a heterologous G gene, for example, VSV-1′GFP, VSV-rp30, or VSV- ⁇ M51.
- Appropriate dosages can be determined by a person skilled in the art, considering the therapeutic context, age, and general health of the recipient. The selected dosage depends upon the desired therapeutic effect, on the route of administration, and on the duration of the treatment desired. Active virus can also be measured in terms of plaque-forming units (PFU).
- a plaque-forming unit can be defined as areas of cell lysis (CPE) in monolayer cell culture, under overlay conditions, initiated by infection with a single virus particle. Generally dosage levels of virus between 10 2 and 10 12 PFU are administered to humans. Virus is typically administered in a liquid suspension, in a volume ranging between 10 ⁇ l and 100 ml depending on the route of administration. Generally, dosage and volume will be lower for intratumoral injection as compared to systemic administration or infusion.
- the dose may be administered once or multiple times.
- virus can be administered to humans at dosage levels between 10 2 and 10 8 PFU.
- Virus can be administered in a liquid suspension, in a low volume.
- the volume for local administration can range from about 20 ⁇ l to about 2000.
- Multiple doses can be administered. In some embodiment, multiple injections are used to achieve a single dose.
- Systemic or regional administration via subcutaneous, intramuscular, intra-organ, or intravenous administration can have higher volumes, for example, 10 to 100 ml.
- pharmaceutically acceptable means a non-toxic material that does not interfere with the effectiveness of the biological activity of the active ingredients.
- pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier means one or more compatible solid or liquid fillers, diluents or encapsulating substances which are suitable for administration to a human or other vertebrate animal.
- carrier refers to an organic or inorganic ingredient, natural or synthetic, with which the active ingredient is combined to facilitate the application.
- compositions may be formulated in a conventional manner using one or more physiologically acceptable carriers including excipients and auxiliaries which facilitate processing of the active compounds into preparations which can be used pharmaceutically.
- the compositions may be administered in combination with one or more physiologically or pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, thickening agents, co-solvents, adhesives, antioxidants, buffers, viscosity and absorption enhancing agents and agents capable of adjusting osmolarity of the formulation.
- Proper formulation is dependent upon the route of administration chosen.
- the compositions may also contain minor amounts of nontoxic auxiliary substances such as wetting or emulsifying agents, dyes, pH buffering agents, or preservatives.
- the formulations should not include membrane disrupting agents which could kill or inactivate the virus.
- compositions including oncolytic viruses disclosed herein are administered in an aqueous solution, by parenteral injection.
- Injection includes, but it not limited to, local, intratumoral, intravenous, intraperitoneal, intramuscular, or subcutaneous injection.
- the formulation may also be in the form of a suspension or emulsion.
- pharmaceutical compositions are provided including effective amounts of virus, and optionally include pharmaceutically acceptable diluents, preservatives, solubilizers, emulsifiers, adjuvants and/or carriers.
- compositions include diluents such as sterile water, buffered saline of various buffer content (e.g., Tris-HCl, acetate, phosphate), pH and ionic strength; and optionally, additives such as anti-oxidants (e.g., ascorbic acid, sodium metabisulfite), and preservatives and bulking substances (e.g., lactose, mannitol).
- diluents such as sterile water, buffered saline of various buffer content (e.g., Tris-HCl, acetate, phosphate), pH and ionic strength; and optionally, additives such as anti-oxidants (e.g., ascorbic acid, sodium metabisulfite), and preservatives and bulking substances (e.g., lactose, mannitol).
- non-aqueous solvents or vehicles are propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, vegetable oils, such as olive oil and corn oil, ge
- compositions are formulated for mucosal administration, such as through nasal, pulmonary, or buccal delivery.
- Mucosal formulations may include one or more agents for enhancing delivery through the nasal mucosa.
- Agents for enhancing mucosal delivery are known in the art, see, for example, U.S. Patent Application No. 200910252672 to Eddington, and U.S. Patent Application No. 2009/0047234 to Touitou.
- Acceptable agents include, but are not limited to, chelators of calcium (EDTA), inhibitors of nasal enzymes (boro-leucin, aprotinin), inhibitors of muco-ciliar clearance (preservatives), solubilizers of nasal membrane (cyclodextrin, fatty acids, surfactants) and formation of micelles (surfactants such as bile acids, Laureth 9 and taurodehydrofusidate (STDHF)).
- Compositions may include one or more absorption enhancers, including surfactants, fatty acids, and chitosan derivatives, which can enhance delivery by modulation of the tight junctions (TJ) (B. J. Aungst, et al., J. Pharm. Sci.
- the optimal absorption enhancer should possess the following qualities: its effect should be reversible, it should provide a rapid permeation enhancing effect on the cellular membrane of the mucosa, and it should be non-cytotoxic at the effective concentration level and without deleterious and/or irreversible effects on the cellular or virus membrane, Intranasal compositions maybe administered using devices known in the art, for example a nebulizer.
- the disclosed chimeric VSV viruses can be administered to a subject in need thereof in an amount effective to treat a disease or disorder, for example, cancer.
- Pharmaceutical compositions including a chimeric virus may be administered once or more than once, for example 2, 3, 4, 5, or more times.
- Serial administration of chimeric virus may occur days, weeks, or months apart.
- boosters of immunizing virus may be administered between therapeutic treatments. It may be particularly preferable to administer a booster of immunizing virus if there are lengthy delays between treatments with therapeutic virus, for example, one or more years.
- Virus can be administered peripherally, or can be injected directly into a tumor, for example a tumor within the brain.
- virus can be used after resection of the main body of the tumor, for example by administering directly to the remaining adjacent tissue after surgery, or after a period of one to two weeks to allow recovery of local damage. Adding virus after surgical resection would eliminate any remaining tumor cells that the neurosurgeon did not remove. The injections can be given at one, or multiple locations. It is also believed that virus administered systemically can target and kill brain cancers.
- Treatment with an immunosuppressant during administration with a therapeutic virus allows controlled suppression of the subject's immune system during administration of the therapeutic virus. This may be desirable, for example, if the capacity of the oncolytic virus to kill cancer is reduced due to an earlier administration of the immunizing virus.
- Treatment with the immunosuppressant is typically transient, and occurs during administration of the virus, particularly when the virus is being used to treat tumors and/or cancer. Following treatment with the chimeric virus, treatment with the immunosuppressant is discontinued and the patient's immunity returns. The duration of immunosuppressive treatment will depend on the condition to be treated. Typically the immunosuppressive treatment will be long enough for the oncolytic virus to kill cancer cells, reduce tumor size, or inhibit tumor progression.
- immunizing virus includes live virus as well as viral subunits, proteins and fragments thereof, antigenic polypeptides, nucleic acids, and expression vectors containing nucleic acids encoding viral subunits, proteins, or fragments thereof, or antigenic polypeptides which can be useful in eliciting an immune response.
- the immunizing virus is a VSV virus
- the immunizing virus includes, but is not limited to, live VSV virus, the N, P, M, G, or L proteins, or combinations thereof.
- the immunizing virus may be the same virus, or a different virus than the therapeutic virus.
- the immunizing virus should initiate an adaptive immune response that is sufficient to attenuate, reduce, or prevent the neurovirulence of the therapeutic virus.
- the therapeutic virus administered after a first administration of immunizing virus should have reduced neurovirulence compared to therapeutic virus administered without a first administration of immunizing virus.
- the immunizing virus is similar to the therapeutic virus.
- the immunizing virus is preferably a VSV, or an antigenic protein or nucleic acid component thereof.
- the immunizing virus has an attenuated phenotype compared to the therapeutic virus.
- suitable immunizing viruses include wildtype viruses, as well as mutant and variants thereof.
- the immunizing virus is a wildtype virus or an antigenic protein or nucleic acid component thereof, while the therapeutic virus is a mutant, variant, chimeric virus having the same virus background but reduced neurovirulence compared to wildtype.
- therapeutic viruses may be engineered to express therapeutic proteins or targeting molecules. Immunizing viruses may also be engineered to express additional proteins, but preferably are not.
- VSV-G/GFP is a suitable immunizing virus.
- the nucleotide sequence for VSV-G/GFP is GenBank Accession FJ478454.
- Immunizing viruses are administered sufficiently prior to therapeutic viruses to elicit an adaptive immune response. Immunizing viruses are typically administered one or more times at least about 5 days, preferably 1 week, more preferably greater than one week before administration of the therapeutic virus. Immunizing viruses can be administered up to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or more weeks before the therapeutic virus. Immunizing viruses can be administered up to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or more months before the therapeutic virus. Most preferably the immunizing virus is administered between about ten days and 12 weeks before the therapeutic virus.
- subsequent booster immunizations can be administered. For example, it may be desirable to administer the immunizing virus two or more times.
- a first administration of the immunizing virus is typically provided to a patient in need therefore prior to a first administration of the therapeutic virus.
- Subsequent administrations of the immunizing virus may occur before and/or after a first administration of the therapeutic virus.
- the immunizing virus is administered two or more times before the first administration of the therapeutic virus.
- the immunizing virus is first administered on day 1, a booster of immunizing virus is administered six weeks later on about day 43, and the therapeutic virus is first administered two weeks later on about day 57.
- the subject's adaptive immune response can be monitored to assess the effectiveness of the immunization.
- Methods of measuring adaptive immune activation include antibody profiling, serum analysis for changes in levels of antibodies, cytokines, chemokines, or other inflammatory molecules, and cell counts and/or cell profiling using extracellular markers to assess the numbers and types of immune cells such as B cells and T cells.
- Immunizing virus is most typically delivered to a subject in need thereof by peripheral administration, and not directly or locally to the site in need of treatment by therapeutic virus.
- Peripheral administration includes intravenous, by injection or infusion, intraperitoneal, intramuscular, subcutaneous, and mucosal such as intranasal delivery.
- the composition is delivered systemically, by injection or infusion into the circulatory system (i.e. intravenous) or an appropriate lymphoid tissue, such as the spleen, lymph nodes or mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue.
- the injections can be given at one, or multiple locations.
- the immunizing virus is administered intranasally or by intramuscular injection, most preferably by intranasal delivery.
- Virus is typically administered in a liquid suspension, in a volume ranging between 10 ⁇ l and 100 ml depending on the route of administration.
- the adjuvant can be, but is not limited to, one or more of the following: oil emulsions (e.g., Freund's adjuvant); saponin formulations; virosomes and viral-like particles; bacterial and microbial derivatives; immunostimulatory oligonucleotides; ADP-ribosylating toxins and detoxified derivatives; alum; BCG; mineral-containing compositions (e.g., mineral salts, such as aluminium salts and calcium salts, hydroxides, phosphates, sulfates, etc.); bioadhesives and/or mucoadhesives; microparticles; liposomes; polyoxyethylene ether and polyoxyethylene ester formulations; polyphosphazene; mur
- the chimeric viruses can also serve as an immunogen for generating an immune response against other antigens administered with or cloned into virus.
- the safety profile of the disclosed Lassa-VSVs make them particularly attractive for use as part of a vaccine.
- Other VSVs can lead to adverse consequence in brain, whereas a Lassa-VSV with another antigen, for example, an influenza antigen, would be safer, yet effective.
- the chimeric virus is a vaccine vector.
- the Lassa-VSV including a GFP reporter discussed below, show that the chimeric virus generates a strong immune response against the virus, and also against the GFP reporter. Accordingly, other proteins could be substituted for GFP. These could include proteins from pathogenic microbes unrelated to Lassa virus or VSV; the Lassa-VSV could serve as a safe vaccine platform against many different pathogenic microbes.
- VSV can be engineered to express one or more immunogenic antigens. Expression of these antigens in a patient in need thereof presents the antigen to the immune system and provokes an immune response. Vaccines can be administered prophylactically or therapeutically.
- Vaccines can also be administered according to a vaccine schedule.
- a vaccine schedule is a series of vaccinations, including the timing of all doses. Many vaccines require multiple doses for maximum effectiveness, either to produce sufficient initial immune response or to boost response that fades over time.
- Vaccine schedules are known in the art, and are designed to achieve maximum effectiveness.
- the adaptive immune response can be monitored using methods known in the art to measure the effectiveness of the vaccination protocol.
- Chimeric VSV viruses wherein the G protein is replaced with a heterologous glycoprotein, for example the glycoprotein from Lassa virus, have been shown to be immunogenic and initiate an up-regulation of both humoral and cellular immunity toward the virus (Geisbert, et al., PLoS Med., 2:e183 (2005) and the Examples below. Therefore, methods of initiating an immune response against the infected tumor are disclosed. It is believed that the disclosed chimeric viruses will not only infect and kill cancer cells, but will enhance an attack by the systemic immune system on the infected cell-type both during and after the virus is eliminated. In this way, the virus can be used to induce an immune response against non-infected target cells. In this way, treatment with the disclosed VSV virus may delay, reduce, or prevent reoccurrence of the cancer being treated.
- a heterologous glycoprotein for example the glycoprotein from Lassa virus
- the chimeric virus is used to infect targets cells, and the infected target cells or antigens isolated therefrom are used for peripheral immunization of the subject against the target cells, or antigens thereof.
- target cells against which an immune response is desired are implanted into a subject.
- the cells are injected with virus which kills the cells and leads to an immune response against antigens of the cells.
- the cells can be infected with virus before or after implantation.
- the cells are infected with virus in vitro prior to injection into the subject.
- the subject is immunized with antigen(s) isolated from tumor cells infected with virus in vitro.
- the target cell can be any cell to which an immune response is desired.
- the target cells can be cancer cells against which an immune response is desired.
- the cancer cells can be from an established cell line or primary cancer cells isolated from a subject.
- the target cells can be cancer cells isolated from a subject in a biopsy or during surgery to remove a tumor.
- the target cells can be infected in vitro prior to administration to the subject, or the target cells can be inject by local injection of the virus into the subject at the site of implantation of the target cells.
- the cells can be harvested from and administered back to the same subject. Alternatively, the cells can be harvested from one subject and administered to a different subject.
- the virus can be used to induce an immune response against a cancer or tumor in a subject that has the cancer or tumor, or prophylactically prime the immune system to attack a future cancer or tumor that the subject does not yet have.
- the treatment can be therapeutic, prophylactic, or a combination thereof.
- this strategy is employed in combination with surgery in which a tumor is removed from a subject.
- Cells are isolated from the tumor, infected with virus, and implanted in the subject.
- an immune response is induced against any cancer cells that remain in the subject, for example in the margins and other tissue at the site from which the tumor removed, as well as circulating cancer cells and metastases throughout the body including those sites distant from the tumor that was removed.
- the method can also reduce, delay, or prevent recurrence of the cancer.
- the isolated target cells are irradiated in amount effective to prevent cell division, but not to kill the cells, to avoid concerns about in vivo replication of the target cells following implantation.
- the cells are implanted into the subject peripherally.
- the cells can be injected into the subject subcutaneously, intramuscularly, intranasally, intravenously, intraperitoneally, or using another suitable method of peripheral administration, such as those discussed above.
- the tumor cells are expanded in culture for one or generations or passages between isolation and implantation in the subject.
- tumor-specific cytotoxic effector CD8+ T cells primed by chimeric VSV infected tumor cells are administered to a subject in need thereof.
- the T cells can be harvested from a treated subject, and optionally expanded in culture, or primed and expanded in vitro.
- the method is one of adaptive T cell therapy.
- Methods of adoptive T cell therapy are known in the art and used in clinical practice.
- Generally adoptive T cell therapy involves the isolation and ex vivo expansion of tumor specific T cells to achieve greater number of T cells than what could be obtained by vaccination alone.
- the tumor specific T cells are then infused into patients with cancer in an attempt to give their immune system the ability to overwhelm remaining tumor via T cells which can attack and kill cancer.
- Several forms of adoptive T cell therapy can be used for cancer treatment including, but not limited to, culturing tumor infiltrating lymphocytes or TIL; isolating and expanding one particular T cell or clone; and using T cells that have been engineered to recognize and attack tumors.
- the tumors infected with the chimeric VSV, or isolated components thereof are used to prime the T cells.
- the T cells are taken directly from the patient's blood after they have received treatment or immunization with the virus.
- Methods of priming and activating T cells in vitro for adaptive T cell cancer therapy are known in the art. See, for example, Wang, et al., Blood, 109(11):4865-4872 (2007) and Hervas-Stubbs, et al., J. Immunol., 189(7):3299-310 (2012).
- the methods can be used in conjunction with virus infected cancer cells, or antigens isolated therefrom, to prime and activate T cells against the cancer.
- Th can activate antigen-specific effector cells and recruit cells of the innate immune system such as macrophages and dendritic cells to assist in antigen presentation (APC), and antigen primed Th cells can directly activate tumor antigen-specific CTL.
- APC antigen presentation
- Th1 have been implicated as the initiators of epitope or determinant spreading which is a broadening of immunity to other antigens in the tumor.
- the ability to elicit epitope spreading broadens the immune response to many potential antigens in the tumor and can lead to more efficient tumor cell kill due to the ability to mount a heterogeneic response.
- adoptive T cell therapy can used to stimulate endogenous immunity.
- the disclosed chimeric viruses and methods of treatment thereof are useful in the context of cancer, including tumor therapy, particular brain tumor therapy.
- malignant tumors exhibit metastasis.
- small clusters of cancerous cells dislodge from a tumor, invade the blood or lymphatic vessels, and are carried to other tissues, where they continue to proliferate. In this way a primary tumor at one site can give rise to a secondary tumor at another site.
- compositions and methods described herein are useful for treating subjects having benign or malignant tumors by delaying or inhibiting the growth of a tumor in a subject, reducing the growth or size of the tumor, inhibiting or reducing metastasis of the tumor, and/or inhibiting or reducing symptoms associated with tumor development or growth.
- the examples below indicate that the viruses and methods disclosed herein are useful for treating cancer, particular brain tumors, in vivo.
- Malignant tumors which may be treated are classified herein according to the embryonic origin of the tissue from which the tumor is derived.
- Carcinomas are tumors arising from endodermal or ectodermal tissues such as skin or the epithelial lining of internal organs and glands.
- the disclosed compositions are particularly effective in treating carcinomas.
- Sarcomas which arise less frequently, are derived from mesodermal connective tissues such as bone, fat, and cartilage.
- the leukemias and lymphomas are malignant tumors of hematopoietic cells of the bone marrow. Leukemias proliferate as single cells, whereas lymphomas tend to grow as tumor masses. Malignant tumors may show up at numerous organs or tissues of the body to establish a cancer.
- the types of cancer that can be treated with the provided compositions and methods include, but are not limited to, cancers such as vascular cancer such as multiple myeloma, adenocarcinomas and sarcomas, of bone, bladder, brain, breast, cervical, colo-rectal, esophageal, kidney, liver, lung, nasopharangeal, pancreatic, prostate, skin, stomach, and uterine.
- cancers such as vascular cancer such as multiple myeloma, adenocarcinomas and sarcomas, of bone, bladder, brain, breast, cervical, colo-rectal, esophageal, kidney, liver, lung, nasopharangeal, pancreatic, prostate, skin, stomach, and uterine.
- the disclosed compositions are used to treat multiple cancer types concurrently.
- the compositions can also be used to treat metastases or tumors at multiple locations.
- Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal. They are created by an abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells, myelin-producing Schwann cells, lymphatic tissue, blood vessels), in the cranial nerves, in the brain envelopes (meninges), skull, pituitary and pineal gland, or spread from cancers primarily located in other organs (metastatic tumors).
- brain tumors include, but are not limited to, oligodendroglioma, meningioma, supratentorial ependymona, pineal region tumors, medulloblastoma, cerebellar astrocytoma, infratentorial ependymona, brainstem glioma, schwannomas, pituitary tumors, craniopharyngioma, optic glioma, and astrocytoma.
- Primary brain tumors originate in the brain and “secondary” (metastatic) brain tumors originate from cancer cells that have migrated from other parts of the body. Primary brain cancer rarely spreads beyond the central nervous system, and death results from uncontrolled tumor growth within the limited space of the skull. Metastatic brain cancer indicates advanced disease and has a poor prognosis. Primary brain tumors can be cancerous or noncancerous. Both types take up space in the brain and may cause serious symptoms (e.g., vision or hearing loss) and complications (e.g., stroke). All cancerous brain tumors are life threatening (malignant) because they have an aggressive and invasive nature. A noncancerous primary brain tumor is life threatening when it compromises vital structures (e.g., an artery). In a particular embodiment, the disclosed compositions and methods are used to treat cancer cells or tumors that have metastasized from outside the brain (e.g., lung, breast, melanoma) and migrated into the brain.
- the disclosed compositions and methods are used to treat cancer cells or tumors that have met
- Lassa-VSV is oncolytic, but also non-toxic to health or normal cells, even when administered directly to the brain. Therefore, the disclosed viruses are particularly useful for treating brain cancer, cancer that can metastasize to the brains, for example lung cancer, breast cancer, and skin cancer such as melanoma.
- the viruses are particularly safe and useful for treating cancer in the brain, the cancer does not have to be in the brain. It is believed that the chimeric virus are also effective for treating other cancer outside the brain, and can thereof be administered systemically in or locally outside the brain. In a particular embodiment, a chimeric virus is used to treat a cancer that could, but has not yet metastasized to the brain. See, for example, Yarde, et al., Cancer Gene Ther., 2013 Nov. 1. doi: 10.1038/cgt.2013.63, which describes that intravenously administered VSVs encoding IFN- ⁇ have potent activity against subcutaneous tumors in the 5TGM1 mouse myeloma model, without attendant neurotoxicity.
- the disclosed chimeric Lassa-VSV viruses have reduced toxicity for normal and healthy cells including neurons. Therefore, these viruses are a safer, less toxic alternative for treating systemic cancers that can potential traffic virus into the brain and cause neurotoxicity and even death.
- the chimeric Lassa-VSV was safe in the brains of SCID mice that have a depressed systemic immunity due to substantially reduced T and B cells.
- Lassa-VSV should be far safer than VSV with its normal VSV glycoprotein. This may enable Lassa-VSV to be used in patients showing depressed immunity, typical of many cancer patients, and also of patients with AIDS, or with genetic immune depression.
- the enhanced safety in the brain may also be of benefit in patients with compromised blood brain barriers where Lassa-VSV would be safer than VSV in both cancer treatment, and for vaccination against either a cancer cell type, or against unrelated (e.g., non-Lassa, non-VSV) pathogenic microbes.
- the Examples below show that the chimeric VSV are effective at infecting and replicating in colon, prostate, breast, bone, and bladder cancer cells, indicating its oncolytic potential was not restricted to glioma and melanoma brain tumors. It is believed that the disclosed viruses are effective for treating both primary and secondary brain tumors, but as peripheral (non-brain) cancers and tumors.
- compositions containing oncolytic viruses may be coupled with surgical, radiologic, other therapeutic approaches to treatment of tumors and cancers.
- compositions and methods can be used as an adjunct to surgery.
- Surgery is a common treatment for many types of benign and malignant tumors.
- the disclosed compositions containing oncolytic virus are particularly useful subsequent to resection of the primary tumor mass, and would be able to infect and destroy even dispersed tumor cells.
- compositions and methods are used as an adjunct or alternative to neurosurgery.
- the compositions are particularly well suited to treat areas of the brain that is difficult to treat surgically, for instance high grade tumors of the brain stem, motor cortex, basal ganglia, or internal capsule. High grade gliomas in these locations are generally considered inoperable.
- An additional situation where an oncolytic virus may be helpful is in regions where the tumor is either wrapped around critical vasculature, or in an area that is difficult to treat surgically.
- the viral compositions can be administered to a subject in need thereof alone or in combination with one or more additional therapeutic agents selected based on the condition, disorder or disease to be treated.
- additional therapeutic agents selected based on the condition, disorder or disease to be treated.
- a description of the various classes of suitable pharmacological agents and drugs may be found in Goodman and Gilman, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics , (11th Ed., McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.) (2005).
- Additional therapeutic agents include conventional cancer therapeutics such as chemotherapeutic agents, cytokines, chemokines, and radiation therapy.
- chemotherapeutic drugs can be divided into: alkylating agents, antimetabolites, anthracyclines, plant alkaloids, topoisomerase inhibitors, and other antitumour agents. All of these drugs affect cell division or DNA synthesis and function in some way.
- Additional therapeutics include monoclonal antibodies and the tyrosine kinase inhibitors e.g., imatinib mesylate (GLEEVEC® or GLIVEC®), which directly targets a molecular abnormality in certain types of cancer (chronic myelogenous leukemia, gastrointestinal stromal tumors).
- chemotherapeutic agents include, but are not limited to, amsacrine, bleomycin, busulfan, capecitabine, carboplatin, carmustine, chlorambucil, cisplatin, cladribine, clofarabine, crisantaspase, cyclophosphamide, cytarabine, dacarbazine, dactinomycin, daunorubicin, docetaxel, doxorubicin, epipodophyllotoxins, epirubicin, etoposide, etoposide phosphate, fludarabine, fluorouracil, gemcitabine, hydroxycarbamide, idarubicin, ifosfamide, irinotecan, leucovorin, liposomal doxorubicin, liposomal daunorubicin, lomustine, mechlorethamine, melphalan, mercaptopurine, mesna, methotrexate
- Preferred chemotherapeutics will affect tumors or cancer cells, without diminishing the activity of the virus.
- the additional therapeutic agent inhibits proliferation of cancer cells without affecting targeting, infectivity, or replication of the virus.
- compositions can be administered with an antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof specific for growth factor receptors or tumor specific antigens.
- growth factors receptors include, but are not limited to, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR; HER1); c-erbB2 (HER2); c-erbB3 (HER3); c-erbB4 (HER4); insulin receptor; insulin-like growth factor receptor 1 (IGF-1R); insulin-like growth factor receptor 2/Mannose-6-phosphate receptor (IGF-II RIM-6-P receptor); insulin receptor related kinase (IRRK); platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR); colony-stimulating factor-1receptor (CSF-1R) (c-Fms); steel receptor (c-Kit); Flk2/Flt3; fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (Flg/Cek1); fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (Bek/Cek3/K-Sam); Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3; Fibroblast growth factor receptor 4; nerve growth factor receptor
- VSV is an effective oncolytic virus, in-part, by taking advantage of defects in the interferon system.
- Administration of therapeutic proteins such as IFN- ⁇ , or IFN- ⁇ /3 pathway inducer polyriboinosinic polyribocytidylic acid [poly(I:C)] are effective in protecting normal cells from the oncolytic activity, while leaving the tumor cells susceptible to infection and death (Wollmann, et al. J. Virol., 81(3): 1479-1491 (2007). Therefore, in some embodiments, the disclosed compositions are administered in combination with a therapeutic protein to, reduce infectivity and death of normal cells.
- therapeutic proteins that can be administered in combination with the disclosed viruses include those provided above as therapeutic proteins that can be engineered into the virus. Accordingly, the therapeutic virus can be part of the virus itself, or administered separately. In some embodiments, the virus includes one or more therapeutic proteins and one more therapeutic proteins are administered separately.
- the disclosed chimeric VSV viruses generally, show a reduced probability of infecting normal brain cells, but still have a good oncolytic capacity.
- One limitation of oncolytic viruses in general is that the adaptive immune system can up-regulate its antiviral response and eliminate the virus before the virus has had a chance to maximally infect tumor cells.
- the adaptive immune system can up-regulate its antiviral response and eliminate the virus before the virus has had a chance to maximally infect tumor cells.
- the virus should remain in the subject long enough to infect and kill as many tumor cells as possible balanced against the pathogenicity of the virus to normal cells of the subject.
- the virus is administered in combination with an agent that reduces or attenuates the intrinsic IFN-mediated immune responses that can eliminate the virus before it has achieved maximal tumor destruction.
- the attenuation of the intrinsic IFN-mediated immune responses enhances the rate of recombinant VSV-mediated tumor destruction without increasing infection of normal cells. This strategy should also reduce the initiation of the adaptive immune response which is enhanced by the innate immune response, giving the virus more time to complete its oncolytic actions.
- Paglino, et al., J. Virol., 85:9346-58 (2011) showed that a cancer cell highly resistant to VSV could be infected by blocking the IFN response to VSV with one of three IFN blockers, valproate, the vacccinia protein B18R, or Jak inhibitor 1.
- Valproate crosses the blood brain barrier as evident in its use to treat epilepsy. It is already approved for clinical use in humans (for attenuating epilepsy), and like many other histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, it has an intrinsic anti-tumor property, independent of oncolytic virus infection, that reduces glioma and other tumor growth in the brain (Chateaucreme, et al., J. Biomed.
- HDAC inhibitor vorinostat (ZOLLINZA®) is approved by the FDA for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (Glaser K B, Biochem. Pharmacal., 74:659-671 (2007)). Vorinostat on its own appears to penetrate brain tumors and to increase survival of patients with glioblastoma, and animal studies have shown that valproate can increase infection by viruses in tumors with minimal increased collateral damage.
- Valproate increased survival substantially in tumor bearing animals treated with HSV (Otsuki, et al., Mol. Ther., 16:1546-1555 (2008)).
- a pediatric anaplastic astrocytoma that was resistant to chemotherapy and irradiation, underwent a substantial regression after combined treatment with oral valproate and oncolytic attenuated Newcastle disease virus Wagner, et al., APMIS, 114:731-743 (2006)).
- HDAC inhibitors have been shown to enhance viral cancer cell targeting and viral replication by vaccinia (MacTavish, et al., PLoS One, 5:e14462 (2010) and VSV (Nguyen, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 105:14981-14986 (2008)) without substantially altering infection in normal non-cancer cells.
- Valproate inhibited the induction of several antiviral genes after oncolytic HSV infection, and resulted in enhanced viral propagation in glioma cells, even in the presence of IFN (Otsuki, et at, Mol. Ther., 16:1546-1555 (2008)).
- Valproate treatment had no augmenting effect on viral yield in normal human astrocytes.
- Valproate pretreatment was also shown to enhance HSV propagation in tumors 10-fold in vivo and improved the survival of nude mice bearing U87delta-EGFR brain tumors.
- the virus is administered in combination with an HDAC inhibitor.
- the virus is administered in combination with valproate, the vacccinia protein B18R, Jak inhibitor 1, or vorinostat.
- immunosuppressants such as cyclosporin, prednisone, dexamethasone, or other steroidal anti-inflammatory, can also be used to reduce the immune response immediately before, during, or shortly after administration of the therapeutic virus. The immunosuppressant is then discontinued or decreased to allow the patient's immune system to prevent inflammation and/or killing of the virus after it has competed the desired killing of tumor or diseased tissue.
- Suitable immunosuppressants include glucocorticoids, cytostatics (such as alkylating agents, antimetabolites, and cytotoxic antibodies), antibodies (such as those directed against T-cell recepotors or 11-2 receptors), drugs acting on immunophilins (such as cyclosporine, tacrolimus, and sirolimus) and other drugs (such as interferons, opioids, TNF binding proteins, mycophenolate, and other small molecules such as fingolimod).
- the dosage ranges for immunosuppressant agents are known in the art. The specific dosage will depend upon the desired therapeutic effect, the route of administration, and on the duration of the treatment desired.
- Immunosuppressants include, but are not limited to, FK506, prednisone, methylprednisolone, cyclophosphamide, thalidomide, azathioprine, and daclizumab, physalin B, physalin F, physalin G, seco-steroids purified from Physalis angulata L., 15-deoxyspergualin, MMF, rapamycin and its derivatives, CCI-779, FR 900520, FR 900523, NK86-1086, depsidomycin, kanglemycin-C, spergualin, prodigiosin25-c, cammunomicin, demethomycin, tetranactin, tranilast, stevastelins, myriocin, gliotoxin,
- Dosage units including virus in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for shipping and storage and/or administration are also disclosed.
- Active virus should be shipped and stored using a method consistent with viability such as in cooler containing dry ice so that viruses are maintained below 4° C., and preferably below ⁇ 20° C.
- VSV virus should not be lyophilized.
- Components of the kit may be packaged individually and can be sterile.
- a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier containing an effective amount of virus is shipped and stored in a sterile vial.
- the sterile vial may contain enough virus for one or more doses.
- Virus may be shipped and stored in a volume suitable for administration, or may be provided in a concentrated titer that is diluted prior to administration.
- a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier containing an effective amount of virus can be shipped and stored in a syringe.
- Typical concentrations of concentrated viral particles in the sterile saline, phosphate buffered saline or other suitable media for the virus is in the range of 10 8 to 10 9 with a maximum of 10 12 . Dosage units should not contain membrane disruptive agents nor should the viral solution be frozen and dried (i.e., lyophilized), which could kill the virus.
- Kits containing syringes of various capacities or vessels with deformable sides e.g., plastic vessels or plastic-sided vessels
- the size and design of the syringe will depend on the route of administration.
- a syringe for administering virus intratumorally is capable of accurately delivering a smaller volume (such as 1 to 100 ⁇ l).
- a larger syringe, pump or catheter will be used to administer virus systemically.
- Any of the kits can include instructions for use.
- the native VSV genome is a single negative-sense, non-segmented stand of RNA that contains five genes (N, L, P, M, and G) and has a total size of 11.161 kb.
- Methods of engineering recombinant viruses by reconstituting VSV from DNA encoding a positive-sense stand of RNA are known in the art (Lawson, et al., PNAS, 92:4477-4481 (1995), Dalton and Rose, Virology., 279:414421 (2001)).
- recombinant DNA can be transcribed by T7 RNA polymerase to generate a full-length positive-strand RNA complimentary to the viral genome.
- VSV viruses can be engineered to express variant proteins, additional proteins, foreign antigens, targeting proteins, or therapeutic proteins using known cloning methods. Methods of preparing exemplary suitable VSV viruses where the gene encoding the VSV G protein is deleted and replaced with a gene encoding the Lassa virus glycoprotein are described in more detail above.
- the chimeric VSV is prepared by substituting the sequence encoding the G protein on the plasmid referred as VSVXN2 (Schnell, et al., J. Virol., 70:2318-2323 (1996)) with a heterologous glycoprotein, such as the glycoprotein from Lassa virus.
- the chimeric VSV is prepared by substituting the sequence encoding the G protein on plasmid pVSV(+) described in Whelan, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 92(18):8388-92 (1995).
- Whelan describes the constructions of a full-length cDNA clone of VSV assembled from clones of each of the VSV genes and intergenic junctions. These clones were assembled into a full-length cDNA and inserted in both orientations between the bacteriophage T7 promoter and a cDNA copy of the self-cleaving ribozyme from the antigenomic strand of HDV.
- the resulting plasmids were named pVSV1(+) and pVSV1( ⁇ ) to reflect the polarity of the T7 transcript they generated: VSV antigenomic or genomic RNA, respectively.
- the T7 transcripts contained two non-VSV nucleotides (GG) at their 5′ ends but were cleaved by the HDV ribozyme to generate a 3′ terminus which corresponded precisely to the 3′ end of the VSV antigenomic or genomic sequence, an important requirement for VSV RNA replication.
- Transfection of plasmids into BHK21 cells infected with vTF7-3 was performed under the conditions and with quantities of support plasmids as described (Pattnaik, et al., Cell, 69:1011-1020 (1992)), and up to 5 ug of pVSV1(+) or pVSV1( ⁇ ). Transfected cells were incubated at 31° C. or 37° C.
- pVSV1(+) and pVSV1( ⁇ ) were linearized by digestion at a unique Nhe I site located downstream of the T7 terminator in the pGEM-3-based plasmids.
- RNA viruses are prone to spontaneous genetic variation.
- the mutation rate of VSV is about 10 ⁇ 4 per nucleotide replicated, which is approximately one nucleotide change per genome (Drake, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96:13910-13913). Therefore, mutant VSV viruses exhibiting desired properties can be developed by applying selective pressure. Methods for adaption of VSV viruses through repeated passaging is described in the art. See, for example, Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 79(10): 6005-6022 (2005). Selective pressure can be applied by repeated passaging and enhanced selection to create mutant virus with desirable traits such as increased infectivity and oncolytic potential for a cell type of interest.
- the cell type of interest could be general, such as cancer cells, or specific such as glioblastoma cells.
- Mutant virus can also be selected based on reduced toxicity to normal cells. Methods of enhanced selection include, but are not limited to, short time for viral attachment to cells, collection of early viral progeny, and preabsorption of viral particles with high affinity of undesirable cells (such as normal cells). Mutations can be identified by sequencing the viral genome and comparing the sequence to the sequence of the parental strain.
- DNA encoding the VSV genome can also be used as a substrate for random or site directed mutagenesis to develop VSV mutant viruses. Mutagenesis can be accomplished by a variety of standard, mutagenic procedures. Changes in single genes may be the consequence of point mutations that involve the removal, addition or substitution of a single nucleotide base within a DNA sequence, or they may be the consequence of changes involving the insertion or deletion of large numbers of nucleotides.
- Mutations can arise spontaneously as a result of events such as errors in the fidelity of nucleic acid replication or the movement of transposable genetic elements (transposons) within the genome. They also are induced following exposure to chemical or physical mutagens.
- mutation-inducing agents include ionizing radiations, ultraviolet light and a diverse array of chemicals such as alkylating agents and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons all of which are capable of interacting either directly or indirectly (generally following some metabolic biotransformations) with nucleic acids.
- the nucleic acid lesions induced by such environmental agents may lead to modifications of base sequence when the affected DNA is replicated or repaired and thus to a mutation. Mutation also can be site-directed through the use of particular targeting methods.
- mutagenesis such as random mutagenesis, e.g., insertional mutagenesis, chemical mutagenesis, radiation mutagenesis, in vitro scanning mutagenesis, random mutagenesis by fragmentation and reassembly, and site specific mutagenesis, e.g., directed evolution, are described in U.S. Patent Application No. 2007/0026012.
- Mutant viruses can be prepared by site specific mutagenesis of nucleotides in the DNA encoding the protein, thereby producing DNA encoding the mutant.
- Techniques for making substitution mutations at predetermined sites in DNA having a known sequence are well known, for example M13 primer mutagenesis and PCR mutagenesis.
- Amino acid substitutions are typically of single residues, but can occur at a number of different locations at once. Insertions usually will be on the order of about from 1 to 10 amino acid residues; and deletions will range about from 1 to 30 residues. Substitutions, deletions, insertions or any combination thereof can be combined to arrive at a final construct.
- the mutations must not place the sequence out of reading frame and preferably will not create complementary regions that could produce secondary mRNA structure.
- Substitution variants are those in which at least one residue has been removed and a different residue inserted in its place.
- Example 1 Chimeric Lassa-VSV Virus Infected and Killed Gliomas without Causing Neurological Dysfunction
- VSV-wtG and chimeric VSV's expressing the G protein from either Lassa fever virus (VSV-LASV-G), rabies virus (VSV-RABV), lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (VSV-LCMV-G), Ebola virus (VSV-EBOV-G), or Marburg virus (VSV-MARV-G) were generated as described previously (Beier, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108:15414-15419 (2011); Jae, et al., Science, 344:1506-1510 (2014); Krishnan, et al., Viruses, 4:2471-2484.
- VSV-EBOV-G and VSV-LASV-G that did not express any reporter genes were also tested in some assays (Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78(10):5458-65 (2004)).
- the EBOV glycoprotein sequence expressed in VSV-EBOV is derived from the Mayinga strain of Zaire Ebola virus as described in the methods of Garbutt, et al. (2004) J. Virol 78: 5458-5465.
- the nucleotide sequence shown below was determined by direct sequencing of VSV-EBOV samples and matches the sequence for the full-length (non-secreted) glycoprotein gene found in GenBank accession NC_002549 nt 6039-8068. Note that the GenBank sequence over this region is 2030 nt long, whereas the sequence below is 2031 nt in length.
- GenBank sequence is based on the genomic RNA sequence
- sequence below is based on the mRNA sequence that has been ‘edited’ by the viral polymerase to include an extra ‘A’ nucleotide between 6918-6924 of the GenBank sequence.
- VSV-EBOV glycoprotein gene nucleotide sequence (2031 nt) (SEQ ID NO: 6) ATGGGCGTTACAGGAATATTGCAGTTACCTCGTGATCGATTCAAGAGGACA TCATTCTTTCTTTGGGTAATTATCCTTTTCCAAAGAACATTTTCCATCCCA CTTGGAGTCATCCACAATAGCACATTACAGGTTAGTGATGTCGACAAACTA GTTTGTCGTGACAAACTGTCATCCACAAATCAATTGAGATCAGTTGGACTG AATCTCGAAGGGAATGGAGTGGCAACTGACGTCCCATCTGCAACTAAAAGA TGGGGCTTCAGGTCCGGTGTCCCACCAAAGGTGGTCAATTATGAAGCTGGT GAATGGGCTGAAAACTGCTACAATCTTGAAATCAAAAAACCTGACGGGAGT GAGTCTACCAGCAGCCAGACGGGATTCGGGGCTTCCCCCGGTGCCGG TATGTGCACAAAGTATCAGGAACGGGACCGTGTGCCGGAGACTTTGCCTTC CATAAAGA
- the EBOV glycoprotein sequence expressed in VSV-1′GFP-EBOV is derived from the Mayinga strain of Zaire Ebola virus as described in the methods of Wong, et al. (2010) J. Virol 84: 163-175.
- the nucleotide sequence shown below was determined by direct sequencing of VSV-1′GFP-EBOV samples and is similar (but not identical) to the sequence for the full-length (non-secreted) glycoprotein gene found in GenBank accession AF086833 nt 6039-8068.
- the mucin domain (a.a. 309-489) has been deleted from the protein and two amino acids are different (N40S and I662V) relative to the GenBank sequence.
- VSV-1′GFP-EBOV glycoprotein gene nucleotide sequence (1494 nt) (SEQ ID NO: 8) ATGGGCGTTACAGGAATATTGCAGTTACCTCGTGATCGATTCAAGAGGACA TCATTCTTTCTTTGGGTAATTATCCTTTTCCAAAGAACATTTTCCATCCCA CTTGGAGTCATCCACAGTAGCACATTACAGGTTAGTGATGTCGACAAACTA GTTTGTCGTGACAAACTGTCATCCACAAATCAATTGAGATCAGTTGGACTG AATCTCGAAGGGAATGGAGTGGCAACTGACGTGCCATCTGCAACTAAAAGA TGGGGCTTCAGGTCCGGTGTCCCACCAAAGGTGGTCAATTATGAAGCTGGT GAATGGGCTGAAAACTGCTACAATCTTGAAATCAAAAAACCTGACGGGAGT GAGTCTACCAGCAGCCAGACGGGATTCGGGGCTTCCCCCGGTGCCGG TATGTGCACAAAGTATCAGGAACGGGACCGTGTGCCGGAGACTTTGC
- the viral genome is a VSV background where the sequence encoding the VSV G protein is substituted for a sequence encoding the glycoprotein from Lassa virus, and a sequence encoding GFP is inserted into the first position of the viral genome.
- the LASV glycoprotein sequence expressed in VSV-LASV is derived from the Josiah strain of Lassa virus as described in the methods of Garbutt, et al. (2004) 1 Virol 78: 5458-5465.
- the LASV glycoprotein sequence expressed in VSV-1′GFP-LASV is derived from the Josiah strain of Lassa virus as described in the methods of Jae, et al. (2013) Science 340: 479-483.
- Viral infection was detected by the GFP reporter, using fluorescent and phase contrast imaging under a microscope. All viruses were used at an MOI of 0.1; thus Lassa-VSV replicated in gliomas in order to infect all cells tested.
- viruses were propagated on Vero cells, purified, and concentrated using sucrose gradient centrifugation (Cureton, et al., PLoS Pathog, 6, e1001127 (2010).
- viruses were propagated on Vero cells and filter-purified according to a protocol described previously (Lawson, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 92:4477-4481 (1995). All viruses were plaque-titered on Vero cells prior to experiments.
- Human glioma U87 and U118 were obtained from ATCC (Manassas, Va.), mouse glioma CT2A was a gift from Dr T Seyfried (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.), human melanoma YUMAC and normal human melanocytes were provided by Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer.
- Normal human glial cells were derived from human temporal lobectomies (Ozduman, et al., J. Neurosci, 28:1882-1893 (2008)).
- Normal human dermal fibroblasts were purchased from Cambrex (Walkersville, Md.). Normal human embryonic neurons were purchased from Sciencell (Carlsbad, Calif.).
- the human cancer cell lines SJSA-1, BT-549, T-47D, HCT116, SW480, T24, and RT4, and DU-145 lines were kindly provided.
- Stably transfected tumor cells expressing red fluorescent protein RFP (rU87 and rYUMAC) were generated as described earlier (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 87:6644-6659 (2013)).
- mice Primary cultures of mouse brain were generated by dissociating cortex of E17 mice for predominantly neuronal cultures and whole brain tissue of P1 mice for mixed neuronal/glia cultures.
- Cells were plated in MEM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) supplemented with 10% FBS overnight before medium was replaced with Neurobasal/B27 medium (Invitrogen).
- Melanoma cells were maintained in Opti-MEM/5% FBS, melanocyte medium containing additional supplements listed elsewhere (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 87:6644-6659 (2013)).
- Glioma cells, human glia and fibroblasts were maintained in MEM/10% FBS (Invitrogen). All cultures were kept in humidified atmosphere containing 5% CO 2 at 37° C.
- Viral infection of mixed neuronal/glial cultures, and U87, U118, CT2A, and YUMAC tumor cultures was monitored by quantifying GFP expression of infected cells compared to total number of cells on at least 10 microscopic fields using fluorescence microscopy. Cultures were assessed for presence of cytopathic effects before and after virus application. Cytopathic effects were noted as the appearance of rounding, blebbing and syncitia formation. For analysis of infection characteristic of chimeric VSVs on mixed neuronal cultures, morphology of infected cells was used as a guide for identifying neuronal or glia infection by the virus. Identification of cell type was later corroborated by immunohistochemistry for NeuN and GFAP.
- Plaque assay was used to assess viral replication. In short, cells were infected at an MOI of 0.1, residual virus was removed by replacing supernatant, and progeny virus was collected from the supernatant at the indicated time points. Serial dilutions were plated on monolayers of Vero or BHK cells, respectively. 2.5% Agar solution in MEM was used as semi-solid overlay. For IFN pretreatment, cultures were incubated for 8 hours with recombinant hybrid interferon type 1 IFN ⁇ A/D (Sigma-Aldrich; catalog no. I4401) at a concentration of 100 IU/ml.
- VSV-LASV-G To test generalization of the oncolytic effect of VSV-LASV-G to other human cancer types, 8 human tumor cell types were infected at an MOI 3 (primary inoculation). 2 hours later inoculum was removed and cultures were washed 3 times with PBS before addition of fresh medium. 24 hours later infection rates were determined by GFP expression. To assess the capability of VSV-LASV-G to propagate in these tumor cultures the 24 hpi supernatant was filtered to remove cellular debris and transferred onto an uninfected monolayer of the same tumor designation (secondary inoculation).
- VSVs 6 recombinant VSVs were compared, each expressing a different binding glycoprotein ( FIGS. 1A-1C ).
- Five chimeric VSVs were tested in which the VSV glycoprotein was replaced (Beier, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108:15414-15419 (2011); Jae, et al., Science, 340:479-483 (2013); Krishnan, et al., Viruses, 4:2471-2484 (2012)) by the G genes from other viruses, including Lassa fever, rabies, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, Ebola, or Marburg virus.
- chimeric viruses were compared with control VSVs that retained the normal VSV glycoprotein.
- Chimeric viruses which like VSV-wtG, also encoded GFP in the first genomic position, were tested first in human and mouse glioblastoma (GBM). All six viruses infected GBM cells in vitro FIG. 1A ), with a greater level of infection of human GBM (U87 and U118) than mouse GBM (CT2A) 24hpi ( FIG. 1A ).
- Lassa-VSV showed the most robust infection of the 3 gliomas tested (U87, U118, CT2A) at 24 hrs, and earlier, while other viruses also infected some of the gliomas, but not all of them.
- VSV-wtG showed the greatest level of neuronal infection (around 90%).
- VSV-LASV-G and VSV-LCMV-G showed the least neuronal infection.
- plaque size was examined as a measure of infectivity and replication, VSV-LASV plaques were bigger than VSV-LCMV and VSV-EBOV on human gliomas U87 and U118 ( FIG. 1C ), indicating enhanced infection and replication.
- VSV generated the largest plaques on tumor cells, but also showed large plaques on normal brain cells, an unwanted phenotype.
- VSV-LASV and VSV-EBOV generated smaller plaques on human brain than VSV-wtG and VSV-LCMV ( FIG. 1C ), and showed much weaker infection of pure human neuronal cultures than VSV-wtG ( FIG. 3A ).
- Lassa-VSV which was the superior oncolytic candidate from an analysis of glycoproteins from 5 unrelated viruses that were incorporated into the VSV genome, was also compared with other VSVs that expressed the normal VSV glycoprotein.
- oncolytic viruses including 17 variants of VSV, (Wollmann, et al., J Virol., 79: 6005-6022 (2005); Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 81:1479-1491 (2007); Wollmann, et al., J 84:1563-73 (2010); Wollmann, et al., Cancer J., 18:69-81 (2012); Paglino, et al., J.
- Lassa-VSV was identified as a superior candidate in terms of a strong safety profile, as well as an effective potential to selectively target and kill GBMs and to precipitate an immune attack on the glioma.
- VSV-LASV was selected as a second candidate to include for in vivo testing being another virus with broad glioma tropism and evidence of reduced neurotropsim compared to VSVwtG in both mouse and human brain, although not as reduced as VSV-LASV.
- VSV-Lassa showed the least infection of neurons, coupled with a strong infection of human glioma.
- a control rabies-VSV chimeric virus showed strong infection of neurons and would be a relatively very poor candidate for glioma treatment.
- VSV-M51 Recombinant VSVs with minor changes to the genome, for instance VSV-M51, can potentially revert to the more aggressive wild type virus by gene mutation. In contrast, since the entire binding of VSV to cells has been switched to Lassa glycoprotein, and the VSV glycoprotein gene is deleted, this virus cannot revert to the wild type VSV, a substantial benefit.
- a primary mechanism of targeting is the absence or attenuation of the intrinsic anti-viral response in the majority of cancer cells, including gliomas, compared to normal cells that have an intrinsic interferon mediated antiviral response to VSV and other viruses (Stojdl, et al., Nat. Med., 6:821-825 (2000); Stojdl, et al., Cancer Cell., 4:263-275 (2003); Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 81:1479-1491 (2007)).
- mice received the following virus doses: I.C.: 3.6 ⁇ 10 4 pfu in 1 ml into the right striatum (2 mm lateral, 0.5 mm rostral to Bregma at 3 mm depth), I.V.: 10 6 pfu in 100 ⁇ l via tail vein injection, I.N.: 2.5 ⁇ 10 5 pfu in 25 ⁇ l in each nostril.
- Stereotactic application of virus or tumor cells was performed under full anesthesia using ketamine/xylazine (100 and 10 mg/kg, respectively) applied via i.p. route.
- mice Uni- and bilateral intracranial glioma and melanoma xenografts were established in 4-6 week old male CB17 SCID mice by injection of 5 ⁇ 10 4 cells each into the left and right striatum (Ozduman, et al., J. Neurosci, 28:1882-1893 (2008); Wollmann, et al., J. Virol, 87:6644-6659 (2013)). 15 days post tumor placement mice received virus either via a unilateral intratumoral injection (3.6 ⁇ 10 4 pfu in 1 ⁇ l) or via tail vein injection (10 6 pfu in 100 ⁇ l). Mice were monitored daily and sacrificed if one of the following conditions were observed: A) weight loss of 25% or more, B) immobility, C) occurrence of adverse neurological symptoms, or D) reaching the end of the observation period of the survival study.
- mice were sacrificed at 2 or 8 days post viral inoculation. After overdose with anesthetic, mice were transcardially perfused with 4% paraformaldehyde. Brains were harvested and stored in 4% paraformaldehyde, dehydrated in 30% sucrose solution and cut in 20 to 30 ⁇ m coronal sections with a cryostat.
- tissue samples were collected under sterile conditions from brain, lung, blood, and liver after euthanasia. Tissues were mechanically homogenized in PBS using a microcentrifuge tube tissue grinder.
- Brain sections from transgenic mice expressing GFP in hypocretin neurons were used to target GFP.
- Brain sections of IFN ⁇ / ⁇ -R knock-out mice infected with VSV-LASV-G were used to target VSV-LASV-G expression.
- rU87 and rYUMAC cells were tested for pathogens before tumor grafting and found to be pathogen free. All animal experiments adhered to institutional guidelines and were approved by the Yale University Animal Care and Use Committee.
- a Hamilton syringe controlled by a Stoelting stereotactic injector (Stoelting, Wood Dale, Ill.) was used to inject 1 ⁇ l of virus solution into the striatum (2 mm lateral, 0.4 mm rostral to bregma, at 3 mm depth).
- VSV-LASV and VSV-EBOV were compared to two VSVs that expressed the VSV glycoprotein in vivo; one of the VSVs was further attenuated by including an M51 mutation which enhances the antiviral innate immune response against the virus (Waibler et al, 2007).
- VSV-wtG normal wild-type G
- VSV-LASV-G or VSV-EBOV-G 3.6 ⁇ 10 4 pfu in 1 ⁇ l
- the injections of VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G were viable, as euthanasia at 2 dpi revealed limited infection of glia within the brain. However, by 8 dpi, few or no infected cells could be found.
- the 100% survival of mice injected with VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G correlated with a very low infectivity of these viruses in pure neuronal cultures, particularly when compared to VSV with the normal VSV G protein ( FIG. 2A-2B ).
- VSV vascular endothelial growth factor
- Ebola Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78:5458-5465 (2004), HIV, and other pathogenic viruses
- VSV has been the concern about adverse effects of the virus in the brain (Ozduman, et al., J. Virol., 83:11540-11549 (2009); Huneycutt, et al., Brain Res., 635:81-95 (1994)).
- a number of previous studies have described the potential for VSV to selectively target and destroy many different types of tumors.
- VSV as an oncolytic virus
- a substantial problem with the use of VSV as an oncolytic virus, both outside and within the brain has been the possibility of adverse effects within the brain potentially leading to motor dysfunction (Huneycutt, et al., Brain Res., 635:81-95 (1994), behavioral disturbances (Lundh, et al., J Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol., 47:497-506 (1988) or death (Huneycutt, et al., Brain Res., 635:81-95 (1994); van den Pol, et al., J. Virol., 76:1309-1327 (2002).
- the data show that eliminating the native glycoprotein from the VSV genome and substituting binding glycoproteins from other viruses greatly reduces infection and cytolysis of neurons.
- VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G were able to cross the blood brain barrier and selectively infect brain tumors with little or no infection of normal neurons or glia, and no adverse effects.
- VSV-LASV-G completely eliminated brain tumors and prolonged the lives of tumor-bearing mice indefinitely.
- VSV containing the Ebola glycoprotein also crossed the blood brain barrier and targeted the brain tumor, but showed only partial infection of the glioma.
- VSV neurotoxicity can be reduced by generating peripheral immunity in advance of intracerebral inoculation (Ozduman, et al., J. Virol., 83:11540-11549 (2009) or by administering exogenous type 1 interferon, or via intra cerebral viral vectors that generate interferon (Wollmann, et al., Virology, in press . (2014).
- Attenuated VSVs have been constructed by a number of molecular alterations, including reduction of cytoplasmic amino acids in the G protein, mutations in the M gene particularly at M51, adding genes upstream of viral genes (Roberts, et al., J.
- VSV-IFN interferon
- One human has been injected with Ebola-VSV as a vaccine after a lab accident, with no adverse consequence (Günther, et al., J. Infect. Dis., 204 Suppl 3:S785-S790 (2011)).
- the results disclosed herein show that both VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G are safe in the rodent brain.
- VSV-LASV-G and VSV-wtG provide some attenuation to both viruses by reducing expression of other VSV genes; in spite of this, VSV with the wild type glycoprotein was still lethal within the brain even when carrying the attenuating GFP gene, whereas VSV-LASV-G and -EBOV-G were safe in the brain indicating that safety in the brain is due to the absence of the neurotoxic VSV glycoprotein.
- This view is supported by the data showing safety of VSV-LASV in chimeric viruses not containing the GFP gene.
- the lack of VSV-LASV-G infection of neurons in the rodent brain parallels the in vitro studies with human neurons showing a lack of infection, and indicating that the virus may also be safe in the human brain.
- Lassa-VSV was nonetheless capable of selectively infecting and killing GBM cells in vitro and in the mouse brain after intravenous or intracerebral virus administration, and substantially prolonged cancer survival far beyond that of control tumor-bearing mice that received no virus. In fact, at the time when all tumor bearing control mice had died from the expanding brain tumor, none of the mice in which tumors were treated with VSV-Lassa showed any obvious symptoms from the tumor, or from the virus.
- Lassa-VSV shows no detectable adverse effects when injected directly into the brain.
- VSV-LASV-G or VSV-wtG was added at an MOI of 1 and cultures were incubated for 20 minutes at 4° C. to test virus binding or for 30 minutes at 37° C. to test virus binding+internalization, respectively, as described elsewhere (Ozduman et al, 2008). Experiments were performed in duplicate. Cells were washed five times with PBS prior to RNA isolation using TRIzol Reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.). Stratascript reverse transcriptase kit (Stratagene) was used for cDNA generation.
- TaqMan gene expression assays (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.) were used to quantify the expression of ⁇ -actin and VSV genomes using an ICycler iQ Real time PCR system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, Calif.).
- VSV genome detection (excluding viral mRNA) primers were designed to yield a product that spanned the junction between N and P genes.
- PCR samples were measured in triplicates, normalized to 3-actin expression and compared to expression of VSVLASV-G binding to neurons as reference ( ⁇ Ct method).
- VSV-wtG FIG. 3D
- VSV-LASV-G FIG. 3E
- FIG. 3D shows substantial virus replication.
- replication of VSV-LASV-G was greatly attenuated in neurons, by 4.5 logs relative to VSV-wtG which showed robust replication in neuron cultures.
- FIG. 3D-3E shows that although both VSV-wtG and VSV-LASV-G bind to glioma cells and neurons, VSV-LASV-G replicates poorly in neurons.
- a block to replication appears most likely to occur at the point of endosomal escape and uncoating, which is G-protein mediated, or possibly a subsequent step.
- Type 1 IFN is important to the selectivity and safety of VSV-LASV; mice lacking IFN receptor succumbed to virus inoculation. Previous reports indicate that whereas type 2 and 3 IFN may also contribute to immunity in the brain (van den Pol, et al., J. Virol., 88:3695-3704 (2014), type 1 IFN is necessary for survival. The impairment of innate immunity characteristic of ontogenically transformed cells allows VSV-LASV to replicate rapidly, with cytolytic consequences for tumor cells. Addition of IFN to glioma had little to no effect on the infectivity of VSV-LASV, but provided additional protection to normal neurons and glia.
- VSV-LASV The extraordinar tumor-selectivity of VSV-LASV is thus a consequence of both reduced neurotropsism (via substitution of the Lassa G for the VSV G-protein) and virus susceptibility to IFN in normal cells; thus the virus is able to very selectively infect and destroy tumors whether entering from the blood stream into the brain, or crossing from an infected tumor to infect a distant locus of tumor cell growth in the contralateral brain, all without infecting the intervening healthy brain tissue.
- the fact that the innate immune system appears able to contain VSV-LASV-G indicates that the virus may prove safe to treat the increased incidence of cancers found in patients with compromised adaptive immune systems, for instance with AIDS.
- Example 4 The Chimeric Virus Lassa-VSV Selectively Infects and Kills Glioma
- Red fluorescence marker RFP expressing tumor cells (U87 human glioblastoma cells and YUMAC human melanoma cells, respectively) were implanted into mice: two tumors per mouse—one in the left striatum, and a second in the right striatum.
- Lassa-VSV expressing a green reporter gene GFP was then injected into the right tumor only.
- mice Eight days later, mice were euthanized and perfused transcardially with 4% paraformaldehyde. Brains were harvested and analyzed for tumor expansion and virus infection using red and green fluorescence on a stereomicroscope for whole brain analysis and on an Olympus microscope for analysis of brain sections.
- VSV-LASV-G Using a syngeneic rodent tumor model, the ability of VSV-LASV-G to infect rat glioma in immunocompetent rats was tested.
- VSV-LASV-G showed selective strong cytolytic infection of CNS-1 glioma tumors 3 days after intracerebral inoculation, with little detectable infection of normal brain, demonstrating the VSV-LASV-G selectively infects glioma not only in mice, but also in immunocompetent rats.
- gliomas A major problem with gliomas is tumor cell migration within the brain. Thus skilled neurosurgeons can debulk the tumor, but cannot eliminate migrating cells or tumors that arise from migrating cells. To model this, human glioma were implanted in the left and right side of the SCID mouse brain with (in striatum). Fifteen days later VSV-LASV-G was stereotactically injected unilaterally, only into the tumor on the right side.
- VSV-LASV-G had completely destroyed the inoculated tumor on the right side of the brain, and the virus had migrated to the contralateral left tumor and begun the process of infection and destruction without infecting the intervening normal brain. Accordingly, in addition to completely destroying the right tumor, Lassa-VSV migrated within the brain, and had begun to infect and kill the left tumor without detectable infection of normal brain cells surrounding the tumors. Remarkably, VSV-LASV-G selectively destroyed the brain tumor with no adverse effects to the SCID mouse brain.
- VSV-M51, VSV1′2′-GFP, and others are potential limitations of VSVs with point and some other types of mutations. That is unlikely in Lassa-VSV, as there is no mechanism whereby the Lassa-glycoprotein can mutate into the VSV glycoprotein, or where the VSV G-protein can be reconstituted, and also no way in which the non-glycoprotein genes of Lassa could appear in the recombinant virus.
- Example 5 The Chimeric Virus Lassa-VSV Infects and Kills Melanoma
- VSV-LASV-G is selective for gliomas, or is able to target other types of metastatic brain cancer.
- Melanomas are the deadliest form of skin cancer, and one of the chief problems is metastasis into the brain (Carlino, et al., Cancer J, 18:208-212 (2012).
- Red fluorescent human melanoma was injected into the left and right side of the brain, similar to the glioma experiments described above.
- VSV-LASV-G was subsequently injected unilaterally into the right side melanoma.
- VSV-LASV-G not only caused complete destruction of the injected tumor mass, it also diffused across the brain midline, and showed strong infection of the non-injected contralateral melanoma, with no neuron infection in the intervening (SCID) brain.
- VSV-LASV-G infected two unrelated brain tumor types, glioma and melanoma, it was also tested on other types of human cancer cells. VSV-LASV-G infected and replicated in colon, prostate, breast, bone, and bladder cancer cells, indicating its oncolytic potential was not restricted to glioma and melanoma brain tumors.
- VSV-LASV-G is effective not only against glioma (which arise within the brain) but also against melanoma, a cancer that arises in the skin but metastasizes into the brain resulting in death within a few months of entering the brain.
- glioma which arise within the brain
- melanoma a cancer that arises in the skin but metastasizes into the brain resulting in death within a few months of entering the brain.
- the broad infectivity and cytolysis of multiple types of cancer cells indicate that VSV-LASV-G may also be effective in targeting other types of brain tumors not tested here, including meningioma, astrocytoma, ependymoma, and oligodendroglioma.
- the elimination of neurotropism by substitution of the Lassa glycoprotein for the VSV glycoprotein would provide an increased level of brain safety even if the virus were used to attack peripheral cancers.
- VSV-LASV had the best combination of reduced neurotropism and broad infectivity across different gliomas.
- VSV-EBOV also demonstrated broad glioma infectivity in vitro; although VSV-EBOV targeted tumors in the brain after intravenous application, the virus was not very effective in destroying the tumor.
- VSV-LCMV had a reduced neurotropism similar to VSV-LASV, but did not show as great or broad a potential for infectivity of gliomas, and formed smaller plaques than VSV-LASV in the human gliomas tested.
- VSV-LASV-G would evoke a humoral immune response
- mice were inoculated intranasal and intramuscularly with this virus.
- VSV-LASV-G generated high titer antisera to VSV-LASV-G infected cells and also to the GFP transgene.
- Antisera with dilutions out to 1:10,000 generated positive immunostaining on GFP-expressing transgenic mice, indicating the potential for a secondary systemic immune response against VSV-LASV-G infected gliomas as reported for wildtype VSVs (Publicover, et al., J. Virol., 78:9317-9324 (2004).
- VSV-LCMV/G was shown to be only weakly immunogenic with regard to generation of neutralizing antibodies against the virus (Muik, et al., Cancer Res., 74:3567-3578 (2014).
- VSV-LASV-G appeared to completely eliminate human brain tumors in these experiments; VSVs also generated a strong immune response against tumors which could serve to augment tumor eradication in the event of incomplete direct tumor destruction (Wongthida, et al., Hum. Gene Ther., 22:1343-1353 (2011).
- Chimeric VSVs that generate a strong immune response may also be beneficial in terms of evoking a strong secondary immune response against tumor related antigens.
- VSV is a very promising vaccine platform, and even single inoculations generate strong cellular and humoral immunity (Publicover, et al, J. Virol., 79:13231-13238 (2005); Buonocore, et al., J. Virol., 76:6865-6872 (2002); Schell, et al., J. Virol., 85:5764-5772 (2011)), but would advance further with the risk of neurotoxicity effectively eliminated, for example by substitution of the Lassa glycoprotein for the VSV glycoprotein.
- VSV-LASV-G may prove beneficial as a vaccine vector, given its potent immunogenicity.
- Immunogenic viral vectors could be generated against other pathogenic organisms by substituting a gene coding for a protein from the pathogenic microbe in place of the GFP gene within VSV-LASV-G; use of the Lassa glycoprotein in place of the VSV glycoprotein could provide a safer vector for immunization than wildtype VSV.
- Example 7 The Chimeric Virus Lassa-VSV Protects from Glioma
- mice received human glioma implants of similar size. 15 days later, one group received Lassa-VSV intravenously (tail vein), the second group received Ebola-VSV intravenously, and the third group served as a tumor-only control. Mice were monitored for changes in body weight. Mice showing body weight ⁇ 75% of pre-tumor body weight were euthanized, as per animal use regulations.
- a mouse weight graph ( FIG. 5 ) showed that mice receiving Lassa-VSV showed no strong reduction in body weight, whereas control mice with tumors show body weight reduction from the expanding tumors. Mice with tumors inoculated with Ebola-VSV (VSV-Eb-G) showed a reduced body weight from the expanding tumor. Lassa-VSV is safe in the brain, as mice maintained a normal body weight.
- Lassa-VSV When injected into a brain tumor, Lassa-VSV kills tumor cells, and prolongs life with no detectable neurological consequences. When injected intravenously, the virus crosses the blood brain barrier and selectively infects gliomas.
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- This invention was made with government support under Grants 1R01CA161048 and RO1 CA175577 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The government has certain rights in the invention.
- The invention is generally directed to recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and methods of use thereof to treat cancer, particularly glioblastoma.
- Patients diagnosed with glioblastoma (GBM) generally have about a year to live. There is no cure for this malignant type of brain cancer. The disease generally manifests with subtle changes in brain function, and becomes worse with seizures, loss of sensation or equilibrium, and progresses to loss of motor function and mental ability, to finally, death. Surgery, focused radiation, and medical treatment may slow the disease down and delay death by several months, but unfortunately, this often comes at the expense of normal function as neurons, glia, and axonal pathways are damaged by the treatment) Wrensch, et al., Neuro-oncol., 4:278-299 (2002)).
- Surgery is often done primarily to debulk the tumor, thereby temporarily restoring function to surrounding brain regions that were compressed by tumor expansion. A successful tumor resection may remove billions of tumor cells. But inevitably, due to its infiltrative nature, tens of millions of tumor cells remain within the brain after surgery (Croteau, et al., Cancer Research, 67(6), 2840-2848 (2007)). A critical feature of GBMs is that tumor cells are invasive, migrating away from the main tumor body, and continuing to divide elsewhere in the brain. This is one reason why approaches to treatment that focus on a tumor mass are ultimately not successful at eliminating the disease.
- A considerable number of viruses have been tested for potential oncolytic activity against glioblastoma (Parker, et al., Neurotherapeutics, 6:558-569 (2009)). These include human pathogenic viruses that were genetically attenuated to render them safe enough for human application, for example HSV (Todo T, Front Biosci., 13:2060-2064 (2008)) and adenovirus (Nandi, et al., Expert Opin. Biol. Ther., 9:737-747 (2009); Chiocca, et al., Mol. Ther., 16:618-626 (2008)), and viruses based on vaccination strains, including polio (Dobrikova, et al., Mol. Ther., 16:1865-1872 (2008)), measles (Phuong, et al., Cancer Res, 63:2462-2469 (2003)), and vaccinia (Lun, et al., Mol. Ther., 18:1927-1936 (2010)), or adeno-associated viral vectors expressing various genes (Maguire, et al., Mol. Ther., 16:1695-1702 (2008)). However, HSV and retroviruses can either enter a latent mode and re-emerge later, or can integrate into host chromosomes, enhancing an oncogenic potential. Furthermore, many of these viruses share the potential problem that most humans have been exposed to these viruses before and their efficacy after systemic application may be challenged by pre-existing immunity.
- A promising alternative is the use of viruses that are non-human pathogens but that display a tropism for tumors, as is the case with myxoma (Lun, et al., Cancer Res, 65:9982-9990 (2005)), Newcastle disease virus (Freeman, et al., Mol. Ther., 13:221-228 (2006), or VSV (Stojdl, et al., Cancer Cell., 4:263-275 (2003)). VSV infections do not integrate (and in fact do not even enter the nucleus), and in animals, including humans, are eliminated from the body within 1-2 weeks by the systemic immune system. In regions of Central America where VSV is endemic, local human populations are seropositive for VSV, with no obvious link to substantive disease (Tesh, et al, 1969). VSV is rare in the US, indicating a very low level of pre-existing immunity. VSV has been approved for human clinical trials where VSV is used as a vaccine vector to immunize people against dangerous viral or bacterial pathogens (Roberts et al, 1999; Rose et al, 2000; Schwartz et al, 2010).
- Another type of attenuated VSV, VSV-M51, shows a reduced ability to block nuclear pores, thereby allowing normal cells to up-regulate antiviral defenses, and has been described as showing an enhanced safety profile (Stojdl, et al., Nat. Med., 6:821-825 (2000); Stojdl, et al., Cancer Cell, 4:263-275 (2003)). However, this attenuated virus can still generate lethal outcomes after CNS injection.
- Some oncolytic viruses have been tested in early phase 1 clinical trials, but although the viruses were found to be safe, little therapeutic effect was seen, and then only in a subset of patients (Zemp, et al., Cytokine Growth Factor Rev., 21:103-117 (2010)), underlining the importance of continuing efforts to find more effective oncolytic viruses and delivery strategies (Liu, et al., Mol. Ther., 16:1006-1008 (2008)). Accordingly, despite the advances in the development and use of oncolytic viruses for treatment of cancer, there remains a need for improved virus and methods of use therefore for safely and effective treating cancers such as glioblastoma.
- Therefore, it is an object of the invention to provide recombinant oncolytic viruses with improved safety and efficacy profiles.
- It is a further object of the invention to provide pharmaceutical compositions including an effective amount of recombinant oncolytic viruses to treat cancer in a human subject.
- It is another object of the invention to provide methods of using recombinant oncolytic virus to kill cancer cells.
- It is a further object of the invention to increase the body's immune response against cancer cells.
- It is a further object to generate a safer virus-based vaccine against other non-related microbial antigens.
- Methods of treating cancer including administering to a subject with cancer a pharmaceutical composition including an effective amount of a chimeric VSV virus are disclosed. The chimeric viruses are based on a VSV background where the VSV G protein is replaced with one or more heterologous viral glycoproteins. In the most preferred embodiment, the VSV G protein is replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa virus or a functional fragment thereof. The Examples below show that replacement of the VSV G protein with a heterologous glycoprotein, particularly the glycoprotein from Lassa virus, results in an oncolytic virus that is highly attenuated and safe in the brain, yet still retains sufficient oncolytic activity to infect and destroy cancer cells such as glioblastoma and intracranial melanoma metastases. The chimeric virus can be further modified to express one or more therapeutic proteins, reporters, vaccine antigens, or targeting moieties. Exemplary therapeutic proteins and reporters include, but are not limited to, IL-28, IL-2, FLT3L, GM-CSF, IL-4, IL-7, IL-12, TRAIL, carcinoembryonic antigen, secreted alkaline phosphatase, the beta subunit of chorionic gonadotropin, and green fluorescent protein.
- Methods can include administering to a subject an effective amount of the virus to reduce one or more symptoms of cancer, for example tumor burden. The cancer can be multiple myeloma, bone, bladder, brain, breast, cervical, colo-rectal, esophageal, kidney, liver, lung, nasopharangeal, pancreatic, prostate, skin, stomach, and uterine. In a preferred embodiment, the methods are used to treat brain cancer and brain metastases. Brain cancers include, but are not limited to, oligodendroglioma, meningioma, supratentorial ependymona, pineal region tumors, medulloblastoma, cerebellar astrocytoma, infratentorial ependymona, brainstem glioma, schwannomas, pituitary tumors, craniopharyngioma, optic glioma, and astrocytoma. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the cancer is glioblastoma.
- The virus is typically administered in a dosage of between about 102 and about 1012 PFU, more preferably between about 102 and about 1012 PFU. The pharmaceutical composition can be administered locally to the site of the cancer. For example, the composition can be injected into or adjacent to a tumor in the subject, or via catheter into a tumor resection cavity, for example, by convection-enhanced delivery (CED). The pharmaceutical composition can be administered systemically to the subject, for example by intravenous, intra-arterial, or intrathecal injection or infusion.
- The virus can be administered in combination with one or more additional therapeutic agents. The one or more additional therapeutic agents can be, for example, an anticancer agent such as a chemotherapeutic agent, a therapeutic protein such as IL-2, or an immunosuppressant. The immunosuppressant can be a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor or an interferon blocker, for example, valproate, the vacccinia protein B18R, Jak inhibitor 1, or vorinostat, which can be used to reduce or delay the subject's immune response to the virus.
- The pharmaceutical composition can be administered in combination with surgery. In some embodiments, the subject is pre-treated with an immunizing composition including a virus effective to immunize the subject to the chimeric VSV virus prior to administration of the pharmaceutical composition. The virus in the immunizing composition can be the chimeric VSV virus. Immunizing the subject against the virus can increase the ability of the subject's immune system to clear the virus following therapeutic treatment if needed.
- Other methods of treating cancer are also disclosed. For example, a method of treating a subject for cancer can include (a) infecting isolated cancer cells with an effective amount of a chimeric VSV virus and (b) administrating the infected cells to the subject in an effective amount to induce an immune response against the cancer cells in the subject. In some embodiments, the method includes irradiating the cells to prevent their proliferation in the subject. The method can be used to therapeutically or prophylactically treat cancer in the subject.
- Methods of priming the immune system for attacking cancer cells and adaptive T cell therapy are also disclosed. The priming can occur in vitro or in vivo. A particular embodiment of preparing cells for adaptive T cell therapy includes administering to a subject with cancer a pharmaceutical composition including an effective amount of a chimeric VSV virus to increase the number of cytotoxic T cells (CTL) which can directly kill the cancer, or to increase the number of CD4+ T and/or CD8+ T cells which can direct an immune response against the cancer. The T cells can be isolated from the subject and propagated in vitro. The T cells can be administered back to the same subject, or another subject in need thereof.
- Pharmaceutical dosage units and kits including an effective amount of the disclosed chimeric viruses are also provided.
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FIG. 1A is a histogram showing percent infected cells (% GFP) for each of three gliomas tested (U87, U118 and CT2A, are represented by different shading) 24 hours after infection with 0.1 multiplicity of infection (MOT) of a VSV ((control) also referred to herein as VSV-wtG), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa (as referred to herein as Lassa-VSV, VSV-LASV-G, and LASV), rabies (also referred to herein as VSV-RABV-G and RABV), LCMV (also referred to herein as VSV-LCMV-G), Ebola (also referred to herein as EBOV, VSV-EBOV-G, and Ebola-VSV), or Marburg (also referred to herein as MARV and VSV-MARV-G).FIG. 1B is a histogram showing the viral replication (Titer, pfu/ml) VSV-wtG (control), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa, rabies, LCMV, Ebola, or Marburg.FIG. 1C is an illustration of the relative mean diameter and the small vertical line surmounting each the SEM, of 60 randomly selected fluorescent plaques measured and normalized to VSV-wtG plaque size on monolayers of U87, U118 and normal human brain cells, 24 hpi with VSV-wtG (control), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa, LCMV, or Ebola.FIG. 1D is a histogram showing the fraction of infected cells of mouse brain cultures (% gila (top portion of the bar) versus % neurons (bottom portion of the bar)) for cells infected with VSV-wtG (control), or a chimeric VSV virus wherein the G protein was replaced with the glycoprotein from Lassa, rabies, LCMV, Ebola, or Marburg (MOI 5). -
FIG. 2A is a Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the % survival of mice infected with chimeric Lassa-VSV, chimeric Ebola-VSV, attenuated VSV-MΔ51, or attenuated VSV-1′GFP over time (in days post-inoculation) following intracranial inoculation with virus.FIG. 2B is a Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the % survival of mice infected with chimeric Lassa-VSV or VSV-IFN over time (in days post-inoculation) following intracranial inoculation with virus. -
FIG. 3A is a histogram showing infection of human neuronal cultures with VSV-wtG or chimeric Lassa-VSV (GFP expression %) with or without treatment with 100 IU/ml of interferon (IFN).FIG. 3B is a Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the % survival of normal mice infected with chimeric Lassa-VSV, and IFNα/β-R knockout (−/−) mice infected with VSV-wtG or Lassa-VSV (in days post-inoculation) following intracranial inoculation with virus.FIG. 3C is a histogram showing virus binding and internalization (relative expression by qRT-PCR) of VSV-wtG and Lassa-VSV in neurons and giloma cells at 4° C. and 37° C.FIG. 3D is a dot plot showing the quantification of VSV-wtG viral replication in neurons (▴) and U87 glioma (♦) cells assessed by plaque assay at 15 and 24 hpi. -
FIG. 3E is a dot plot showing the quantification of VSV-LASV-G viral replication in neurons (▴) and U87 glioma (♦) cells assessed by plaque assay at 15 and 24 hpi. -
FIG. 4 is a Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the % survival of mice infected with Lassa-VSV (solid line), and Ebola-VSV (dotted line) and uninfected control (solid line), respectively, over time (in days) following intracranial glioma xenograph and subsequent inoculation with virus. The times of i.c.U87 xenograft, and i.v. virus inoculation are indicated. The increased longevity of tumor bearing mice receiving Lassa-VSV is statistically significant (p<0.01; n=8 in each group). -
FIG. 5 is a line graph showing the % body weight of mice following intracranial glioma xenograph and subsequent systemic infection with Lassa-VSV, Ebola-VSV and uninfected control, respectively, over time (in days post-inoculation). - As used herein, the term “isolated” describes a compound of interest (e.g., either a polynucleotide or a polypeptide) that is in an environment different from that in which the compound naturally occurs e.g., separated from its natural milieu such as by concentrating a peptide to a concentration at which it is not found in nature. “Isolated” includes compounds that are within samples that are substantially enriched for the compound of interest and/or in which the compound of interest is partially or substantially purified. With respect to nucleic acids, the term “isolated” includes any non-naturally-occurring nucleic acid sequence, since such non-naturally-occurring sequences are not found in nature and do not have immediately contiguous sequences in a naturally-occurring genome.
- As used herein, the term “nucleic acid(s)” refers to any nucleic acid containing molecule, including, but not limited to, DNA or RNA. The term encompasses sequences that include any of the known base analogs of DNA and RNA including, but not limited to, 4-acetylcytosine, 8-hydroxy-N6-methyladenosine, aziridinylcytosine, pseudoisocytosine, 5-(carboxyhydroxylmethyl) uracil, 5-fluorouracil, 5-bromouracil, 5-carboxymethylaminomethyl-2-thiouracil, 5-carboxymethylaminomethyluracil, dihydrouracil, inosine, N6-isopentenyladenine, 1-methyladenine, 1-methylpseudouracil, 1-methylguanine, 1-methylinosine, 2,2-dimethylguanine, 2-methyladenine, 2-methylguanine, 3-methylcytosine, 5-methylcytosine, N6-methyladenine, 7-methylguanine, 5-methylaminomethyluracil, 5-methoxy-aminomethyl-2-thiouracil, beta-D-mannosylqueosine, 5′-methoxycarbonylmethyluracil, 5-methoxyuracil, 2-methylthio-N6-isopentenyladenine, uracil-5-oxyacetic acid methylester, uracil-5-oxyacetic acid, oxybutoxosine, pseudouracil, queosine, 2-thiocytosine, 5-methyl-2-thiouracil, 2-thiouracil, 4-thiouracil, 5-methyluracil, N-uracil-5-oxyacetic acid methylester, uracil-5-oxyacetic acid, pseudouracil, queosine, 2-thiocytosine, and 2,6-diaminopurine. In accordance with standard nomenclature, nucleic acid sequences are denominated by either a three letter, or single letter code as indicated as follows: adenine (Ade, A), thymine (Thy, T), guanine (Gua, G) cytosine (Cyt, C), uracil (Ura, U).
- As used herein, the term “polynucleotide” refers to a chain of nucleotides of any length, regardless of modification (e.g., methylation).
- As used herein, the term “gene” refers to a nucleic acid (e.g., DNA or RNA) sequence that comprises coding sequences necessary for the production of a polypeptide, RNA (e.g., including but not limited to, mRNA, tRNA and rRNA) or precursor. The polypeptide, RNA, or precursor can be encoded by a full length coding sequence or by any portion thereof. The term also encompasses the coding region of a structural gene and the sequences located adjacent to the coding region on both the 5′ and 3′ ends for a distance of about 1 kb on either end such that the gene corresponds to the length of the full-length mRNA. The term “gene” encompasses both cDNA and genomic forms of a gene, which may be made of DNA, or RNA. A genomic form or clone of a gene may contain the coding region interrupted with non-coding sequences termed “introns” or “intervening regions” or “intervening sequences.” Introns are segments of a gene that are transcribed into nuclear RNA (hnRNA); introns may contain regulatory elements such as enhancers. Introns are removed or “spliced out” from the nuclear or primary transcript; introns therefore are absent in the messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript. The mRNA functions during translation to specify the sequence or order of amino acids in a nascent polypeptide.
- As used herein, the term “nucleic acid molecule encoding,” refers to the order or sequence of nucleotides along a strand of nucleotides. The order of these nucleotides determines the order of amino acids along the polypeptide (protein) chain. The nucleotide sequence thus codes for the amino acid sequence.
- As used herein, the term “polypeptide” refers to a chain of amino acids of any length, regardless of modification (e.g., phosphorylation or glycosylation). In accordance with standard nomenclature, amino acid residue sequences are denominated by either a three letter or a single letter code as indicated as follows: Alanine (Ala, A), Arginine (Arg, R), Asparagine (Asn, N), Aspartic Acid (Asp, D), Cysteine. (Cys, C), Glutamine (Gin, Q), Glutamic Acid (Glu, E), Glycine (Gly, G), Histidine (His, H), Isoleucine (Ile, I), Leucine (Leu, L), Lysine (Lys, K), Methionine (Met, M), Phenylalanine (Phe, F), Proline (Pro, P), Serine (Ser, S), Threonine (Thr, T), Tryptophan (Trp, W), Tyrosine (Tyr, Y), and Valine (Val, V).
- As used herein, a “variant,” “mutant,” or “mutated” polynucleotide contains at least one polynucleotide sequence alteration as compared to the polynucleotide sequence of the corresponding wild-type or parent polynucleotide. Mutations may be natural, deliberate, or accidental. Mutations include substitutions, deletions, and insertions.
- As used herein, a “nucleic acid sequence alteration” can be, for example, a substitution, a deletion, or an insertion of one or more nucleotides. An “amino acid sequence alteration” can be, for example, a substitution, a deletion, or an insertion of one or more amino acids.
- As used herein, the term “immunizing virus” includes infectious virus, viral subunits, viral proteins and antigenic fragments thereof, nucleic acids encoding viral subunits, antigenic proteins or polypeptides, and expression vectors containing the nucleic acids.
- As used herein, a “vector” is a replicon, such as a plasmid, phage, or cosmid, into which another DNA segment may be inserted so as to bring about the replication of the inserted segment. The vectors described herein can be expression vectors.
- As used herein, the term “effective amount” or “therapeutically effective amount” means a dosage sufficient to treat, inhibit, or alleviate one or more symptoms of a disease state being treated or to otherwise provide a desired pharmacologic and/or physiologic effect. The precise dosage will vary according to a variety of factors such as subject-dependent variables (e.g., age, immune system health, etc.), the disease, and the treatment being effected.
- As used herein, the, terms “neoplastic cells,” “neoplasia,” “tumor,” “tumor cells,” “cancer” and “cancer cells,” (used interchangeably) refer to cells which exhibit relatively autonomous growth, so that they exhibit an aberrant growth phenotype characterized by a significant loss of control of cell proliferation (i.e., de-regulated cell division). Neoplastic cells can be malignant or benign.
- As used herein, an “immunogen” or “immunogenic amount” refers to the ability of a substance (antigen) to induce an immune response. An immune response is an alteration in the reactivity of an organisms' immune system in response to an antigen. In vertebrates this may involve antibody production, induction of cell-mediated immunity, complement activation or development of immunological tolerance.
- As used herein, an “adjuvant” is a substance that increases the ability of an antigen to stimulate the immune system.
- As used herein, “attenuated” refers to refers to procedures that weaken an agent of disease (a pathogen). An attenuated virus is a weakened, less vigorous virus. A vaccine against a viral disease can be made from an attenuated, less virulent strain of the virus, a virus capable of stimulating an immune response and creating immunity but not causing illness or less severe illness. Attenuation can be achieved by chemical treatment of the pathogen, through radiation, or by genetic modification, using methods known to those skilled in the art. Attenuation may result in decreased proliferation, attachment to host cells, or decreased production or strength of toxins.
- As used herein, “subject,” “individual,” and “patient” refer to any individual who is the target of treatment using the disclosed compositions. The subject can be a vertebrate, for example, a mammal. Thus, the subject can be a human. The subjects can be symptomatic or asymptomatic. The term does not denote a particular age or sex. A subject can include a control subject or a test subject.
- As used herein, “identity,” as known in the art, is a relationship between two or more polypeptide sequences, as determined by comparing the sequences. In the art, “identity” also means the degree of sequence relatedness between polypeptide as determined by the match between strings of such sequences. “Identity” and “similarity” can be readily calculated by known methods, including, but not limited to, those described in (Computational Molecular Biology, Lesk, A. M., Ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 1988; Biocomputing: Informatics and Genome Projects, Smith, D. W., Ed., Academic Press, New York, 1993; Computer Analysis of Sequence Data, Part I, Griffin, A. M., and Griffin, H. G., Eds., Humana Press, New Jersey, 1994; Sequence Analysis in Molecular Biology, von Heinje, G., Academic Press, 1987; and Sequence Analysis Primer, Gribskov, M. and Devereux, J., Eds., M Stockton Press, New York, 1991; and Carillo, H., and Lipman, D., SIAM J Applied Math., 48: 1073 (1988).
- Preferred methods to determine identity are designed to give the largest match between the sequences tested. Methods to determine identity and similarity are codified in publicly available computer programs. The percent identity between two sequences can be determined by using analysis software (i.e., Sequence Analysis Software Package of the Genetics Computer Group, Madison Wis.) that incorporates the Needelman and Wunsch, (J. Mol. Biol., 48: 443-453, 1970) algorithm (e.g., NBLAST, and XBLAST). The default parameters are used to determine the identity for the polypeptides of the present disclosure.
- By way of example, a polypeptide sequence may be identical to the reference sequence, that is be 100% identical, or it may include up, to a certain integer number of amino acid alterations as compared to the reference sequence such that the % identity is less than 100%. Such alterations are selected from: at least one amino acid deletion, substitution, including conservative and non-conservative substitution, or insertion, and wherein said alterations may occur at the amino- or carboxy-terminal positions of the reference polypeptide sequence or anywhere between those terminal positions, interspersed either individually among the amino acids in the reference sequence or in one or more contiguous groups within the reference sequence. The number of amino acid alterations for a given % identity is determined by multiplying the total number of amino acids in the reference polypeptide by the numerical percent of the respective percent identity (divided by 100) and then subtracting that product from said total number of amino acids in the reference polypeptide.
- As used herein “pharmaceutically acceptable carrier” encompasses any of the standard pharmaceutical carriers, such as a phosphate buffered saline solution, water and emulsions such as an oil/water or water/oil emulsion, and various types of wetting agents.
- As used herein, “treatment” or “treating” means to administer a composition to a subject or a system with an undesired condition. The condition can include a disease. “Prevention” or “preventing” means to administer a composition to a subject or a system at risk for the condition. The condition can include a predisposition to a disease. The effect of the administration of the composition to the subject (either treating and/or preventing) can be, but is not limited to, the cessation of one or more symptoms of the condition, a reduction or prevention of one or more symptoms of the condition, a reduction in the severity of the condition, the complete ablation of the condition, a stabilization or delay of the development or progression of a particular event or characteristic, or minimization of the chances that a particular event or characteristic will occur. It is understood that where treat or prevent are used, unless specifically indicated otherwise, the use of the other word is also expressly disclosed.
- VSV, a member of the Rhabdoviridae family, is enveloped and has a negative-strand 11.2-kb RNA genome that comprises five protein-encoding genes (N, P, M, G, and L) (Lyles, et al., Fields virology, 5th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1363-1408 (2007)). It is a nonhuman pathogen which can cause mild disease in livestock. Infection in humans is rare and usually asymptomatic, with sporadic cases of mild flu-like symptoms. VSV has a short replication cycle, which starts with attachment of the viral glycoprotein spikes (G) to an unknown but ubiquitous cell membrane receptor. Nonspecific electrostatic interactions have also been proposed to facilitate viral binding (Lyles, et al., Fields virology, 5th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1363-1408 (2007)). Upon internalization by clathrin-dependent endocytosis, the virus-containing endosome acidifies, triggering fusion of the viral membrane with the endosomal membrane. This leads to release of the viral nucleocapsid (N) and viral RNA polymerase complex (P and L) into the cytosol.
- The viral polymerase initiates gene transcription at the 3′ end of the non-segmented genome, starting with expression of the first VSV gene (N). This is followed by sequential gene transcription, creating a gradient, with upstream genes expressed more strongly than downstream genes. Newly produced VSV glycoproteins are incorporated into the cellular membrane with a large extracellular domain, a 20 amino acid trans-membrane domain, and a cytoplasmic tail consisting of 29 amino acids. Trimers of G protein accumulate in plasma membrane microdomains, several of which congregate to form viral budding sites at the membrane (Lyles, et al., Fields virology, 5th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1363-1408 (2007)). Most cells activate antiviral defense cascades upon viral entry, transcription, and replication, which in turn are counteracted by VSV matrix protein (M). VSV M protein's multitude of functions include virus assembly by linking the nucleocapsid with the envelope membrane, induction of cytopathic effects and apoptosis, inhibition of cellular gene transcription, and blocking of host cell nucleocytoplasmic RNA transfer, which includes blocking of antiviral cellular responses (Ahmed, et al., Virology, 237:378-388 (1997)).
- Certain native, engineered, and recombinant VSV strains have been shown to target several tumor types, including gliomas, and give a strong oncolytic action, both in vitro and in vivo (Paglino and van den Pol, 2011) (Wollmann, et al, 2005; 2007; 2010; Ozduman et al, 2008). However, there remains a need for improved recombinant VSVs that are both efficacious for treating cancer and exhibit low pathogenicity to healthy host cells. This is particularly important in the brain where mature neurons do not replicate, and once lost, are normally not replaced. Although some evidence indicates that attenuated VSVs show reduced neurotoxicity, CNS complications have been difficult to eliminate completely (Obuchi et al, 2003; van den Pol et al, 2002; 2009).
- It has been discovered that recombinant, chimeric VSV viruses where the G gene is substituted with a gene encoding a heterologous glycoprotein protein have oncolytic potential in targeting and destroying cancer cells with little pathogenicity to healthy host cells. Recombinant VSV viruses, pharmaceutical compositions including recombinant VSV viruses, and methods of use thereof for treating cancer are provided. As discussed in more detail below, preferably, the virus targets and kills tumor cells, and shows little or no infection of normal cells.
- A. Chimeric G-Gene Substituted VSV Virus
- The disclosed viruses are chimeric VSV viruses that are typically based on a VSV background strain, also referred to herein as a VSV backbone, wherein the G gene is substituted for a heterologous glycoprotein. As discussed in more detail below, the chimeric virus can also include additional genetic changes (e.g., additions, deletions, substitutions) relative to the background VSV virus, and can have one or more additional transgenes.
- 1. VSV Background Strain
- Useful VSV virus background strains can be viruses that are known in the art, or they can be mutants or variants of known viruses. Any suitable VSV strain or serotype may be used, including, but not limited to, VSV Indiana, VSV New Jersey, VSV Alagoas, (formerly Indiana 3), VSV Cocal (formerly Indiana 2), VSV Chandipura, VSV Isfahan, VSV San Juan, VSV Orsay, or VSV Glasgow. The VSV virus background can be a naturally occurring virus, or a virus modified, for example, to increase or decrease the virulence of the virus, and/or increase the specificity or infectivity of the virus compared to the parental strain or serotype. The virus can be a recombinant virus that includes genes from two or more strains or serotypes. For example, the VSV background strain can be a recombinant VSV with all five genes of the Indiana serotype of VSV. In another exemplary embodiments, the N, P, M, and L genes originates from the San Juan strain, and the G gene from the Orsay strain.
- It may be desirable to further reduce the neurovirulence of the viruses used in the disclosed methods, particularly the virulence of the therapeutic virus, by using an attenuated virus. A number of suitable VSV mutants have been described, see for example (Clarke, et al., J. Virol., 81:2056-64 (2007), Flanagan, et al., J. Virol., 77:5740-5748 (2003), Johnson, et al., Virology, 360:36-49 (2007), Simon, et al., J. Virol., 81:2078-82 (2007), Stojdl, et al., Cancer Cell, 4:263-275 (2003)), Wollmann, et al., J. Virol, 84(3):1563-73 (2010) (epub 2010), WO 2010/080909, U.S. Published Application No. 2007/0218078, and U.S. Published Application No 2009/0175906.
- Recombinant VSVs derived from DNA plasmids also typically show weakened virulence (Rose, et al., Cell, 106:539-549 (2001)). Attenuation of VSV virulence can also be accomplished by one or more nucleotide sequence alterations that result in substitution, deletion, or insertion of one or more amino acids of the polypeptide it encodes.
- In some embodiments, the VSV background strain is a VSV virus modified to attenuate virus growth or pathogenicity or to reduce the ability to make infectious progeny viruses. VSV strains and methods of making such VSV strains are known in the art, and described in, for example, U.S. Published Application No. 2012/0171246.
- For example, one strategy is to attenuate viral pathogenicity by reducing the ability of the virus to suppress host innate immune responses without compromising the yield of infectious progeny. This can be accomplished by mutating the M protein as described, for example, in Ahmed, J. Virol., 82(18):9273-9277 (2008). The M protein is a multifunctional protein that is involved in the shutoff of host transcription, nuclear cytoplasmic transport, and translation during virus infection (Lyles, Microbial. Mol. Biol. Rev. 64:709-724 (2000)). Mutation and/or deletion of one or more amino acids from the M protein, for example MΔ51, or M51A mutants can result in viral protein that is defective at inhibiting host gene expression. It may also be desirable to switch or combine various substitutions, deletions, and insertions to further modify the phenotype of the virus. For example, the recombinant VSV background can have a deletion or mutation in the M protein.
- Altering the relative position of genes can also be used to attenuate virus (Clarke, et al., J. Virol., 81:2056-2064, (2007), Cooper, et al., J. Virol., 82:207-219 (2008), Flanagan, et al., J. Virol., 75:6107-6114 (2001)). VSV is highly immunogenic, and a substantial B and T cell response from the adaptive immune system will ultimately limit VSV infection, which will halt long-lasting viral infections. A virus that shows enhanced selectivity, and a faster rate of infection, will have a greater likelihood of eliminating cancer cells before the virus is eliminated by the immune system. However, the use of VSV against cancer cells does not have to be restricted to a single application. By molecular substitution of the G-protein for enhancing immune responses against foreign genes expressed by VSV, one could switch the original G protein of the virus (e.g., Indiana VSV) with the G protein from another strain or serotype (e.g., VSV New Jersey or Chandipura), allowing a slightly different antigen presentation, and reducing the initial response of the adaptive immune system to second or third oncolytic inoculations with VSV.
- Therefore, the disclosed chimeric viruses can have a VSV genome that is rearranged compared to wildtype VSV. For example, shifting the L-gene to the sixth position, by rearrangement or insertion of an additional gene upstream, can result in attenuated L-protein synthesis and a slight reduction in replication (Dalton and Rose, Virology, 279(2):414-21 (2001)), an advantage when considering treatment of the brain.
- Repeat passaging of virulent strains under evolutionary pressure can also be used to generate attenuated virus, increase specificity of the virus for a particular target cell type, and/or increase the oncolytic potential of the virus. For example, VSV-rp30 (“30 times repeated passaging”) is a wild-type-based VSV with an enhanced oncolytic profile (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol. 79:6005-6022 (2005)). As described in WO 2010/080909, VSV-rp30 has a preference for glioblastoma over control cells and an increased cytolytic activity on brain tumor cells. Accordingly, in some embodiments, the VSV background of the disclosed chimeric viruses is one that has been modified to attenuate the virus, increase specificity of the virus for a particular target cells, and/or increase the oncolytic potential of the virus relative to a wildtype or starting stain.
- 2. Heterologous Glycoproteins
- The disclosed chimeric VSV viruses have a heterologous glycoprotein. Typically, the disclosed chimeric VSV viruses are viruses that lack the G protein of VSV. Instead the chimeric VSV viruses have a glycoprotein (e.g., G protein or GP protein) from a distinct, non-VSV virus.
- As demonstrated in the Examples below, glycoproteins for a number of different viruses can be substituted into a VSV background to create a chimeric VSV that can infect cancer cells. Suitable glycoproteins can be from, for example, Lassa, rabies, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), Ebola, or Marburg virus. The Examples below show that an Ebola-VSV, and even more so a Lassa-VSV chimera, are particularly effective at killing brain cancers with little or no toxicity to healthy or normal cells. Other viral glycoprotein such as those from rabies, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), or Marburg virus may be more suitable for targeting other cancer types, such as one or more of the cancers discussed in more detail below. It is believed that VSV chimeric viruses including an LCMV glycoprotein in place of the VSV glycoprotein may show some advantages over the VSV glycoprotein in infecting some cancer or sarcoma cells with enhanced innate immunity, such as the virus-resistant sarcoma cells described in Paglino and van den Pol, J. Virol., 85:9346-9358 (2011). In some embodiments, the G protein in the VSV chimeric virus is a heterologous G, wherein the G protein is not a G protein from LCMV. In place of the Lassa glycoprotein which has a broad spectrum of cells to which it binds, the VSV chimeric virus can have a glycoprotein from another arena virus. Other arenaviruses may have the same, similar, or different cellular binding receptors to Lassa. In some embodiments, the glycoprotein is a viral glycoprotein, preferably an arenavirus glycoprotein, that binds to one or more of the same cell receptors as Lassa glycoprotein. In some embodiments, the glycoprotein is a viral glycoprotein, preferably an arenavirus glycoprotein that binds to one or more similar cell receptors as Lassa glycoprotein. In some embodiments, the glycoprotein is an areanvirus glycoprotein that binds to different cell receptor(s) than Lassa glycoprotein. Such chimeric viruses may also be safe viruses for use in oncolysis or as vaccine vectors. Exemplary arenaviruses include, but are not limited to, Old World complex arenaviruses such as Kodoko, Lujo, Mobala, Dank, Gbagroube, Ippy, Merino Walk, Menekre, Mobala, and Mopeia, and New World arenaviruses such as Guanarito, Junin, Machupo, Sabia, Whitewater arroyo, Parana, Tamiami, Latino, plexal, and Chapare. New World arenavirus glycoproteins may target receptors different that those targeted by the Lassa glycoprotein.
- a. Lassa G Proteins
- In the most preferred embodiment, the G protein of VSV is substituted with a glycoprotein from a Lassa virus. Lassa virus is an Arenavirus. The genomic structure or Arenaviruses and the genetic diversity of Lassa virus strains are discussed in Bowen, et al., J. Virology, 6992-7004 (2000). Viruses of the genus Arenavirus, family Arenaviridae, are enveloped viruses with a genome consisting of two single stranded RNA species designated small (S) and large (L). Each segment contains two non-overlapping genes arranged in an ambisense orientation. The viral polymerase (L protein) gene is encoded at the 3′ end of the L RNA in the genome-complementary sense, whereas the Z protein is encoded at the 5′ end of the L RNA in the genomic sense. In a similar fashion, the nucleoprotein (NP) gene is encoded at the 3′ end of the S RNA, whereas the glycoprotein precursor (GPC) is encoded at the 5′ end of the S RNA. The GPC is post-translationally cleaved into the envelope glycoproteins GP1 and GP2. The arenaviruses have been divided into two groups, the New World arenaviruses and the Old World arenaviruses. Lassa virus is an Old World arenavirus.
- The glycoprotein can come from any Lassa virus. The Lassa virus glycoprotein can be from a naturally occurring virus, or a virus modified, for example, to increase or decrease the virulence of the virus, and/or increase the specificity or infectivity of the virus compared to the parental strain or serotype. Suitable strains and serotypes of Lassa virus from which the glycoprotein of the chimeric VSV virus can be derived are known in the art and include, for example, fifty-four strains identified and characterized in Bowen, et al., J. Virology, 6992-7004 (2000). Common Lassa virus stains include Lassa virus strain 803213, Lassa virus strain Acar 3080, Lassa virus strain AV, Lassa virus strain Josiah, Lassa virus strain LP, Lassa virus strain Macenta, Lassa virus strain NL, Lassa virus strain Pinneo, Lassa virus strain Weller, and Lassa virus strain Z148.
- Preferably, the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode the entire Lassa virus glycoprotein precursor (GPC), such that both GP1 and GP2 are expressed and contribute to formation of the chimeric virus's envelope. In some embodiments, the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode less than the entire Lassa virus glycoprotein precursor (GPC). For example, in some embodiments, the viral genome or plasmid(s) encoding recombinant viral genome encodes a glycoprotein that is a truncated GPC, or only GP1 or only GP2.
- The glycoprotein can be from Lassa strain Josiah. In a particular embodiment, the chimeric viral genome includes the nucleic acid sequence
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1 cgcaccgggg atcctaggca tttttggttg cgcaattcaa gtgtcctatt taaaatggga 61 caaatagtga cattcttcca ggaagtgcct catgtaatag aagaggtgat gaacattgtt 121 ctcattgcac tgtctgtact agcagtgctg aaaggtctgt acaattttgc aacgtgtggc 181 cttgttggtt tggtcacttt cctcctgttg tgtggtaggt cttgcacaac cagtctttat 241 aaaggggttt atgagcttca gactctggaa ctaaacatgg agacactcaa tatgaccatg 301 cctctctcct gcacaaagaa caacagtcat cattatataa tggtgggcaa tgagacagga 361 ctagaactga ccttgaccaa cacgagcatt attaatcaca aattttgcaa tctgtctgat 421 gcccacaaaa agaacctcta tgaccacgct cttatgagca taatctcaac tttccacttg 481 tccatcccca acttcaatca gtatgaggca atgagctgcg attttaatgg gggaaagatt 541 agtgtgcagt acaacctgag tcacagctat gctggggatg cagccaacca ttgtggtact 601 gttgcaaatg gtgtgttaca gacttttatg aggatggctt ggggtgggag ctacattgct 661 cttgactcag gccgtggcaa ctgggactgt attatgacta gttatcaata tctgataatc 721 caaaatacaa cctgggaaga tcactgccaa ttctcgagac catctcccat cggttatctc 781 gggctcctct cacaaaggac tagagatatt tatattagta gaagattgct aggcacattc 841 acatggacac tgtcagattc tgaaggtaaa gacacaccag ggggatattg tctgaccagg 901 tggatgctaa ttgaggctga actaaaatgc ttcgggaaca cagctgtggc aaaatgtaat 961 gagaagcatg atgaggaatt ttgtgacatg ctgaggctgt ttgacttcaa caaacaagcc 1021 attcaaaggt tgaaagctga agcacaaatg agcattcagt tgatcaacaa agcagtaaat 1081 gctttgataa atgaccaact tataatgaag aaccatctac gggacatcat gggaattcca 1141 tactgtaatt acagcaagta ttggtacctc aaccacacaa ctactgggag aacatcactg 1201 cccaaatgtt ggcttgtatc aaatggttca tacttgaacg agacccactt ttctgatgat 1261 attgaacaac aagctgacaa tatgatcact gagatgttac agaaggagta tatggagagg 1321 caggggaaga caccattggg tctagttgac ctctttgtgt tcagtacaag tttctatctt 1381 attagcatct tccttcacct agtcaaaata ccaactcata ggcatattgt aggcaagtcg 1441 tgtcccaaac ctcacagatt gaatcatatg ggcatttgtt cctgtggact ctacaaacag 1501 cctggtgtgc ctgtgaaatg gaagagatga gacccttgtc agggcccccg tgacccaccg 1561 cctattggcg gtgggtcacg ggggcgtcca tttacagaac gactctaggt gtcgatgttc 1621 tgaacaccat atctctgggc agcactgctc tcaaaaccga tgtgttcagt cctcctgaca 1681 ctgctgcatc aaacatgatg cagtccatta gtgcacagtg aggggttatt tcctctttac 1741 cgcctctttt cttcttttca acaacgacac ctgtgtgcat gtggcataag tctttatact 1801 ggtcccagac tgcattttca tacttcctgg aatcagtttt gctgagggca atatcaatta 1861 gtttaatgtc ttttcttcct tgtgattcaa ggagtttcct tatgtcatcg gacccctgac 1921 aggtaatgac catattccgg gggagtgcat caatgacagc actggtcaag cccggttgtg 1981 tagcgaagag gtctgtgaca tcaatcccat gtgagtactt agcatcctgc ttgaactgct 2041 ttaaatcagt aggttcacgg aagaagtgta tgtagcagcc tgaacttggt tgatagaggg 2101 caatttccac tggatcttca ggtcttcctt caatgtccat ccaggtctta gcatttgggt 2161 caagttgcag cattgcatcc ttgagggtca tcagctgaga ataggtaagc ccagcggtaa 2221 accctgccga ctgcagggat ttactggaat tgttgctgtc agctttctgt ggcttcccat 2281 ctgattccag atcaacgaca gtgttttccc aggcccttcc tgttattgag gttcttgatg 2341 caatatatgg ccatccatct cctgacaaac aaatcttgta gagtatgttt tcataaggat 2401 tcctttcacc aggggtgtct gaaatgaaca ttccaagagc cttcttgacc tttaaaatgg 2461 atttgaggat accatccatt gtctgaggtg acaccttgat tgtctccaac atattgccac 2521 catccagcat gcaagctcct gccttcacag ctgcacccaa gctaaaatta taacctgaga 2581 tattcaaaga gcttttcttg gtgtcaatca tatttaggat gggatgactt tgagtcagcc 2641 tgtctaagtc tgaagtgttg ggatactttg ctgtgtagat caaacccaaa tctgtcaatg 2701 cttgtactgc atcattcaag tcaacctgcc cctgttttgt cagacatgcc agtgtcagac 2761 ttggcatggt cccgaactga ttattgagca actctgcatt tttcacatcc caaactctca 2821 ccactccatc tctcccagcc cgagcccctt gattaccacc actcattcct atcatattca 2881 ggagagctct tctttggtca agttgctgtg agcttaggtt gcccatatag acacctgcac 2941 ttaatggcct ttctgttctg atcacctttg actttaactt ctctagatca gcggctaaga 3001 ttaataagtc atctgaggtt agagtcccaa ctctcagtat actcttttgt tgagttgatt 3061 ttaattcaac aagattgttg accgcttgat ttaggtccct caaccgtttc aaatcattgt 3121 catcccttct ctccttgcgc atcaaccgtt gaacattact gacttcggag aagtcaagtc 3181 catgtaaaag agcctgggca tctttcacca cctgtagttt gatgttggag cagtaaccag 3241 ataattccct cctcaaagat tgtgtccaca aaaaggattt tatttccttt gaggcactca 3301 tcgccagatt gttgtgttgt atgcacgcaa caaagaactg agactatctg ccaaaatgac 3361 aaaagcaaag cgcaatccaa tagcctagga tccactgtgc g
(SEQ ID NO:1, Lassa virus strain recombinant Josiah segment S, complete sequence GenBank: HQ688673.1), one or both of the open reading frames thereof, or a fragment or fragments or variants thereof encoding a functional glycoprotein. Variants can have at least 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:1, or to the sequence encoding an open reading frame thereof. - In some embodiments, the chimeric viral genome includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide
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MGQIVTFFQEVPHVIEEVMNIVLIALSVLAVLKGLYNFATCGLVGLVTFLL LCGRSCTTSLYKGVYELQTLELNMETLNMTMPLSCTKNNSHHYIMVGNETG LELTLTNTSIINHKFCNLSDAHKKNLYDHALMSIISTFHLSIPNFNQYEAM SCDFNGGKISVQYNLSHSYAGDAANHCGTVANGVLQTFMRMAWGGSYIALD SGRGNWDCIMTSYQYLIIQNTTWEDHCQFSRPSPIGYLGLLSQRTRDIYIS RRLLGTFTWTLSDSEGKDTPGGYCLTRWMLIEAELKCFGNTAVAKCNEKHD EEFCDMLRLFDFNKQAIQRLKAEAQMSIQLINKAVNALINDQLIMKNHLRD IMGIPYCNYSKYWYLNHTTTGRTSLPKCWLVSNGSYLNETHFSDDIEQQAD NMITEMLQKEYMERQGKTPLGLVDLFVFSTSFYLISIFLHLVKIPTHRHIV GKSCPKPHRLNHMGICSCGLYKQPGVPVKWKR
(SEQ ID NO:2, GenBank: HQ688673.1), the polypeptide -
MSASKEIKSFLWTQSLRRELSGYCSNIKLQVVKDAQALLHGLDFSEVSNVQ RLMRKERRDDNDLKRLRDLNQAVNNLVELKSTQQKSILRVGTLTSDDLLIL AADLEKLKSKVIRTERPLSAGVYMGNLSSQQLDQRRALLNMIGMSGGNQGA RAGRDGVVRVWDVKNAELLNNQFGTMPSLTLACLTKQGQVDLNDAVQALTD LGLIYTAKYPNTSDLDRLTQSHPILNMIDTKKSSLNISGYNFSLGAAVKAG ACMLDGGNMLETIKVSPQTMDGILKSILKVKKALGMFISDTPGERNPYENI LYKICLSGDGWPYIASRTSITGRAWENTVVDLESDGKPQKADSNNSSKSLQ SAGFTAGLTYSQLMTLKDAMLQLDPNAKTWMDIEGRPEDPVEIALYQPSSG CYIHFFREPTDLKQFKQDAKYSHGIDVTDLFATQPGLTSAVIDALPRNMVI TCQGSDDIRKLLESQGRKDIKLIDIALSKTDSRKYENAVWDQYKDLCHMHT GVVVEKKKRGGKEEITPHCALMDCIMFDAAVSGGLNTSVLRAVLPRDMVFR TSTPRVVL
(SEQ ID NO:3, GenBank: HQ688673.1), a combination thereof, or a one or more functional fragments or variants thereof. Variants can have at least 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:2 or 3. - b. Ebola G Proteins
- In another preferred embodiment, the G protein of VSV is substituted with a glycoprotein from an Ebola virus. Ebola virus, along with Marburg virus, constitutes the family Filoviridae in the order of Mononegavirales (reviewed in Feldmann and Geisbert, Lancet, 377(9768): 849-862 (2011), and Sanchez, et al., Filoviridae: Marburg and Ebola viruses. In: Knipe, D M.; Howley, P M., editors. Fields virology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006. p. 1409-1448). Filoviruses are enveloped, non-segmented, negative-stranded RNA viruses with filamentous particles. Ebola virus particles have a uniform diameter of 80 nm but can greatly vary in length, with lengths up to 14000 nm. The genome includes seven genes in the order 3′ leader, nucleoprotein, virion protein (VP) 35, VP40, glycoprotein, VP30, VP24, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (L)-5′ trailer. With the exception of the glycoprotein gene, all genes are monocistronic, encoding for one structural protein. The inner ribonucleoprotein complex of virion particles consists of the RNA genome encapsulated by the nucleoprotein, which associates with VP35, VP30, and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase to form the functional transcriptase-replicase complex. Additionally, the proteins of the ribonucleoprotein complex have other functions, for example, VP35 is an antagonist of interferon; VP40 is a matrix protein and modulates particle formation; VP24, is structural, membrane-associated protein that also interferes with interferon signaling.
- The glycoprotein is the only transmembrane surface protein of the virus and forms trimeric spikes consisting of glycoprotein 1 and
glycoprotein 2—two di-sulphide linked furin-cleavage fragments (Sanchez, et al., Filoviridae: Marburg and Ebola viruses. In: Knipe, D M.; Howley, P M., editors. Fields virology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006. p. 1409-1448). The primary product of the GP gene is a soluble glycoprotein (sGP) that is also secreted from infected cells, a characteristic distinguishing it from other Mononegavirales (Sanchez, et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 93:3602-3607 (1996), Volchkov, et al., Virology, 214:421-430 (1995)). Nucleic acid sequences encoding Ebola glycoprotein, the mechanism of transcription/translation yielding functional Ebola glycoprotein, Ebola glycoprotein amino acid sequences, and the structure and function of Ebola glycoprotein are well known in the art and discussed in, for example, Lee and Saphire, Future Virology, 4(6):621-635 (2009), Sanchez, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA., 93(8):3602-3607 (1996), Volchkov, et al., Virology, 214(2):421-430 (1995), Gire et al, Science, 345: 1369-1372 (2014)). - The Ebola virus glycoprotein can be from a naturally occurring virus, or a virus modified, for example, to increase or decrease the virulence of the virus, and/or increase the specificity or infectivity of the virus compared to the parental strain or serotype. Suitable species of Ebola virus from which the glycoprotein of the chimeric VSV virus can be derived are known in the art and include, for example, Sudan ebolavirus (SEBOV), Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV), Côte d′Ivoire ebolavirus (also known and here referred to as Ivory Coast ebolavirus (ICEBOV)), Reston ebolavirus (REBOV), and Bundigbugyo ebolavirus (BEBOV) (Geibert and Feldmann, J. Infect. Dis., 204 (suppl 3): S1075-S1081 (2011)). Preferably, the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode the entire Ebola virus glycoprotein (GP), such that the glycoprotein is expressed and contributes to formation of the chimeric virus's envelope. In some embodiments, the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode less than the entire Ebola virus glycoprotein. For example, in some embodiments, the viral genome or plasmid(s) encoding recombinant viral genome encodes a glycoprotein that is a truncated or variant GP. In some embodiments, the chimeric virus's genome, or plasmid(s) encoding the virus's genome encode full length, truncated, or variant GP1, GP2, or a combination thereof.
- In some embodiment, the chimeric viral genome includes the nucleic acid sequence
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(SEQ ID NO: 6) 1 atgggcgtta caggaatatt gcagttacct cgtgatcgat tcaagaggac atcattcttt 61 ctttgggtaa ttatcctttt ccaaagaaca ttttccatcc cacttggagt catccacaat 121 agcacattac aggttagtga tgtcgacaaa ctagtttgtc gtgacaaact gtcatccaca 181 aatcaattga gatcagttgg actgaatctc gaagggaatg gagtggcaac tgacgtgcca 241 tctgcaacta aaagatgggg cttcaggtcc ggtgtcccac caaaggtggt caattatgaa 301 gctggtgaat gggctgaaaa ctgctacaat cttgaaatca aaaaacctga cgggagtgag 361 tgtctaccag cagcgccaga cgggattcgg ggcttccccc ggtgccggta tgtgcacaaa 421 gtatcaggaa cgggaccgtg tgccggagac tttgccttcc ataaagaggg tgctttcttc 481 ctgtatgatc gacttgcttc cacagttatc taccgaggaa cgactttcgc tgaaggtgtc 541 gttgcatttc tgatactgcc ccaagctaag aaggacttct tcagctcaca ccccttgaga 601 gagccggtca atgcaacgga ggacccgtct agtggctact attctaccac aattagatat 661 caggctaccg gttttggaac caatgagaca gagtacttgt tcgaggttga caatttgacc 721 tacgtccaac ttgaatcaag attcacacca cagtttctgc tccagctgaa tgagacaata 781 tatacaagtg ggaaaagyag caataccacg ggaaaactaa tttggaaggt caaccccgaa 841 attgatacaa caatcgggga gtgggccttc tgggaaacta aaaaaaacct cactagaaaa 901 attcgcagtg aagagttgtc tttcacagtt gtatcaaacg gagccaaaaa catcagtggt 961 cagagtccgg cgcgaacttc ttccgaccca gggaccaaca caacaactga agaccacaaa 1021 atcatggctt cagaaaattc ctctgcaatg gttcaagtgc acagtcaagg aagggaagct 1081 gcagtgtcgc atctaacaac ccttgccaca atctccacga gtccccaatc cctcacaacc 1141 aaaccaggtc cggacaacag cacccataat acacccgtgt ataaacttga catctctgag 1201 gcaactcaag ttgaacaaca tcaccgcaga acagacaacg acagcacagc ctccgacact 1261 ccctctgcca cgaccgcagc cggaccccca aaagcagaga acaccaacac gagcaagagc 1321 actgacttcc tggaccccgc caccacaaca agtccccaaa accacagcga gaccgctggc 1381 aacaacaaca ctcatcacca agataccgga gaagagagtg ccagcagcgg gaagctaggc 1441 ttaattacca atactattgc tggagtcgca ggactgatca caggcgggag aagaactcga 1501 agagaagcaa ttgtcaatgc tcaacccaaa tgcaacccta atttacatta ctggactact 1561 caggatgaag gtgctgcaat cggactggcc tggataccat atttcgggcc agcagccgag 1621 ggaatttaca tagaggggct aatgcacaat caagatggtt taatctgtgg gttgagacag 1681 ctggccaacg agacgactca agctcttcaa ctgttcctga gagccacaac tgagctacgc 1741 accttttcaa tcctcaaccg taaggcaatt gatttcttgc tgcagcgatg gggcggcaca 1801 tgccacattc tgggaccgga ctgctgtatc gaaccacatg attggaccaa gaacataaca 1861 gacaaaattg atcagattat tcatgatttt gttgataaaa cccttccgga ccagggggac 1921 aatgacaatt ggtggacagg atggagacaa tggataccgg caggtattgg agttacaggc 1981 gttataattg cagttatcgc tttattctgt atatgcaaat ttgtctttta g. - SEQ ID NO:6 a nucleic acid encoding a full-length (non-secreted) glycoprotein gene found in GenBank accession NC_002549 nt 6039-8068. Note that the GenBank sequence over this region is 2030 nt long, whereas SEQ ID NO:6 is 2031 nt in length. This difference derives from the fact that the GenBank sequence is based on the genomic RNA sequence, whereas the sequence below is based on the mRNA sequence that has been ‘edited’ by the viral polymerase to include an extra ‘A’ nucleotide between 6918-6924 of the GenBank sequence. Therefore, in some embodiments, the chimeric viral genome includes a nucleic acid encoding SEQ ID NO:6, or the variant thereof encoded by GenBank accession NC_002549 nt 6039-8068, or a fragment or variant thereof encoding a functional glycoprotein. Variants can have at least 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:6, or to the sequence encoding an open reading frame thereof.
- In some embodiments, the chimeric viral genome includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide
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MGVTGILQLPRDRFKRTSFFLWVIILFQRTFSIPLGVIHNSTLQVSDVDKL VCRDKLSSTNQLRSVGLNLEGNGVATDVPSATKRWGFRSGVPPKVVNYEAG EWAENCYNLEIKKPDGSECLPAAPDGIRGFPRCRYVHKVSGTGPCAGDFAF HKEGAFFLYDRLASTVIYRGTTFAEGVVAFLILPQAKKDFFSSHPLREPVN ATEDPSSGYYSTTIRYQATGFGTNETEYLFEVDNLTYVQLESRFTPQFLLQ LNETIYTSGKRSNTTGKLIWKVNPEIDTTIGEWAFWETKKNLTRKIRSEEL SFTVVSNGAKNISGQSPARTSSDPGTNTTTEDHKIMASENSSAMVQVHSQG REAAVSHLTTLATISTSPQSLTTKPGPDNSTHNTPVYKLDISEATQVEQHH RRTDNDSTASDTPSATTAAGPPKAENTNTSKSTDFLDPATTTSPQNHSETA GNNNTHHQDTGEESASSGKLGLITNTIAGVAGLITGGRRTRREAIVNAQPK CNPNLHYWTTQDEGAAIGLAWIPYFGPAAEGIYIEGLMHNQDGLICGLRQL ANETTQALQLFLRATTELRTFSILNRKAIDFLLQRWGGTCHILGPDCCIEP HDWTKNITDKIDQIIHDFVDKTLPDQGDNDNWWTGWRQWIPAGIGVTGVII AVIALFCICKFVF
(SEQ ID NO:7), or a functional fragment or variant thereof. Variants can have at least 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:7. - In some embodiments, the chimeric viral genome includes the nucleic acid sequence
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1 atgggcgtta caggaatatt gcagttacct cgtgatcgat tcaagaggac atcattcttt 61 ctttgggtaa ttatcctttt ccaaagaaca ttttccatcc cacttggagt catccacagt 121 agcacattac aggttagtga tgtcgacaaa ctagtttgtc gtgacaaact gtcatccaca 181 aatcaattga gatcagttgg actgaatctc gaagggaatg gagtggcaac tgacgtgcca 241 tctgcaacta aaagatgggg cttcaggtcc ggtgtcccac caaaggtggt caattatgaa 301 gctggtgaat gggctgaaaa ctgctacaat cttgaaatca aaaaacctga cgggagtgag 361 tgtctaccag cagcgccaga cgggattcgg ggcttccccc ggtgccggta tgtgcacaaa 421 gtatcaggaa cgggaccgtg tgccggagac tttgccttcc ataaagaggg tgctttcttc 481 ctgtatgatc gacttgcttc cacagttatc taccgaggaa cgactttcgc tgaaggtgtc 541 gttgcatttc tgatactgcc ccaagctaag aaggacttct tcagctcaca ccccttgaga 601 gagccggtca atgcaacgga ggacccgtct agtggctact attctaccac aattagatat 661 caggctaccg gttttggaac caatgagaca gagtacttgt tcgaggttga caatttgacc 721 tacgtccaac ttgaatcaag attcacacca cagtttctgc tccagctgaa tgagacaata 781 tatacaagtg ggaaaaggag caataccacg ggaaaactaa tttggaaggt caaccccgaa 841 attgatacaa caatcgggga gtgggccttc tgggaaacta aaaaaaacct cactagaaaa 901 attcgcagtg aagagttgtc tttctctaga gcaggactga tcacaggcgg gagaagaact 961 cgaagagaag caattgtcaa tgctcaaccc aaatgcaacc ctaatttaca ttactggact 1021 actcaggatg aaggtgctgc aatcggactg gcctggatac catatttcgg gccagcagcc 1081 gagggaattt acatagaggg gctaatgcac aatcaagatg gtttaatctg tgggttgaga 1141 cagctggcca acgagacgac tcaagctctt caactgttcc tgagagccac aactgagcta 1201 cgcacctttt caatcctcaa ccgtaaggca attgatttct tgctgcagcg atggggcggc 1261 acatgccaca ttctgggacc ggactgctgt atcgaaccac atgattggac caagaacata 1321 acagacaaaa ttgatcagat tattcatgat tttgttgata aaacccttcc ggaccagggg 1381 gacaatgaca attggtggac aggatggaga caatggatac cggcaggtat tggagttaca 1441 ggcgttgtaa ttgcagttat cgctttattc tgtatatgca aatttgtctt ttag
(SEQ ID NO:8), or a fragment or variant thereof encoding a functional glycoprotein. Variants can have at least 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:8. - In some embodiments, the chimeric viral genome includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide
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MGVTGILQLPRDRFKRTSFFLWVIILFQRTFSIPLGVIHSSTLQVSDVDKL VCRDKLSSTNQLRSVGLNLEGNGVATDVPSATKRWGFRSGVPPKVVNYEAG EWAENCYNLEIKKPDGSECLPAAPDGIRGFPRCRYVHKVSGTGPCAGDFAF HKEGAFFLYDRLASTVIYRGTTFAEGVVAFLILPQAKKDFFSSHPLREPVN ATEDPSSGYYSTTIRYQATGFGTNETEYLFEVDNLTYVQLESRFTPQFLLQ LNETIYTSGKRSNTTGKLIWKVNPEIDTTIGEWAFWETKKNLTRKIRSEEL SFSRAGLITGGRRTRREAIVNAQPKCNPNLHYWTTQDEGAAIGLAWIPYFG PAAEGIYIEGLMHNQDGLICGLRQLANETTQALQLFLRATTELRTFSILNR KAIDFLLQRWGGTCHILGPDCCIEPHDWTKNITDKIDQIIHDFVDKTLPDQ GDNDNWWTGWRQWIPAGIGVTGVVIAVIALFCICKFVF
(SEQ ID NO:9), or a functional fragment or variant thereof. Variants can have at least 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:9. - In some embodiments, the Ebola G protein is lacking the mucin domain, (e.g., about amino acids 309-489 of a full length G protein), and/or has one or more substitutions (e.g. as described in Wong, et al., J. Virol., 84(1):163-75 (2010), and in the examples below).
- 3. Additional Transgenes
- Viruses can be modified to express one or more additional transgenes, separately or as a part of other expressed proteins. The viral genome of VSV has the capacity to accommodate additional genetic material. At least two additional transcription units, totaling 4.5 kb, can be added to the genome, and methods for doing so are known in the art. The added genes are stably maintained in the genome upon repeated passage (Schnell, et al., EMBO Journal, 17:1289-1296 (1998); Schnell, et al., PNAS, 93: 11359-11365 (1996); Schnell, et al., Journal of Virology, 70:2318-2323 (1996); Kahn, et al., Virology, 254, 81-91 (1999)).
- In preferred embodiments the viruses are modified to include a gene encoding a therapeutic protein, an antigen, a detectable marker or reporter, a targeting moiety, or a combination thereof. In some embodiments, the gene is placed in the first gene position in the VSV background. Given the nature of VSV protein expression, genes in the first position generate the highest expression of any gene in the virus, with a 3′ to 5′ decrease in gene expression. The chimeric VSV can also be constructed to contain two different and independent genes placed in the first and second gene position of VSV. For example, van den Pol and Davis, et al., J. Virol., 87(2):1019-1034 (2013), describes the generation of a highly attenuated VSV virus by adding two (reporter) genes to the 3′ end of the VSV genome, thereby shifting the NPMGL genes from positions 1 to 5 to positions 3 to 7. This strategy can be used to allow strong expression of genes coding for any combination of two heterologous proteins, for example two therapeutic proteins, a therapeutic protein and reporter, or an immunogenic protein and a reporter that could be useful to track the virus in a clinical situation.
- a. Therapeutic Proteins and Reporters
- Chimeric VSV viruses can be engineered to include one or more additional genes that encode a therapeutic protein or a reporter. Suitable therapeutic proteins, such as cytokines or chemokines, are known in the art, and can be selected depending on the use or disease to be treated. Preferred cytokines include, but are not limited to, granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), tumor necrosis factor beta (TNFβ), macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF), interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-2 (IL-2), interleukin-4 (IL-4), interleukin-5 (IL-5), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-10 (IL-10), interleukin-12 (IL-12), interleukin-15 (IL-15), interleukin-21 (IL-21), interferon alpha (IFNα), interferon beta (IFNβ), interferon gamma (IFNγ), and IGIF, and variants and fragments thereof.
- Suitable chemokines include, but are not limited to, an alpha-chemokine or a beta-chemokine, including, but not limited to, a C5a, interleukin-8 (IL-8), monocyte chemotactic protein I alpha (MIP1α), monocyte chemotactic protein 1 beta (MIP1β), monocyte chemo-attractant protein 1 (MCP-1), monocyte chemo-attractant protein 3 (MCP-3), platelet activating factor (PAFR), N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-[3H]phenylalanine (FMLPR), leukotriene B4, gastrin releasing peptide (GRP), RANTES, eotaxin, lymphotactin, IP10, I-309, ENA78, GCP-2, NAP-2 and MGSA/gro, and variants and fragments thereof.
- Particularly preferred genes include those that encode proteins that up-regulate an immune attack on infected tumors such as IL-28, IL-2, FLT3L, and GM-CSF (Ali, et al., Cancer Res, 65:7194-7204 (2005); Barzon, et al., Methods Mol. Biol., 542:529-549 (2009); Wongthida, et al., Hum. Gene Ther., 22:1343-53 (2011). Other therapeutic proteins that have been successfully engineered into VSV or other viruses include IL2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-12, and TRAIL (Jinush, et al., Cancer Science, 100, 1389-1396. (2009)). The virus can also be engineered to include one or more genes encoding a reporter. The reporter can serve as a measure or monitor of in vivo viral activity. Exemplary reporters are known in the art and include, but are not limited to, carcinoembryonic antigen, secreted alkaline phosphatase, and the beta subunit of chorionic gonadotropin. These reporters are released by infected cells into the blood, and can be measured peripherally to determine viral activity, including viral activity in the brain (Phuong, et al., Cancer Res., 63:2462-2469 (2003); Peng, et al., Nat. Med., 8:527-531 (2002); Shashkova, et al., Cancer Gene Ther., 15:61-72 (2008); Hiramatsu, et al., Cancer Science, 100, 1389-1396 (2005)).
- In some embodiments, the virus's genome is modified to encode a detectable marker or reporter, preferably in the first position. The detectable marker allows the user to detect and monitor the location and efficacy of the virus in vivo and in resected tissue ex vivo without the need for antibodies. Suitable markers are known in the art and include, but are not limited to, LacZ, GFP (or eGFP), and luciferase.
- There have been reports of humoral immune response to eGFP and rejection of eGFP transduced cells following subretinal administration of AAV2 or lentivirus expressing eGFP in animals (Bainbridge, et al., Gene Ther., 10(16):1336-44 (2003), and Doi, K., J. Virol, 78(20): 11327-33 (2004)). Thus, the safety and in vivo persistence of a virus including a detectable marker (e.g., one expressing eGFP) may be different than that of a virus without the marker, however, these differences can be assessed by one of skill in the art using methods known in the art and the methods described in the Examples. As discussed in more detail above, in the particular case of VSV, adding a gene added to the first position typically attenuates the virulence of VSV (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 84(3):1563-73 (2010)). Therefore, in some embodiments, chimeric VSV that include a marker such as GFP in the first position may have an improved safety profile compared viruses without it.
- b. Viruses Engineered to Deliver Vaccine Antigens
- As discussed in more detail below, the virus can be a vaccine vector that serves as an immunogen for eliciting an immune response against a disease. This can be accomplished by cloning an antigen of an unrelated disease into the chimeric VSV virus. VSV viruses expressing foreign viral glycoproteins have shown promise as a vaccine vectors (Roberts, et al., J. Virol. 73:3723-3732 (1999), Rose, et al., Cell, 106:539-549 (2001), Jones, et al., Nat. Med. 11:786-790 (2005)). Additionally, recombinant VSVs are able to accommodate large inserts and multiple genes in their genomes. This ability to incorporate large gene inserts in replication-competent viruses offers advantages over other RNA or DNA virus vectors, such as those based on alphaviruses, REO virus, poliovirus, and parvovirus.
- VSV viruses can be engineered to incorporate one or more nucleic acid sequences encoding one or more non-native or heterologous immunogenic antigens. One or more native VSV genes may be truncated or deleted to create additional space for the sequence encoding the immunogenic antigen. When expressed by the VSV virus administered to a patient in need thereof, the immunogenic antigen produces prophylactic or therapeutic immunity against a disease or disorder. Immunogenic antigens can be expressed as a fusion protein with other polypeptides including, but not limited to, native VSV polypeptides, or as a non-fusion protein. By way of non-limiting examples, the antigen can be a protein or polypeptide derived from a virus, bacterium, parasite, plant, protozoan, fungus, tissue or transformed cell such as a cancer or leukemic cell. Antigens may be expressed as single antigens or may be provided in combination.
- Because the substitution of the Lassa glycoprotein for the VSV glycoprotein generates a chimeric virus that appears far safer than VSVs that contain the VSV glycoprotein, yet still retains the broad spectrum of cells to which it can bind, the chimeric virus can serve as a vaccination platform for a wide variety of microbial pathogens, including but not limited to, HIV, influenza, polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, hendra, and others. Additionally, the fact that the Lassa-VSV chimeric virus is safe even in the brains of SCID mice lacking the normal T and B cell systemic immunity, as demonstrated in the Examples below, indicates that a vaccine based on chimeric Lassa-VSV would be safer than the corresponding vaccine based on VSV that retained its VSV glycoprotein, and therefore the chimeric Lassa-VSV might be useful in vaccinating people with depressed immune systems, for instance those with AIDS or those with genetically compromised immune systems, or patients with attenuated immunity related to ongoing cancer. The target of the vaccine could either be a type of cancer cell as a cancer treatment. Alternately, the target could be any of a large number of microbial pathogens.
- c. Targeting Domains
- Viruses can be engineered to include one or more additional genes that target the virus to cells of interest, see for example U.S. Pat. No. 7,429,481. In preferred embodiments, expression of the gene results in expression of a ligand on the surface of the virus containing one or more domains that bind to antigens, ligands or receptors that are specific to tumor cells, or are up-regulated in tumor cells compared to normal tissue. Appropriate targeting ligands will depend on the target cell or cancer of interest and will be known to those skilled in the art. For example, glioma stem cells are reported to express CD133 and nestin. Accordingly, in some embodiments, the viruses are engineered to express a targeting moiety that bind to CD133 or nestin.
- It is believed that the Lassa glycoprotein is important for targeting chimeric Lassa-VSV virus to cells, and contributes to the desirable oncolytic profile exhibited by the chimeric Lassa-VSV virus. Accordingly, in preferred embodiments, any additional targeting ligands or moieties engineered into the virus do not reduce and preferably enhance the oncolytic activity or profile of the virus.
- 4. Exemplary Chimeric Viruses
- Exemplary chimeric VSV viruses with Lassa virus glycoprotein are known in the art. The viruses can be used in the disclosed methods of use and treatment with or without one or more modifications, such as those discussed above.
- An exemplary virus is described in Jae, et al., Science, 340(6151):479-483 (2013). Briefly, recombinant VSV expressing eGFP and the Lassa virus glycoprotein (rVSV-GP-LASV) was cloned and recovered as follows: the open reading frame encoding LASV-GP (strain Josiah, GenBank:HQ688673.1) was amplified using the following primer sequences: 5′-GCGACGCGTACCATGGGACAAATAGTGACATTCT-3′ (SEQ ID NO:4) and 5′-GGCGGCCGCTCATCTCTTCCATTTCACAGG-3′ (SEQ ID NO:5). Subsequently, the PCR product was sequenced and cloned into the MluI and NotI sites of pVSVAG-eGFP-MN (Whelan, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 92(18):8388-92 (1995), and Wong, et al., J. Virol., 84(1):163-75 (2010)) thereby replacing the native VSV glycoprotein G coding sequence. Recombinant virus was recovered and amplified as described (Whelan, et al., supra).
- The genome of this Lassa-VSV includes an open reading frame encoding a GFP reporter in the first position. This allows easy detection of which cells are infected, as they turn green. In addition, having a gene added to the first position attenuates the virulence of VSV (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol, 84(3):1563-73 (2010)). Accordingly, a chimeric VSV with a reporter or other heterologous gene at the first position may be attenuated or less virulent compared to the same virus without a reporter or other heterologous gene at the first position. However, as discussed in more detail in the Examples below, chimeric Lassa-VSV viruses are both efficacious and safe with or without a reporter, or another heterologous gene, in the first position. Therefore, the heterologous gene in the first position is optional.
- The construction of a recombinant VSV expressing eGFP and the Ebola virus glycoprotein (rVSV-GP-EBOV) was also described in Wong, et al., J. Virol., 84(1):163-75 (2010).
- A second exemplary virus is discussed in Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78(10): 5458-5465 (2004) and Geisbert, et al., PLOS, 2(6):537-545 (2005), which describe the construction of chimeric VSV viruses having a VSV, Indiana serotype background and a glycoprotein from Lassa virus, strain Josiah. A plasmid expressing the positive-strand RNA complement of the VSV genome with a site for foreign gene expression is described in Schnell, et al., J. Virol., 70:2318-2323 (1996). This plasmid (VSVXN2) contains the five VSV genes (nucleoprotein N, phosphoprotein P, matrixprotein M, glycoprotein G, and polymerase L) in order, flanked by the bacteriophage T7 promoter, the VSV leader, and the hepatitis delta virus ribozyme, and the T7 terminator sequence. Between the G and the L genes, a linker site (XhoI-NheI) is present, flanked by a transcriptional start and stop signal for the additional gene to be expressed. As discussed in Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78(10): 5458-5465 (2004), the plasmid can be modified to delete the G gene, and the open reading frame encoding the transmembrane glycoprotein of Lassa virus (GPC) can be prepared, for example by PCR, and cloned into the XhoI and NheI sites of the modified vector where the G gene has been deleted.
- Following cloning, competent cells, for example, BSR-T7 cells, can be co-transfected with the vector and support plasmids encoding the viral ribonucleoprotein constituents (e.g., pBS-VSV N, pBS-VSV P, pBS-VSV L) to generate recombinant infectious virus that can be recovered from the supernatant of the cultured cells. Rescued rVSV can be passaged, on VeroE6 cells, for example, to obtain a virus stock.
- VSV-LCMV viruses are described in U.S. Patent Application No. 2014/0301992, and 2011/0250188, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,440,730
- Additional methods of making and recovering chimeric VSV virus by expressing full-length cDNA from plasmid(s) are known in the art and discussed in more detail below.
- B. Pharmaceutical Compositions
- Immunizing and therapeutic viruses are typically administered to a patient in need thereof in a pharmaceutical composition. Pharmaceutical compositions containing virus may be for systemic or local administration, such as intratumoral. Dosage forms for administration by parenteral (intramuscular (IM), intraperitoneal (IP), intravenous (IV), intra-arterial, intrathecal or subcutaneous injection (SC)), or transmucosal (nasal, vaginal, pulmonary, or rectal) routes of administration can be formulated. In some embodiments, a therapeutic virus is delivered by local injection, for example intracranial injection preferably at or near the tumor site. In a particular embodiment a therapeutic virus is injected directly into the tumor. The compositions can be formulated for and delivered via catheter into the tumor resection cavity through convection-enhanced delivery (CED). In some embodiments an immunizing virus is delivered peripherally, intranasally or by intramuscular injection.
- As discussed in more detail below, the virus can also be used as an immunizing virus. The immunizing virus can be the same as a therapeutic virus but administered prior to a therapeutic administration so that the subject's immune system is primed to eliminate the virus following the therapeutic administration. Alternatively, the immunizing virus can be modified as discussed above to carry a disease antigen and used as part of a vaccine protocol. Immunizing viruses can be delivered peripherally, for example, by the intranasal route or by intramuscular injection.
- 1. Effective Amounts
- As generally used herein, an “effective amount” is that amount which is able to induce a desired result in a treated subject. The desired results will depend on the disease or condition to be treated. The precise dosage will vary according to a variety of factors such as subject-dependent variables (e.g., age, immune system health, etc.), the disease, and the treatment being effected. For example, an effective amount of immunizing virus generally results in production of antibody and/or activated T cells against an antigen, or that kill or limit proliferation of or infection by a pathogen. An effective amount of the immunizing virus can be an amount sufficient to reduce neurovirulence of the therapeutic virus compared to administration of the therapeutic virus without first administering the immunizing virus.
- Therapeutically effective amounts of the therapeutic viruses disclosed herein used in the treatment of cancer will generally kill tumor cells or inhibit proliferation or metastasis of the tumor cells. Symptoms of cancer may be physical, such as tumor burden, or biological such as proliferation of cancer cells. The actual effective amounts of virus can vary according to factors including the specific virus administered, the particular composition formulated, the mode of administration, and the age, weight, condition of the subject being treated, as well as the route of administration and the disease or disorder.
- An effective amount of the virus can be compared to a control. Suitable controls are known in the art. A typical control is a comparison of a condition or symptom of a subject prior to and after administration of the virus. The condition or symptom can be a biochemical, molecular, physiological, or pathological readout. In another embodiment, the control is a matched subject that is administered a different therapeutic agent. Accordingly, the compositions disclosed here can be compared to other art recognized treatments for the disease or condition to be treated.
- For example, the virus can be administered in an amount effective to infect and kill cancer cells, improve survival of a subject with cancer, or a combination thereof. In a particular embodiment, the cancer is glioblastoma.
- One of the advantages of the disclosed viruses is that they show little or no toxicity to normal or healthy cells (e.g., non-cancerous cells). Therefore, in some embodiments the effective amount of virus causes little or no destruction of non-cancerous cells. The level of pathogenicity to normal cells can be compared to the level of pathogenicity of other VSV oncolytic viruses that do not have G gene replaced with a heterologous G gene. Such viruses are known in the art and include, for example, VSV-1′GFP, VSV-rp30, or VSV-ΔM51.
- One important index of oncolytic potential is the ratio of viral replication in normal/control cells versus tumor or cancer cells. These ratios serve as an important index of the relative levels of viral replication in normal and tumor cells. A large ratio indicates greater replication in cancer cells than in control cells. In preferred embodiments, the ratio of replication of normal cells:target cells is greater than about 1:100, preferably greater than about 1:250, more preferable greater than about 1:500, most preferably greater than about 1:1000. In some embodiments, the oncolytic potential of the disclosed viruses is larger than the oncolytic potential of other VSV oncolytic viruses that do not have G gene replaced with a heterologous G gene, for example, VSV-1′GFP, VSV-rp30, or VSV-ΔM51.
- 2. Dosages
- Appropriate dosages can be determined by a person skilled in the art, considering the therapeutic context, age, and general health of the recipient. The selected dosage depends upon the desired therapeutic effect, on the route of administration, and on the duration of the treatment desired. Active virus can also be measured in terms of plaque-forming units (PFU). A plaque-forming unit can be defined as areas of cell lysis (CPE) in monolayer cell culture, under overlay conditions, initiated by infection with a single virus particle. Generally dosage levels of virus between 102 and 1012 PFU are administered to humans. Virus is typically administered in a liquid suspension, in a volume ranging between 10 μl and 100 ml depending on the route of administration. Generally, dosage and volume will be lower for intratumoral injection as compared to systemic administration or infusion. The dose may be administered once or multiple times. When administered locally, virus can be administered to humans at dosage levels between 102 and 108 PFU. Virus can be administered in a liquid suspension, in a low volume. For example, the volume for local administration can range from about 20 μl to about 2000. Multiple doses can be administered. In some embodiment, multiple injections are used to achieve a single dose. Systemic or regional administration via subcutaneous, intramuscular, intra-organ, or intravenous administration can have higher volumes, for example, 10 to 100 ml.
- 3. Formulations
- The term “pharmaceutically acceptable” means a non-toxic material that does not interfere with the effectiveness of the biological activity of the active ingredients. The term “pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier” means one or more compatible solid or liquid fillers, diluents or encapsulating substances which are suitable for administration to a human or other vertebrate animal. The term “carrier” refers to an organic or inorganic ingredient, natural or synthetic, with which the active ingredient is combined to facilitate the application.
- Pharmaceutical compositions may be formulated in a conventional manner using one or more physiologically acceptable carriers including excipients and auxiliaries which facilitate processing of the active compounds into preparations which can be used pharmaceutically. The compositions may be administered in combination with one or more physiologically or pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, thickening agents, co-solvents, adhesives, antioxidants, buffers, viscosity and absorption enhancing agents and agents capable of adjusting osmolarity of the formulation. Proper formulation is dependent upon the route of administration chosen. If desired, the compositions may also contain minor amounts of nontoxic auxiliary substances such as wetting or emulsifying agents, dyes, pH buffering agents, or preservatives. The formulations should not include membrane disrupting agents which could kill or inactivate the virus.
- a. Formulations for Local or Parenteral Administration
- In a preferred embodiment, compositions including oncolytic viruses disclosed herein, are administered in an aqueous solution, by parenteral injection. Injection includes, but it not limited to, local, intratumoral, intravenous, intraperitoneal, intramuscular, or subcutaneous injection. The formulation may also be in the form of a suspension or emulsion. In general, pharmaceutical compositions are provided including effective amounts of virus, and optionally include pharmaceutically acceptable diluents, preservatives, solubilizers, emulsifiers, adjuvants and/or carriers. Such compositions include diluents such as sterile water, buffered saline of various buffer content (e.g., Tris-HCl, acetate, phosphate), pH and ionic strength; and optionally, additives such as anti-oxidants (e.g., ascorbic acid, sodium metabisulfite), and preservatives and bulking substances (e.g., lactose, mannitol). Examples of non-aqueous solvents or vehicles are propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, vegetable oils, such as olive oil and corn oil, gelatin, and injectable organic esters such as ethyl oleate. A preferred solution is phosphate buffered saline or sterile saline.
- b. Formulations for Mucosal Administration
- In some embodiments, the compositions are formulated for mucosal administration, such as through nasal, pulmonary, or buccal delivery.
- Mucosal formulations may include one or more agents for enhancing delivery through the nasal mucosa. Agents for enhancing mucosal delivery are known in the art, see, for example, U.S. Patent Application No. 200910252672 to Eddington, and U.S. Patent Application No. 2009/0047234 to Touitou. Acceptable agents include, but are not limited to, chelators of calcium (EDTA), inhibitors of nasal enzymes (boro-leucin, aprotinin), inhibitors of muco-ciliar clearance (preservatives), solubilizers of nasal membrane (cyclodextrin, fatty acids, surfactants) and formation of micelles (surfactants such as bile acids, Laureth 9 and taurodehydrofusidate (STDHF)). Compositions may include one or more absorption enhancers, including surfactants, fatty acids, and chitosan derivatives, which can enhance delivery by modulation of the tight junctions (TJ) (B. J. Aungst, et al., J. Pharm. Sci. 89(4):429-442 (2000)). In general, the optimal absorption enhancer should possess the following qualities: its effect should be reversible, it should provide a rapid permeation enhancing effect on the cellular membrane of the mucosa, and it should be non-cytotoxic at the effective concentration level and without deleterious and/or irreversible effects on the cellular or virus membrane, Intranasal compositions maybe administered using devices known in the art, for example a nebulizer.
- A. Methods of Treatment
- 1. Administration of Therapeutic Virus
- The disclosed chimeric VSV viruses can be administered to a subject in need thereof in an amount effective to treat a disease or disorder, for example, cancer. Pharmaceutical compositions including a chimeric virus may be administered once or more than once, for example 2, 3, 4, 5, or more times. Serial administration of chimeric virus may occur days, weeks, or months apart. As discussed in more detail below, boosters of immunizing virus may be administered between therapeutic treatments. It may be particularly preferable to administer a booster of immunizing virus if there are lengthy delays between treatments with therapeutic virus, for example, one or more years.
- Virus can be administered peripherally, or can be injected directly into a tumor, for example a tumor within the brain. In addition, virus can be used after resection of the main body of the tumor, for example by administering directly to the remaining adjacent tissue after surgery, or after a period of one to two weeks to allow recovery of local damage. Adding virus after surgical resection would eliminate any remaining tumor cells that the neurosurgeon did not remove. The injections can be given at one, or multiple locations. It is also believed that virus administered systemically can target and kill brain cancers.
- In some embodiments, it may be desirable to administer the chimeric virus after or in combination with an immunosuppressant. Treatment with an immunosuppressant during administration with a therapeutic virus allows controlled suppression of the subject's immune system during administration of the therapeutic virus. This may be desirable, for example, if the capacity of the oncolytic virus to kill cancer is reduced due to an earlier administration of the immunizing virus. Treatment with the immunosuppressant is typically transient, and occurs during administration of the virus, particularly when the virus is being used to treat tumors and/or cancer. Following treatment with the chimeric virus, treatment with the immunosuppressant is discontinued and the patient's immunity returns. The duration of immunosuppressive treatment will depend on the condition to be treated. Typically the immunosuppressive treatment will be long enough for the oncolytic virus to kill cancer cells, reduce tumor size, or inhibit tumor progression.
- 2. Peripheral Administration of Immunizing Virus
- One or more peripheral administrations with an immunizing virus can elicit an adaptive immune response that protects the brain from potential side-effects of oncolytic virus therapy. The term immunizing virus includes live virus as well as viral subunits, proteins and fragments thereof, antigenic polypeptides, nucleic acids, and expression vectors containing nucleic acids encoding viral subunits, proteins, or fragments thereof, or antigenic polypeptides which can be useful in eliciting an immune response. For example, if the immunizing virus is a VSV virus, the immunizing virus includes, but is not limited to, live VSV virus, the N, P, M, G, or L proteins, or combinations thereof.
- The immunizing virus may be the same virus, or a different virus than the therapeutic virus. The immunizing virus should initiate an adaptive immune response that is sufficient to attenuate, reduce, or prevent the neurovirulence of the therapeutic virus. The therapeutic virus administered after a first administration of immunizing virus should have reduced neurovirulence compared to therapeutic virus administered without a first administration of immunizing virus. In preferred embodiments, the immunizing virus is similar to the therapeutic virus. For example if the therapeutic virus is a VSV, the immunizing virus is preferably a VSV, or an antigenic protein or nucleic acid component thereof. In some embodiments the immunizing virus has an attenuated phenotype compared to the therapeutic virus. As described above, suitable immunizing viruses include wildtype viruses, as well as mutant and variants thereof. In one preferred embodiment, the immunizing virus is a wildtype virus or an antigenic protein or nucleic acid component thereof, while the therapeutic virus is a mutant, variant, chimeric virus having the same virus background but reduced neurovirulence compared to wildtype. In some embodiments, therapeutic viruses may be engineered to express therapeutic proteins or targeting molecules. Immunizing viruses may also be engineered to express additional proteins, but preferably are not. VSV-G/GFP is a suitable immunizing virus. The nucleotide sequence for VSV-G/GFP is GenBank Accession FJ478454.
- Immunizing viruses are administered sufficiently prior to therapeutic viruses to elicit an adaptive immune response. Immunizing viruses are typically administered one or more times at least about 5 days, preferably 1 week, more preferably greater than one week before administration of the therapeutic virus. Immunizing viruses can be administered up to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or more weeks before the therapeutic virus. Immunizing viruses can be administered up to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or more months before the therapeutic virus. Most preferably the immunizing virus is administered between about ten days and 12 weeks before the therapeutic virus.
- After an initial administration of the immunizing virus, subsequent booster immunizations can be administered. For example, it may be desirable to administer the immunizing virus two or more times. A first administration of the immunizing virus is typically provided to a patient in need therefore prior to a first administration of the therapeutic virus. Subsequent administrations of the immunizing virus may occur before and/or after a first administration of the therapeutic virus. In preferred embodiments the immunizing virus is administered two or more times before the first administration of the therapeutic virus. In a non-limiting example, the immunizing virus is first administered on day 1, a booster of immunizing virus is administered six weeks later on about day 43, and the therapeutic virus is first administered two weeks later on about day 57.
- Various factors may be considered when determining the frequency, dosage, duration, and number of administrations of immunizing virus, as well as the duration between administration of the immunizing virus and first administration of therapeutic virus. For example, the subject's adaptive immune response can be monitored to assess the effectiveness of the immunization. Methods of measuring adaptive immune activation are known in the art and include antibody profiling, serum analysis for changes in levels of antibodies, cytokines, chemokines, or other inflammatory molecules, and cell counts and/or cell profiling using extracellular markers to assess the numbers and types of immune cells such as B cells and T cells.
- Immunizing virus is most typically delivered to a subject in need thereof by peripheral administration, and not directly or locally to the site in need of treatment by therapeutic virus. Peripheral administration includes intravenous, by injection or infusion, intraperitoneal, intramuscular, subcutaneous, and mucosal such as intranasal delivery. In some embodiments, the composition is delivered systemically, by injection or infusion into the circulatory system (i.e. intravenous) or an appropriate lymphoid tissue, such as the spleen, lymph nodes or mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue. The injections can be given at one, or multiple locations. Preferably the immunizing virus is administered intranasally or by intramuscular injection, most preferably by intranasal delivery.
- Generally immunizing virus is administered to humans at dosage levels between 102 and 1012 PFU. Virus is typically administered in a liquid suspension, in a volume ranging between 10 μl and 100 ml depending on the route of administration.
- It may also be desirable to administer the immunizing virus in combination with one or more adjuvants. These can be incorporated into, administered with, or administered separately from, the immunogenizing virus. Depending on whether or not the individual is a human or an animal, the adjuvant can be, but is not limited to, one or more of the following: oil emulsions (e.g., Freund's adjuvant); saponin formulations; virosomes and viral-like particles; bacterial and microbial derivatives; immunostimulatory oligonucleotides; ADP-ribosylating toxins and detoxified derivatives; alum; BCG; mineral-containing compositions (e.g., mineral salts, such as aluminium salts and calcium salts, hydroxides, phosphates, sulfates, etc.); bioadhesives and/or mucoadhesives; microparticles; liposomes; polyoxyethylene ether and polyoxyethylene ester formulations; polyphosphazene; muramyl peptides; imidazoquinolone compounds; and surface active substances (e.g. lysolecithin, pluronic polyols, polyanions, peptides, oil emulsions, keyhole limpet hemocyanin, and dinitrophenol).
- 3. Vaccination
- The chimeric viruses can also serve as an immunogen for generating an immune response against other antigens administered with or cloned into virus. The safety profile of the disclosed Lassa-VSVs make them particularly attractive for use as part of a vaccine. Other VSVs can lead to adverse consequence in brain, whereas a Lassa-VSV with another antigen, for example, an influenza antigen, would be safer, yet effective.
- For example, in some embodiments, the chimeric virus is a vaccine vector. Experiments conducted with the Lassa-VSV including a GFP reporter discussed below, show that the chimeric virus generates a strong immune response against the virus, and also against the GFP reporter. Accordingly, other proteins could be substituted for GFP. These could include proteins from pathogenic microbes unrelated to Lassa virus or VSV; the Lassa-VSV could serve as a safe vaccine platform against many different pathogenic microbes. As described above, VSV can be engineered to express one or more immunogenic antigens. Expression of these antigens in a patient in need thereof presents the antigen to the immune system and provokes an immune response. Vaccines can be administered prophylactically or therapeutically. Vaccines can also be administered according to a vaccine schedule. A vaccine schedule is a series of vaccinations, including the timing of all doses. Many vaccines require multiple doses for maximum effectiveness, either to produce sufficient initial immune response or to boost response that fades over time. Vaccine schedules are known in the art, and are designed to achieve maximum effectiveness. The adaptive immune response can be monitored using methods known in the art to measure the effectiveness of the vaccination protocol.
- 4. Immunotherapy
- Chimeric VSV viruses wherein the G protein is replaced with a heterologous glycoprotein, for example the glycoprotein from Lassa virus, have been shown to be immunogenic and initiate an up-regulation of both humoral and cellular immunity toward the virus (Geisbert, et al., PLoS Med., 2:e183 (2005) and the Examples below. Therefore, methods of initiating an immune response against the infected tumor are disclosed. It is believed that the disclosed chimeric viruses will not only infect and kill cancer cells, but will enhance an attack by the systemic immune system on the infected cell-type both during and after the virus is eliminated. In this way, the virus can be used to induce an immune response against non-infected target cells. In this way, treatment with the disclosed VSV virus may delay, reduce, or prevent reoccurrence of the cancer being treated.
- In some methods, the chimeric virus is used to infect targets cells, and the infected target cells or antigens isolated therefrom are used for peripheral immunization of the subject against the target cells, or antigens thereof. For example, target cells against which an immune response is desired are implanted into a subject. The cells are injected with virus which kills the cells and leads to an immune response against antigens of the cells. The cells can be infected with virus before or after implantation. For example, the cells are infected with virus in vitro prior to injection into the subject. In another embodiment, the subject is immunized with antigen(s) isolated from tumor cells infected with virus in vitro.
- The target cell can be any cell to which an immune response is desired. For example, the target cells can be cancer cells against which an immune response is desired. The cancer cells can be from an established cell line or primary cancer cells isolated from a subject. For example, the target cells can be cancer cells isolated from a subject in a biopsy or during surgery to remove a tumor. As discussed above, the target cells can be infected in vitro prior to administration to the subject, or the target cells can be inject by local injection of the virus into the subject at the site of implantation of the target cells. The cells can be harvested from and administered back to the same subject. Alternatively, the cells can be harvested from one subject and administered to a different subject. In this way, the virus can be used to induce an immune response against a cancer or tumor in a subject that has the cancer or tumor, or prophylactically prime the immune system to attack a future cancer or tumor that the subject does not yet have. Accordingly, the treatment can be therapeutic, prophylactic, or a combination thereof.
- In a particular embodiment, this strategy is employed in combination with surgery in which a tumor is removed from a subject. Cells are isolated from the tumor, infected with virus, and implanted in the subject. In this way, an immune response is induced against any cancer cells that remain in the subject, for example in the margins and other tissue at the site from which the tumor removed, as well as circulating cancer cells and metastases throughout the body including those sites distant from the tumor that was removed. The method can also reduce, delay, or prevent recurrence of the cancer.
- In some embodiments the isolated target cells are irradiated in amount effective to prevent cell division, but not to kill the cells, to avoid concerns about in vivo replication of the target cells following implantation. Typically, the cells are implanted into the subject peripherally. For example, the cells can be injected into the subject subcutaneously, intramuscularly, intranasally, intravenously, intraperitoneally, or using another suitable method of peripheral administration, such as those discussed above. In some embodiments, the tumor cells are expanded in culture for one or generations or passages between isolation and implantation in the subject.
- It is believed that VSV infection will increase tumor-specific cytotoxic effector CD8+ T cells, increase CD4+ T cells, increase production of tumor specific antibodies, or a combination thereof. Therefore, in some embodiments, tumor-specific cytotoxic effector CD8+ T cells primed by chimeric VSV infected tumor cells are administered to a subject in need thereof. The T cells can be harvested from a treated subject, and optionally expanded in culture, or primed and expanded in vitro.
- For example, in a particular embodiment, the method is one of adaptive T cell therapy. Methods of adoptive T cell therapy are known in the art and used in clinical practice. Generally adoptive T cell therapy involves the isolation and ex vivo expansion of tumor specific T cells to achieve greater number of T cells than what could be obtained by vaccination alone. The tumor specific T cells are then infused into patients with cancer in an attempt to give their immune system the ability to overwhelm remaining tumor via T cells which can attack and kill cancer. Several forms of adoptive T cell therapy can be used for cancer treatment including, but not limited to, culturing tumor infiltrating lymphocytes or TIL; isolating and expanding one particular T cell or clone; and using T cells that have been engineered to recognize and attack tumors. In the disclosed methods, the tumors infected with the chimeric VSV, or isolated components thereof, are used to prime the T cells. In some embodiments, the T cells are taken directly from the patient's blood after they have received treatment or immunization with the virus. Methods of priming and activating T cells in vitro for adaptive T cell cancer therapy are known in the art. See, for example, Wang, et al., Blood, 109(11):4865-4872 (2007) and Hervas-Stubbs, et al., J. Immunol., 189(7):3299-310 (2012). The methods can be used in conjunction with virus infected cancer cells, or antigens isolated therefrom, to prime and activate T cells against the cancer.
- Historically, adoptive T cell therapy strategies have largely focused on the infusion of tumor antigen specific cytotoxic T cells (CTL) which can directly kill tumor cells. However, CD4+ T helper (Th) cells can also be used. Th can activate antigen-specific effector cells and recruit cells of the innate immune system such as macrophages and dendritic cells to assist in antigen presentation (APC), and antigen primed Th cells can directly activate tumor antigen-specific CTL. As a result of activating APC, antigen specific Th1 have been implicated as the initiators of epitope or determinant spreading which is a broadening of immunity to other antigens in the tumor. The ability to elicit epitope spreading broadens the immune response to many potential antigens in the tumor and can lead to more efficient tumor cell kill due to the ability to mount a heterogeneic response. In this way, adoptive T cell therapy can used to stimulate endogenous immunity.
- B. Subjects to be Treated
- In general, the disclosed chimeric viruses and methods of treatment thereof are useful in the context of cancer, including tumor therapy, particular brain tumor therapy.
- In a mature animal, a balance usually is maintained between cell renewal and cell death in most organs and tissues. The various types of mature cells in the body have a given life span; as these cells die, new cells are generated by the proliferation and differentiation of various types of stem cells. Under normal circumstances, the production of new cells is so regulated that the numbers of any particular type of cell remain constant. Occasionally, though, cells arise that are no longer responsive to normal growth-control mechanisms. These cells give rise to clones of cells that can expand to a considerable size, producing a tumor or neoplasm. A tumor that is not capable of indefinite growth and does not invade the healthy surrounding tissue extensively is benign. A tumor that continues to grow and becomes progressively invasive is malignant. The term cancer refers specifically to a malignant tumor. In addition to uncontrolled growth, malignant tumors exhibit metastasis. In this process, small clusters of cancerous cells dislodge from a tumor, invade the blood or lymphatic vessels, and are carried to other tissues, where they continue to proliferate. In this way a primary tumor at one site can give rise to a secondary tumor at another site.
- The compositions and methods described herein are useful for treating subjects having benign or malignant tumors by delaying or inhibiting the growth of a tumor in a subject, reducing the growth or size of the tumor, inhibiting or reducing metastasis of the tumor, and/or inhibiting or reducing symptoms associated with tumor development or growth. The examples below indicate that the viruses and methods disclosed herein are useful for treating cancer, particular brain tumors, in vivo.
- Malignant tumors which may be treated are classified herein according to the embryonic origin of the tissue from which the tumor is derived. Carcinomas are tumors arising from endodermal or ectodermal tissues such as skin or the epithelial lining of internal organs and glands. The disclosed compositions are particularly effective in treating carcinomas. Sarcomas, which arise less frequently, are derived from mesodermal connective tissues such as bone, fat, and cartilage. The leukemias and lymphomas are malignant tumors of hematopoietic cells of the bone marrow. Leukemias proliferate as single cells, whereas lymphomas tend to grow as tumor masses. Malignant tumors may show up at numerous organs or tissues of the body to establish a cancer.
- The types of cancer that can be treated with the provided compositions and methods include, but are not limited to, cancers such as vascular cancer such as multiple myeloma, adenocarcinomas and sarcomas, of bone, bladder, brain, breast, cervical, colo-rectal, esophageal, kidney, liver, lung, nasopharangeal, pancreatic, prostate, skin, stomach, and uterine. In some embodiments, the disclosed compositions are used to treat multiple cancer types concurrently. The compositions can also be used to treat metastases or tumors at multiple locations.
- The disclosed methods are particularly useful in treating brain tumors. Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal. They are created by an abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells, myelin-producing Schwann cells, lymphatic tissue, blood vessels), in the cranial nerves, in the brain envelopes (meninges), skull, pituitary and pineal gland, or spread from cancers primarily located in other organs (metastatic tumors). Examples of brain tumors include, but are not limited to, oligodendroglioma, meningioma, supratentorial ependymona, pineal region tumors, medulloblastoma, cerebellar astrocytoma, infratentorial ependymona, brainstem glioma, schwannomas, pituitary tumors, craniopharyngioma, optic glioma, and astrocytoma.
- “Primary” brain tumors originate in the brain and “secondary” (metastatic) brain tumors originate from cancer cells that have migrated from other parts of the body. Primary brain cancer rarely spreads beyond the central nervous system, and death results from uncontrolled tumor growth within the limited space of the skull. Metastatic brain cancer indicates advanced disease and has a poor prognosis. Primary brain tumors can be cancerous or noncancerous. Both types take up space in the brain and may cause serious symptoms (e.g., vision or hearing loss) and complications (e.g., stroke). All cancerous brain tumors are life threatening (malignant) because they have an aggressive and invasive nature. A noncancerous primary brain tumor is life threatening when it compromises vital structures (e.g., an artery). In a particular embodiment, the disclosed compositions and methods are used to treat cancer cells or tumors that have metastasized from outside the brain (e.g., lung, breast, melanoma) and migrated into the brain.
- The Examples below illustrate that Lassa-VSV is oncolytic, but also non-toxic to health or normal cells, even when administered directly to the brain. Therefore, the disclosed viruses are particularly useful for treating brain cancer, cancer that can metastasize to the brains, for example lung cancer, breast cancer, and skin cancer such as melanoma.
- Although the viruses are particularly safe and useful for treating cancer in the brain, the cancer does not have to be in the brain. It is believed that the chimeric virus are also effective for treating other cancer outside the brain, and can thereof be administered systemically in or locally outside the brain. In a particular embodiment, a chimeric virus is used to treat a cancer that could, but has not yet metastasized to the brain. See, for example, Yarde, et al., Cancer Gene Ther., 2013 Nov. 1. doi: 10.1038/cgt.2013.63, which describes that intravenously administered VSVs encoding IFN-β have potent activity against subcutaneous tumors in the 5TGM1 mouse myeloma model, without attendant neurotoxicity. However, when 5TGM1 tumor cells were seeded intravenously, virus-treated mice with advanced myeloma developed clinical signs suggestive of meningoencephalitis, and leading to deaths that are believed to be associated with viral toxicity. Histological analysis revealed that systemically administered 5TGM1 cells seed to the CNS, forming meningeal tumor deposits, and that VSV infects and destroys these tumors. Death is presumably a consequence of meningeal damage and/or direct transmission of virus to adjacent neural tissue.
- The disclosed chimeric Lassa-VSV viruses have reduced toxicity for normal and healthy cells including neurons. Therefore, these viruses are a safer, less toxic alternative for treating systemic cancers that can potential traffic virus into the brain and cause neurotoxicity and even death.
- As shown the examples below, the chimeric Lassa-VSV was safe in the brains of SCID mice that have a depressed systemic immunity due to substantially reduced T and B cells. Thus, Lassa-VSV should be far safer than VSV with its normal VSV glycoprotein. This may enable Lassa-VSV to be used in patients showing depressed immunity, typical of many cancer patients, and also of patients with AIDS, or with genetic immune depression. The enhanced safety in the brain may also be of benefit in patients with compromised blood brain barriers where Lassa-VSV would be safer than VSV in both cancer treatment, and for vaccination against either a cancer cell type, or against unrelated (e.g., non-Lassa, non-VSV) pathogenic microbes.
- The Examples below also show that the chimeric VSV are effective at infecting and replicating in colon, prostate, breast, bone, and bladder cancer cells, indicating its oncolytic potential was not restricted to glioma and melanoma brain tumors. It is believed that the disclosed viruses are effective for treating both primary and secondary brain tumors, but as peripheral (non-brain) cancers and tumors.
- C. Combination Therapies
- Administration of the disclosed compositions containing oncolytic viruses may be coupled with surgical, radiologic, other therapeutic approaches to treatment of tumors and cancers.
- 1. Surgery
- The disclosed compositions and methods can be used as an adjunct to surgery. Surgery is a common treatment for many types of benign and malignant tumors. As it is often not possible to remove all the tumor cells from during surgery, the disclosed compositions containing oncolytic virus are particularly useful subsequent to resection of the primary tumor mass, and would be able to infect and destroy even dispersed tumor cells.
- In a preferred embodiment, the disclosed compositions and methods are used as an adjunct or alternative to neurosurgery. The compositions are particularly well suited to treat areas of the brain that is difficult to treat surgically, for instance high grade tumors of the brain stem, motor cortex, basal ganglia, or internal capsule. High grade gliomas in these locations are generally considered inoperable. An additional situation where an oncolytic virus may be helpful is in regions where the tumor is either wrapped around critical vasculature, or in an area that is difficult to treat surgically.
- 2. Therapeutic Agents
- The viral compositions can be administered to a subject in need thereof alone or in combination with one or more additional therapeutic agents selected based on the condition, disorder or disease to be treated. A description of the various classes of suitable pharmacological agents and drugs may be found in Goodman and Gilman, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, (11th Ed., McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.) (2005).
- Additional therapeutic agents include conventional cancer therapeutics such as chemotherapeutic agents, cytokines, chemokines, and radiation therapy. The majority of chemotherapeutic drugs can be divided into: alkylating agents, antimetabolites, anthracyclines, plant alkaloids, topoisomerase inhibitors, and other antitumour agents. All of these drugs affect cell division or DNA synthesis and function in some way. Additional therapeutics include monoclonal antibodies and the tyrosine kinase inhibitors e.g., imatinib mesylate (GLEEVEC® or GLIVEC®), which directly targets a molecular abnormality in certain types of cancer (chronic myelogenous leukemia, gastrointestinal stromal tumors).
- Representative chemotherapeutic agents include, but are not limited to, amsacrine, bleomycin, busulfan, capecitabine, carboplatin, carmustine, chlorambucil, cisplatin, cladribine, clofarabine, crisantaspase, cyclophosphamide, cytarabine, dacarbazine, dactinomycin, daunorubicin, docetaxel, doxorubicin, epipodophyllotoxins, epirubicin, etoposide, etoposide phosphate, fludarabine, fluorouracil, gemcitabine, hydroxycarbamide, idarubicin, ifosfamide, irinotecan, leucovorin, liposomal doxorubicin, liposomal daunorubicin, lomustine, mechlorethamine, melphalan, mercaptopurine, mesna, methotrexate, mitomycin, mitoxantrone, oxaliplatin, paclitaxel, pemetrexed, pentostatin, procarbazine, raltitrexed, satraplatin, streptozocin, teniposide, tegafur-uracil, temozolomide, teniposide, thiotepa, tioguanine, topotecan, treosulfan, vinblastine, vincristine, vindesine, vinorelbine, taxol and derivatives thereof, trastuzumab (HERCEPTIN®), cetuximab, and rituximab (RITUXAN® or MABTHERA®), bevacizumab (AVASTIN®), and combinations thereof. Representative pro-apoptotic agents include, but are not limited to, fludarabinetaurosporine, cycloheximide, actinomycin D, lactosylceramide, 15d-PGJ(2), and combinations thereof.
- Preferred chemotherapeutics will affect tumors or cancer cells, without diminishing the activity of the virus. For example, in a preferred embodiment, the additional therapeutic agent inhibits proliferation of cancer cells without affecting targeting, infectivity, or replication of the virus.
- a. Anticancer Agents
- The compositions can be administered with an antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof specific for growth factor receptors or tumor specific antigens. Representative growth factors receptors include, but are not limited to, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR; HER1); c-erbB2 (HER2); c-erbB3 (HER3); c-erbB4 (HER4); insulin receptor; insulin-like growth factor receptor 1 (IGF-1R); insulin-like growth factor receptor 2/Mannose-6-phosphate receptor (IGF-II RIM-6-P receptor); insulin receptor related kinase (IRRK); platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR); colony-stimulating factor-1receptor (CSF-1R) (c-Fms); steel receptor (c-Kit); Flk2/Flt3; fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (Flg/Cek1); fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (Bek/Cek3/K-Sam); Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3; Fibroblast growth factor receptor 4; nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR) (TrkA); BDNF receptor (TrkB); NT-3-receptor (TrkC); vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (Flt1); vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2/Flk1/KDR; hepatocyte growth factor receptor (HGF-R/Met); Eph; Eck; Eek; Cek4/Mek4/HEK; Cek5; Elk/Cek6; Cek7; Sek/Cek8; Cek9; Cek10; HEK11; 9 Ror1; Ror2; Ret; Axl; RYK; DDR; and Tie.
- b. Therapeutic Proteins
- It may be desirable to administer the disclosed compositions in combination with therapeutic proteins. VSV is an effective oncolytic virus, in-part, by taking advantage of defects in the interferon system. Administration of therapeutic proteins such as IFN-α, or IFN-α/3 pathway inducer polyriboinosinic polyribocytidylic acid [poly(I:C)] are effective in protecting normal cells from the oncolytic activity, while leaving the tumor cells susceptible to infection and death (Wollmann, et al. J. Virol., 81(3): 1479-1491 (2007). Therefore, in some embodiments, the disclosed compositions are administered in combination with a therapeutic protein to, reduce infectivity and death of normal cells.
- Other therapeutic proteins that can be administered in combination with the disclosed viruses include those provided above as therapeutic proteins that can be engineered into the virus. Accordingly, the therapeutic virus can be part of the virus itself, or administered separately. In some embodiments, the virus includes one or more therapeutic proteins and one more therapeutic proteins are administered separately.
- c. Immuno-Suppressants
- As discussed throughout and demonstrated in the Examples below, the disclosed chimeric VSV viruses generally, show a reduced probability of infecting normal brain cells, but still have a good oncolytic capacity. One limitation of oncolytic viruses in general is that the adaptive immune system can up-regulate its antiviral response and eliminate the virus before the virus has had a chance to maximally infect tumor cells. Although it is important for the adaptive immune system to eliminate the chimeric VSV from the subject, the virus should remain in the subject long enough to infect and kill as many tumor cells as possible balanced against the pathogenicity of the virus to normal cells of the subject. Temporary concomitant immune-suppression has been identified as a strategy to enhance the efficacy of other oncolytic viruses (HSV, adenovirus, vaccinia) that are human pathogens and face pre-existing immunity (Fukuhara, et al., Curr. Cancer Drug Targets, 7:149-155 (2007); Lun, et al., Clin. Cancer Res., 15:2777-2788 (2009)). Therefore, the virus can be administered to the subject in combination with temporary concomitant immune suppression.
- In some embodiments, the virus is administered in combination with an agent that reduces or attenuates the intrinsic IFN-mediated immune responses that can eliminate the virus before it has achieved maximal tumor destruction. In preferred embodiments, the attenuation of the intrinsic IFN-mediated immune responses enhances the rate of recombinant VSV-mediated tumor destruction without increasing infection of normal cells. This strategy should also reduce the initiation of the adaptive immune response which is enhanced by the innate immune response, giving the virus more time to complete its oncolytic actions.
- Paglino, et al., J. Virol., 85:9346-58 (2011) showed that a cancer cell highly resistant to VSV could be infected by blocking the IFN response to VSV with one of three IFN blockers, valproate, the vacccinia protein B18R, or Jak inhibitor 1. Valproate crosses the blood brain barrier as evident in its use to treat epilepsy. It is already approved for clinical use in humans (for attenuating epilepsy), and like many other histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, it has an intrinsic anti-tumor property, independent of oncolytic virus infection, that reduces glioma and other tumor growth in the brain (Chateauvieux, et al., J. Biomed. Biotechnol., 479364. Epub 2010 Jul. 29 (2010); Fu, et al., Neuro. Oncol., 12:328-340 (2010); Su, et al., Clin. Cancer Res., 17:589-597 (2011). Similarly, the HDAC inhibitor vorinostat (ZOLLINZA®) is approved by the FDA for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (Glaser K B, Biochem. Pharmacal., 74:659-671 (2007)). Vorinostat on its own appears to penetrate brain tumors and to increase survival of patients with glioblastoma, and animal studies have shown that valproate can increase infection by viruses in tumors with minimal increased collateral damage. Valproate increased survival substantially in tumor bearing animals treated with HSV (Otsuki, et al., Mol. Ther., 16:1546-1555 (2008)). In one particular ease study a pediatric anaplastic astrocytoma that was resistant to chemotherapy and irradiation, underwent a substantial regression after combined treatment with oral valproate and oncolytic attenuated Newcastle disease virus Wagner, et al., APMIS, 114:731-743 (2006)).
- Other HDAC inhibitors have been shown to enhance viral cancer cell targeting and viral replication by vaccinia (MacTavish, et al., PLoS One, 5:e14462 (2010) and VSV (Nguyen, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 105:14981-14986 (2008)) without substantially altering infection in normal non-cancer cells. Valproate inhibited the induction of several antiviral genes after oncolytic HSV infection, and resulted in enhanced viral propagation in glioma cells, even in the presence of IFN (Otsuki, et at, Mol. Ther., 16:1546-1555 (2008)). Importantly, valproate treatment had no augmenting effect on viral yield in normal human astrocytes. Valproate pretreatment was also shown to enhance HSV propagation in tumors 10-fold in vivo and improved the survival of nude mice bearing U87delta-EGFR brain tumors.
- Therefore, in some embodiments, the virus is administered in combination with an HDAC inhibitor. In some embodiments, the virus is administered in combination with valproate, the vacccinia protein B18R, Jak inhibitor 1, or vorinostat.
- Other immunosuppressants such as cyclosporin, prednisone, dexamethasone, or other steroidal anti-inflammatory, can also be used to reduce the immune response immediately before, during, or shortly after administration of the therapeutic virus. The immunosuppressant is then discontinued or decreased to allow the patient's immune system to prevent inflammation and/or killing of the virus after it has competed the desired killing of tumor or diseased tissue.
- Suitable immunosuppressants are known in the art and include glucocorticoids, cytostatics (such as alkylating agents, antimetabolites, and cytotoxic antibodies), antibodies (such as those directed against T-cell recepotors or 11-2 receptors), drugs acting on immunophilins (such as cyclosporine, tacrolimus, and sirolimus) and other drugs (such as interferons, opioids, TNF binding proteins, mycophenolate, and other small molecules such as fingolimod). The dosage ranges for immunosuppressant agents are known in the art. The specific dosage will depend upon the desired therapeutic effect, the route of administration, and on the duration of the treatment desired. For example, when used as an immunosuppressant, a cytostatic maybe administered at a lower dosage than when used in chemotherapy. Immunosuppressants include, but are not limited to, FK506, prednisone, methylprednisolone, cyclophosphamide, thalidomide, azathioprine, and daclizumab, physalin B, physalin F, physalin G, seco-steroids purified from Physalis angulata L., 15-deoxyspergualin, MMF, rapamycin and its derivatives, CCI-779, FR 900520, FR 900523, NK86-1086, depsidomycin, kanglemycin-C, spergualin, prodigiosin25-c, cammunomicin, demethomycin, tetranactin, tranilast, stevastelins, myriocin, gliotoxin, FR 651814, SDZ214-104, bredinin, WS9482, mycophenolic acid, mimoribine, misoprostol, OKT3, anti-IL-2 receptor antibodies, azasporine, leflunomide, mizoribine, azaspirane, paclitaxel, altretamine, busulfan, chlorambucil, ifosfamide, mechlorethamine, melphalan, thiotepa, cladribine, fluorouracil, floxuridine, gemcitabine, thioguanine, pentostatin, methotrexate, 6-mercaptopurine, cytarabine, carmustine, lomustine, streptozotocin, carboplatin, cisplatin, oxaliplatin, iproplatin, tetraplatin, lobaplatin, JM216, JM335, fludarabine, aminoglutethimide, flutamide, goserelin, leuprolide, megestrol acetate, cyproterone acetate, tamoxifen, anastrozole, bicalutamide, dexamethasone, diethylstilbestrol, bleomycin, dactinomycin, daunorubicin, doxirubicin, idarubicin, mitoxantrone, losoxantrone, mitomycin-c, plicamycin, paclitaxel, docetaxel, topotecan, irinotecan, 9-amino camptothecan, 9-nitro camptothecan, GS-211, etoposide, teniposide, vinblastine, vincristine, vinorelbine, procarbazine, asparaginase, pegaspargase, octreotide, estramustine, and hydroxyurea, and combinations thereof. Preferred immunosuppressants will preferentially reduce or inhibit the subject's immune response, without reducing or inhibiting the activity of the virus.
- Dosage units including virus in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for shipping and storage and/or administration are also disclosed. Active virus should be shipped and stored using a method consistent with viability such as in cooler containing dry ice so that viruses are maintained below 4° C., and preferably below −20° C. VSV virus should not be lyophilized. Components of the kit may be packaged individually and can be sterile. In one embodiment, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier containing an effective amount of virus is shipped and stored in a sterile vial. The sterile vial may contain enough virus for one or more doses. Virus may be shipped and stored in a volume suitable for administration, or may be provided in a concentrated titer that is diluted prior to administration. In another embodiment, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier containing an effective amount of virus can be shipped and stored in a syringe.
- Typical concentrations of concentrated viral particles in the sterile saline, phosphate buffered saline or other suitable media for the virus is in the range of 108 to 109 with a maximum of 1012. Dosage units should not contain membrane disruptive agents nor should the viral solution be frozen and dried (i.e., lyophilized), which could kill the virus.
- Kits containing syringes of various capacities or vessels with deformable sides (e.g., plastic vessels or plastic-sided vessels) that can be squeezed to force a liquid composition out of an orifice are provided. The size and design of the syringe will depend on the route of administration. For example, in one embodiment, a syringe for administering virus intratumorally, is capable of accurately delivering a smaller volume (such as 1 to 100 μl). Typically, a larger syringe, pump or catheter will be used to administer virus systemically. Any of the kits can include instructions for use.
- A. Engineering Recombinant VSV Viruses
- The native VSV genome is a single negative-sense, non-segmented stand of RNA that contains five genes (N, L, P, M, and G) and has a total size of 11.161 kb. Methods of engineering recombinant viruses by reconstituting VSV from DNA encoding a positive-sense stand of RNA are known in the art (Lawson, et al., PNAS, 92:4477-4481 (1995), Dalton and Rose, Virology., 279:414421 (2001)). For example, recombinant DNA can be transcribed by T7 RNA polymerase to generate a full-length positive-strand RNA complimentary to the viral genome. Expression of this RNA in cells also expressing the VSV nucleocapsid protein and the two VSV polymerase subunits results in production of VSV virus (Lawson, et al., PNAS, 92:4477-4481 (1995)). In this way, VSV viruses can be engineered to express variant proteins, additional proteins, foreign antigens, targeting proteins, or therapeutic proteins using known cloning methods. Methods of preparing exemplary suitable VSV viruses where the gene encoding the VSV G protein is deleted and replaced with a gene encoding the Lassa virus glycoprotein are described in more detail above.
- In some embodiments, the chimeric VSV is prepared by substituting the sequence encoding the G protein on the plasmid referred as VSVXN2 (Schnell, et al., J. Virol., 70:2318-2323 (1996)) with a heterologous glycoprotein, such as the glycoprotein from Lassa virus.
- In other embodiments the chimeric VSV is prepared by substituting the sequence encoding the G protein on plasmid pVSV(+) described in Whelan, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 92(18):8388-92 (1995). Whelan describes the constructions of a full-length cDNA clone of VSV assembled from clones of each of the VSV genes and intergenic junctions. These clones were assembled into a full-length cDNA and inserted in both orientations between the bacteriophage T7 promoter and a cDNA copy of the self-cleaving ribozyme from the antigenomic strand of HDV. The resulting plasmids were named pVSV1(+) and pVSV1(−) to reflect the polarity of the T7 transcript they generated: VSV antigenomic or genomic RNA, respectively.
- The T7 transcripts contained two non-VSV nucleotides (GG) at their 5′ ends but were cleaved by the HDV ribozyme to generate a 3′ terminus which corresponded precisely to the 3′ end of the VSV antigenomic or genomic sequence, an important requirement for VSV RNA replication. Transfection of plasmids into BHK21 cells infected with vTF7-3 was performed under the conditions and with quantities of support plasmids as described (Pattnaik, et al., Cell, 69:1011-1020 (1992)), and up to 5 ug of pVSV1(+) or pVSV1(−). Transfected cells were incubated at 31° C. or 37° C. For some experiments, pVSV1(+) and pVSV1(−) were linearized by digestion at a unique Nhe I site located downstream of the T7 terminator in the pGEM-3-based plasmids.
- To identify cDNA-derived virus unambiguously, several genetic markers were incorporated into the full-length cDNA clones. All five genes were of the Indiana serotype of VSV, but whereas the N, P, M, and L genes originated from the San Juan strain, the G gene was from the Orsay strain. In addition, the functional P clone has 28 nucleotide sequence differences from the published San Juan sequence and in the case of pVSV1(+) the 516 nt at the 5′ end of the VSV genome originated from pDI, the clone of DI-T RNA (Pattnaik, et al., Cell, 69:1011-1020 (1992)).
- B. Creating Mutant VSV Virus
- RNA viruses are prone to spontaneous genetic variation. The mutation rate of VSV is about 10−4 per nucleotide replicated, which is approximately one nucleotide change per genome (Drake, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96:13910-13913). Therefore, mutant VSV viruses exhibiting desired properties can be developed by applying selective pressure. Methods for adaption of VSV viruses through repeated passaging is described in the art. See, for example, Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 79(10): 6005-6022 (2005). Selective pressure can be applied by repeated passaging and enhanced selection to create mutant virus with desirable traits such as increased infectivity and oncolytic potential for a cell type of interest. The cell type of interest could be general, such as cancer cells, or specific such as glioblastoma cells. Mutant virus can also be selected based on reduced toxicity to normal cells. Methods of enhanced selection include, but are not limited to, short time for viral attachment to cells, collection of early viral progeny, and preabsorption of viral particles with high affinity of undesirable cells (such as normal cells). Mutations can be identified by sequencing the viral genome and comparing the sequence to the sequence of the parental strain.
- DNA encoding the VSV genome can also be used as a substrate for random or site directed mutagenesis to develop VSV mutant viruses. Mutagenesis can be accomplished by a variety of standard, mutagenic procedures. Changes in single genes may be the consequence of point mutations that involve the removal, addition or substitution of a single nucleotide base within a DNA sequence, or they may be the consequence of changes involving the insertion or deletion of large numbers of nucleotides.
- Mutations can arise spontaneously as a result of events such as errors in the fidelity of nucleic acid replication or the movement of transposable genetic elements (transposons) within the genome. They also are induced following exposure to chemical or physical mutagens. Such mutation-inducing agents include ionizing radiations, ultraviolet light and a diverse array of chemicals such as alkylating agents and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons all of which are capable of interacting either directly or indirectly (generally following some metabolic biotransformations) with nucleic acids. The nucleic acid lesions induced by such environmental agents may lead to modifications of base sequence when the affected DNA is replicated or repaired and thus to a mutation. Mutation also can be site-directed through the use of particular targeting methods. Various types of mutagenesis such as random mutagenesis, e.g., insertional mutagenesis, chemical mutagenesis, radiation mutagenesis, in vitro scanning mutagenesis, random mutagenesis by fragmentation and reassembly, and site specific mutagenesis, e.g., directed evolution, are described in U.S. Patent Application No. 2007/0026012.
- Mutant viruses can be prepared by site specific mutagenesis of nucleotides in the DNA encoding the protein, thereby producing DNA encoding the mutant. Techniques for making substitution mutations at predetermined sites in DNA having a known sequence are well known, for example M13 primer mutagenesis and PCR mutagenesis. Amino acid substitutions are typically of single residues, but can occur at a number of different locations at once. Insertions usually will be on the order of about from 1 to 10 amino acid residues; and deletions will range about from 1 to 30 residues. Substitutions, deletions, insertions or any combination thereof can be combined to arrive at a final construct. The mutations must not place the sequence out of reading frame and preferably will not create complementary regions that could produce secondary mRNA structure. Substitution variants are those in which at least one residue has been removed and a different residue inserted in its place.
- Viruses and Cells
- VSV-wtG and chimeric VSV's expressing the G protein from either Lassa fever virus (VSV-LASV-G), rabies virus (VSV-RABV), lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (VSV-LCMV-G), Ebola virus (VSV-EBOV-G), or Marburg virus (VSV-MARV-G) were generated as described previously (Beier, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108:15414-15419 (2011); Jae, et al., Science, 344:1506-1510 (2014); Krishnan, et al., Viruses, 4:2471-2484. A GFP reporter gene was engineered into the first genome position of these VSVs. VSV-EBOV-G and VSV-LASV-G that did not express any reporter genes were also tested in some assays (Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78(10):5458-65 (2004)).
- VSV-EBOV
- The EBOV glycoprotein sequence expressed in VSV-EBOV is derived from the Mayinga strain of Zaire Ebola virus as described in the methods of Garbutt, et al. (2004) J. Virol 78: 5458-5465. The nucleotide sequence shown below was determined by direct sequencing of VSV-EBOV samples and matches the sequence for the full-length (non-secreted) glycoprotein gene found in GenBank accession NC_002549 nt 6039-8068. Note that the GenBank sequence over this region is 2030 nt long, whereas the sequence below is 2031 nt in length. This difference derives from the fact that the GenBank sequence is based on the genomic RNA sequence, whereas the sequence below is based on the mRNA sequence that has been ‘edited’ by the viral polymerase to include an extra ‘A’ nucleotide between 6918-6924 of the GenBank sequence.
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VSV-EBOV glycoprotein gene nucleotide sequence (2031 nt) (SEQ ID NO: 6) ATGGGCGTTACAGGAATATTGCAGTTACCTCGTGATCGATTCAAGAGGACA TCATTCTTTCTTTGGGTAATTATCCTTTTCCAAAGAACATTTTCCATCCCA CTTGGAGTCATCCACAATAGCACATTACAGGTTAGTGATGTCGACAAACTA GTTTGTCGTGACAAACTGTCATCCACAAATCAATTGAGATCAGTTGGACTG AATCTCGAAGGGAATGGAGTGGCAACTGACGTCCCATCTGCAACTAAAAGA TGGGGCTTCAGGTCCGGTGTCCCACCAAAGGTGGTCAATTATGAAGCTGGT GAATGGGCTGAAAACTGCTACAATCTTGAAATCAAAAAACCTGACGGGAGT GAGTGTCTACCAGCAGCGCCAGACGGGATTCGGGGCTTCCCCCGGTGCCGG TATGTGCACAAAGTATCAGGAACGGGACCGTGTGCCGGAGACTTTGCCTTC CATAAAGAGGGTGCTTTCTTCCTGTATGATCGACTTGCTTCCACAGTTATC TACCGAGGAACGACTTTCGCTGAAGGTGTCGTTGCATTTCTGATACTGCCC CAAGCTAAGAAGGACTTCTTCAGCTCACACCCCTTGAGAGAGCCGGTCAAT GCAACGGAGGACCCGTCTAGTGGCTACTATTCTACCACAATTAGATATCAG GCTACCGGTTTTGGAACCAATGAGACAGAGTACTTGTTCGAGGTTGACAAT TTGACCTACGTCCAACTTGAATCAAGATTCACACCACAGTTTCTGCTCCAG CTGAATGAGACAATATATACAAGTGGGAAAAGGAGCAATACCACGGGAAAA CTAATTTGGAAGGTCAACCCCGAAATTGATACAACAATCGGGGAGTGGGCC TTCTGGGAAACTAAAAAAAACCTCACTAGAAAAATTCGCAGTGAAGAGTTG TCTTTCACAGTTGTATCAAACGGAGCCAAAAACATCAGTGGTCAGAGTCCG GCGCGAACTTCTTCCGACCCAGGGACCAACACAACAACTGAAGACCACAAA ATCATGGCTTCAGAAAATTCCTCTGCAATGGTTCAAGTGCACAGTCAAGGA AGGGAAGCTGCAGTGTCGCATCTAACAACCCTTGCCACAATCTCCACGAGT CCCCAATCCCTCACAACCAAACCAGGTCCGGACAACAGCACCCATAATACA CCCGTGTATAAACTTGACATCTCTGAGGCAACTCAAGTTGAACAACATCAC CGCAGAACAGACAACGACAGCACAGCCTCCGACACTCCCTCTGCCACGACC GCAGCCGGACCCCCAAAAGCAGAGAACACCAACACGAGCAAGAGCACTGAC TTCCTGGACCCCGCCACCACAACAAGTCCCCAAAACCACAGCGAGACCGCT GGCAACAACAACACTCATCACCAAGATACCGGAGAAGAGAGTGCCAGCAGC GGGAAGCTAGGCTTAATTACCAATACTATTGCTGGAGTCGCAGGACTGATC ACAGGCGGGAGAAGAACTCGAAGAGAAGCAATTGTCAATGCTCAACCCAAA TGCAACCCTAATTTACATTACTGGACTACTCAGGATGAAGGTGCTGCAATC GGACTGGCCTGGATACCATATTTCGGGCCAGCAGCCGAGGGAATTTACATA GAGGGGCTAATGCACAATCAAGATGGTTTAATCTGTGGGTTGAGACAGCTG GCCAACGAGACGACTCAAGCTCTTCAACTGTTCCTGAGAGCCACAACTGAG CTACGCACCTTTTCAATCCTCAACCGTAAGGCAATTGATTTCTTGCTGCAG CGATGGGGCGGCACATGCCACATTCTGGGACCGGACTGCTGTATCGAACCA CATGATTGGACCAAGAACATAACAGACAAAATTGATCAGATTATTCATGAT TTTGTTGATAAAACCCTTCCGGACCAGGGGGACAATGACAATTGGTGGACA GGATGGAGACAATGGATACCGGCAGGTATTGGAGTTACAGGCGTTATAATT GCAGTTATCGCTTTATTCTGTATATGCAAATTTGTCTTTTAG VSV-EBOV glycoprotein amino acid sequence (676 a.a.) (SEQ ID NO: 7) MGVTGILQLPRDRFKRTSFFLWVIILFQRTFSIPLGVIHNSTLQVSDVDKL VCRDKLSSTNQLRSVGLNLEGNGVATDVPSATKRWGFRSGVPPKVVNYEAG EWAENCYNLEIKKPDGSECLPAAPDGIRGFPRCRYVHKVSGTGPCAGDFAF HKEGAFFLYDRLASTVIYRGTTFAEGVVAFLILPQAKKDFFSSHPLREPVN ATEDPSSGYYSTTIRYQATGFGTNETEYLFEVDNLTYVQLESRFTPQFLLQ LNETIYTSGKRSNTTGKLIWKVNPEIDTTIGEWAFWETKKNLTRKIRSEEL SFTVVSNGAKNISGQSPARTSSDPGTNTTTEDHKIMASENSSAMVQVHSQG REAAVSHLTTLATISTSPQSLTTKPGPDNSTHNTPVYKLDISEATQVEQHH RRTDNDSTASDTPSATTAAGPPKAENTNTSKSTDFLDPATTTSPQNHSETA GNNNTHHQDTGEESASSGKLGLITNTIAGVAGLITGGRRTRREAIVNAQPK CNPNLHYWTTQDEGAAIGLAWIPYFGPAAEGIYTEGLMHNQDGLICGLRQL ANETTQALQLFLRATTELRTFSILNRKAIDFLLQRWGGTCHILGPDCCIEP HDWTKNITDKIDQIIHDFVDKTLPDQGDNDNWWTGWRQWIPAGIGVTGVII AVIALFCICKFVF - VSV-1′GFP-EBOV
- The EBOV glycoprotein sequence expressed in VSV-1′GFP-EBOV is derived from the Mayinga strain of Zaire Ebola virus as described in the methods of Wong, et al. (2010) J. Virol 84: 163-175. The nucleotide sequence shown below was determined by direct sequencing of VSV-1′GFP-EBOV samples and is similar (but not identical) to the sequence for the full-length (non-secreted) glycoprotein gene found in GenBank accession AF086833 nt 6039-8068. The mucin domain (a.a. 309-489) has been deleted from the protein and two amino acids are different (N40S and I662V) relative to the GenBank sequence. Whereas the mucin deletion and I662V mutations were intentionally introduced and are described in the methods of Wong, et al. (2010), the N40S mutation was not described and it is unknown whether this mutation existed within the original recombinant plasmid used to generate the virus or emerged after recovery through repeated passages.
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VSV-1′GFP-EBOV glycoprotein gene nucleotide sequence (1494 nt) (SEQ ID NO: 8) ATGGGCGTTACAGGAATATTGCAGTTACCTCGTGATCGATTCAAGAGGACA TCATTCTTTCTTTGGGTAATTATCCTTTTCCAAAGAACATTTTCCATCCCA CTTGGAGTCATCCACAGTAGCACATTACAGGTTAGTGATGTCGACAAACTA GTTTGTCGTGACAAACTGTCATCCACAAATCAATTGAGATCAGTTGGACTG AATCTCGAAGGGAATGGAGTGGCAACTGACGTGCCATCTGCAACTAAAAGA TGGGGCTTCAGGTCCGGTGTCCCACCAAAGGTGGTCAATTATGAAGCTGGT GAATGGGCTGAAAACTGCTACAATCTTGAAATCAAAAAACCTGACGGGAGT GAGTGTCTACCAGCAGCGCCAGACGGGATTCGGGGCTTCCCCCGGTGCCGG TATGTGCACAAAGTATCAGGAACGGGACCGTGTGCCGGAGACTTTGCCTTC CATAAAGAGGGTGCTTTCTTCCTGTATGATCGACTTGCTTCCACAGTTATC TACCGAGGAACGACTTTCGCTGAAGGTGTCGTTGCATTTCTGATACTGCCC CAAGCTAAGAAGGACTTCTTCAGCTCACACCCCTTGAGAGAGCCGGTCAAT GCAACGGAGGACCCGTCTAGTGGCTACTATTCTACCACAATTAGATATCAG GCTACCGGTTTTGGAACCAATGAGACAGAGTACTTGTTCGAGGTTGACAAT TTGACCTACGTCCAACTTGAATCAAGATTCACACCACAGTTTCTGCTCCAG CTGAATGAGACAATATATACAAGTGGGAAAAGGAGCAATACCACGGGAAAA CTAATTTGGAAGGTCAACCCCGAAATTGATACAACAATCGGGGAGTGGGCC TTCTGGGAAACTAAAAAAAACCTCACTAGAAAAATTCGCAGTGAAGAGTTG TCTTTCTCTAGAGCAGGACTGATCACAGGCGGGAGAAGAACTCGAAGAGAA GCAATTGTCAATGCTCAACCCAAATGCAACCCTAATTTACATTACTGGACT ACTCAGGATGAAGOTGCTGCAATCGGACTGGCCTGGATACCATATTTCGGG CCAGCAGCCGAGGGAATTTACATAGAGGGGCTAATGCACAATCAAGATGGT TTAATCTGTGGGTTGAGACACCTGGCCAACGAGACGACTCAAGCTCTTGAA CTGTTCCTGAGAGCCACAACTGAGCTACGCACCTTTTCAATCCTCAACCGT AAGGCAATTGATTTCTTGCTGCAGCGATGGGGCGGCACATGCCACATTCTG GGACCGGACTGCTGTATCGAACCACATGATTGGACCAAGAACATAACAGAC AAAATTGATCAGATTATTCATGATTTTGTTGATAAAACGCTTCCGGACCAG GGGGACAATGACAATTGGTGGACAGGATGGAGACAATGGATACCGGCAGGT ATTGGAGTTACAGGCGTTGTAATTGCAGTTATCGCTTTATTCTGTATATGC AAATTTGTCTTTTAG VSV-1′GFP-EBOV glycoprotein amino acid sequence (497 aa.) (SEQ ID NO: 9) MGVTGILQLPRDRFKRTSFFLWVIILFQRTFSIPLGVIHSSTLQVSDVDKL VCRDKLSSTNQLRSVGLNLEGNGVATDVPSATKRWGFRSGVPPKVVNYEAG EWAENCYNLEIKKPDGSECLPAAPDGIRGFPRCRYVHKVSGTGPCAGDFAF HKEGAFFLYDRLASTVIYRGTTFAEGVVAFLILPQAKKDFFSSHPLREPVN ATEDPSSGYYSTTIRYQATGFGTNETEYLFEVDNLTYVQLESRFTPQFLLQ LNETIYTSGKRSNTTGKLIWKVNPEIDTTIGEWAFWETKKNLTRKIRSEEL SFSRAGLITGGRRTRREAIVNAQPKCNPNLHYWTTQDEGAAIGLAWIPYFG PAAEGIYIEGLMHNQDGLICGLRQLANETTQALQLFLRATTELRTFSILNR KAIDFLLQRWGGTCHILGPDCCIEPHDWTKNITDKIDQIIHDFVDKTLPDQ GDNDNWWTGWRQWIPAGIGVTGVVIAVIALFCICKFVF - VSV-LASV
- The viral genome is a VSV background where the sequence encoding the VSV G protein is substituted for a sequence encoding the glycoprotein from Lassa virus, and a sequence encoding GFP is inserted into the first position of the viral genome. The LASV glycoprotein sequence expressed in VSV-LASV is derived from the Josiah strain of Lassa virus as described in the methods of Garbutt, et al. (2004) 1 Virol 78: 5458-5465.
- VSV-1′GFP-LASV
- The LASV glycoprotein sequence expressed in VSV-1′GFP-LASV is derived from the Josiah strain of Lassa virus as described in the methods of Jae, et al. (2013) Science 340: 479-483.
- Viral infection was detected by the GFP reporter, using fluorescent and phase contrast imaging under a microscope. All viruses were used at an MOI of 0.1; thus Lassa-VSV replicated in gliomas in order to infect all cells tested.
- For in vitro experiments, viruses were propagated on Vero cells, purified, and concentrated using sucrose gradient centrifugation (Cureton, et al., PLoS Pathog, 6, e1001127 (2010). For in vivo experiments, viruses were propagated on Vero cells and filter-purified according to a protocol described previously (Lawson, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 92:4477-4481 (1995). All viruses were plaque-titered on Vero cells prior to experiments. Human glioma U87 and U118 were obtained from ATCC (Manassas, Va.), mouse glioma CT2A was a gift from Dr T Seyfried (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.), human melanoma YUMAC and normal human melanocytes were provided by Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer. Normal human glial cells were derived from human temporal lobectomies (Ozduman, et al., J. Neurosci, 28:1882-1893 (2008)). Normal human dermal fibroblasts were purchased from Cambrex (Walkersville, Md.). Normal human embryonic neurons were purchased from Sciencell (Carlsbad, Calif.). The human cancer cell lines SJSA-1, BT-549, T-47D, HCT116, SW480, T24, and RT4, and DU-145 lines were kindly provided. Stably transfected tumor cells expressing red fluorescent protein RFP (rU87 and rYUMAC) were generated as described earlier (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 87:6644-6659 (2013)).
- Primary cultures of mouse brain were generated by dissociating cortex of E17 mice for predominantly neuronal cultures and whole brain tissue of P1 mice for mixed neuronal/glia cultures. Cells were plated in MEM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) supplemented with 10% FBS overnight before medium was replaced with Neurobasal/B27 medium (Invitrogen). Melanoma cells were maintained in Opti-MEM/5% FBS, melanocyte medium containing additional supplements listed elsewhere (Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 87:6644-6659 (2013)). Glioma cells, human glia and fibroblasts were maintained in MEM/10% FBS (Invitrogen). All cultures were kept in humidified atmosphere containing 5% CO2 at 37° C.
- In Vitro Experiments
- Viral infection of mixed neuronal/glial cultures, and U87, U118, CT2A, and YUMAC tumor cultures was monitored by quantifying GFP expression of infected cells compared to total number of cells on at least 10 microscopic fields using fluorescence microscopy. Cultures were assessed for presence of cytopathic effects before and after virus application. Cytopathic effects were noted as the appearance of rounding, blebbing and syncitia formation. For analysis of infection characteristic of chimeric VSVs on mixed neuronal cultures, morphology of infected cells was used as a guide for identifying neuronal or glia infection by the virus. Identification of cell type was later corroborated by immunohistochemistry for NeuN and GFAP. Mixed human brain cultures were established by first plating a glia monolayer. Two days later, human neurons were seeded onto the glia monolayer. After 7 days in culture and morphological confirmation of neuron process outgrowth, cultures were inoculated with VSV-wtG or VSVLASV-G (MOI 1). GFP expression was quantified 24 hours later.
- Plaque assay was used to assess viral replication. In short, cells were infected at an MOI of 0.1, residual virus was removed by replacing supernatant, and progeny virus was collected from the supernatant at the indicated time points. Serial dilutions were plated on monolayers of Vero or BHK cells, respectively. 2.5% Agar solution in MEM was used as semi-solid overlay. For IFN pretreatment, cultures were incubated for 8 hours with recombinant hybrid interferon type 1 IFNαA/D (Sigma-Aldrich; catalog no. I4401) at a concentration of 100 IU/ml. To test generalization of the oncolytic effect of VSV-LASV-G to other human cancer types, 8 human tumor cell types were infected at an MOI 3 (primary inoculation). 2 hours later inoculum was removed and cultures were washed 3 times with PBS before addition of fresh medium. 24 hours later infection rates were determined by GFP expression. To assess the capability of VSV-LASV-G to propagate in these tumor cultures the 24 hpi supernatant was filtered to remove cellular debris and transferred onto an uninfected monolayer of the same tumor designation (secondary inoculation).
- Image Analysis Virus infected cultures and histological sections of mouse brain were analyzed using a fluorescence microscope (IX 71, Olympus Optical, Tokyo, Japan). A fluorescence stereomicroscope (SZX12, Olympus Optical) was used for whole brain scanning before sectioning.
- To test the efficacy of different binding glycoproteins, 6 recombinant VSVs were compared, each expressing a different binding glycoprotein (
FIGS. 1A-1C ). Five chimeric VSVs were tested in which the VSV glycoprotein was replaced (Beier, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108:15414-15419 (2011); Jae, et al., Science, 340:479-483 (2013); Krishnan, et al., Viruses, 4:2471-2484 (2012)) by the G genes from other viruses, including Lassa fever, rabies, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, Ebola, or Marburg virus. These chimeric viruses were compared with control VSVs that retained the normal VSV glycoprotein. Chimeric viruses, which like VSV-wtG, also encoded GFP in the first genomic position, were tested first in human and mouse glioblastoma (GBM). All six viruses infected GBM cells in vitroFIG. 1A ), with a greater level of infection of human GBM (U87 and U118) than mouse GBM (CT2A) 24hpi (FIG. 1A ). Generally speaking, Lassa-VSV showed the most robust infection of the 3 gliomas tested (U87, U118, CT2A) at 24 hrs, and earlier, while other viruses also infected some of the gliomas, but not all of them. Specifically, in U87 glioma, all viruses showed good infection except VSV-MARV (FIG. 1A ). In U118 glioma, VSV-LASV, VSV-EBOV, and VSV-RABV showed high levels of infection, whereas VSV-MARV and VSV-LCMV significantly less. In mouse CT-2A glioma, VSV-LASV performed the best; VSV-EBOV infected almost as well as VSV-LASV (FIG. 1A ). Lassa-VSV (VSV-La-G) infected and killed 100% of two human gliomas, U87 and U118. - All six viruses replicated on human GBMs, as seen at 24 hrs post inoculation (hpi) (
FIG. 1B ). Typical of VSV-infected cells (Ozduman, et al., J. Neurosci, 28:1882-1893 (2008); Wollmann, et al., J. Virol, 81:1479-1491 (2007)), infected cells died, as confirmed by staining with membrane impermeant dyes. - The relative infection of all six viruses on mouse and human brain cultures that included neurons and glia was also tested. The relative infection of mouse neurons vs glia is shown in
FIG. 1D . VSV-wtG showed the greatest level of neuronal infection (around 90%). VSV-LASV-G and VSV-LCMV-G showed the least neuronal infection. When plaque size was examined as a measure of infectivity and replication, VSV-LASV plaques were bigger than VSV-LCMV and VSV-EBOV on human gliomas U87 and U118 (FIG. 1C ), indicating enhanced infection and replication. VSV generated the largest plaques on tumor cells, but also showed large plaques on normal brain cells, an unwanted phenotype. Among the chimeric viruses, VSV-LASV and VSV-EBOV generated smaller plaques on human brain than VSV-wtG and VSV-LCMV (FIG. 1C ), and showed much weaker infection of pure human neuronal cultures than VSV-wtG (FIG. 3A ). - Lassa-VSV, which was the superior oncolytic candidate from an analysis of glycoproteins from 5 unrelated viruses that were incorporated into the VSV genome, was also compared with other VSVs that expressed the normal VSV glycoprotein. Of 39 potential oncolytic viruses, including 17 variants of VSV, (Wollmann, et al., J Virol., 79: 6005-6022 (2005); Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 81:1479-1491 (2007); Wollmann, et al., J 84:1563-73 (2010); Wollmann, et al., Cancer J., 18:69-81 (2012); Paglino, et al., J. Virol., 85:9346-58 (2011); Ozduman, et al., J. Virology, 83:11540-11549 (2009); Ozduman, et al., J. Neurosci., 28:1882-1893 (2008)), Lassa-VSV was identified as a superior candidate in terms of a strong safety profile, as well as an effective potential to selectively target and kill GBMs and to precipitate an immune attack on the glioma.
- Together, the in vitro data point to VSV-LASV as having the best combination of glioma infectivity (
FIGS. 1A and 1C ) and low neuronal tropism (FIG. 1D ). VSV-EBOV was selected as a second candidate to include for in vivo testing being another virus with broad glioma tropism and evidence of reduced neurotropsim compared to VSVwtG in both mouse and human brain, although not as reduced as VSV-LASV. VSV-Lassa showed the least infection of neurons, coupled with a strong infection of human glioma. In contrast, a control rabies-VSV chimeric virus showed strong infection of neurons and would be a relatively very poor candidate for glioma treatment. Recombinant VSVs with minor changes to the genome, for instance VSV-M51, can potentially revert to the more aggressive wild type virus by gene mutation. In contrast, since the entire binding of VSV to cells has been switched to Lassa glycoprotein, and the VSV glycoprotein gene is deleted, this virus cannot revert to the wild type VSV, a substantial benefit. A primary mechanism of targeting is the absence or attenuation of the intrinsic anti-viral response in the majority of cancer cells, including gliomas, compared to normal cells that have an intrinsic interferon mediated antiviral response to VSV and other viruses (Stojdl, et al., Nat. Med., 6:821-825 (2000); Stojdl, et al., Cancer Cell., 4:263-275 (2003); Wollmann, et al., J. Virol., 81:1479-1491 (2007)). - Furthermore, although there is not full agreement as to the origin of cancer stem cells, with some indications that the cells initiate cancer, or that they arise from multiple mutations in dividing tumor cells, there is more agreement that cells that express antigens typical of stem cells do show resistance to small-molecule cancer therapeutics, and to radiation treatment. Glioma stem cells are reported to express CD133 and nestin. In preliminary experiments, using cells expressing CD133, Lassa-VSV was found to infect and kill these stem-like cells in culture, indicating another potential attribute of the use of this virus in the treatment of cancer.
- Mouse Procedures
- 6-8 week old male Swiss Webster mice received the following virus doses: I.C.: 3.6×104 pfu in 1 ml into the right striatum (2 mm lateral, 0.5 mm rostral to Bregma at 3 mm depth), I.V.: 106 pfu in 100 μl via tail vein injection, I.N.: 2.5×105 pfu in 25 μl in each nostril. Stereotactic application of virus or tumor cells was performed under full anesthesia using ketamine/xylazine (100 and 10 mg/kg, respectively) applied via i.p. route. Uni- and bilateral intracranial glioma and melanoma xenografts were established in 4-6 week old male CB17 SCID mice by injection of 5×104 cells each into the left and right striatum (Ozduman, et al., J. Neurosci, 28:1882-1893 (2008); Wollmann, et al., J. Virol, 87:6644-6659 (2013)). 15 days post tumor placement mice received virus either via a unilateral intratumoral injection (3.6×104 pfu in 1 μl) or via tail vein injection (106 pfu in 100 μl). Mice were monitored daily and sacrificed if one of the following conditions were observed: A) weight loss of 25% or more, B) immobility, C) occurrence of adverse neurological symptoms, or D) reaching the end of the observation period of the survival study.
- For histologic analysis of early states of viral infection mice were sacrificed at 2 or 8 days post viral inoculation. After overdose with anesthetic, mice were transcardially perfused with 4% paraformaldehyde. Brains were harvested and stored in 4% paraformaldehyde, dehydrated in 30% sucrose solution and cut in 20 to 30 μm coronal sections with a cryostat. For detection of live virus in designated mice after short (2 days) and long (>60 days) exposure to VSV-LASV-G, tissue samples were collected under sterile conditions from brain, lung, blood, and liver after euthanasia. Tissues were mechanically homogenized in PBS using a microcentrifuge tube tissue grinder. Part of the resultant tissue suspension was plated onto BHK monolayers and assessed for presence of GFP
positive cells 24 hours later. To test the capability of VSV-LASV-G to induce antibody production, adult Swiss Webster mice received an intranasal and intramuscular primary VSV-LASV-G inoculation (at concentrations listed above) followed by aboost 4 weeks later. 2 weeks later, mice were euthanized, bled, and serum was collected. Antibody containing serum was diluted 1:50 to 1:10,000. - Brain sections from transgenic mice expressing GFP in hypocretin neurons were used to target GFP. Brain sections of IFNα/β-R knock-out mice infected with VSV-LASV-G were used to target VSV-LASV-G expression. rU87 and rYUMAC cells were tested for pathogens before tumor grafting and found to be pathogen free. All animal experiments adhered to institutional guidelines and were approved by the Yale University Animal Care and Use Committee.
- Rat Procedures
- Safety of intracranial VSV-LASV-G in rats was tested. Stereotactic coordinates and applied virus dose equaled those in rat tumor models described in the following. Syngeneic brain tumor models were established via stereotactic injection of 50,000 cells in 3 μl suspension into the right striatum (0.7 mm rostral of Bregma, 3.5 mm lateral, 5 mm deep) of 7-8 week old Lewis rats (rat CNS-1 glioma). 7 days post tumor placement, rats received a single intracranial injection of 3 μl suspension containing 1.2×105 PFU of VSV-LASV-G into the area of the tumor. Rats were euthanized at 3 dpi and brains harvested.
- Intracranial Injection Safety Assays
- The Lassa-VSV and Ebola-VSV viruses were injected directly into the brains of 6 week old Swiss-Webster mice (n=10 mice for each virus) using stereotactic injection procedures. A Hamilton syringe controlled by a Stoelting stereotactic injector (Stoelting, Wood Dale, Ill.) was used to inject 1 μl of virus solution into the striatum (2 mm lateral, 0.4 mm rostral to bregma, at 3 mm depth). As a control, attenuated VSV-1′GFP and attenuated VSV-M51 viruses were injected directly into the brains of mice (n=6 mice for each virus) using the same procedure. All injections were 3.6×104 pfu in 1 Animals were monitored daily for body weight, grooming, and overall health. Mice were euthanized with a pentobarbital overdose when neurological symptoms were detected or when body weight dropped below 75%.
- Statistical Analysis
- Statistical significance was determined by Student's t-test, ANOVA, and Chi-Square test. P-values<0.05 were considered statistically significant. Survival studies were non-blinded. Mice were allocated to experimental or control group based on cage number. Power analysis was employed to determine group size for survival experiments of tumor-bearing mice and of virus injected mice.
- To corroborate further the relative lack of infection of neurons of the chimeric viruses, VSV-LASV and VSV-EBOV were compared to two VSVs that expressed the VSV glycoprotein in vivo; one of the VSVs was further attenuated by including an M51 mutation which enhances the antiviral innate immune response against the virus (Waibler et al, 2007). Injection of either VSV with normal wild-type G (VSV-wtG) into the normal brain generated lethal consequences, with a median survival of 3.5 days for VSV-wtG (n=6) and 8 days for the attenuated strain VSV-M51 (n=6) (
FIG. 2A ) consistent with previous observations (Ozduman et al., 2009). This underlines the neurotoxicity of VSV with normal VSV-G protein, even when attenuated. In striking contrast, direct injections of VSV-LASV-G or VSV-EBOV-G, (3.6×104 pfu in 1 μl) into normal mouse brains exerted no adverse effect in >112 days (n=8 each virus; p<0.001; Chi square test) (FIG. 2A ). - In another experiment VSV-LASV-G was compared with VSV-IFN, an IFN-expressing virus modeled after one (Obuchi, et al., J. Virol., 77:8843-8856 (2003) currently in clinical trials for the treatment of liver cancer (NCT01628640). All mice (n=9) receiving intracranial VSV-IFN died within 12 days consistent with reports of this virus infecting brain meninges (Yarde, et al., Cancer Gene Ther., 20:616-621 (2013); all mice that received VSV-LASV-G (n=4 here) survived with no adverse side effects (
FIG. 2B ). Similarly, VSV-LASV-G injected into the rat brain also showed no sign of neurotoxicity (>80 days, n=3). No virus or infected cells were detected in the brain or elsewhere (liver, spleen, blood) by histological analysis or culture of inoculated mouse tissue at the conclusion of the experiment, indicating the total elimination of the virus. The injections of VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G were viable, as euthanasia at 2 dpi revealed limited infection of glia within the brain. However, by 8 dpi, few or no infected cells could be found. VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G were also injected intravenously (n=5 each), and an additional set of mice were inoculated at combined intranasal/intramuscular/subcutaneous (n=5, total 8×106 pfu VSV-LASV-G) sites; none of these mice showed signs of viral pathogenicity and no virus could be harvested from thesemice 2 months postinoculation. - A different VSV-LASV-G that contained no GFP (Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78:5458-5465 (2004) was also tested and found to have no adverse effect after injection into the mouse brain (n=5) and followed for 6 weeks, showing that the attenuation mediated by inclusion of the GFP gene in the first genomic position was not critical for CNS safety. The 100% survival of mice injected with VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G correlated with a very low infectivity of these viruses in pure neuronal cultures, particularly when compared to VSV with the normal VSV G protein (
FIG. 2A-2B ). - The most problematic aspect of using VSV either as an oncolytic virus or as a vaccine vector against more dangerous viruses including Ebola (Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78:5458-5465 (2004), HIV, and other pathogenic viruses, has been the concern about adverse effects of the virus in the brain (Ozduman, et al., J. Virol., 83:11540-11549 (2009); Huneycutt, et al., Brain Res., 635:81-95 (1994)). A number of previous studies have described the potential for VSV to selectively target and destroy many different types of tumors. However, a substantial problem with the use of VSV as an oncolytic virus, both outside and within the brain, has been the possibility of adverse effects within the brain potentially leading to motor dysfunction (Huneycutt, et al., Brain Res., 635:81-95 (1994), behavioral disturbances (Lundh, et al., J Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol., 47:497-506 (1988) or death (Huneycutt, et al., Brain Res., 635:81-95 (1994); van den Pol, et al., J. Virol., 76:1309-1327 (2002). The data show that eliminating the native glycoprotein from the VSV genome and substituting binding glycoproteins from other viruses greatly reduces infection and cytolysis of neurons. All five chimeric VSVs tested showed considerably reduced neuron tropism and replication compared with the natural VSV glycoprotein. Not only were the chimeric viruses tested safe within the brain, but direct injection of VSV-LASV-G into the brains of SCID mice lacking the normal complement of B and T immune cells generated no adverse effect, and the innate immune system within the brain eliminated the virus.
- Importantly, after intravenous inoculation, the chimeric viruses VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G were able to cross the blood brain barrier and selectively infect brain tumors with little or no infection of normal neurons or glia, and no adverse effects. VSV-LASV-G completely eliminated brain tumors and prolonged the lives of tumor-bearing mice indefinitely. VSV containing the Ebola glycoprotein also crossed the blood brain barrier and targeted the brain tumor, but showed only partial infection of the glioma.
- VSV neurotoxicity can be reduced by generating peripheral immunity in advance of intracerebral inoculation (Ozduman, et al., J. Virol., 83:11540-11549 (2009) or by administering exogenous type 1 interferon, or via intra cerebral viral vectors that generate interferon (Wollmann, et al., Virology, in press. (2014). Attenuated VSVs have been constructed by a number of molecular alterations, including reduction of cytoplasmic amino acids in the G protein, mutations in the M gene particularly at M51, adding genes upstream of viral genes (Roberts, et al., J. Virol., 73:3723-3732 (1999); Ahmed, et al., Virology, 33:34-39 (2004); Ramsburg, et al., J. Virol., 79:15043-15053 (2005)), but most of these resultant VSVs still retain negative side effects in the brain due to neuronal infection. Even a VSV currently in clinical tests that expresses interferon (VSV-IFN), although attenuated, is problematic and can be lethal if it gains access to the brain. None of these recombinant strategies directly eliminate the lethal neurotropism of the virus within the brain conferred by the VSV-G protein. In contrast, all five G protein chimeric viruses used in the disclosed studies showed reduced neuron infection, and the two tested in vivo showed complete safety within the brain. Even substitution of the glycoprotein from rabies, a virus with well-known neuronal targeting, although it still showed an unacceptably high neuron targeting, still showed reduced infection of neurons compared with the VSV glycoprotein, and has been shown relatively safe in the brain (Beier, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108:15414-15419 (2011), underlining the importance of eliminating the VSV glycoprotein.
- Neither VSV-EBOV-G nor VSV-LASV-G injected intracerebrally into normal mice, immunocompromised SCID mice, or rats evoked any adverse action, whereas similar concentrations of other VSVs with the native G, including attenuated VSV-CT9-M51 (Wollmann, et al., Virology, in press. (2014), VSV-1′ GFP, VSVmIFNα, and VSV-M51 (
FIG. 2A-2B ) were lethal. - This safety is also corroborated with previous studies that have used similar virus recombinants with Lassa (or Ebola) glycoproteins in place of the VSV G-protein as immunization vehicles to protect against wild-type Lassa or Ebola viruses; and deletion of genes other that the glycoprotein gene eliminates the toxicity and disease potential associated with wild type Ebola and Lassa. Lassa and Ebola virus may have arisen from a common ancestor virus (Gallaher, et al., BMC Microbial., 1:1, 6 pages, (2001)). VSV-LASV-G was previously shown safe in rodents after intraperitoneal injection, but intracranial safety was not investigated (Garbutt, et al., J. Virol., 78:5458-5465 (2004). One human has been injected with Ebola-VSV as a vaccine after a lab accident, with no adverse consequence (Günther, et al., J. Infect. Dis., 204 Suppl 3:S785-S790 (2011)). The results disclosed herein show that both VSV-LASV-G and VSV-EBOV-G are safe in the rodent brain. The GFP reporter gene in both VSV-LASV-G and VSV-wtG provides some attenuation to both viruses by reducing expression of other VSV genes; in spite of this, VSV with the wild type glycoprotein was still lethal within the brain even when carrying the attenuating GFP gene, whereas VSV-LASV-G and -EBOV-G were safe in the brain indicating that safety in the brain is due to the absence of the neurotoxic VSV glycoprotein. This view is supported by the data showing safety of VSV-LASV in chimeric viruses not containing the GFP gene. The lack of VSV-LASV-G infection of neurons in the rodent brain parallels the in vitro studies with human neurons showing a lack of infection, and indicating that the virus may also be safe in the human brain. This is consistent with the findings which did not consider the oncolytic potential, but did show that these chimeric viruses evoked a strong humoral and cellular immune response, and importantly, evoked no adverse health consequences, even when injected directly into the brains of rodents or non-human primates (Geisbert, et al., PLoS Med, 2:e183 (2005); Geisbert, et al., PLoS Pathog., 4:e1000225 (2008); Geisbert, et al., J. Virol., 83(14):7296-7304 (2009); Mire, et al., PLoS Negl. Trop Dis, 6:e1567 (2012)). Initiation of a strong immune response is another benefit, and can generate a secondary immune attack on the brain tumor.
- Such strong attenuation of virus infection on normal cells might also lead to lack of efficiency in tumor destruction. Lassa-VSV was nonetheless capable of selectively infecting and killing GBM cells in vitro and in the mouse brain after intravenous or intracerebral virus administration, and substantially prolonged cancer survival far beyond that of control tumor-bearing mice that received no virus. In fact, at the time when all tumor bearing control mice had died from the expanding brain tumor, none of the mice in which tumors were treated with VSV-Lassa showed any obvious symptoms from the tumor, or from the virus.
- In conclusion, other VSVs, even those attenuated, can lead to adverse neurological consequences or death. In contrast, Lassa-VSV shows no detectable adverse effects when injected directly into the brain.
- Quantitative RT-PCR
- Mouse neuronal cultures and human U87 glioma cells were cultured in 6-well plates. VSV-LASV-G or VSV-wtG was added at an MOI of 1 and cultures were incubated for 20 minutes at 4° C. to test virus binding or for 30 minutes at 37° C. to test virus binding+internalization, respectively, as described elsewhere (Ozduman et al, 2008). Experiments were performed in duplicate. Cells were washed five times with PBS prior to RNA isolation using TRIzol Reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.). Stratascript reverse transcriptase kit (Stratagene) was used for cDNA generation. TaqMan gene expression assays (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.) were used to quantify the expression of β-actin and VSV genomes using an ICycler iQ Real time PCR system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, Calif.). For specific VSV genome detection (excluding viral mRNA) primers were designed to yield a product that spanned the junction between N and P genes. PCR samples were measured in triplicates, normalized to 3-actin expression and compared to expression of VSVLASV-G binding to neurons as reference (ΔΔCt method).
- The results described herein show that the identity of the G protein has a profound effect on neuronal toxicity in the context of chimeric VSV, with viruses bearing LASV-G or LCMV-G being the least neurotropic. To elucidate mechanisms whereby the chimeric viruses appeared to show strong infection of glioma, but less infection of normal neurons and glia, the innate immune response was examined. In contrast to the protective effect of IFN on cultures of normal human neurons, glia, or fibroblasts, microscopy reveled that IFN had little effect in attenuating infection by VSV-LASV-G of U118 and U87 human gliomas, as virtually all glioma cells were infected and GFP-positive by 24 hours post-inoculation (
FIG. 3A ). - These data are consistent with the view that a primary mechanism underlying the selective VSV-LASV-G infection of cancer cells over normal glia is related to deficiencies in innate immunity. The lack of protection by added IFN points to a deficient IFN response among VSV-LASV-G susceptible tumors, similar to the mechanism described for the enhanced relative susceptibility of a number of tumor types to native VSV and to several other viruses including Newcastle disease virus, reovirus and myxoma virus (Phuangsab, et al., Cancer Lett., 172:27-36 (2001); Strong, et al., EMBO J., 17:3351-3362 (1998); Wang, et al., Nature Immunol., 5:1266-1274 (2004)). The observation that normal brain cells in SCID mice which are deficient in T- and B-cell antiviral defenses showed little infection and no adverse effects from VSV-LASV-G in the brain further supports the view that an innate immune mechanism is protective of normal brain cells.
- To test whether the intrinsic IFN system is important for the resistance of the brain to VSV-LASV-G, VSV-LASV-G was injected into the brains of mice (n=5) lacking the type I IFN receptor. Although IFNα/β-R−/− mice with intracerebral infection from VSV-LASV-G survived longer than those with VSV-wtG (n=3) (
FIG. 3B ), all these mice ultimately died within a week of CNS inoculation. These data support the view that an innate IFN-mediated immune response is important for both short and long term survival after VSV-LASV-G infection of the brain. - This motivated a comparison of binding of VSV-wtG and VSV-LASV-G to glioma and neurons. As judged by quantitative RT-PCR, both viruses bound similarly well to glioma cells and to neurons at 4° C. (
FIG. 3C ), a temperature at which endocytosis is inhibited. At 37° C., approximately 2-logs more virus becomes cell-associated than at 4° C., indicating effective and similar rates of internalization in both cell types and for both viruses. - Next, the ability of infected glioma cells and neurons to generate progeny virions was examined. On gliomas, both VSV-wtG (
FIG. 3D ) and VSV-LASV-G (FIG. 3E ) show substantial virus replication. In contrast, replication of VSV-LASV-G was greatly attenuated in neurons, by 4.5 logs relative to VSV-wtG which showed robust replication in neuron cultures (FIG. 3D-3E ). Together, these data indicate that although both VSV-wtG and VSV-LASV-G bind to glioma cells and neurons, VSV-LASV-G replicates poorly in neurons. In neurons, a block to replication appears most likely to occur at the point of endosomal escape and uncoating, which is G-protein mediated, or possibly a subsequent step. - These data support a conclusion that the advantage of the Lassa virus glycoprotein is that it produces a selective block to replication in neurons but not in a wide variety of human tumors. This block to neuron infection appears not to be at the binding or internalization steps but at a step further downstream in the life cycle, possibly at the uncoating/endosomal escape step in neurons, given the importance of the glycoprotein to this process (Rigaut, et al., J. Virol., 65:2622-2628 (1991).
- Type 1 IFN is important to the selectivity and safety of VSV-LASV; mice lacking IFN receptor succumbed to virus inoculation. Previous reports indicate that whereas
type 2 and 3 IFN may also contribute to immunity in the brain (van den Pol, et al., J. Virol., 88:3695-3704 (2014), type 1 IFN is necessary for survival. The impairment of innate immunity characteristic of ontogenically transformed cells allows VSV-LASV to replicate rapidly, with cytolytic consequences for tumor cells. Addition of IFN to glioma had little to no effect on the infectivity of VSV-LASV, but provided additional protection to normal neurons and glia. The exquisite tumor-selectivity of VSV-LASV is thus a consequence of both reduced neurotropsism (via substitution of the Lassa G for the VSV G-protein) and virus susceptibility to IFN in normal cells; thus the virus is able to very selectively infect and destroy tumors whether entering from the blood stream into the brain, or crossing from an infected tumor to infect a distant locus of tumor cell growth in the contralateral brain, all without infecting the intervening healthy brain tissue. The fact that the innate immune system appears able to contain VSV-LASV-G indicates that the virus may prove safe to treat the increased incidence of cancers found in patients with compromised adaptive immune systems, for instance with AIDS. - Migration Assays
- Red fluorescence marker RFP expressing tumor cells (U87 human glioblastoma cells and YUMAC human melanoma cells, respectively) were implanted into mice: two tumors per mouse—one in the left striatum, and a second in the right striatum.
- 14 days after tumor placement, Lassa-VSV expressing a green reporter gene GFP was then injected into the right tumor only.
- Eight days later, mice were euthanized and perfused transcardially with 4% paraformaldehyde. Brains were harvested and analyzed for tumor expansion and virus infection using red and green fluorescence on a stereomicroscope for whole brain analysis and on an Olympus microscope for analysis of brain sections.
- The ability of chimeric virus to target and destroy brain tumors was also tested. Fifteen days after implant of red fluorescent human glioma into the SCID mouse brain, VSV-LASV-G (106 pfu in 100 ul) was injected intravenously (tail vein). This resulted in highly selective tumor infection and complete destruction of tumor cells within the brain. Mice with brain tumors survived only if treated with VSVLASV-G, with no adverse effect as of 80 days (
FIG. 4 ). Mice with tumors that did not receive virus all died from the tumor (median 29 day survival; n=8;FIG. 4 ). The chimeric virus VSV-EBOV-G also targeted brain tumors after intravenous inoculation (FIG. 4 ); VSV-EBOV-G extended life minimally (median survival 34 days; n=8) (FIG. 4 ). - Histological analysis showed large tumors in mice not treated with virus, and incomplete but selective infection of the tumor treated with VSV-EBOV-G. In contrast, few tumor cells if any were found following treatment with VSV-LASV-G, indicating highly selective infection and destruction of glioma.
- In another short term experiment, mice showed near-complete infection of
bilateral tumor masses 8 days post-inoculation, with little infection outside the tumor area indicating a rapid and selective VSV-LASV-G anti-tumor action (n=4). - Using a syngeneic rodent tumor model, the ability of VSV-LASV-G to infect rat glioma in immunocompetent rats was tested. VSV-LASV-G showed selective strong cytolytic infection of CNS-1 glioma tumors 3 days after intracerebral inoculation, with little detectable infection of normal brain, demonstrating the VSV-LASV-G selectively infects glioma not only in mice, but also in immunocompetent rats.
- A major problem with gliomas is tumor cell migration within the brain. Thus skilled neurosurgeons can debulk the tumor, but cannot eliminate migrating cells or tumors that arise from migrating cells. To model this, human glioma were implanted in the left and right side of the SCID mouse brain with (in striatum). Fifteen days later VSV-LASV-G was stereotactically injected unilaterally, only into the tumor on the right side.
- Eight days later, the brains were examined. VSV-LASV-G had completely destroyed the inoculated tumor on the right side of the brain, and the virus had migrated to the contralateral left tumor and begun the process of infection and destruction without infecting the intervening normal brain. Accordingly, in addition to completely destroying the right tumor, Lassa-VSV migrated within the brain, and had begun to infect and kill the left tumor without detectable infection of normal brain cells surrounding the tumors. Remarkably, VSV-LASV-G selectively destroyed the brain tumor with no adverse effects to the SCID mouse brain. These observations indicate that the virus was suppressed in the brain by a T- and B-cell-independent mechanism.
- This is exactly the type of phenotype needed, that is, a virus that can infect multiple tumors in different CNS sites with no collateral damage to normal brain. Peripheral immunization has been shown to protect the brain from intracranial VSV (Ozduman, et al., J. Virology, 83:11540-11549 (2009)). Even without immunization, Lassa-VSV showed no neurotoxicity, whereas other VSVs did show intracranial neurotoxicity. Lassa-VSV was substantially more attenuated than the most attenuated VSV used (Ozduman, et al., J. Virology, 83:11540-11549 (2009); Wollmann, et al., J. Virol, 84:1563-73 (2010)), underlining its safety in the brain.
- One potential limitation of VSVs with point and some other types of mutations (VSV-M51, VSV1′2′-GFP, and others) is that additional spontaneous mutations can cause the virus to revert back to a more aggressive wild type virus. That is unlikely in Lassa-VSV, as there is no mechanism whereby the Lassa-glycoprotein can mutate into the VSV glycoprotein, or where the VSV G-protein can be reconstituted, and also no way in which the non-glycoprotein genes of Lassa could appear in the recombinant virus.
- Next experiments were designed to determine if VSV-LASV-G is selective for gliomas, or is able to target other types of metastatic brain cancer. Melanomas are the deadliest form of skin cancer, and one of the chief problems is metastasis into the brain (Carlino, et al., Cancer J, 18:208-212 (2012). Red fluorescent human melanoma was injected into the left and right side of the brain, similar to the glioma experiments described above. VSV-LASV-G was subsequently injected unilaterally into the right side melanoma. VSV-LASV-G not only caused complete destruction of the injected tumor mass, it also diffused across the brain midline, and showed strong infection of the non-injected contralateral melanoma, with no neuron infection in the intervening (SCID) brain.
- Because VSV-LASV-G infected two unrelated brain tumor types, glioma and melanoma, it was also tested on other types of human cancer cells. VSV-LASV-G infected and replicated in colon, prostate, breast, bone, and bladder cancer cells, indicating its oncolytic potential was not restricted to glioma and melanoma brain tumors.
- These results indicate that VSV-LASV-G is effective not only against glioma (which arise within the brain) but also against melanoma, a cancer that arises in the skin but metastasizes into the brain resulting in death within a few months of entering the brain. There is also a strong viral tropism for other types of human cancer cells including prostate, breast, colon, and bladder which can sometimes metastasize into the brain. The broad infectivity and cytolysis of multiple types of cancer cells indicate that VSV-LASV-G may also be effective in targeting other types of brain tumors not tested here, including meningioma, astrocytoma, ependymoma, and oligodendroglioma. The elimination of neurotropism by substitution of the Lassa glycoprotein for the VSV glycoprotein would provide an increased level of brain safety even if the virus were used to attack peripheral cancers.
- In vitro testing indicates VSV-LASV had the best combination of reduced neurotropism and broad infectivity across different gliomas. VSV-EBOV also demonstrated broad glioma infectivity in vitro; although VSV-EBOV targeted tumors in the brain after intravenous application, the virus was not very effective in destroying the tumor. VSV-LCMV had a reduced neurotropism similar to VSV-LASV, but did not show as great or broad a potential for infectivity of gliomas, and formed smaller plaques than VSV-LASV in the human gliomas tested.
- To test whether VSV-LASV-G would evoke a humoral immune response, mice were inoculated intranasal and intramuscularly with this virus. VSV-LASV-G generated high titer antisera to VSV-LASV-G infected cells and also to the GFP transgene. Antisera with dilutions out to 1:10,000 generated positive immunostaining on GFP-expressing transgenic mice, indicating the potential for a secondary systemic immune response against VSV-LASV-G infected gliomas as reported for wildtype VSVs (Publicover, et al., J. Virol., 78:9317-9324 (2004). It is interesting to note that chimeric VSV-LCMV/G was shown to be only weakly immunogenic with regard to generation of neutralizing antibodies against the virus (Muik, et al., Cancer Res., 74:3567-3578 (2014). VSV-LASV-G appeared to completely eliminate human brain tumors in these experiments; VSVs also generated a strong immune response against tumors which could serve to augment tumor eradication in the event of incomplete direct tumor destruction (Wongthida, et al., Hum. Gene Ther., 22:1343-1353 (2011). Chimeric VSVs that generate a strong immune response may also be beneficial in terms of evoking a strong secondary immune response against tumor related antigens.
- VSV is a very promising vaccine platform, and even single inoculations generate strong cellular and humoral immunity (Publicover, et al, J. Virol., 79:13231-13238 (2005); Buonocore, et al., J. Virol., 76:6865-6872 (2002); Schell, et al., J. Virol., 85:5764-5772 (2011)), but would advance further with the risk of neurotoxicity effectively eliminated, for example by substitution of the Lassa glycoprotein for the VSV glycoprotein. VSV-LASV-G may prove beneficial as a vaccine vector, given its potent immunogenicity. Immunogenic viral vectors could be generated against other pathogenic organisms by substituting a gene coding for a protein from the pathogenic microbe in place of the GFP gene within VSV-LASV-G; use of the Lassa glycoprotein in place of the VSV glycoprotein could provide a safer vector for immunization than wildtype VSV.
- Three groups of SCID mice received human glioma implants of similar size. 15 days later, one group received Lassa-VSV intravenously (tail vein), the second group received Ebola-VSV intravenously, and the third group served as a tumor-only control. Mice were monitored for changes in body weight. Mice showing body weight <75% of pre-tumor body weight were euthanized, as per animal use regulations.
- A mouse weight graph (
FIG. 5 ) showed that mice receiving Lassa-VSV showed no strong reduction in body weight, whereas control mice with tumors show body weight reduction from the expanding tumors. Mice with tumors inoculated with Ebola-VSV (VSV-Eb-G) showed a reduced body weight from the expanding tumor. Lassa-VSV is safe in the brain, as mice maintained a normal body weight. - A mouse survival graph (
FIG. 4 ) showed that Lassa-VSV protected mice from an implanted glioma. In contrast, control mice with the same tumor showed a median survival of 29 days post-glioma injection. All controls were dead by day 33 after tumor implant. The Ebola-VSV gave some protection against the tumor with a median survival of 34 days post-glioma implant, but ultimately, all were dead by 57 days after tumor implant. All mice treated with Lassa-VSV survived >43 days after Lassa-VSV inoculation, and >80 days after glioma implant. The increased longevity of tumor bearing mice receiving Lassa-VSV was statistically significant (p<0.01; n=8 in each group). Ultimately all controls died from the glioma. In striking contrast, Lassa-VSV crossed the blood brain barrier, infected and destroyed the tumor, and these mice all survived. Upon histological examination after euthanasia, large red gliomas were found in control mice, but were absent from Lassa-VSV-treated mice. Furthermore, since these SCID mice had severely attenuated systemic immune system (necessary for implantation of human glioma), but still survived peripheral and CNS infection with the virus, the chimeric Lassa-VSV is remarkably safe within the body, and particularly within the brain. - When injected into a brain tumor, Lassa-VSV kills tumor cells, and prolongs life with no detectable neurological consequences. When injected intravenously, the virus crosses the blood brain barrier and selectively infects gliomas.
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