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Oncoimmunology. 2015 Aug 31;5(3):e1082705. doi: 10.1080/2162402X.2015.1082705. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Bovine herpesvirus 4-based vector delivering a hybrid rat/human HER-2 oncoantigen efficiently protects mice from autochthonous Her-2.

Oncoimmunology

Sarah Jacca, Valeria Rolih, Elena Quaglino, Valentina Franceschi, Giulia Tebaldi, Elisabetta Bolli, Alfonso Rosamilia, Simone Ottonello, Federica Cavallo, Gaetano Donofrio

Affiliations

  1. Department of Medical-Veterinary Science, University of Parma , Parma, Italy.
  2. Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino , Torino, Italy.
  3. Department of Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Unit, University of Parma , Parma, Italy.

PMID: 27141335 PMCID: PMC4839386 DOI: 10.1080/2162402X.2015.1082705

Abstract

The epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2) oncogene is a major target for the immunotherapy of breast cancer. Following up to the therapeutic success achieved with Her-2-targeting monoclonal antibodies, immune-prophylactic approaches directed against Her-2 have also been investigated taking into account, and trying to overcome, Her-2 self-tolerance. Perhaps due to safety (and efficacy) concerns, the least explored anti-Her-2 active immunization strategy so far has been the one relying on viral-vectored vaccine formulations. Taking advantage of the favorable properties of bovine herpesvirus 4 (BoHV-4) in terms of safety and ease of manipulation as well as its previously documented ability to transduce and confer immunogenicity to heterologous antigens, we tested the ability of different recombinant HER-2-BoHV-4 immunogens to 8break tolerance and elicit a protective, anti-mammary tumor antibody response in HER-2 transgenic BALB-neuT mice. All the tested constructs expressed the HER-2 transgenes at high levels and elicited significant cellular immune responses in BALB/c mice upon administration via either DNA vaccination or viral infection. In BALB-neuT mice, instead, only the viral construct expressing the membrane-bound chimeric form of Her-2 protein (BoHV-4-RHuT-gD) elicited a humoral immune response that was more intense and earlier-appearing than that induced by DNA vaccination. In keeping with this observation, two administrations of BoHV-4-RHuT-gD effectively protected BALB-neuT mice from tumor formation, with 50% of vaccinated animals tumor-free after 30 weeks from immunization compared to 100% of animals exhibiting at least one palpable tumor in the case of animals vaccinated with the other BoHV-4-HER-2 constructs.

Keywords: BALB-neuT mice; BoHV-4-based vector; HER-2 antibodies; Her-2 oncogene; recombinant BoHV-4s; vaccination

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