Deficiency of the IRE1α-Autophagy Axis Enhances the Antitumor Effects of the Oncolytic Virus M1
Deficiency of the IRE1α-Autophagy Axis Enhances the Antitumor Effects of the Oncolytic Virus M1
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IRE1α-自噬轴的缺陷增强了溶瘤病毒 M1 的抗肿瘤作用
作者:
Kai Li;Cheng Hu;Fan Xing;Mingshi Gao;Jiankai Liang;Xiao Xiao;Jing Cai;Yaqian Tan;Jun Hu;Wenbo Zhu;Wei Yin;Yuan Li;Wenli Chen;Bingzheng Lu;Jialuo Mai;Pengxin Qiu;Xingwen Su;Guangmei Yan;Haipeng Zhang;Yuan Lin
Oncolytic virotherapy is an emerging treatment modality that uses.replication-competent viruses to destroy cancer cells. M1 is a naturally occurring alphavirus (Togaviridae) which shows potent oncolytic activities against many cancers..Accumulation of unfolded proteins during virus replication leads to a transcriptional/.translational response known as the unfolded protein response (UPR), which might.counteract the antitumor effect of the oncolytic virus. In this report, we show that.either pharmacological or biological inhibition of IRE1 or PERK, but not ATF6, substantially increases the oncolytic effects of the M1 virus. Moreover, inhibition of.IRE1 blocks M1 virus-induced autophagy, which restricts the antitumor effects of.the M1 virus through degradation of viral protein, in glioma cells. In addition, IRE1.suppression significantly increases the oncolytic effect of M1 virus in an orthotopic.glioma model. From a molecular pathology study, we found that IRE1 is expressed.at lower levels in higher-grade gliomas, suggesting greater antitumor efficacy of the.oncolytic virus M1. Taken together, these findings illustrate a defensive mechanism.of glioma cells against the oncolytic virus M1 and identify possible approaches to.enhance the oncolytic viral protein accumulation and the subsequent lysis of tumor.cells.