Abstract
Osteosarcoma (OS) severely threatens the health of young people and understanding on the molecular mechanisms of OS etiology enables gene therapy to become an effective therapeutic modality. However, insufficient expression level of genes using existing vectors limits the clinical application of gene therapy for OS. To solve the problem, we developed an oncolytic adenoviral vector, OAT, which can selectively and efficiently replicate in OS cells to enhance the expression of transferred genes. We demonstrated that OAT-mediated TRAIL expression is significantly elevated after infection of OS cells than replication-incompetent Ad5 vector. Increased antitumor capacity was observed in OS cells after OAT-TRAIL treatment both in vitro and in vivo. In normal cells, adenoviral replication, TRAIL expression and growth-inhibiting effect were quite limited when OAT-TRAIL was administrated, showing a high biosafety of this oncolytic adenoviral vector. Collectively, we generated an efficient and promising expression vector for OS gene therapy.
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