In vivo evaluation of a new recombinant hyaluronidase to improve gene electro-transfer protocols for dna-based drug delivery against cancer

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Abstract

Cancer vaccines based on plasmid DNA represent a good therapeutic perspective, despite their low potency. Animal-derived hyaluronidases (Hyals) are employed in oncological clinical practice. Hyal has been also demonstrated to be a good enhancer of intramuscular Gene Electro-Transfer (GET) efficiency in anti-cancer preclinical protocols, with increased transfected cells and higher expression of the encoded genes. Nevertheless, the use of animal-derived Hyals results limited respect to their potentialities, since such preparations could be affected by low purity, variable potency and uncertain safety. To improve the delivery of intramuscular GET-based protocols in mouse, we investigated a new recombinant Hyal, the rHyal-sk, to assess in vivo safety and activity of this treatment at cellular and biochemical levels. We evaluated the cellular events and the inflammation chemical mediators involved at different time points after rHyal-sk administration plus GET. Our results demonstrated the in vivo safety and efficacy of rHyal-sk when injected once intramuscularly in association with GET, with no toxicity, good plasmid in-take ability, useful inflammatory response activation, and low immunogenicity. Following these findings, we would recommend the use of the new rHyal-sk for the delivery of DNA-based vaccines and immunotherapy, as well as into clinical practice, for tumor disease treatments.

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De Robertis, M., Pasquet, L., Loiacono, L., Bellard, E., Messina, L., Vaccaro, S., … Signori, E. (2018). In vivo evaluation of a new recombinant hyaluronidase to improve gene electro-transfer protocols for dna-based drug delivery against cancer. Cancers, 10(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers10110405

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