Published online Jan 14, 2016. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i2.748
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an almost uniformly lethal disease with less than 5% survival at five years. This is largely due to metastatic disease, which is already present in the majority of patients when diagnosed. Even when the primary cancer can be removed by radical surgery, local recurrence occurs within one year in 50%-80% of cases. Therefore, it is imperative to develop new approaches for the treatment of advanced cancer and the prevention of recurrence after surgery. Tumour-targeted oncolytic viruses (TOVs) have become an attractive therapeutic agent as TOVs can kill cancer cells through multiple mechanisms of action, especially via virus-induced engagement of the immune response specifically against tumour cells. To attack tumour cells effectively, tumour-specific T cells need to overcome negative regulatory signals that suppress their activation or that induce tolerance programmes such as anergy or exhaustion in the tumour microenvironment. In this regard, the recent breakthrough in immunotherapy achieved with immune checkpoint blockade agents, such as anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associate protein 4, programmed death 1 (PD-1) or PD-L1 antibodies, has demonstrated the possibility of relieving immune suppression in PDAC. Therefore, the combination of oncolytic virotherapy and immune checkpoint blockade agents may synergistically function to enhance the antitumour response, lending the opportunity to be the future for treatment of pancreatic cancer.
Core tip: The poor prognosis of pancreatic cancer appeals for a novel strategy to treat this disease. Immunotherapies such as whole cell vaccines are currently being investigated in patients with pancreatic cancer. The recent breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors has allowed us to reverse T cell anergy and enhance antitumour immunity. Tumour-targeted Oncolytic viruses in combination with checkpoint inhibitors function synergistically to increase the tumour antigen load, relieve immune suppression in the tumour bed while enhancing the activation of the adaptive immune system. Viro-immune-checkpoint therapy should thus be considered as a novel strategy to treat pancreatic cancer.
- Citation: Ibrahim AM, Wang YH. Viro-immune therapy: A new strategy for treatment of pancreatic cancer. World J Gastroenterol 2016; 22(2): 748-763
- URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v22/i2/748.htm
- DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v22.i2.748
In the past four decades, the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer has remained accompanied by a death sentence[1]. Despite major advances in the field of cancer treatment for other solid tumours such as breast, colorectal, renal and prostate[2], the all-stages-combined 5-year survival rate for a patient with pancreatic cancer remains a devastating 7%, and only 2% for those who present with distant metastases[3]. The majority (80%) of pancreatic malignancies are pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC), which are presented at locally advanced or metastatic disease[1,3]. Late diagnosis is attributed to several factors, mostly vague, non-specific symptoms associated with an earlier stage compared to later stages, such as jaundice, anorexia, weight loss and gastric outlet obstructions[4]. Furthermore, the lack of a reliable screening method for non-high-risk cohorts[5] impedes the possibility of early detection in the majority of the patients, as family history only contributes to 5%-10% of pancreatic cancer incidence[6]. As a result, patients are presenting at an advanced stage, diminishing the chance of curative resection and a more manageable disease[1,4]. Moreover, PDAC is an aggressive malignancy with high propensity to spread through the lymphatic system and invade distant organs[7]. The molecular tumourigenesis of PDAC is described as a stepwise progression of a preinvasive stage, pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia, associated with the accumulation of genetic mutations[8]. One of the earliest genetic alterations in a non-malignant precursor lesion is an activating point mutation in the KRAS2 oncogene[9,10], which is present in 90% of pancreatic cancer cases. Mutational inactivation of tumour-suppressor gene CDKN2A encoding p16 (a regulator of the G1 to S phase in the cell cycle), TP53 and SMAD4 which occur in higher grade lesions are also commonly found[11]. A distinct hallmark of pancreatic cancer is its complex tumour stroma composed of a strategic array of cells. The PDAC stroma is highly heterogenous inhabiting fibroblasts, pancreatic stellate cells, immune cells, blood vessels and extracellular matrix, however very few infiltrating effector T cells[12] (Figure 1). The proliferative nature of the stromal pancreatic stellate cells, termed desmoplasia, accounts for their high turnover rate, invasiveness[12,13] and hypoxic microenvironment[14]. Consequently, the tumour stroma is not only a mechanical barrier for treatment delivery and efficacy, but also an active contributor to tumour progression[15,16].
This review will briefly discuss the current management of pancreatic cancer and introduce the immunotherapies in development for pancreatic cancer treatment. Lastly, we will highlight a novel emerging area of pre-clinical and clinical research, viro-immune-checkpoint blockade therapy combination strategies.
For the 20% of patients who present with early disease, surgical resection is the treatment of choice, and the only curative option[16,17]. Nonetheless, even after complete resection, the prognosis remains disappointing, hence the incorporation of adjuvant gemcitabine or 5-fluorouracil and/or chemoradiation into the standard of care[18]. Results from randomized controlled trials[19-21] demonstrating increased overall survival (OS) with postoperative therapy is considered to be one of the most important advances in the treatment of pancreatic cancer[16]. Similarly, neoadjuvant chemotherapy may be offered to improve surgical margins of borderline resectable tumours[22-25].
Gemcitabine or gemcitabine-based combination chemotherapy is the long established first line treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, however the median survival rate is approximately 9 mo[16,26,27]. More recently, an advantage on the survival and quality of life was shown with FOLFIRINOX (folinic acid, 5-fluorouracil, irinotecan, oxaliplatin) compared to gemcitabine alone; this regimen significantly improved the OS, progression-free survival and objective response rate of patients with pancreatic cancer[28]. Similar results were also observed with nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine[29]. Approximately 10% of patients receiving these regimens are surviving two years, which is a rare event in advanced disease[30]. However, both regimens are associated with increased toxicities thus may only be offered to patients with good performance status[28,29]. The care of patients with poor performance status or metastatic disease remains palliative, and gemcitabine-based therapies have limited efficacy.
In the last 10 years, targeted therapy has revolutionised current cancer treatment and has paved the way for personalised medicine[31]. Due to the genetically heterogeneous nature of pancreatic cancer[32] targeted therapies such as small molecule inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies have been sought to inhibit constitutively-active cell surface signaling molecules. Nonetheless, results of phase I-III clinical trials (summarized by Seicean et al[33]) are disappointing, and the observed resistance is most likely due to the high frequency of KRAS2 mutations and upregulation of alternate signaling pathways[16,34]. To date, erlotinib, a small molecule inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor, is the only approved agent, in combination with gemcitabine, which offers a very modest but statistically significant increase in survival of two weeks[35].
Discouraging response rates and resistance to current standard therapies has prompted the investigation of novel strategies for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Immunotherapy is an attractive therapeutic option as it has the greatest promise to eradicate tumours with minimal toxicities to healthy tissues and furthermore, to prevent recurrence via the induction of long-term memory[36]. It has recently become more evident that the immune system plays contrasting roles in both tumour elimination and tumour progression, a phenomenon called immunosurveillance[37]. Therefore, “avoiding immune destruction” and “tumour-promoting inflammation” have been recently included as hallmark biological capabilities of tumours by Hanahan and Weinberg in their famous review, adding to already well-defined neoplastic characteristics such as sustaining proliferative signaling, evading growth suppressors and activating invasion and metastasis[38]. Transformed cells limit their presentation of neo-antigens and paralyze infiltrating immune cell functions, leading to the development of clinically-apparent tumours[39]. Therefore, main goal of immunotherapy is to breach the immune suppression induced by the tumour microenvironment (TME) while boosting or revoking effector functions[36]. The TME of PDAC, which promotes tumour growth and impedes successful delivery of traditional cytotoxic therapies, may paradoxically be a perfect candidate for manipulation by immunotherapy. Lastly, the greatest advantage of immunotherapy is its potential to induce both innate and adaptive immune responses, which are not always activated by traditional cytotoxic or targeted therapies.
Several preparations of antitumour vaccines are currently being investigated in clinical trials. The objective of therapeutic vaccination is to amplify pre-existing immune responses or to prompt de novo responses[40]. The clinical potential of various types of vaccines (peptide-based[41,42], dendritic cell[43,44], whole tumour cell[45,46], and recombinant viral or bacterial vector-based vaccines[47,48]) has been demonstrated in early phase clinical trials with some promising immunological and clinical responses in patients with pancreatic cancer, however, the phase III TeloVac trial showed that adding GV1001 peptide vaccination to chemotherapy did not improve OS[49]. Emerging evidence over the last two decades has demonstrated that prime-boost protocols integrating different vectors result in effective immune responses with protective capability in animal models and human clinical trials[50,51]. Pre-clinical experiments and early phase clinical trials have indicated that the sequential use of recombinant vaccinia and avipox or fowlpox vectors expressing tumour-associated antigens (TAAs) such as carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and mucin (MUC)-1 and co-stimulatory molecules in a heterologous prime-boost regimen resulted in a more potent T cell response than either vaccine alone[52] and demonstrated encouraging clinical responses[53]. However, the heterologous prime-boost regimen has yet to show efficacy in a phase III trial for human pancreatic cancer[54]. The failure of previous cancer vaccine trials can be attributed to several factors including inappropriate choice of tumour antigen (only a few TAAs were selected), use of an unoptimised antigen delivery vector or vaccination schedule, or selection of the wrong patient group (late stage advanced disease). In the last decade, the most popular vaccine strategy has been based on immunisation with genetically modified tumour cells. We will describe the two most clinically advanced vaccines for treatment of pancreatic cancer below.
One of the most clinically advanced vaccines for advanced pancreatic cancer is a preparation of whole human allogeneic pancreatic cell lines engineered to express α-galactosyl (α-gal) transferase, which synthesizes α-gal epitopes on the surface of glycolipids and glycoproteins. Although human cells do not express α-gal epitopes[55], humans have existing anti-α-gal antibodies, which activate complement and antibody-dependent cell-mediated lysis upon binding to antigen[56]. This causes a hyperacute rejection of the allografts and a generation of an immune response against the tumour[56]. In a phase II trial of algenpantucel-L with adjuvant chemotherapy with gemcitabine and 5-FU-based chemoradiation after R0/R1 resection, the 1-year disease-free survival and OS were reached by 62% and 86% of patients, respectively[57]. The results of this trial were compared with the RTOG-9704 trial whereby patients received the same chemoradiation regimen[58]. Minor adverse effects associated with the vaccine were pain and induration at the site of injection, which resolved within a week[57]. Two multi-institutional phase III trials are currently being conducted and the results are highly anticipated (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT01072981, NCT01836432).
The granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) vaccine (G-VAX) is another promising whole cell vaccine that induces a potent anti-tumour immune response. GM-CSF is a widely used immunomodulator because it is a potent monocyte, leukocyte and eosinophil attractant. GM-CSF-expressing irradiated tumour cells were shown to induce a long-lasting immune response involving both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in a B16 melanoma model[59]. G-VAX was shown to be safe, efficacious and induce very minimal toxicities in patients with PDAC in phase I and II trials[45,46,60]. Furthermore, G-VAX induced mesothelin- (a TAA in pancreatic cancer) specific interferon (IFN)-γ-producing CD8+ T cells, which also provided evidence of in vivo cross-priming by antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in G-VAX-vaccinated patients[46,61,62]. Jaffe et al[45] observed a delayed-type hypersensitivity response in three patients, all of which remained disease-free at least 25 mo post-diagnosis. Phase II trial results by Lutz et al[60] revealed 1-year disease-free and 1-year survival rates of 67% and 85%, respectively, which correlated with the induction of a PDAC-associated antigen mesothelin-specific CD8+ T cells in human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A1+ and A2+ patients[60], when combined with chemoradiation. This suggests that PDAC, which is considered a highly “non-immunogenic” solid tumour, can be converted to an immunogenic tumour[63]. Lutz et al[63] demonstrated post-G-VAX T cell infiltration and aggregate formation, which resulted in the upregulation of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway, suggesting that vaccine-primed PDAC patients may respond better to other immunotherapies[63]. G-VAX with low-dose cyclophosphamide and CRS-207, a live-attenuated Listeria monocytogenes-expressing mesothelin has shown safety and increased survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer, and longer OS was accompanied by enhanced mesothelin-specific CD8+ T cell responses, regardless of the treatment arm[64]. A phase IIB trial for testing G-VAX + CRS-207 compared to chemotherapy or CR-207 alone in previously treated metastatic PDAC is currently recruiting patients (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02004262). Nonetheless, studies have also demonstrated that GM-CSF-producing vaccines can play conflicting roles in the antitumour response[65]. Serafini et al[66] demonstrated that a high-dose GM-CSF-producing B78H1 cell line resulted in the production of GM-CSF-induced Gr1+/CD11b+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) that impaired antigen-specific T cell responses. CD14+HLA-DR-/lo MDSCs were also detected in the peripheral blood of GM-CSF-vaccinated metastatic melanoma patients and were absent in healthy donors or patients receiving non-GM-CSF-based vaccines[67]. The suppressive activity of the identified MDSCs involved the production of transforming growth factor (TGF)-β[67]. A study demonstrated that chemotherapy-derived inflammatory responses accelerated the formation of MDSCs in the PDAC microenvironment, and was associated with poorer prognosis[68]. Moreover, GM-CSF production induced by oncogenic KRAS has also been shown to promote neoplastic precursors of PDAC[69]. Therefore, these findings demand caution when administrating GM-CSF in patients with PDAC.
Immune checkpoints are crucial for maintaining self-tolerance under normal physiological conditions and protecting healthy tissues during an immunological response[70]. They consist of co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory receptors that regulate T cell activation. Tumours have evolved to exploit immune checkpoints to avoid recognition by the immune system and sustain immunosuppression. T cells are the main therapeutic targets in cancer immunotherapy, because of the major role they play in adaptive immunity. Moreover, activated CD8+ T cells directly lyse antigen-expressing cells[70]. As a result, antibodies targeting T cell co-stimulator and co-inhibitory receptors “wake up” the immune system, unleashing an antitumour response, first demonstrated in animal models[71,72]. Today, the clinical activity of these agents has been tested in various cancer types[73-78] and exciting results have shined a new light on the field of cancer immunotherapy. Most importantly, the ability of these anti-immune checkpoint receptor agents to relieve immunosuppression or boost a pre-existing immune response provides further rational for combining immunotherapeutic strategies.
Frequently credited as one of the most important developments for cancer immunotherapy is the anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associate protein (CTLA)-4 humanized antibody, ipilimumab (Yervoy®; Bristol-Myers Squibb, New York City, NY, United States), which was approved by United States’ Food and Drug Administration in 2011 for the treatment of metastatic melanoma[73,79]. CTLA-4 is a co-negative regulator on T cells that binds with high affinity to the B7 family of accessory molecules on APCs during the T cell priming phase, thus competes with the CD28 co-stimulatory molecule on T cell[80-82]. Its two major roles are the downmodulation of helper T cell activity, and the enhancement of the regulator T cell (Treg) suppressive function[70]. Loss of CTLA-4 leads to massive lymphoproliferation, autoimmunity and death in mice[83]. Consequently, CTLA-4 may be blocked in order to relieve immunosuppression and un-restrain pre-existing T cell responses. CTLA-4 efficacy was questioned at first, because of its non-specificity to tumour cells, however, it was demonstrated that partial inhibition with a monoclonal antibody could achieve a therapeutic window[71]. Nonetheless, as these immunomodulatory mechanisms exist to attenuate chronic autoimmune inflammation, certain toxicities were expected. CTLA-4 blockade compromised tolerance to normal tissue antigens, causing immune-related adverse events such as colitis and hypophysitis, which were mostly resolved with corticosteroid therapy[73]. Ipilimumab as a single agent (3.0 mg/kg/dose) was tested in advanced pancreatic patients however was shown to be ineffective[84]. In a phase I study, gemcitabine and escalating doses of i.v. tremelimumab (6, 10 or 15 mg/kg) were administered to patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer, demonstrating a safe and tolerable profile, where 2/19 patients receiving 15 mg/kg achieved partial responses[85]. Results from a randomized controlled trial comparing ipilimumab as a single agent (10 mg/kg/dose) and ipilimumab + G-VAX favored the second arm (OS = 3.6 mo vs 5.7 mo, 1-year survival 7% vs 27%, respectively) and an increase in mesothelin-specific T cells and enhancement of the T cell repertoire were observed[86], further implying the benefit of combining immunotherapeutic strategies. These patients also experienced declines in CA 19-9 levels[86].
A second immune checkpoint is in the peripheral tissue at a site of inflammation, whereby the activation of a T cell is limited by the programmed death receptor (PD)-1[70]. Thus, CTLA-4 regulates T cell “priming” or activation whereas PD-1 regulates T cell effector function within tissues and tumours[70]. PD-1 is a cell surface coinhibitory receptor expressed on activated T cells, natural killer (NK) cells, monocytes and B cells. Its expression is associated with impaired or exhausted T cells[87], and is more broadly expressed than CTLA-4[70]. Its two known ligands, PD-L1 (B7-H1) and PD-L2 (B7-DC)[88,89], are commonly overexpressed on tumour cells, while PD-1 itself is highly expressed on tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in many cancers[88,90]. Expression of PD-L1 was first shown to inhibit antitumour T cell mediated responses in animal models[72,88,91], thus determining its expression pattern in solid tumours may be an important biomarker for assessing a patient’s suitability for anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy[70]. Engagement of PD-1 with its ligand leads to negative regulation of lymphocyte activation[92]. The antibodies currently in clinical development target both PD-1 and PD-L1. Several studies have investigated the clinical significance of PD-1 and its ligand in pancreatic cancer[93-97]. PD-L1 and PD-1 expression was higher in pancreatic cancer tissues compared to normal pancreatic tissues, and was associated with poorer tumour differentiation and immunosuppression. PD-L1 expression is inversely correlated with TILs which is associated with poorer prognosis[94,96]. Nivolumab, an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody, has shown promise in patients with solid tumours such as non-small cell lung cancer, prostate cancer, renal cell carcinoma, colorectal cancer and melanoma[77] however has not shown induce objective responses in pancreatic cancer[98]. An explanation for the failure is most likely due to the poor immunogenicity of PDAC, whereby stromal components such as pancreatic stellate cells inhibit tumour-infiltrating CD4+ and CD8+ T cell access to the primary tumour[99-101]. Consequently, attempts at improving tumour lymphocyte-infiltration and TME trafficking consist of priming the immune response with G-VAX[99]. As described above, Lutz et al[63] demonstrated G-VAX as a neoadjuvant therapy for resectable PDACs induced tertiary lymphoid aggregates and infiltration of PD-L1+ cells within these aggregates. G-VAX + PD-1/PD-L1 blockade however may be more clinically significant as anti-PD-1/PD-L1 agents are notably less toxic than ipilimumab, most likely due to the specificity of PD-L1 in the peripheral tissue[77,98,102]. Soares et al[99] demonstrated upregulation of PD-L1 expression in both human and murine PDAC tissues when IFN-γ-producing CD8+ T cells infiltrate the TME post-G-VAX administration, a process of adaptive resistance. This provides rationale for the use of anti-PD-1 agents in G-VAX-primed patients with PDAC.
As demonstrated by Soares et al[99], determining the mechanism of immune resistance is important for determining the efficacy of immunotherapies. The upregulation of PD-L1 on solid tumour cells has been explained by one of two mechanisms: innate or adaptive immune resistance[70]. Innate immune resistance is a result of constitutive oncogenic signaling and is independent of the TME[103]. The latter describes an upregulation of PD-L1/2 in response to inflammatory signals (e.g., IFN-γ) produced by an active antitumour immune response[104]. The difference between these two mechanisms may be the underlying differentiation between responders and non-responders, accounting for the heterogeneity of the expression levels of PD-1 ligands[70]. A study in pre-clinical sarcoma models identified tumour-specific neo antigens as a major class of T cell rejection antigens following anti-CTLA-4 and/or anti-PD-1 therapy, demonstrating tumour-specific mutant antigens are not only targets of immune checkpoint blockade agents but are also reactivated following treatment[105]. Although the presence of TILs and an “immune-active” microenvironment has been shown to be predictive of responses to immune checkpoint blockade clinically[106,107], the identification of predictive biomarkers in immunotherapy has been a challenge due to highly dynamic changes in the TME[108]. Nonetheless, patients with a pre-existing immune-active TME (e.g., IDO expression and Treg infiltration), and increased expression of PD-L1 on tumour and stromal cells induced by adaptive immune resistance, will most likely be the most receptive to anti-PD-1 blockade[108,109]. The PDAC TME is a major factor in determining responses to treatment because of its complex, desmoplastic and highly immunosuppressive nature. An anti-CD40 treatment on monocytes within the TME in a KPC mouse model of pancreatic cancer demonstrated increased survival when combined with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel[110]. Both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and APCs were activated in the lymph nodes and at the tumour site and Treg cells were significantly reduced, demonstrating even the most immunosuppressive TME can be altered to respond to immune checkpoint blockade[110]. It has been proposed that immune-cell exclusion may be the reason why certain immunotherapies fail; Feig et al[111] showed that anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-L1 treatment resistance can be reversed when fibroblast activation protein (FAP) positive cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are depleted from the TME in the KPC model[111,112]. Similarly, Beatty et al[75] observed tumour regression in the KPC murine model was mediated by CD40-activated macrophages.
Viruses are a strategic tool for targeting tumours for two reasons: viruses activate similar pathways as tumours, and viral infections activate both the innate and adaptive immune responses[113]. Moreover, tumours create a niche of innate and adaptive immune suppression, which not only protect the tumour from the host immune system, but also limits its ability to respond to viral infection[39]. The therapeutic potential of viruses was first observed in early case reports of tumour regression following a naturally occurring viral infection[114]. Tumour-targeted oncolytic viruses (TOVs) are viruses that selectively infect, replicate in, and lyse tumour cells, sparing healthy, normal tissues. TOVs can be inherently tumour-selective, i.e., are naturally nonpathogenic to humans and sensitive to antiviral signaling[115] or depend on oncogenic signaling pathways such as constitutively-activated Ras[116,117]. TOVs can also be genetically engineered to be tumour-selective, which often involve deletions of genes required for replication in normal tissues[116] such as thymidine kinase and vaccinia growth factor (VGF) for vaccinia virus (VV)[118] or thymidine kinase UL23 gene in herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1[119]. More recently, gene silencing by RNA interference technology to achieve tumour selectivity has also been utilized[117]. A second strategy involves the insertion of a tumour-specific promoter[120,121] that drives the expression of a gene necessary for viral replication in order to restrict its replication in tumour cells[117]. TOVs can also be designed to express cell surface receptors unique to tumour cells[122,123], which allow specific tropism[117]. TOVs can thus be engineered to increase safety, efficacy and tissue tropism, including being armed with immunomodulatory transgenes[116]. The advantages of TOVs are their specificity, very modest toxicity, low probability for resistance and most importantly, their induction of an inflammatory cascade and engagement of the adaptive immune system[116]. Unlike the pharmacokinetics of traditional drugs, the therapeutic dose of TOVs increases with time as the virus replicates and spreads to neighboring cells[116], and if armed with a therapeutic gene, each viral progeny will also carry the transgene, enhancing the therapeutic effect[124]. Although TOVs directly lyse infected malignant cells, causing acute tumour debulking, it is the ability of the virus to spread and potentiate an inflammatory response that allows the destruction of a tumour, distinguishing TOVs from vaccines or immune adjuvants[39,125]. TOVs target multiple cellular pathways, therefore the risk of tumour resistance development is low[116]. TOVs have also been shown to act synergistically with conventional chemotherapy and radiation[126-128].
The first TOV to undergo a clinical trial was ONYX-015 (dl1520), an adenovirus deficient in the E1B gene[129]. The gene product E1B-55 kDa protein was originally thought to sequester p53, inactivating it and as a result, allowing replication in a cell[130]. O’Shea et al[131] later determined that it is differential viral RNA export between normal and cancer cells which accounts for ONYX-015’s tumour-selectivity. The first approved oncolytic virus to date is H101 (Oncorine; Shanghair Sunway Biotech, Shanghai, China), which was approved in combination with chemotherapy in China in 2005 for the treatment of head and neck cancers[129].
ONYX-015 was the first TOV used in a clinical trial for pancreatic cancer. ONYX-015 was administered intratumourally under endoscopic ultrasound-guidance into patients with locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the pancreas or metastatic disease in phase I/II trials[132]. The treatment was well-tolerated in most patients, however no objective responses were seen with ONYX-015 as a single agent and only 2/21 patients experienced mild responses when combined with gemcitabine[132]. A second adenovirus vector carries a deletion in the E1A gene[133]. E1A normally binds to the retinoblastoma protein, forcing cells to prematurely enter the S phase of the cell cycle. Since most pancreatic cancers harbor a mutation in CDKN2A[134], the E1A protein is unnecessary for entry of the TOV into cancer cells. Furthermore a double-deleted (E1A and E1B19) adenovirus demonstrated increase potency and selectivity in pancreatic cancer models[135,136]. This demonstrates that TOVs can be genetically engineered to increase selectivity and efficacy while maintaining their potency. Adenovirus selectivity has also been improved by engineering tumour-specific promoters such as a human CEA promoter[137] or by substituting the adenovirus serotype 5 fiber knob with the fiber knob from serotype 3[138]. The potency of TOVs can also be improved further by engineering them with therapeutic genes that stimulate the immune system and/or improve direct oncolysis. Adenovirus ZD55-IL-24 expressing IL-24 locally in pancreatic tumours in immune competent mice inhibited tumour growth and induced a stronger T cell response compared to its backbone virus, as measured by IL-6 and IFN-γ levels[139].
Two oncolytic HSV-1 vectors are currently in clinical trials for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. HF10 is a non-engineered, naturally occurring oncolytic HSV that demonstrated regression in 1/6 of the patients treated[140,141]. OncoVex GM-CSF is a ∆34.5 and ICP47-deleted mutant expressing GM-CSF, whereby the deletions allow for tumour-selective replication and inhibition of protein-kinase R activation, respectively[142]. Phase I/II trials in various solid tumours demonstrated OncoVex GM-CSF to be well-tolerated at high and repeated doses[143,144]. A phase I clinical trial with OncoVex GM-CSF in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer is underway.
The most widely studied poxvirus is VV, which is highly immunogenic and produces a strong cytotoxic T cell response[145] and circulating neutralizing antibodies which can be detected decades later[146]. For its crucial role in the eradication of smallpox, much has been learned about its potential role in immunotherapy today. The Lister strain of vaccinia remarkably showed no replication degradation even under the hypoxic conditions of PDAC[147]. A second Lister strain, thymidine kinase-deleted replicating VV armed with IL-10 demonstrated superior and long-lasting antitumour immunity in both a subcutaneous pancreatic cancer model and a Kras-p53 mutant-transgenic pancreatic cancer model after systemic delivery compared to its unarmed backbone virus[148]. Myxoma virus, a rabbit-specific poxvirus combined with gemcitabine resulted in 100% long-term survival in Pan02-engrafted immunocompetent intraperitoneal dissemination models of pancreatic cancer[149]. The only poxvirus to be tested in clinical trials is a non-replicative VV that expresses the pancreatic TAAs CEA and MUC-2[150]. The vaccine also includes a triad of costimulatory molecules, B7.1 (CD80), ICAM-1 (intra-cellular adhesion molecule-1) and LFA-3 (leukocyte function-associated antigen-3) (TRICOM) (PANVAC-VF)[150]. GM-CSF was also used as an adjuvant following each vaccination of PANVAC-VF. Phase I trials demonstrated antigen-specific antitumour responses in 62.5% of patients enrolled and antibody responses against VV was observed in all ten patients, which was associated with an increase in survival (15.1 mo vs 3.9 mo)[48]. A phase III clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer after failing treatment with gemcitabine, however, was terminated after failing to reach its primary efficacy endpoint[151].
Parvovirus, measles virus and reovirus have also demonstrated pre-clinical activity in pancreatic cancer models. Parvoviruses particularly demonstrated enhanced IL-2-activated NK responses against PDAC cells[152,153]. An armed measles virus (MV), MV-purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP)-anti-prostate stem cell antigen, that expresses the prodrug convertase PNP, which then activates the prodrug fludarabine, was shown to enhance the oncolytic efficacy of the virus in gemcitabine-resistant PDAC cells[154]. Reovirus is another promising TOV for pancreatic cancer therapy, particularly because its selectivity depends on the cellular activity of Ras, which is constitutively active in pancreatic cancer[155]. Reolysin® (Oncolytics Biotech Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada) a reovirus administered intraportally resulted in decreased metastatic tumour volumes in the liver of immunocompetent animal models[156,157]. A phase II study of Reolysin® in combination with gemcitabine in patients with advanced PDAC has been completed (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT00998322). A two-armed randomized phase II study of carboplatin and paclitaxel plus Reolysin®vs carboplatin and paclitaxel alone in recurrent or metastatic pancreatic cancer is currently being conducted by the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI-8601/OSU-10045).
A understanding how antitumour immunity is regulated allows us to recognize barriers against effective immunotherapy delivery and furthermore, allow for the development of rational combination therapies aiming targeting these mechanisms[108,158,159]. This approach allows therapies to work synergistically and also has the potential to benefit a broader patient population[108]. Tumours have evolved to avoid immune recognition and/or destruction at every stage in the antitumour response, therefore targeting more than one immune resistance mechanism will enhance antitumour immunity.
An important immunological barrier in cancer immunotherapy is the tolerance towards self-antigens. Tumours downregulate their antigenicity through various mechanisms in response to selective pressure by the immune system, a process called “immunoediting”[37]. Therefore, in order to raise an effective antitumour response, the immunological tolerance must be broken to allow tumour antigen-specific cytotoxic T cell responses[158]. This can be achieved by increasing the tumour load and/or enhance antigen presentation[108]. TOVs can initiate selective infection and replication in the tumour bed, exposing TAA, disrupting the immunotolerance employed by the tumour while re-engaging adaptive immune effector responses[39]. Combining an agent that can cause disruption to the tumour bed i.e., an oncolytic virus, with a novel antitumour immunomodulating agent such as anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies can maximize immune-stimulating and immune-recruiting inflammatory responses[39]. Specifically, TOV lysis induces the release of tumour antigens into the microenvironment, which are then cross-presented to T cells in the draining lymph nodes by APCs[159] (Figure 1). This allows T cell infiltration to the tumour bed. Next, T cell dysfunction must be reversed[108,158]. Immune checkpoint inhibitors alleviate immunosuppression, allowing the elimination of the tumour by the adaptive immune system[70]. TOVs in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors can therefore potentiate and activate the immune system synergistically, ultimately creating a pro-inflammatory environment. Pre-existing TILs are strong prognostic predictors in cancer[106]. This is extremely relevant for tumours with poor immune-cell infiltration, such as pancreatic cancer, which would depend on TOV-infection mediated lymphocyte infiltration for an enhanced response to immune checkpoint blockade. Zamarin et al[160] demonstrated constrained replication of an intratumoural-injected Newcastle disease virus in a B16 melanoma model. Lymphocytic infiltrates, however, were detected in both TOV-injected and non-TOV-injected tumours, and rendered the tumours sensitive to CTLA-4 blockade. The antitumour activity was dependent on CD8+ T cells, NK cells and type I and II IFNs[160]. Ipilimumab with or without talimogene laherparapvec, is in early clinical testing in patients with unresected melanoma (clinicaltrials.org: NCT01740297). Interestingly, an MV engineered to express CTLA-4 or PD-L1 antibodies delayed tumour progression and prolonged median OS in B16 melanoma models[161]. Finally, TOVs have demonstrated a tolerable toxicity profile, whereby flu-like symptoms are the most common adverse events, and in fact, most of the side effects seen so far in the combination regiment are related to the immune checkpoint blockade inhibitor[162]. Dias et al[163] suggested an oncolytic adenovirus expressing CTLA-4 locally might reduce systemic side effects normally induced with anti-CTLA-4 antibodies alone.
The main issue with virotherapy is systemic delivery for targeting metastatic cancer cells. Intravenous administration is more practical, especially for treatment of a tumour in a hard-to-reach location such as the pancreas, and with the majority of patients presenting with advanced or metastatic disease. However, nonimmune human serum and existing anti-TOV antibodies may neutralize the TOV in the bloodstream. Furthermore, non-specific hepatic and splenic sequestration of the TOV and ineffective extravasation into the tumours are important issues[164]. Currently, studies in pre-clinical models aim to overcome these obstacles. These include chemical modification of viral coat proteins by conjugation of biocompatible polymers e.g. polyethylene glycosylation[165,166], using mesenchymal stem cell carrier systems to deliver the TOV to the tumour bed[167-169], and increasing vessel permeabilization[170,171].
In PDAC, however, the biggest hurdle may not be the host immune system, but the TME. The TME has played a significant role in not only acting as a physical barrier to deliver treatments, but it also in the development of resistance to conventional drugs. The TME remains a problem for successful TOV treatment. The TOV must be able to spread in the hypoxic and densely stromal-rich TME in order to attract enough attention to induce antitumour immunity[172]. Breaching the stromal barrier in PDAC is needed for TOVs to access the cancer cells[173]. Paradoxically, a recent study by Ilkow et al[174] demonstrated that the cross-talk between CAFs and cancer cells actually lead to increased permissibility of TOV-based therapeutics. Tumour cells producing TGF-α reprogrammed CAFs, dampening levels of anti-viral transcripts. This allowed the cells to be more sensitive to VV, vesicular stomatitis virus and maraba MG1 TOVs. The reprogrammed CAFs produced fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-2 which suppressed levels of retinoic acid-inducible gene I and increased the susceptibility of the tumour cells to virus[175]. This study also demonstrated that an FGF2-expressing TOV has improved therapeutic efficacy by sensitizing the tumour cells to virotherapy and is particularly relevant to pancreatic cancers, where CAFs are a major component of the tumour stroma[175]. It is important to note that not only the patient’s existing immune system may impede successful TOV therapy, but that the enhanced antitumour response by combinatory approaches (e.g., the inclusion of immune-checkpoint inhibitors) may also impede successful TOV infection, spread and engagement of the immune system. This stresses the importance of determining strategic combinations, dosing and timing schedules in future studies.
The poor prognosis of pancreatic cancer due in part to the limited efficacy of conventional and targeted therapies, appeals for a novel strategy to treat this disease. It has become very clear that the immune system has the greatest potential to selectively destroy tumours, and when it is strategically induced, a durable benefit can be achieved. Past and present studies have defined means for tumour escape from immune surveillance and have developed immunotherapies to counteract these mechanisms. However, with the various escape strategies leading to low immunogenicity and highly immunosuppressive tumour beds, a successful control of tumour growth by immunotherapy does not come without various obstacles and challenges. Future steps include the development of immune-monitoring strategies for the identification of biomarkers, to establishment guidelines to assess clinical end points of immunotherapy and finally to evaluate combination therapeutic strategies to maximize clinical benefit[176]. The ability of TOVs to stimulate inflammation, deliver genes and immunomodulatory agents as well as reduce tumour burden by direct cell lysis, allows them to be important therapeutic vectors for a highly immunosuppressed tumour such as PDAC. Immune checkpoint blockade agents can then reverse T cell anergy and further boost OV-induced responses. As this combinatory approach may exist as a double-edged sword, it is crucial to determine appropriate timing, dosing and sequence schedules of each agent.
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