{"id":9671,"date":"2022-05-19T00:17:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:19:57","slug":"bacteria-based-cancer-therapy-use-tnf-%ce%b1-to-mediate-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/9671\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria-based cancer therapy: use TNF-\u03b1 to mediate Trojan Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"
Institute of Biomedical Sciences assistant research fellow Dr. Kurt Yun Mou\u2019s team developed a novel cancer therapy and published their results in \u201cMolecular Therapy\u201d in April this year. The research group develop a Trojan Horse approach to target TNF-\u03b1 for cancer therapy. They employed phage\/yeast display to select non-neutralizing antibodies that can piggyback on TNF-\u03b1 and co-internalize into cells. The antibody conjugated with toxins killed cancer cells in a TNF-\u03b1-dependent manner. Intratumoral injection of engineered E. coli<\/em> secreting the immunotoxin greatly inhibited the tumor growth in mice and enhanced the anti-tumor tumor-infiltrating immune cells, including N1 neutrophils, M1 macrophages, and activated CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes. The results were published in Molecular Therapy<\/em>.<\/p>\n