TY - JOUR
T1 - Therapeutic Effects of WT1 Silencing via Respiratory Administration of Neutral DOPC Liposomal-siRNA in a Lung Metastasis Melanoma Murine Model
AU - Ramos-Gonzalez, Martin R.
AU - Vazquez-Garza, Eduardo
AU - Garcia-Rivas, Gerardo
AU - Rodriguez-Aguayo, Cristian
AU - Chavez-Reyes, Arturo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the authors.
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - The lungs represent a frequent target for metastatic melanoma as they offer a high-oxygen environment for tumor development. The overexpression of the WT1 protein has been associated with the occurrence of melanoma. In this study, we evaluated the effects of silencing the WT1 protein by siRNA in both in vitro in the B16F10 melanoma cell line and in vivo in a murine model of lung metastatic melanoma. We did this by implementing a novel respiratory delivery strategy of a neutral DOPC liposomal-siRNA system (L-siRNA). In vitro studies showed an effective silencing of the WT1 protein in the siRNAs’ WT1-treated cells when compared with controls, resulting in a loss of the cell’s viability and proliferation by inducing G1 arrest, the inhibition of the migration and invasion capacities of the cells, as well as the induction of apoptosis. In vivo, the respiratory administration of L-WT1 siRNA showed an efficient biodistribution on the lungs. After two weeks of treatment, the silencing of the WT1 protein resulted in an important antitumor activity that reduced the tumor weight. In the survival study, L-WT1 treatment could significantly delay the death of the animals. This work demonstrates the efficacy of the L-siRNA respiratory administration as a novel therapy to reduce pulmonary tumors and to increase survivability by silencing specific cancer oncogenes as WT1.
AB - The lungs represent a frequent target for metastatic melanoma as they offer a high-oxygen environment for tumor development. The overexpression of the WT1 protein has been associated with the occurrence of melanoma. In this study, we evaluated the effects of silencing the WT1 protein by siRNA in both in vitro in the B16F10 melanoma cell line and in vivo in a murine model of lung metastatic melanoma. We did this by implementing a novel respiratory delivery strategy of a neutral DOPC liposomal-siRNA system (L-siRNA). In vitro studies showed an effective silencing of the WT1 protein in the siRNAs’ WT1-treated cells when compared with controls, resulting in a loss of the cell’s viability and proliferation by inducing G1 arrest, the inhibition of the migration and invasion capacities of the cells, as well as the induction of apoptosis. In vivo, the respiratory administration of L-WT1 siRNA showed an efficient biodistribution on the lungs. After two weeks of treatment, the silencing of the WT1 protein resulted in an important antitumor activity that reduced the tumor weight. In the survival study, L-WT1 treatment could significantly delay the death of the animals. This work demonstrates the efficacy of the L-siRNA respiratory administration as a novel therapy to reduce pulmonary tumors and to increase survivability by silencing specific cancer oncogenes as WT1.
KW - liposomes
KW - lung cancer
KW - melanoma
KW - metastases
KW - siRNA
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U2 - 10.3390/ncrna9020021
DO - 10.3390/ncrna9020021
M3 - Article
C2 - 36960966
AN - SCOPUS:85153785558
SN - 2311-553X
VL - 9
JO - Non-coding RNA
JF - Non-coding RNA
IS - 2
M1 - 21
ER -