ReviewPharmacology & therapeutics2006
mda-7/IL-24: multifunctional cancer-specific apoptosis-inducing cytokine.
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- An assembled molecular signaling map of interleukin-24: a resource to decipher its multifunctional immunoregulatory role in pathophysiological conditions.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- IL-24 producing regulatory T and B lymphocytes in endometriosis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- The role and mechanism of TXNDC5 in disease progression.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
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- Suppression of antitumor cytokine IL‑24 by PRG4 and PAI‑1 may promote myxoid liposarcoma cell survival.Biomedical reports · 2023Article
- Oncolyic Virotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Lighting a Fire in Winter.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- The past, present, and future of immunotherapy for bladder tumors.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2022Review
- Oncolytic therapy with vaccinia virus carrying IL-24 for hepatocellular carcinoma.Virology journal · 2022Article
- Insights into the Mechanisms of Action of MDA-7/IL-24: A Ubiquitous Cancer-Suppressing Protein.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- IL-24-Armed Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus Exerts Potent Antitumor Effects via Multiple Pathways in Colorectal Cancer.Oncology research · 2021Article
- Interleukin (IL)-24: Reconfiguring the Tumor Microenvironment for Eliciting Antitumor Response.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021Article
- Recent insights into apoptosis and toxic autophagy: The roles of MDA-7/IL-24, a multidimensional anti-cancer therapeutic.Seminars in cancer biology · 2020Review
- Gold Nanoparticle-Assisted Virus Formation by Means of the Delivery of an Oncolytic Adenovirus Genome.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Bis-indole derived nuclear receptor 4A1 (NR4A1) antagonists inhibit TGFβ-induced invasion of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma cells.American journal of cancer research · 2020Article
- An Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus Armed with GM-CSF and IL-24 Double Genes for Cancer Targeted Therapy.OncoTargets and therapy · 2020Article
- Mesenchymal stem cells derived from iPSCs expressing interleukin-24 inhibit the growth of melanoma in the tumor-bearing mouse model.Cancer cell international · 2020Article
- Inhibition of NR4A1 Promotes ROS Accumulation and IL24-Dependent Growth Arrest in Rhabdomyosarcoma.Molecular cancer research : MCR · 2019Article
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Abstract
"Differentiation therapy" provides a unique and potentially effective, less toxic treatment paradigm for cancer. Moreover, combining "differentiation therapy" with molecular approaches presents an unparalleled opportunity to identify and clone genes mediating cancer growth control, differentiation, senescence, and programmed cell death (apoptosis). Subtraction hybridization applied to human melanoma cells induced to terminally differentiate by treatment with fibroblast interferon (IFN-beta) plus mezerein (MEZ) permitted cloning of melanoma differentiation associated (mda) genes. Founded on its novel properties, one particular mda gene, mda-7, now classified as a member of the interleukin (IL)-10 gene family (IL-24) because of conserved structure, chromosomal location, and cytokine-like properties has become the focus of attention of multiple laboratories. When administered by transfection or adenovirus-transduction into a spectrum of tumor cell types, melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24) induces apoptosis, whereas no toxicity is apparent in normal cells. mda-7/IL-24 displays potent "bystander antitumor" activity and also has the capacity to enhance radiation lethality, to induce immune-regulatory activities, and to inhibit tumor angiogenesis. Based on these remarkable attributes and effective antitumor therapy in animal models, this cytokine has taken the important step of entering the clinic. In a Phase I clinical trial, intratumoral injections of adenovirus-administered mda-7/IL-24 (Ad.mda-7) was safe, elicited tumor-regulatory and immune-activating processes, and provided clinically significant activity. This review highlights our current understanding of the diverse activities and properties of this novel cytokine, with potential to become a prominent gene therapy for cancer.
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