Prostate cancer cell lines, gene signatures and uses thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10952415B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-23

    申请号:US14003384

    申请日:2012-03-09

    摘要: The present disclosure, in part, is directed to a mammalian prostate cancer cell line comprising at least one or a set of primary mammalian epithelial cells which have been infected with a retroviral vector carrying an oncogene selected from the group consisting of c-Myc, Ha-Ras, NeuT, c-Src and combinations thereof and in which said gene is expressed. Applications of the pro-state cell lines, including immune competent animal models of prostate cancer, a method for the in vitro production of immortalized primary mammalian epithelial cells, a method of determining whether a human subject having prostate cancer is suffering from or at risk for developing metastasis, a method of preventing cancer or inhibiting metastasis of cancer susceptible to treatment in a subject at risk for developing cancer or metastasis of cancer, and method of identifying a candidate compound that selectively interferes with proliferation or viability of a cancer cell that has elevated levels of CCR5 and/or of at least one of its ligands.

    Suppressive Exosomes in Cancer and for Immunosuppression

    公开(公告)号:US20210046109A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-18

    申请号:US16980391

    申请日:2019-03-14

    摘要: Suppressive extracellular vesicles (EVs) such as PD-L1-bearing exosomes are produced by cancer cells and promote systemic suppression of the immune system, enabling tumors to escape immune surveillance. Inhibitors of suppressive EVs reduce the suppressive activity and/or the production of suppressive EVs, relieving systemic immunosuppression, and may be use to increase the efficacy of a co-administered immunotherapy. Additionally, engineered cancer cells that have an impaired capacity to produce PD-L1-bearing exosomes can be administered to prime the immune system against resident tumors, overcoming the systemic suppression of the immune system by cancer cells. Also, exogenously produced PD-L1-bearing exosomes may be administered to a subject for the treatment of an immune-related condition or to promote therapeutic immunosuppression.