Xu Ying,Wu Dongming,Shi Jiao,Du Hongfei,Zhou Xiaoping,Wang Dan.Epithelial membrane protein 2 peptide vaccine in immunological control of breast carcinoma in mice[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2015,37(23):2338-2342.
Xu Ying,Wu Dongming,Shi Jiao,Du Hongfei,Zhou Xiaoping,Wang Dan.Epithelial membrane protein 2 peptide vaccine in immunological control of breast carcinoma in mice[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2015,37(23):2338-2342.DOI:
Epithelial membrane protein 2 peptide vaccine in immunological control of breast carcinoma in mice
Objective To investigate the protein expression profile of epithelial membrane protein 2 (EMP2) in a variety of human cancers
and to determine the preventive and therapeutic effect of EMP2 polypeptide vaccine in mouse breast cancer model. Methods The expression of EMP2 in normal tissues and corresponding tumor tissues was detected by tissue microarray. EMP2 polypeptide was synthesized chemically in vitro
and then coupled with protein keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH). The serum titer of anti-EMP2 antibody was detected by ELISA in the immunized mice. The prevention and treatment of tumor bearing mice of breast cancer 4T1 cells were randomly divided into saline group
KLH group
simple adjuvant group
and KLH-EMP2 group
with 10 mice in each group. The mice were immunized with KLH-EMP2 polypeptide vaccine or other corresponding agents before the establishment of mouse 4T1 breast cancer tumor. Tumorigenesis
tumor growth
weight and survival were observed to determine the effect of KLH-EMP2 peptide vaccine on breast cancer model. Results Compared with the normal tissues
EMP2 was significantly higher in breast cancer
endometrial cancer
ovarian cancer
cervical cancer
bladder cancer
thyroid cancer and other tumors
but it was not or mildly expressed in pancreatic cancer
prostate cancer and brain tumors. The tumor formation rate was 100% for the saline group
KLH group
and simple adjuvant group
but only 70% for the KLH-EMP2 group. KLH-EMP2 peptide resulted in significant inhibitory effect on tumor growth (P=0.009)
prolonged the survival of xenograft mice (P=0.001)
but had no effect on the body weight (P=0.58) when compared with the other 3 groups. In the 4T1 tumor treatment model