Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary malignancy of the bone, highly aggressive and metastasizing, and it mainly affects children and adolescents. The current standard of care for OS is a combination of surgery and chemotherapy. However, these treatment options are not always successful, especially in cases of metastatic or recurrent osteosarcomas. For this reason, research into new therapeutic strategies is currently underway, and immunotherapies have received considerable attention. Mifamurtide stands out among the most studied immunostimulant drugs; nevertheless, there are very conflicting opinions on its therapeutic efficacy. Here, we aimed to investigate mifamurtide efficacy through in vitro and in vivo experiments. Our results led us to identify a new possible target useful to improve mifamurtide effectiveness on metastatic OS: the cytokine interleukin-10 (IL-10). We provide experimental evidence that the synergic use of an anti-IL-10 antibody in combination with mifamurtide causes a significantly increased mortality rate in highest-grade OS cells and lower metastasis in an in vivo model compared with mifamurtide alone. Overall, our data suggest that mifamurtide in combination with an anti-IL-10 antibody could be proposed as a new treatment protocol to be studied to improve the outcomes of OS patients.

Blockade of IL-10 signaling ensures mifamurtide efficacy in metastatic osteosarcoma / Nicoletta Nastasi, Amada Pasha, Gennaro Bruno, Angela Subbiani, Laura Pietrovito, Angela Leo, Lucia Scala, Lorena de Simone, Gabriella Casazza, Federica Lunardi, Maria Letizia Taddei, Angela Tamburini, Annalisa Tondo, Claudio Favre, Maura Calvani. - In: CANCERS. - ISSN 2072-6694. - ELETTRONICO. - 15:(2023), pp. 4744-4760. [10.3390/cancers15194744]

Blockade of IL-10 signaling ensures mifamurtide efficacy in metastatic osteosarcoma

Nicoletta Nastasi;Amada Pasha;Gennaro Bruno;Angela Subbiani;Laura Pietrovito;Angela Leo;Lucia Scala;Maria Letizia Taddei;Claudio Favre;Maura Calvani
2023

Abstract

Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary malignancy of the bone, highly aggressive and metastasizing, and it mainly affects children and adolescents. The current standard of care for OS is a combination of surgery and chemotherapy. However, these treatment options are not always successful, especially in cases of metastatic or recurrent osteosarcomas. For this reason, research into new therapeutic strategies is currently underway, and immunotherapies have received considerable attention. Mifamurtide stands out among the most studied immunostimulant drugs; nevertheless, there are very conflicting opinions on its therapeutic efficacy. Here, we aimed to investigate mifamurtide efficacy through in vitro and in vivo experiments. Our results led us to identify a new possible target useful to improve mifamurtide effectiveness on metastatic OS: the cytokine interleukin-10 (IL-10). We provide experimental evidence that the synergic use of an anti-IL-10 antibody in combination with mifamurtide causes a significantly increased mortality rate in highest-grade OS cells and lower metastasis in an in vivo model compared with mifamurtide alone. Overall, our data suggest that mifamurtide in combination with an anti-IL-10 antibody could be proposed as a new treatment protocol to be studied to improve the outcomes of OS patients.
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