These findings showed the marked antitumor activity of IL-24 and provided potential perspectives in designing therapeutic or vaccine strategies in immuno-gene therapy of myeloid leukemia.
These data for the first time indicate that MDA-7/IL-24 exerts its antitumor effect on leukemia cells via multiple pathways, and suggest that oncolytic adenoviruses, ZD55 and ZD55-IL-24 could potentially be used against CAR-expressing hematological malignancies such as B-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma and some myeloid leukemia.