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Protease-deleted adenovirus as an alternative for replication-competent adenovirus vector

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2023.07.009
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  1. National Research Council Canada. Human Health Therapeutics
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Subjectprotease-deleted adenovirus; single-cycle adenovirus vector; replication-competent adenovirus vector; replication-defective adenovirus; adenovirus E4 region
Abstract
For cancer therapy and vaccination an amplified expression of the therapeutic gene is desired. Previously, we have developed a single-cycle adenovirus vector (SC-AdV) by deleting the adenovirus protease (PS) gene. In order to keep the E1 region intact within the PS-deleted adenoviruses, we examined the insertion of two transgenes under the control of a constitutive or inducible promoters. These were inserted between E4 and the right inverted terminal repeat in a wide variety of backbones with various combinations of PS, E3 and E4 deletion. Our data showed that PS-deleted adenoviruses, expressed transgenes as strongly as replication-competent AdVs in HEK293A and a variant of HeLa cells. In a head-to-head comparison in four human cell lines, we demonstrated that SC-AdV, was comparable for transgene expression efficacy with its replication-competent counterpart. However, the SC-AdV expresses its transgene 10 to 16,000 times higher than its replication-defective counterpart.
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  • Virology 586, no. C (September 2023): 67–75.
LanguageEnglish
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