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ArticleNucleic acids research2007

A tractable method for simultaneous modifications to the head and tail of bacteriophage lambda and its application to enhancing phage-mediated gene delivery.

Christine N Zanghi, Ramil Sapinoro, Birgit Bradel-Tretheway, Stephen Dewhurst

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Phage Therapy in the Era of Synthetic Biology.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Christine N ZanghiDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 672, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
Ramil Sapinoro
Birgit Bradel-Tretheway
Stephen Dewhurst

Funding

University of Rochester Mentoring Environment: Nurturing Training Opportunities in Research (UR-MENTOR)T32GM007356 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI O'BANION, M. KERRY · 1985 to 2023
$15.1M
Training in Microbial PathogenesisT32AI007362 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI IGLEWSKI, BARBARA H. · 1990 to 2010
$2.6M
Training Program in Oral Infectious DiseasesT32DE007165 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI QUIVEY, ROBERT G · 1985 to 2005
$1.2M
Bacteriophage gene transfer for HIV vaccine deliveryR21AI058791 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI DEWHURST, STEPHEN · 2005 to 2006
$463k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI058791NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007362NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE14914NIDCR NIH HHS T32 DE007165NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007356
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is considerable interest in the use of bacteriophage vectors for mammalian cell gene transfer applications, due to their stability, excellent safety profile and inexpensive mass production. However, to date, phage vectors have been plagued by mediocre performance as gene transfer agents. This may reflect the complexity of the viral infection process in mammalian cells and the need to refine each step of this process in order to arrive at an optimal, phage-based gene transfer system. Therefore, a flexible system was designed that alowed for the introduction of multiple modifications on the surface of bacteriophage lambda. Using this novel method, multiple peptides were displayed simultaneously from both the phage head and tail. Surface head display of an ubiquitinylation motif greatly increased the efficiency of phage-mediated gene transfer in a murine macrophage cell line. Gene transfer was further increased when this peptide was displayed in combination with a tail-displayed CD40-binding motif. Overall, this work provides a novel system that can be used to rationally improve bacteriophage gene transfer vectors and shows it may be possible to enhance the efficiency of phage-mediated gene transfer by targeting and optimizing multiple steps within the viral infection pathway.

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Genetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesAmino Acid MotifsAnimalsBacteriophage lambdaBiological TransportCD40 AntigensCell LineDNAMiceViral Tail ProteinsVirionCD40 AntigensDNAViral Tail Proteins

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PMID17392341
PMCPMC1885665

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