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ArticleCancer gene therapy2010

Enhancement of reporter gene detection sensitivity by insertion of specific mini-peptide-coding sequences.

J Cutrera, D Dibra, X Xia, S Li

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Article in Cancer gene therapy, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. The impact of non-electrical factors on electrical gene transfer.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J CutreraDepartment of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
D Dibra
X Xia
S Li
Louisiana State University · US

Funding

Gene-Product Auto-Targeting to Tumor VesselsR01CA120895 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI LI, SHULIN · 2007 to 2025
$4.8M
Elimination of residual malignancy by programmed systemic cytokine gene therapyR01CA098928 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI LI, SHULIN · 2002 to 2013
$3.0M
IL12 Gene Therapy For Enhancing Therapeutic Efficacy of Bleomycin Against Oral TuR01CA142855 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI LI, SHULIN · 2010 to 2014
$1.6M
Novel gene delivery and expression systemR21EB007208 · NIBIB · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · PI SEHGAL, INDER · 2008 to 2009
$404k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA098928NCI NIH HHS R01 CA120895NCI NIH HHS R01CA120895NCI NIH HHS R01 CA142855NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB007208NIBIB NIH HHS R21EB007208
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two important aspects of gene therapy are to increase the level of gene expression and track the gene delivery site and expression, and a sensitive reporter gene may be one of the options for preclinical studies and possibly for human clinical trials. We report the novel concept of increasing the activity of the gene products. With the insertion of the mini-peptide-coding sequence CWDDWLC into the plasmid DNA of a SEAP reporter gene, we observed vast increases in the enzyme activity in vitro in all murine and human cell lines used. In addition, in vivo injection of this CWDDWLC-SEAP-encoding gene resulted in the same increases in reporter gene activity, but these increases did not correspond to alterations in the level of the gene products in the serum. Minor sequence changes in this mini-peptide negate the activity increase of the reporter gene. We report the novel concept of increasing the activity of gene products as another method to improve the reporting sensitivity of reporter genes. This improved reporter gene could complement any improved vector for maximizing the reporter sensitivity. Moreover, this strategy has the potential to be used to discover peptides that improve the activity of therapeutic genes.

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Alkaline PhosphataseAnimalsBlotting, WesternCell LineElectroporationGenes, ReporterHumansMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, NudeModels, GeneticPeptidesPlasmidsAlkaline PhosphatasePeptides

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PMID19713998
PMCPMC2808434
OpenAlexW1995218844

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