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ArticleNucleic acids research2011

Directed adenovirus evolution using engineered mutator viral polymerases.

Taco G Uil, Jort Vellinga, Jeroen de Vrij, Sanne K van den Hengel, Martijn J W E Rabelink, Steve J Cramer, Julia J M Eekels, Yavuz Ariyurek, Michiel van Galen, Rob C Hoeben

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Virus-assisted directed evolution of biomolecules.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2023
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  9. Genetic Modifications That Expand Oncolytic Virus Potency.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022
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  12. Genetic Engineering by DNA Recombineering.Current protocols in chemical biology · 2019
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  13. An Adaptable Platform for Directed Evolution in Human Cells.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018
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  16. An orthogonal DNA replication system in yeast.Nature chemical biology · 2014
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  19. Adenovirus DNA replication.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Taco G UilDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2300 RC, The Netherlands.
Jort Vellinga
Jeroen de Vrij
Sanne K van den Hengel
Martijn J W E Rabelink
Steve J Cramer
Julia J M Eekels
Yavuz Ariyurek
Michiel van Galen
Rob C Hoeben
Leiden University Medical Center · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adenoviruses (Ads) are the most frequently used viruses for oncolytic and gene therapy purposes. Most Ad-based vectors have been generated through rational design. Although this led to significant vector improvements, it is often hampered by an insufficient understanding of Ad's intricate functions and interactions. Here, to evade this issue, we adopted a novel, mutator Ad polymerase-based, 'accelerated-evolution' approach that can serve as general method to generate or optimize adenoviral vectors. First, we site specifically substituted Ad polymerase residues located in either the nucleotide binding pocket or the exonuclease domain. This yielded several polymerase mutants that, while fully supportive of viral replication, increased Ad's intrinsic mutation rate. Mutator activities of these mutants were revealed by performing deep sequencing on pools of replicated viruses. The strongest identified mutators carried replacements of residues implicated in ssDNA binding at the exonuclease active site. Next, we exploited these mutators to generate the genetic diversity required for directed Ad evolution. Using this new forward genetics approach, we isolated viral mutants with improved cytolytic activity. These mutants revealed a common mutation in a splice acceptor site preceding the gene for the adenovirus death protein (ADP). Accordingly, the isolated viruses showed high and untimely expression of ADP, correlating with a severe deregulation of E3 transcript splicing.

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AdenoviridaeAdenovirus E3 ProteinsAmino Acid SequenceAmino Acid SubstitutionCell LineCell Line, TumorDirected Molecular EvolutionDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseGenetic VectorsHumansMolecular Sequence DataMutationOncolytic VirusesRNA SplicingViral ProteinsVirus Replicationadenovirus death protein, AdenovirusAdenovirus E3 ProteinsDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseViral Proteins

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PMID21138963
PMCPMC3061072
OpenAlexW1993268818

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