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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2016

Actin-resistant DNAse I Expression From Oncolytic Adenovirus Enadenotucirev Enhances Its Intratumoral Spread and Reduces Tumor Growth.

Alison Tedcastle, Sam Illingworth, Alice Brown, Leonard W Seymour, Kerry D Fisher

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Oncolytic viruses: advanced strategies in cancer therapy.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  3. Oncolytic virotherapy and tumor microenvironment modulation.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2025
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  11. Genetic Modifications That Expand Oncolytic Virus Potency.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022
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  12. Beyond cancer cells: Targeting the tumor microenvironment with gene therapy and armed oncolytic virus.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alison TedcastleDepartment of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Sam IllingworthPsiOxus Therapeutics Ltd, Abingdon, UK.
Alice BrownPsiOxus Therapeutics Ltd, Abingdon, UK.
Leonard W SeymourDepartment of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Kerry D FisherDepartment of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
University of Oxford · GBPsiOxus Therapeutics (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 17720Cancer Research UK C552/A17720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spread of oncolytic viruses through tumor tissue is essential to effective virotherapy. Interstitial matrix is thought to be a significant barrier to virus particle convection between "islands" of tumor cells. One way to address this is to encode matrix-degrading enzymes within oncolytic viruses, for secretion from infected cells. To test the hypothesis that extracellular DNA provides an important barrier, we assessed the ability of DNase to promote virus spread. Nonreplicating Ad5 vectors expressing actin-resistant DNase (aDNAse I), proteinase K (PK), hyaluronidase (rhPH20), and chondroitinase ABC (CABC) were injected into established DLD human colorectal adenocarcinoma xenografts, transcomplemented with a replicating Ad5 virus. Each enzyme improved oncolysis by the replicating adenovirus, with no evidence of tumor cells being shed into the bloodstream. aDNAse I and rhPH20 hyaluronidase were then cloned into conditionally-replicating group B adenovirus, Enadenotucirev (EnAd). EnAd encoding each enzyme showed significantly better antitumor efficacy than the parental virus, with the aDNAse I-expressing virus showing improved spread. Both DNase and hyaluronidase activity was still measurable 32 days postinfection. This is the first time that extracellular DNA has been implicated as a barrier for interstitial virus spread, and suggests that oncolytic viruses expressing aDNAse I may be promising candidates for clinical translation.

Indexed as

AdenoviridaeAnimalsCell Line, TumorColorectal NeoplasmsDeoxyribonuclease IGenetic VectorsHumansMiceOncolytic VirotherapyOncolytic VirusesOrgan SpecificityVirus ReplicationXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysDeoxyribonuclease I

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PMID26708004
PMCPMC4886935
OpenAlexW2201036716

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