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ArticleCancer gene therapy2019

Dual-vector prodrug activator gene therapy using retroviral replicating vectors.

Shuji Kubo, Misato Takagi-Kimura, Masatoshi Tagawa, Noriyuki Kasahara

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Article in Cancer gene therapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Prodrugs and prodrug-activated systems in gene therapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Shuji KuboUnit of Molecular and Genetic Therapeutics, Laboratory of Medical Innovation, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan. s-kubo@hyo-med.ac.jp.
Misato Takagi-KimuraUnit of Molecular and Genetic Therapeutics, Laboratory of Medical Innovation, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Masatoshi TagawaDivision of Pathology and Cell Therapy, Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, Chiba, Japan.
Noriyuki KasaharaDepartment of Cell Biology and Pathology, University of Miami, Miami, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9186-911X
Hyogo Medical University · JPChiba Cancer Center · JPUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retroviral replicating vectors (RRVs) have been shown to achieve efficient tumor transduction and enhanced therapeutic benefits in a variety of cancer models. In the present study, we evaluated a possible combinatorial effect of prodrug activator genes delivered by two different RRVs derived from amphotropic murine leukemia virus (AMLV) and gibbon ape leukemia virus (GALV) on human hepatocellular carcinoma Hep3B cells. Both RRVs showed efficient replicative spread in culture and can overcame superinfection resistance each other. Notably, the replication and spread of each RRV in culture remained unaffected by pretransduction with the counterpart RRV. We further transduced cells with RRVs which individually possessed the prodrug activator genes yeast cytosine deaminase (CD) and herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (TK) alone or in combination, and evaluated the cytotoxic effects of RRV-mediated gene therapy with CD and TK in the presence of the respective prodrugs, 5-fluorocytosine and ganciclovir. All combinations of the two prodrug activator genes produced synergistic cytocidal effects, but the combined effects of the different genes were significantly greater than those of the same genes when delivered by two different vectors. The present findings indicate the potential utility of dual-vector gene therapy using two different RRVs carrying different prodrug activator genes.

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Cell Line, TumorGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsHumansProdrugsRetroviridaeProdrugs

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