ArticleNAR cancer2021
Transgene codon usage drives viral fitness and therapeutic efficacy in oncolytic adenoviruses.
Article in NAR cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Advancing codon language modeling with synonymous codon constrained masking.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- The advent of clinical self-amplifying RNA vaccines.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025Review
- Comparison of the L3-23K and L5-Fiber Regions for Arming the Oncolytic Adenovirus Ad5-Delta-24-RGD with Reporter and Therapeutic Transgenes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Codon-optimization in gene therapy: promises, prospects and challenges.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Review
- Genes for highly abundant proteins in Escherichia coli avoid 5' codons that promote ribosomal initiation.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
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- Codon Usage and Adenovirus Fitness: Implications for Vaccine Development.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- Arming Oncolytic Adenoviruses: Effect of Insertion Site and Splice Acceptor on Transgene Expression and Viral Fitness.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Arming oncolytic adenoviruses with therapeutic transgenes is a well-established strategy for multimodal tumour attack. However, this strategy sometimes leads to unexpected attenuated viral replication and a loss of oncolytic effects, preventing these viruses from reaching the clinic. Previous work has shown that altering codon usage in viral genes can hamper viral fitness. Here, we have analysed how transgene codon usage impacts viral replication and oncolytic activity. We observe that, although transgenes with optimized codons show high expression levels at the first round of infection, they impair viral fitness and are therefore not expressed in a sustained manner. Conversely, transgenes encoded by suboptimal codons do not compromise viral replication and are thus stably expressed over time, allowing a greater oncolytic activity both
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