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ArticleMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2021

A chimeric virus-based probe unambiguously detects live circulating tumor cells with high specificity and sensitivity.

Xinping Fu, Lihua Tao, Xiaoliu Zhang

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Article in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xinping FuDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry and Center for Nuclear Receptor and Cell Signaling, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
Lihua TaoDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry and Center for Nuclear Receptor and Cell Signaling, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
Xiaoliu ZhangDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry and Center for Nuclear Receptor and Cell Signaling, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
University of Houston · US

Funding

Reconstruction of an oncolytic HSV vector for systemic deliveryR01CA203852 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI ZHANG, SHAUN XIAOLIU · 2016 to 2020
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA203852
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current methods for detecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) suffer from several drawbacks. We report a novel method that is based on a chimeric virus probe and can detect CTCs with extremely high specificity and sensitivity. Moreover, it exclusively detects live CTCs, and its detection efficacy is not impacted by the variation of epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) expression. The chimeric virus probe is composed of a capsid from human papillomavirus that provides the detection with high specificity and an SV40-based genome that can amplify extensively inside CTCs and, hence, endows the detection with high sensitivity. Furthermore, different marker genes can be incorporated into the probe to provide detection with versatility. These unique capabilities will likely improve the validity and utility of this CTC detection in several clinical applications, which is one of the drawbacks suffered by many of the current CTC detection methods.

Indexed as

amplificationchimeric viral vectorcirculating tumor cellsdetectionGFPhuman papillomavirusluciferaseprobeSV40

Identifiers

PMID34631928
PMCPMC8476710
OpenAlexW3196406365

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