Authors: Turrell SJ, Macnab SA, Rose A, Melcher AA, Whitehouse A
Abstract
Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is capable of infecting a range of human carcinoma cell types with high efficiency and the viral genome persists as high copy number, circular, non-integrated episomes which segregate to progeny upon cell division. This allows HVS-based vectors to stably transduce a dividing cell population and provide sustained transgene expression for an extended period of time both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, the insertion of a bacterial artificial chromosome cassette into the HVS genome simplifies the incorporation of large amounts of heterologous DNA for gene delivery. Herein we have produced a recombinant HVS-based vector containing full-length human TRAIL under the control of the ?-survi...

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