Gene Therapy
New Gene Therapy Findings from S.G. Zeng and Co-Authors Described
Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 14th, 2012
2012 MAR 14 -- According to the authors of a study from Guangdong, People's Republic of China, "Attenuated Salmonella can invade tumor cells and acts as a eukaryotic expression vector for gene propagation. We constructed a bi-gene, eukaryotic co-expression DNA vaccine of Mycobacterium tuberculosis heat shock protein 70 (mtHSP70) and Herpes simplex virus-thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) and used attenuated Salmonella as a vector to treat murine melanoma."
"In vitro, recombinant Salmonella can carry plasmid stably and can invade into the cytoplasm of B16 tumor cells expressing the protein of the mtHSP70/HSV-tk gene by Western blot assay. In vivo, after the...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2012-03-14)
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