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Mutation of herpesvirus Saimiri ORF51 glycoprotein specifically targets infectivity to hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines.
Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology - 1 Jan 2011
Turrell Susan J, Whitehouse Adrian
Abstract excerpt
Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is a gamma herpesvirus with several properties that make it an amenable gene therapy vector; namely its large packaging capacity, its ability to persist as a nonintegrated episome, and its ability to infect numerous human cell types. We used RecA-mediated recombination to develop an HVS vector with a mutated virion protein. The heparan sulphate-binding region of HVS ORF51 was substituted...
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