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1 Department of Virology, Umeå University, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden
2 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
3 Department of Neurosurgery, Lund University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden
Correspondence
Johan Skog
johan.skog{at}climi.umu.se
There is a need for improvement of the commonly used adenovirus vectors based on serotype 5. This study was performed on three adenovirus serotypes with a CAR-binding motif (Ad4p, Ad5p and Ad17p) and three non-CAR-binding serotypes (Ad11p, Ad16p and Ad21p). The capacity of these alternative adenovirus vector candidates to deliver DNA into low-passage glioma cell lines from seven different donors was evaluated. The non-CAR-binding serotype Ad16p was the most efficient serotype with regard to import of its DNA, as well as initiation of hexon protein expression. Ad16p established hexon expression in 6080 % of the cell population in gliomas from all donors tested. The other non-CAR-binding serotypes, Ad11p and Ad21p, showed hexon expression in 2560 and 4080 % of cells, respectively. The corresponding figure for the best CAR-binding serotype, Ad5p, was only 2565 %, indicating greater variability between cells from different donors than serotype Ad16p had. The other CAR-binding serotypes, Ad4p and Ad17p, were refractory to some of the gliomas, giving a maximum of only 45 and 40 % hexon expression, respectively, in the most permissive cells. Interestingly, the transduction capacity of the CAR-binding serotypes was not correlated to the level of CAR expression on the cells.
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