A Universal Tumor-Specific Promoter for Cancer Gene Therapy


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Abstract

An artificial double tandem tumor-specific promoter based on survivin and human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene promoters was constructed. Studies in in vitro and ex vivo therapeutic systems showed that the designed promoter exhibits a high activity in tumor cells, which is comparable to the activity of the CMV constitutive promoter.

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I. V. Alekseenko

Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry; Institute of Molecular Genetics

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Email: irina.alekseenko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997; Moscow, 123182

V. V. Pleshkan

Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry; Institute of Molecular Genetics

Email: irina.alekseenko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997; Moscow, 123182

A. V. Sass

Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry

Email: irina.alekseenko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997

O. B. Filyukova

Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry

Email: irina.alekseenko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997

E. V. Snezhkov

Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry

Email: irina.alekseenko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997

E. D. Sverdlov

Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry; Institute of Molecular Genetics

Email: irina.alekseenko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117997; Moscow, 123182

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