Can Viruses be Modified to Achieve Sustained Gene Transfer?

It is very easy to replace a faulty gene in an immunocompromised mouse. First, one takes a well-characterized virus, such as an adenovirus or an adeno-associated virus, and incorporates the correct version of the faulty gene together with some regulatory sequences into the genome. Then, one transduc...

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Main Authors: Hildegund CJ Ertl, Hua eLi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2011.00152/full