title: VSV-G-pseudotyped retroviral packaging through adenovirus-mediated inducible gene expression.
abstract: It has been technically difficult to generate recombinant adenoviruses encoding genes for cytotoxic products such as vesicular stomatitis virus G-protein (VSV-G), which is too toxic for the host cells to allow adenoviral propagation. In our companion paper (Yoshida, Y., and Hamada, H., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 230, 426-430, 1997), a tetracycline-inducible adenovirus system is reported. The inducible expression system enabled us to generate recombinant adenoviruses encoding genes for the cytotoxic viral VSV-G product. In this study, we generated recombinant adenoviruses encoding VSV-G and MoMLV gag-pol genes, both under the tetracycline-controllable promoter, and attempted retroviral packaging. Simultaneous infection of these adenoviruses together with tetracycline-transactivator (NtTA) expression resulted in efficient VSVG-pseudotyped retroviral packaging. Adenovirus-mediated recombinant retrovirus generation will be useful in studies with various pseudotyped mutants, as well as in assays for retrovirus-related genes and their products.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biotherapy Research, Cancer Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Emi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hamada
mesh_terms: D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000502:physiology*; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D014721:Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus / Q000235:genetics*; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D019065:Virus Assembly / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: C028391:G protein, vesicular stomatitis virus; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins