title: SV40 pseudovirions as highly efficient vectors for gene transfer and their potential application in cancer therapy.
abstract: Among viral and non-viral gene delivery systems, SV40-based vectors show great promise in the cancer gene therapy field. SV40 vectors very efficiently deliver genes such as anti-viral agents, DNA vaccine, genes for chemoprotection (such as ABC transporters genes), suicide genes and antiangiogenic genes. The recombinant SV40 vectors can infect a wide variety of cells-dividing cells as well as non-cycling ones. Most of the SV40-based vectors can incorporate larger transgenes than the capacity of the SV40 wild-type, which is 5.2 kb; Moreover, in vitro packaged vectors demonstrate efficient delivery of plasmids with a molecular weight of up to 17.7 kb. SV40-based vectors carry some SV40 viral sequences, but the SV40 in vitro-packaged vectors are free of any SV40 wild-type viral DNA sequences. These vectors are prepared with nuclear extracts of SF9 insect cells containing the main viral capsid protein of the SV40 wild-type virus, VP1. This review summarizes different strategies in which SV40 vectors are used to deliver genes in vitro, to living mice, and to tumors growing in nude mice.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Chava
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kimchi-Sarfaty
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Gottesman
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D019450:Genes, MDR / Q000235:genetics; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D013539:Simian virus 40 / Q000235:genetics*; D013752:Tetracycline / Q000096:biosynthesis
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D013752:Tetracycline