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| Author(s): |
Rafael Bento da Silva Soares
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB/SDI) |
| Defense date: | 2011-03-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Bryan Eric Strauss;
Miriam Galvonas Jasiulionis;
Durvanei Augusto Maria;
Luciana dos Reis Vasques;
Armando Morais Ventura
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| Advisor: | Bryan Eric Strauss |
| Abstract | |
The majority of gene therapy strategies in use today are based on promoters and transgenes that work independently, and an example of this is the widely used CMV promoter. Our group breaks way from the use of independent promoter/transgene activity. We developed a new gene transfer strategy which combines the transgene activity and the promoter of gene expression. This was achieved by the insertion of the PG element, which is a p53-responsive enhancer, in the promoter. In the present work we built a new adenoviral vector (AdPGp53) containing the p53 tumor suppressor gene, whose expression is controlled by the p53 protein itself through the PG element. In comparative experiments, in which we used our AdPGp53 vector and another adenoviral vector, with a p53 gene and a traditional CMV promoter (AdCMVp53), our vector showed superior p53 expression in PC3 human prostate cancer cells, superior cell death in vitro and a tendency in diminishing tumor growth in an in vivo xenograft model in nude mice injected with PC3 cells. (AU) | |