Adenoviral tumor diagnostics
AssigneeThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies
InventorsClodagh O'Shea, Colin Powers
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Abstract
Compositions and methods for detecting a cancer in a subject using a recombinant reporter adenovirus are described. In particular, recombinant adenovirus is used to diagnose a cancer in a patient and further used for screening compounds effective in treating the cancer in said patient.
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A recombinant reporter adenovirus, comprising a first cancer cell reporter module, a second cancer cell reporter module and a cancer cell binding module, wherein said first cancer cell reporter module comprises a constitutive promoter active in tumor cells and non-tumor cells operably linked to a first reporter gene that expresses a first reporter gene phenotype in tumor cells and non-tumor cells, and said second cancer cell reporter module comprises a cancer responsive promoter operably linked to a second reporter gene that expresses a second reporter gene phenotype in tumor cells, and wherein said first reporter gene phenotype and said second reporter gene phenotype are detectably different.
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