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Directed Evolution of Seneca Valley Virus in Tumorsphere and Monolayer Cell Cultures of a Small-Cell Lung Cancer Model.pdf (2.45 MB)

Directed evolution of Seneca Valley virus in tumorsphere and monolayer cell cultures of a small-cell lung cancer model

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posted on 2023-05-30, 23:57 authored by Shakeel Waqqar, Kai Lee, Blair Lawley, Timothy BiltonTimothy Bilton, Miguel E. Quiñones-Mateu, Mihnea Bostina, Laura Burga

The Seneca Valley virus (SVV) is an oncolytic virus from the picornavirus family, characterized by a 7.3-kilobase RNA genome encoding for all the structural and functional viral proteins. Directed evolution by serial passaging has been employed for oncolytic virus adaptation to increase the killing efficacy towards certain types of tumors. We propagated the SVV in a small-cell lung cancer model under two culture conditions: conventional cell monolayer and tumorspheres, with the latter resembling more closely the cellular structure of the tumor of origin. We observed an increase of the virus-killing efficacy after ten passages in the tumorspheres. Deep sequencing analyses showed genomic changes in two SVV populations comprising 150 single nucleotides variants and 72 amino acid substitutions. Major differences observed in the tumorsphere-passaged virus population, compared to the cell monolayer, were identified in the conserved structural protein VP2 and in the highly variable P2 region, suggesting that the increase in the ability of the SVV to kill cells over time in the tumorspheres is acquired by capsid conservation and positively selecting mutations to counter the host innate immune responses

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© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Publication date

2023-04-28

Language

  • English

Does this contain Māori information or data?

  • No

Publisher

MDPI

Journal title

Cancers

ISSN

2072-6694

Volume/issue number

15/9

Page numbers

2541