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SUBMITTER: Islam SMBU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7650665 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Islam S M Bakhtiar Ul SMBU Hong Young Mi YM Ornella Mefotse Saha Cyrelle MSC Ngabire Daniel D Jang Hyunjung H Cho Euna E Kim Eung-Kyun EK Hale Jessye Jin Joo JJJ Kim Cy Hyun CH Ahn Soon Cheol SC Cho Mong M Hwang Tae-Ho TH
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Viral replication of <i>thymidine kinase</i> deleted (<i>tk</i><sup>-</sup>) vaccinia virus (VV) is attenuated in resting normal cells, enabling cancer selectivity, however, replication potency of VV<i>-tk<sup>-</sup></i> appears to be diminished in cancer cells. Previously, we found that wild-type herpes simplex virus (HSV<i>)-tk</i> (<i>HSV-tk</i>) disappeared in most of the recombinant VV after multiple screenings, and only a few recombinant VV containing naturally mutated <i>HSV-tk</i> remai ...[more]