Non‐replicating vaccinia vector efficiently expresses bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase
- 28 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 371 (1), 9-12
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(95)00843-x
Abstract
Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA), a host range restricted and highly attenuated vaccinia virus strain, is unable to multiply in human and most other mammalian cell lines. Since viral gene expression is unimpaired in non-permissive cells recombinant MVA viruses are efficient as well as exceptionally safe expression vectors. We constructed a recombinant MVA that expresses the bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase and tested its usefulness for transient expression of recombinant genes under the control of a T7 promoter. Using the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene as a reporter gene, infection with MVA-T7pol allowed efficient synthesis of recombinant enzyme in mammalian cells. Despite the severe host restriction of MVA, enzyme activities induced by infection with MVA-T7pol were similar to those determined after infection with a replication-competent vaccinia-T7pol recombinant virus. Thus, MVA-T7pol may be used as a novel vaccinia vector to achieve T7 RNA polymerase-specific recombinant gene expression in the absence of productive vaccinia virus replicationKeywords
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