Suicide gene therapy induced by the Herpes Simplex Virus thymidine kinase/ganciclovir (HSV-tk/GCV) system has been utilized to successfully treat various cancers. We describe TransfeX-mediated transfection of pCMV.Luc into HeLa cervical carcinoma and HSC-3, FaDu, and H357 oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) cell lines in the presence of 10% serum. This method has proved to be highly efficient, with low nonspecific cytotoxicity. The plasmid pNGVL1-tk encoding HSV-tk under the control of the CMV promoter was delivered to the cells in vitro via TransfeX, a cationic liposomal reagent, followed by treatment with ganciclovir. The Alamar Blue cell viability assay was used to determine levels of the suicide effect.
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Düzgüneş, N., Cheung, J., & Konopka, K. (2019). Suicide gene therapy of oral squamous cell carcinoma and cervical carcinoma in vitro. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1895, pp. 177–184). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8922-5_14
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