Abstract
Due to the lower risks of adverse effects, nonviral gene therapy is a suitable alternative to transfect cancer cells with a suicide gene to let them kill themselves by expressing toxic ribosome-inactivating proteins. Plasmids are stable and easy-to-produce vectors, but they have some disadvantages due to the bacterial backbone. Applying the minicircle technology, this problem can be solved with manageable effort in a well-equipped laboratory. With the described methodology, minicircle-DNA can be produced at low costs. The cell killing properties are monitored following transfection using the CytoSMART® Omni system—a camera based live cell imaging device.
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Sonntag, A., Mitdank, H., Weng, A. (2022). Construction of Minicircle Suicide Genes Coding for Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins. In: Walther, W. (eds) Gene Therapy of Cancer. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2521. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2441-8_8
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