PMID- 25711740 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160215 LR - 20181113 IS - 1559-0305 (Electronic) IS - 1073-6085 (Linking) VI - 57 IP - 6 DP - 2015 Jun TI - Adenovirus Dodecahedron, a VLP, Can be Purified by Size Exclusion Chromatography Instead of Time-Consuming Sucrose Density Gradient Centrifugation. PG - 565-73 LID - 10.1007/s12033-015-9850-9 [doi] AB - Adenoviral dodecahedron (Dd) is a virus-like particle composed of twelve pentameric penton base (Pb) proteins, responsible for adenovirus cell penetration. It is generated spontaneously in the baculovirus system upon expression of the Pb gene of adenovirus serotype 3. This particle shows remarkable cell penetration ability with 2,00,000-3,00,000 Dd internalized into one cell in culture, conceivably delivering several millions of foreign cargo molecules to the target cell. We have used it in the past for delivery of small drugs as well as a vaccination platform, in which Dd serves as a particulate vaccine delivery system. Since development of new biomedicals depends strongly on the cost of their expression and purification, we attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to obtain Dd expression in bacteria. We therefore retained its expression in the baculovirus/insect cells system but introduced significant improvements in the protocols for Dd expression and purification, leading to considerable savings in time and improved yield. FAU - Szurgot, I AU - Szurgot I AD - Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5a, 02106, Warsaw, Poland. FAU - Jedynak, M AU - Jedynak M FAU - Podsiadla-Bialoskorska, M AU - Podsiadla-Bialoskorska M FAU - Piwowarski, Jan AU - Piwowarski J FAU - Szolajska, E AU - Szolajska E FAU - Chroboczek, J AU - Chroboczek J LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Switzerland TA - Mol Biotechnol JT - Molecular biotechnology JID - 9423533 RN - 0 (Viral Proteins) RN - 57-50-1 (Sucrose) SB - IM MH - Adenoviridae/genetics/*metabolism MH - Centrifugation/*methods MH - Chromatography, Gel/*methods MH - Cloning, Molecular MH - Escherichia coli/genetics MH - Genes, Viral MH - Sucrose MH - Viral Proteins/genetics/*isolation & purification/metabolism EDAT- 2015/02/26 06:00 MHDA- 2016/02/16 06:00 CRDT- 2015/02/26 06:00 PHST- 2015/02/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/02/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/02/16 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s12033-015-9850-9 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Biotechnol. 2015 Jun;57(6):565-73. doi: 10.1007/s12033-015-9850-9.