Patent Application: US-73881408-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides a reverse genetics system for viruses belonging to the reoviridae , various uses thereof , genetically modified reoviruses , reovirus selection / production and propagation systems , medicaments and vaccines .

Description:
the present invention will now be described by reference to the following figures which show : fig2 : s1 cdna sequence and the amino acid sequences of the sigma1 protein encoded by it . fig3 : s1his cdna sequence and the amino acid sequences of the sigma 1 - his protein encoded by it . fig4 : schematic representation of the lentivirus constructs encoding hajam - a , scfvhis and s1his ) fig5 : reverse - transcriptase pcr analysis demonstrating the absence of jam - a mrna in u118mg cells . the lower part illustrate the location of the primes relative to the jam - a mrna fig6 : survival of reovirus t3d infected 911 and u118mg cells as determined with a wst cell viability assay . fig7 : heterologous expression of hajam in u118mg cells as detected by western analysis with a ha antiserum . fig8 : cyopathic effects in u118mg - hajam cells and u118mg cells two days post reovirus t3d infection . fig9 : [ 35s ]- methionine labeling of reovirus t3d infected cells detects the lambda , sigma and mu classes of reovirus proteins as indicated . fig1 : sigma1 - his protein in 911 cells transduced with lv - s1his - ires - neo . as detected by western analysis with an anti - his antiserum fig1 : western analysis on protein extracts from reovirus t3d passaged 2 ( p2 ) or three ( p3 ) times on 911 - s1his cells or as control on 911 cells . the western analysis was performed with the penta - his serum to detect the presence of the his - tag containing sigma 1 protein . fig1 : western analysis on protein extracts of u118mg cells infected with lv - scfvhis - ires - neo cells . the western analysis was performed with the anti ha serum to detect the presence of the ha - tagged scfvhis in the transduced cells . fig1 : cell survival after infection with wild - type reovirus t3d and the sigma1 - his - loaded reoviruses , as detected with the wst cell - survival assay . fig1 : schematic outline of the selection system to enrich the reovirus t3d that acquired the s1 - his genome segment . fig1 : western analysis of reovirus t3d during serial passaging ( p ) and selection ( s ) on 911 - s1his cells and u118mg - scfvhis cells , respectively , using the pentahis serum to detect the his - tagged sigma 1 proteins . m = molecular weight marker , wt a sample of wild type reovirus t3d isolated from 911 cells . fig1 : reverse - transcriptase pcr to detect the modified s1 genome segment on wild - type reovirus t3d and the s1 - his reoviruses that had been selected on the u118mg - scfvhis cells . fig1 : amino - acid sequence of the sigma1_his proteins encoded by the s1 - his segment from reovirus selected for the presence of the his - tag on u118mg - scfvhis cells . the sequences from 4 isolates rt5 , rt6 , rt8 and rt10 are compared with the sigma1 - his that was expressed in the 911 cells ( top line ). this disclosure describes the use of the invention for engineering a heterologous stretch of amino acids in the sigma - 1 protein or reovirus t3d . these amino acids allow the virus carrying the modified sigma - 1 proteins to bind and utilize a new protein receptor on the outside of the tumor cells . the interaction is functional , as is evident from the observation that reovirus t3d carrying sigma - 1 proteins containing the stretch of amino acids , but not the parental wild - type reovirus t3d , is able to infect tumor cells that expresses the cognate protein receptor capable of binding said stretch of amino acids . the reovirus t3d carrying sigma - 1 proteins containing the stretch of amino acids , but not the parental wild - type reovirus t3d could be propagated on the tumor cell line that expresses the cognate protein receptor capable of binding said stretch of amino acids . the method of our invention relies on expression of a modified reovirus t3d genome segment using conventional eukaryotic gene expression vectors . in this disclosure the applicants modified the sigma1 genome segment to encode a sigma1 protein that carries a carboxy - terminal extension consisting of a tract of 6 histidines . the expression cassette was constructed in such a way that the mrna starts at the genuine cap site of the plus - strand sigma - 1 rna . in contrast to the wild - type s1 genome segment , the modified version was not truncated at the normal 3 ′ end of the plus - stand rna but extended and contains a polya tract . any conventional rna polymerase ii - dependent transcription cassette can achieve this . in the current form , a standard lentiviral vector was used . with the aid of standard lentiviral vector methods ( carlotti et al ., 2004 ), the expression cassette was transferred into so called 911 cells . in the resulting cells , wild - type reovirus t3d was propagated for 3 passages . the resulting virus stock was used to infect u118mg cells expressing on their surface a single - chain ( scfv ) antibody which binds his - tags . u118mg cells lack the normal reovirus t3d receptor jam - a . neither u118mg cells , nor its scfvhis - receptor - expressing derivatives can be infected by wild - type reovirus . however , the modified reovirus t3d , which contains the his - tagged s1 proteins , can use the scfvhis - receptor as a surrogate receptor and can be propagated in these cells . we confirmed the presence of the his - tag in the progeny virus by western blotting , and by nucleotide sequence analyses of the s1 segment . taken together our data demonstrate ( i ) the feasibility of reverse genetics of reoviridae with polyadenylated mrnas , ( ii ) that genetic retargeting of reoviridae is feasible , and ( iii ) that the c - terminus of the s1 protein is a useful locale for the insertion of host - range modifying mutations . this will be directly useful for generating more effective oncolytic reoviruses , and will facilitate the development of new vaccines for pathogenic reoviridae . table 1 primers used in this study primers sequences hjam new f atggggacaaaggcgcaagtc revrthjam caccaggaatgacgaggtc hjamnest r atacaagtgtatgtcccagtgtctt reo s1n1 att gcggccgc gatgaaatgccccagtgccg reo s1h3 cc aagctt gctattggtcggatggatcctcg hisreos1 m2 gcagggtggtctgatcctca gtgatggtgat ggtgatg cgtgaaactacgcgggta sigmaend rev gatgaaatgccccagtgccgcggggtggtct gatcctca s1endrev gatgaaatgccccagtgc s1testfor gagcatgtggataggaattg his rev gtgatggtgatggtgatg m13 for gtaaaacgacggccag m13 rev caggaaacagctatgac underlined are restriction sites ( noti and hindiii ) and the sequence of the his - tag construction of vectors for the heterologous expression of reovirus receptors and the reovirus sigma 1 in the first experiment reovirus t3d propagated on mouse l - cells . five days post - infection the progeny virus was released from the infected cells by freeze - thawing the medium and resuspended cells in it . an aliquot of this lysate was used to infect 911 cells ( fallaux et al ., 1996 ), a sv40 large - t expressing clone of 911 cells , per . c6 cells ( fallaux et al ., 1998 ), and 293t cells , originally referred to as 293 / tsa1609neo ( dubridge et al ., 1987 ). after initial infection ( 2 hours at 37 ° c ., 5 % co 2 ), the medium was replaced with normal dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagles medium ( dmem ) containing 10 % fetal calf serum ( fcs ), and incubation was continued . the cytopathic effects were apparent in all reovirus t3d infected cell lines 48 hours post infection . at various time points the culture medium was harvested and the cells were resuspended in phosphate - buffered saline ( pbs ) with 2 % fcs at a density of 10 9 / ml . virus was released from the cells by freeze - thawing for three cycles . the lysates were cleared by centrifugation at 1200 × g in a table - top centrifuge for 10 minutes . the concentration of viruses was determined by performing standard plaque assays on 911 cells as was described previously for adenovirus vectors ( fallaux et al ., 1996 ). the data represented in fig1 show that all cell lines tested produced reasonable amounts of reovirus t3d . the highest yields were obtained in 911 cells 48 hrs post - infection . for convenience , cell line 911 was used as standard cell line for virus production and quantization by plaque assay . to obtain a complementary dna ( cdna ) clone of the sigma 1 genome segment , 911 cells were infected with reovirust3d at 5 plaque - forming units ( pfu )/ cell in dmem / 2 % fcs . after initial infection ( 2 hours at 37 ° c ., 5 % co 2 ), the medium was replaced with normal dmem containing 10 % fcs . rna was extracted from the infected cells 24 hours post infection using the stratagene absolutely rna rt - pcr miniprep kit according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s protocol . with primer pair reos1 / h3 and reos1 / n1 ( table 1 ) and employing superscript ii reverse transcriptase from invitrogen , the s1 genome segment was copied to complementary dna ( cdna ) and amplified by polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) using taq polymerase , obtained from promega . after agarose gel electrophoresis , the s1 - dna fragment was purified with the jetsorb gel extraction kit ( genomed ), and digested with restriction endonucleases hindiii and noti . the resulting fragment was cloned in hindiii and noti - digested plasmid pcdna3 . 1 +. the resulting ligation mixture was used to transform escherichia coli strain top10f ′, and a clone containing a plasmid with the expected structure , designated pcdnart3s1 , was isolated and expanded . plasmid dna from clone pcdnart3s1 was used for sequence analysis with primer pair reos1 / h3 and reos1 / n1 at the leiden genome technology center . the sequence representing the cdna of the s1 segment is represented in fig2 . the conceptional translation initiation sequence is underlined . the predicted amino acid sequence of the sigma - 1 protein is given . for retargeting reoviruses to alternative receptors , a new peptide ligand can be included in the viral capsid . one option is to incorporate the codons encoding such ligand in one of the gene segments coding for a capsid component . in the choice of the capsid component , and in the location it is essential to choose a site for inserting the codons for the ligand in such way that in the virus particle the ligand is accessable to the targeted receptor and that no essential structure or function of the modified capsid component is disturbed . therefore we opted to insert the ligand into the sigma - 1 protein . the crystal structure of part of the sigma - 1 protein of reovirus t3d is known ( chappell et al ., 2002b ), and deposited in the brookhaven protein data bank as 1kke , doi 10 . 2210 / pdb1kke / pdb . the artificial ligand was inserted at the carboxyl terminus of the sigma - 1 protein , since this region is located in the head domain close to the region that is postulated to interact with the jam - a protein which serves as a natural receptor for reovirus t3d . ( chappell et al ., 2002b ) in addition , the carboxyl - terminus of sigma 1 is positioned in such way that the terminal amino acids are pointing outward . therefore , it was speculated that fusion of additional of amino acids at the carboxyl terminus should not affect the spatial structure of the head domain . furthermore , we postulated that the additional amino - acids would be exposed at the surface of the head domain , which would make them assessable and allow them to interact with the targeted receptor . to add a nucleotide sequence coding for six histidine residues (‘ his - tag ’) to the carboxyl - terminal end of the sigma - 1 protein - coding region a polymerase chain reaction cloning strategy was used . two different construct were made , both containing the codons for the his - tag fused with those for sigma 1 . the first construct contains the his - tag but lacks all reovirus sequences downstream of the his - tagged sigma 1 . hence this plasmid lacks the non - coding sequences downstream of the his - tagged sigma 1 protein coding region . the second construct contains the complete cdna of the segment coding for the his - tagged sigma - 1 . this constructs contains the entire 3 ′ untranslated region . the first plasmid was made by means of polymerase chain reaction , with primer pair his reos1 m2 and reos1h3 ( see table 1 for their sequences ). to generate a product containing blunt ends , pfu polymerase ( promega ) was used . the pcr product was digested with hindiii , prior to gel electrophoresis , gel extraction and fragment purification . this product was cloned into plasmid dna of pcdna3 . 1 +, which was digested with hindiii and ecorv . a plasmid with the expected restriction pattern was named prt3s1hisstop , and used for further studies . the sequence of the fragments inserted in pcdna3 . 1 + was determined by dna sequence analysis . the results confirmed the identity and the expected sequence of the fragment . plasmid prt3s1hiscomplete was generated by polymerase chain reaction using prt3s1hisstop as template and the primer combination of sigmaendrev and reos1h3 . the pcr product was digested with hindiii , prior to gel electrophoresis , gel extraction and fragment purification . this product was cloned into plasmid dna of pcdna3 . 1 +, which was digested with hindiii and ecorv . a plasmid with the expected restriction pattern was named prt3s1hiscomplete used for further studies . the sequence of the fragments inserted in pcdna3 . 1 + was determined by dna sequence analysis . the results confirmed the identity and the expected sequence of the fragment . the cdna sequence of the modified reovirus s1 genome segments is represented in fig3 , below the sequence the amino acid sequence of the sigma - 1 - his protein is represented . for the generation of cell lines stably expressing heterologous complementary dna ( cdna ) clones , lentiviral vectors can be employed with relative ease . for subsequent experiments four different lentiviral vectors were generated by standard cloning techniques . all lentiviral constructs used in this study were based on the vector made in the plv - cmv - ires - neo vector ( velling a et al ., 2006 ). fig4 gives a schematic representation of the constructs made . to generate the plasmids plv - cmv - s1his - ires - neo and plv - cmv - s1hisstop - ires - neo the constructs prt3s1hiscomplete and prt3s1hisstop were digested with eco105i and xbai and cloned between the eco105i and xbai sites in plasmid plv - cmv - ires - neo . to generate plasmid plv - cmv - hajam - ires - neo plasmid pcdna - hajam ( naik et al ., 2001 ) ( kindly provided by dr . u . p naik ) was digested using restriction endonucleases eco105i and xbai and inserted between the eco105i and xbai sites in plasmid plv - cmv - ires - neo . to generate a construct encoding the single - chain his - tag receptor , phissfv . rec ( douglas et al ., 1999 ) ( a kind gift from dr . d . t . curiel ) was digested with eco105i and xhoi and inserted between the eco105i and xhoi sites in plasmid plv - cmv - ires - neo . fig4 gives an overview of the constructs made . production of the lentiviral vector stocks was performed exactly as described previously ( carlotti et al ., 2004 ; velling a et al ., 2006 ) on 293t cells using the calcium phosphate co - precipitation method . all lentiviral vectors were harvested 48 hours after transfection to generate the cell lines stably expressing the transgenes , suitable dilutions of the different lentiviral vector stocks were added to the cell lines ( at a concentrations between 1 and 10 ng p24 per 2500 cells ) in the presence of 8 μg / ml polybrene ( sigma aldrich , zwijndrecht , the netherlands ) and incubated overnight . the next day the cells were given fresh medium . forty - eight hours later the cells were detached by trypsinisation and re - plated in medium containing 700 μg / ml g418 ( invitrogen , breda , the netherlands ) to select for the g418 resistant cell population . three to five days after the start of the selection , the medium was replaced with medium with 200 μg g418 per ml . u118mg cells resist reovirus infection due to the absence of its receptor jam - a several groups have demonstrated that u118mg fully resist reovirus infection . ( wilcox et al ., 2001 ; yang et al ., 2003 ) to confirm this observation for our u118mg cells , we analyzed the presence of jam - a mrna by reverse - transcriptase polymerase chain reaction ( rtpcr ). as a positive control we include the 911 cells in this analysis . primers used for the reverse transcriptase reaction are listed in table 1 . u118mg cells and 911 cells were seeded on 5 cm dishes . upon confluence of the culture , rna was isolated from the cells using the absolutely rna miniprep kit from stratagene . six - hundred ng rna per cell line was used in the first - strand synthesis with superscript ii ( invitrogen ), using the revrthjam primer ( 2 pmole per reaction , according to manual ). two μl of the cdna was used for amplification with the primer combination of revrthjam and hjam new f to amplify the complete coding region of hjam - a ( 928 bp ). in addition , the primer - pair combination hjamnest r and hjam new f was used for amplifying a shorter product ( 359 bp ). taq polymerase ( promega ) was used for the amplification , with a scheme consisting of the following cycles : 3 min . 95 ° c ., ( 30 s 95 ° c .− 40 s 58 ° c .− 1 min . 72 ° c . )× 30 − 10 min . 72 ° c .− 10 min . 4 ° c .− end . results are depicted in fig5 . whereas the jam - a rna was readily detected in 911 cells , no signal is apparent in the u118mg - derived samples indicating that the mg118 cells lack detectable levels of the jam - a mrna . to confirm that u118mg cells are resistant to reovirus t3d infection , cultures of u118mg cells were exposed to reovirus t3d virus at various multiplicities of infection . as a control in this experiment , cultures of 911 cells were exposed at the same multiplicities . whereas cytopathic effects were readily observed in the cultures of 911 cells , no changes were apparent upon virus infection in the mg118 cultures , even not at prolonged incubation times . the viability of the cells in these cultures was assayed with the wst cell viability assay ( fig6 ). these data again corroborated that whereas reovirus t3d readily kills 911 cells , u118mg cells fully resist reovirus t3d infection . to demonstrate that this is due to the absence of the jam - a receptor , u118mg cells were exposed to the lentiviral vector plv - cmv - hajam - ires - neo , to force synthesis of the ha - tagged jam - a protein that serves as the primary receptor for reovirus t3d . western analysis of protein lysates of the g418 - resistant lv - cmv - hajam - ires - neo - transduced cell population , using a ha - specific antiserum demonstrated robust expression of the ha - tagged jam - a in these cells ( fig7 ). this was further corroborated by immunofluorescence microscopy that revealed that the vast majority of cells in the transduced and selected cell population the ha - jam - a signal is detectable . exposure of these cells to reovirus t3d led do rapid development of signs of the cytopathic effects in the ha - jam expressing u118mg cells , but not in the parental u118mg cells ( fig8 ). this was further corroborated by metabolic labeling of the viral proteins . infected or mock - infected cell were labeled with redivue [ 35 s ] methionine pro - mix ( 200 μci / ml ; amersham , roosendaal , the netherlands ) for 4 hours at various time points post infection . cells were washed once with pbs and lysed in giordano lysis buffer ( 50 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 4 , 250 mm nacl , 0 . 1 % triton , 5 mm edta ) containing a cocktail of protease inhibitors ( complete mini tablets , roche diagnostics , almere , the netherlands ). all the labeling assays were done in 24 - wells plates with 5 μl pro - mix per well , and the volume of lysis buffer was 100 μl per well . hereof 50 μl was added on a 10 % sds - polyacrylamide gel after addition of sample buffer . gels were dried and exposed to radiographic film , and processed following standard procedures ( fig9 ). the results demonstrated the presence of viral proteins in the 911 cells and the ha - jam - a expressing u118mg cells , but not in the unmodified u118mg cells . from these data we conclude that u118mg cells resist reovirus t3d infection , and that this is solely due to the absence of the jam - a protein that can serve as the primary receptor for reovirus t3d infection . as the next step we generated cell lines producing the reovirus t3d protein . to this end 911 cells were exposed to lv - cmv - s1his - ires - neo vector viruses at a concentration of 1 to 10 ng p24 per 2500 cells . after selection for the g418 - resistant cell population , here named the 911 - s1his cells , protein lysates were generated from these cells and analyzed by western analysis using the α - penta - his serum ( qiagen benelux by , netherlands ) diluted 1 : 1500 , to detect the his - tag containing sigma 1 protein . results are depicted in fig1 . these data demonstrate the presence of a band 49 kda in the lv - cmv - s1his - ires - neo transduced cells surviving the g418 selection , but not in the parental 911 cells . from these data we conclude that the 911 cells lines contain significant amounts of the his - tagged s1 protein . this implies that s1 over - expression is not toxic to cells . functional incorporation of the modified sigma 1 protein in the virus capsid subsequently , we infected the 911 - s1his cells with reovirus t3d at a multiplicity of infection of approximately 10 . one day after the appearance of the cytopathic affect , the virus harvested , released the cell bound virus by freeze thawing and used one hundredth of the yield to infect a second culture of 911 - s1his cells . the virus was passaged on 911 - s1his three consecutive times . aliquots of the isolated virus were analyzed by western analysis using the α - penta - his serum . the results are depicted in fig1 . the anti his - serum detected a protein migrating at the expected size , suggesting that the reoviruses were able to incorporate the his - tagged sigma 1 protein in their capsid . to test whether amino - acids inserted in this location could functionally interact with the his - tag , u118mg cells were modified to express a single - chain antibody that could interact with the his - tag on their cell surface . to this end u118mg cells were exposed to the lentiviral vector lv - cmv - scfvhis - ires - neo . the g418 - resistant cell population expressed the single - chain his receptor , as was evident from western analysis on protein lysates of the cells using the ha antiserum as a probe ( fig1 ). in the parental u118mg cells the signal is absent . also , immunofluorescence microscopy revealed a homogenous staining in all cells in the culture demonstrating similar amounts of the protein in all cells . from these data we conclude that the u118mg cells now express the single - chain his receptor on their surface . to test whether the single - chain his receptor could be used as a surrogate receptor for the reoviruses t3d carrying the his - tagged sigma - 1 protein , the cell line was exposed to increasing amounts of the virus stock , and as control , to equivalent amounts of the parental wild - type reovirus t3d . whereas u118mg cells expressing the ha - tagged jam - a are sensitive to both the 911 - derived t3d reoviruses and the 911 - s1his - derived reoviruses , the u118mg - scfvhis cells are sensitive only to the 911 - s1 his - derived reoviruses , but not to the 911 - derived t3d reoviruses . signs of the cytopathic effect became overt upon microscopic examination of the u118mg - scfv - his cells three days post infection with the t3d virus propagated on the 911 - s1his line . these data were quantified with the wst cell viability assay ( fig1 ). taken together these date demonstrate that the scfv - his could be used as an artificial receptor in u118mg cells . this allows infection of u118mg cells to proceed independent of the normal reovirus t3d receptor jam - a . in addition , it confirms the presence of the his - tagged sigma - i protein in the viral capsid , and demonstrates that the his - tag is exposed at the viral capsid , allowing infection of the u118mg - scfv - his cells . to test whether reovirus t3d acquired the his - tagged s1 - genome segment incorporated during propagation on the 911 - s1his cells , the viruses harvested from the 911 - s1his cells were used to infect the u118mg - scfvhis cells . upon overt signs of the cytopathic effect , the cells were detached from the surface by gently flushing the cells off the dish , and suspended by triturating the cells in the conditioned medium . viruses were released from the cells by freeze thawing . subsequently , the reovirus batch was cleared by centrifugation at 2000 rpm in a tabletop centrifuge for 10 minutes . the batch was used again to infect u118mg - scfvhis cells , and the cells were harvested 4 days post - infection . this procedure was repeated 6 times . the selection scheme is outlined in fig1 . upon serial propagation , signs of the cytopathic effect became more apparent in the u118mg - scfvhis initially infected with the reovirus t3d harvested from the 911 - s1his cells than in cells infected with reovirus t3d isolated from 911 cells . this suggested that viruses could be propagated on the u118mg - scfvhis cells . western analyses on protein lysates the u118mg - scfvhis cells infected with reoviruses propagated on 911 - s1his cells and serial passages thereof , demonstrated the presence of his - tagged s1 protein in the lysates ( fig1 ). to verify the presence of the his - tagged s1 genome segment , a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction ( rtpcr ) analysis was performed on rna isolated from the serially passaged reovirus t3d as passage seven . upon signs of the cytopathic effect in the u118mg - scfvhis cells infected with the serially viruses , rna was isolated from the cells using the absolutely rna miniprep kit from stratagene . six - hundred ng rna per cell line was used in the first - strand synthesis with superscript ii ( invitrogen ), using the his rev primer ( 2 pmole per reaction , according to manual ). two μl of the cdna was used for amplification with the primer combination of his rev and reos1n1 to amplify the complete coding region of the s1 genome segment . taq polymerase ( promega ) was used for the amplification , with a scheme consisting of the following cycles : 3 min . 95 ° c ., ( 30 s 95 ° c .− 40 s 58 ° c .− 80 s 72 ° c . )× 30 − 10 min . 72 ° c .− 10 min . 4 ° c .− end . results are depicted in fig1 . whereas the his - tagged s1 product was readily detected in the u118mg - scfvhis , no signal is apparent in the u118mg - scfvhis cells infected with the unmodified 911 cells - derived reovirus t3d . the pcr product was cloned in the plasmid pcrii - topo ( invitrogen ) according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . clones with the fragment inserted were individually expanded and plasmid dna isolated from these clones was used for dna sequence analysis with the m13 reverse and m123 forward primers , respectively . sequence analysis of the cloned pcr product confirmed the presence of the codons for the his - tag at the expected position at the c - terminus of the sigma1 - coding . the amino - acid sequences of the sigma - 1 proteins encoded by four different s1his cdna clones are represented in fig1 . the parental sequence ( from fig3 ) is represented in the top line and designated by sigma1 - his ( cloned ). the amino acid sequences of clones rt5 and rt6 are identical to the parental clone , but rt8 and rt10 have one and two amino - acids differences , respectively . nevertheless , the his - tag is linked to the carboxyl terminus of sigma 1 in all cases , as expected . from these data we conclude that upon propagation on the 911 s1his cells the reovirus t3d acquired the codons for the his tag . this is most likely the result of a reassorting process between the parental wild - type parental s1 genome segment , and the heterologous s1 rna . however , other mechanisms such as recombination , or template switching during replication , can not be excluded on the basis of the data obtained so far . the serially propagated virus is incapable of infecting unmodified u118mg cells , demonstrating that the transduction is strictly dependent on the scfv - his protein on the cells , which acts as a surrogate receptor . taken together our data show generation of retargeted reoviruses can be generated with relative ease by propagation reoviruses on cells that contain polyadenylated mrnas that are embed a reovirus s1 genome segment . the mrna expressed in the cells is single - 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