[Role of fibroblast growth factors in pancreatic cancer].

Fibroblast growth factors belong to a family of growth factors that are involved in various processes in organism and have a wide range of biological functions. Specifically for pancreas, FGFs are important during both organogenesis and carcinogenesis. One of the main characteristic of pancreatic cancer, is it close interaction between cancer and stromal cells via different factors, including FGF.

Expression of Therapeutic Gene FCU1 Sensitizes Pancreatic Cancer Cells to 5-Fluorocytosine and Enhances the Cytotoxic Effect of 5-Fluorouracil.

Hybrid therapeutic gene FCU1 gene was cloned into a lentiviral expression vector and the therapeutic effect of its expression was studied in three pancreatic cancer cell lines. Expression of FCU1 gene sensitized cells of two of three studied pancreatic cancer cell lines to 5-fluorocytosine. In addition, uracil phosphoribosyl transferase activity of the hybrid FCU1 protein increased sensitivity of transfected cells of all three studied pancreatic cancer cell lines to 5-fluorouracil, a standard chemotherapeutic agent.

[Quantitative comparison of expression for genes linked in bicistronic vectors via ires or 2A-peptide of porcine teschovirus-1 sequence].

Simultaneous expression of multiple target genes is often required in biotechnology. Multicistronic vectors coding for several proteins are being actively developed for this purpose. In commercially available vectors different variants ofencephalomyocarditis virus internal ribosome entry site (IRES EMCV) are used most often.

[Comparative analysis of activity of different promoters for NIS gene expression in melanoma cells].

Development of targeted drug delivery system is key problem of cancer gene therapy. To ensure specific delivery of these therapeutic compounds to the tumor it is preferable for therapeutic gene expression to occur predominantly in cancer cells. Therefore, when testing drug in vivo, it is necessary to study distribution of therapeutic gene expression products in different tissues of the organism.