id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-002889-fie121ns White, Michael Development of improved therapeutic mesothelin-based vaccines for pancreatic cancer 2018-02-23 .txt text/plain 4872 222 47 Human and mouse mesothelin share sequence similarity, expression patterns, and biochemical characteristics, [7] , and the homeostatic function of mesothelin in mammals is unknown: the gene can be deleted without apparent effect in mice PLOS C57Bl6 mice and thus can be grown in syngeneic mice to allow for study of an anti-tumor immune response in an immunocompetent mouse model. In order to create a putative therapeutic anti-mesothelin vaccine, we inserted the mouse mesothelin gene into the poxvirus MVA genome under a viral promoter so that mesothelin would be expressed in any cells infected with the recombinant virus. To determine whether the viruses expressing mesothelin protein were able to induce an immune response in mice, we first attempted to measure anti-mesothelin antibody in vaccinated mouse sera. In comparison, there were very few spots (1-3) in response to stimulation with Lewis Lung cells that do not express mouse mesothelin, and mice vaccinated with MVA, MVAmeso and MVAmesoA35Del viruses all had good responses to restimulation with vaccinia virus (124, 147, and 148 spots respectively). ./cache/cord-002889-fie121ns.txt ./txt/cord-002889-fie121ns.txt