Generation of Destabilized Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Thymidine Kinase as Transcription Reporter for PET Reporter Systems in Molecular–Genetic Imaging

CH Hsieh, FD Chen, HE Wang, JJ Hwang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
Herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSV1-TK) is a widely used reporter for in vivo
noninvasive monitoring of therapeutic gene expression, immune cell trafficking, and protein …

In vitro evaluation of herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase reporter system in dynamic studies of transcriptional gene regulation

CH Hsieh, RS Liu, HE Wang, JJ Hwang… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2006 - Elsevier
The herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSV1-TK) reporter system is being used
to directly and indirectly monitor therapeutic gene expression, immune cell trafficking and …

PET imaging of HSV1-tk mutants with acquired specificity toward pyrimidine-and acycloguanosine-based radiotracers

Y Likar, K Dobrenkov, M Olszewska, L Shenker… - European journal of …, 2009 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this study was to create an alternative mutant of the herpes simplex virus
type 1 thymidine kinase (HSV1-tk) reporter gene with reduced phosphorylation capacity for …

Molecular–Genetic PET Imaging Using an HSV1-tk Mutant Reporter Gene with Enhanced Specificity to Acycloguanosine Nucleoside Analogs

AM Najjar, R Nishii, DS Maxwell, A Volgin… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
Imaging 2 different molecular–genetic events in a single subject by PET is essential in a
variety of in vivo applications. Using herpes simplex virus-1 thymidine kinase (HSV1-tk) …

Comparison of [14C]FMAU, [3H]FEAU, [14C]FIAU, and [3H]PCV for Monitoring Reporter Gene Expression of Wild Type and Mutant Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 …

KW Kang, JJ Min, X Chen, SS Gambhir - Molecular Imaging and Biology, 2005 - Springer
Purpose To assess the optimal reporter probe/reporter gene combination for monitoring
herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSV1-tk) gene expression, we compared the …

18F-FEAU as a radiotracer for herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene expression: in-vitro comparison with other PET tracers

AR Buursma, V Rutgers, GAP Hospers… - Nuclear medicine …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Objective The herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSVtk) gene has frequently been
applied as a reporter gene for monitoring transgene expression in animal models. In clinical …

Multitracer positron emission tomographic imaging of exogenous gene expression mediated by a universal herpes simplex virus 1 amplicon vector

C Kummer, A Winkeler, C Dittmar, B Bauer… - Molecular …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
To develop efficient and safe gene therapy approaches, the herpes simplex virus type 1
thymidine kinase gene (HSV-1-tk) has been shown to function as a marker gene for the …

A new acycloguanosine-specific supermutant of herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase suitable for PET imaging and suicide gene therapy for potential use in …

Y Likar, K Dobrenkov, M Olszewska… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
The herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSV1-tk) gene is widely used as a
suicide gene in combination with ganciclovir (GCV) and as a nuclear imaging reporter gene …

Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase as a marker/reporter gene for PET imaging of gene therapy

RG Blasberg, JG Tjuvajev - The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear …, 1999 - search.proquest.com
Imaging transgene expression with radiopharmaceuticals is feasible and has been
demonstrated with a gamma camera and by positron emission tomography (PET) in …

Preliminary validation of varicella zoster virus thymidine kinase as a novel reporter gene for PET

CM Deroose, SK Chitneni, R Gijsbers… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2012 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: Imaging of gene expression with positron emission tomography (PET) has
emerged as a powerful tool for biomedical research during the last decade. The prototypical …