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Living Modified Organism (LMO)
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Decisions on the LMO Risk Assessments  
last updated: 27 Feb 2018
Living Modified Organism identity
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Telomelysin®
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OBP-301
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Telomelysin or OBP-301 is oncolytic adenovirus in which the wild-type viral DNA is modified to be able to selectively replicate in cancer cells by introducing human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) promotor. Oncolytic adenovirus has much potential for cancer immunotherapy because its viral replication is highly immunogenic, and oncolysis induced by such virus releases tumor epitopes and provides costimulatory danger signals.
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The term “Recipient organism” refers to an organism (either already modified or non-modified) that was subjected to genetic modification, whereas “Parental organisms” refers to those that were involved in cross breeding or cell fusion.
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Characteristics of the modification process
phTERT-E1A-IRES-E1B
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  • Other (Transfection)
Some of these genetic elements may be present as fragments or truncated forms. Please see notes below, where applicable.
The Adenovirus Type 5 virus was genetically modified by the deletion of the wild-type E1 transcriptional unit and replacing it with a 3843 base pair insertion comprising a new E1 transcriptional unit in which the native adenovirus E1 transcriptional promoter is replaced by the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) promoter, and an internal ribosome entry sequence (IRES) is inserted between the E1A and E1B genes.
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LMO characteristics
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  • Pharmaceutical
Detection method(s)
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