Layer-by-layer deposition of the ionic polymers onto adenovirus particles afforded the multilayer-coated virus vectors. The infectivity of the virus in the presence of anti-adenovirus antibody increased as the layer number and the viruses with five or six polymer layers allowed relatively high efficiency of reporter gene expression in vitro. Therapeutic effect of the intraperitoneal injection of the oncolytic adenovirus with quintal polymer multilayers on the mice bearing intraperitoneal metastatic ovarian cancer was examined. All the control mice injected with PBS died within 21 days after the tumor inoculation. On the other hand, the mice injected with the multilayer-coated oncolytic virus lived much longer and seven eighths of them lived >60 days without apparent accumulation of ascites. These approaches would open a new way to create a novel, safe and efficient viral gene therapy.

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