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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide and the development of new treatment strategies for PDA patients is of crucial importance. Virotherapy uses natural or engineered oncolytic viruses (OVs) to selectively kill tumour cells. Due to their genetic heterogeneity, PDA cells are highly variable in their permissiveness to various OVs. The avian influenza A virus (IAV) H7N3 A/turkey/Italy/2962/03 is a potent inducer of apoptosis in PDA cells previously shown to be resistant to other OVs (Kasloff , 2014), suggesting that it might be effective against specific subclasses of pancreatic cancer. To improve the selectivity of the avian influenza isolate for PDA cells, here confirmed deficient for IFN response, we engineered a truncation in the NS1 gene that is the major virus-encoded IFN antagonist. The recombinant virus (NS1-77) replicated efficiently in PDA cells, but was attenuated in non-malignant pancreatic ductal cells, in which it induced a potent IFN response that acted upon bystander uninfected cancer cells, triggering their death. The engineered virus displayed an enhanced ability to debulk a PDA-derived tumour in xenograft mouse model. Our results highlight the possibility of selecting an IAV strain from the diverse natural avian reservoir on the basis of its inherent oncolytic potency in specific PDA subclasses and, through engineering, improve its safety, selectivity and debulking activity for cancer treatment.

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