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We aimed to induce functional FasL expression in transduced cells using an adenovirus vector, which has the advantage of strong and transient induction of the gene included in the adenoviral genome. Here, we report that the adenovirus carrying a truncated FasL gene, named FasL minigene, encoding the full-length FasL protein (Ad-gFasL) is more efficient than the adenovirus carrying FasL cDNA (Ad-cFasL) in the induction of FasL expression in transduced cells. FasL minigene (2887 bp) lacking the second intron and a part of the 3\u2032-UTR was created to reduce the gene length due to the size limitation of the adenoviral genome. The results show that, in transduced hepatocytes, strong expression of mRNA FasL appeared after 10 h for Ad-gFasL, while for Ad-cFasL, a faint expression appeared after 16 h. For Ad-gFasL, the protein expression was noticed starting with 0.5 transfection units (TU)\/cell, while for Ad-cFasL, it could not be revealed. FasL-expressing endothelial cells induced apoptosis of A20 cells in co-culture experiments. FasL-expressing cells may be exploitable in various autoimmune diseases such as graft-versus-host disease, chronic colitis, and type I diabetes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms21176011","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]],"date-time":"2020-08-20T21:13:42Z","timestamp":1597958022000},"page":"6011","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Adenovirus-Mediated FasL Minigene Transfer Endows Transduced Cells with Killer Potential"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Madalina","family":"Dumitrescu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Gene Regulation and Molecular Therapies Laboratory, Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology \u201cN. Simionescu\u201d, 8, B.P. 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