TABLE OF CONTENTS Vol. I Topics: Adenoviruses and vectors, quantitation, and animal models 1. Manipulation of Early Region 4 Julie Boyer and Gary Ketner 2. Isolation, Growth, and Purification of Defective Adenovirus Deletion Mutants Gary Ketner and Julie Boyer 3. Construction of Adenovirus Type 5 Early Region 1 (E1) and 4 (E4) Virus Mutants Peter Groitl and Thomas Dobner 4. Construction of Mouse Adenovirus Type 1 Mutants Angela N. Cauthen, Amanda R. Welton, and Katherine R. Spindler 5. Generation of Recombinant Adenovirus using E.coli BJ5183 Recombination System P. Seshidhar Reddy, Shanthi Ganesh, Lynda Hawkins, Neeraja Idamakanti 6. Production and Release Testing of Ovine AtadenovirusVectors Gerald W. Both, Fiona Cameron, Anne Collins, Linda J. Lockett, Jan Shaw 7. Construction of Capsid Modified Recombinant Bovine Adenovirus Type 3 Alexander N. Zakhartchouk, Qiaohua Wu, Suresh K. Tikoo 8. Adenovirus Capsid Chimeras: Fiber Terminal Exon Insertions / Gene Replacements in the MLTU Jason Gall, John Schoggins, and Erik Falck-Pedersen 9. Temperature-Sensitive Replication-Competent Adenovirus shRNA Vectors to Study Cellular Genes in Virus-Induced Apoptosis T. Subramanian and G. Chinnadurai 10. Evaluating Apoptosis in Tumor Cells Infected with Adenovirus Expressing p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene Elizabeth Perron, M. Behzad Zafar, Amanda Pister, Zhen-Guo Wang, Jun Tian and Prem Seth 11. Growth and Purification of Enteric Adenovirus Type 40 Vivien Mautner 12. Immunocompetent, Semi-permissive Cotton Rat Tumor Model for the Evaluation of Oncolytic Adenoviruses Karoly Toth, Jacqueline F. Spencer, William S.M. Wold 13. The Use of the Syrian Hamster as an Animal Model for Oncolytic Adenovirus Vectors Maria A. Thomas, Jacqueline F. Spencer, and William S. M. Wold 14. A Real-Time PCR Method to Rapidly Titer Adenovirus Stocks Maria A. Thomas, Drew L. Lichtenstein, Peter Krajcsi, and William S. M. Wold 15. Detection and Quantitation of Subgroup C Adenovirus DNA in Human Tissue Samples by Real-Time PCR C.T. Garnett, Ching-I Pao, Linda R. Gooding 16. Flow Cytometric Detection of Adenoviruses and Intracellular Adenovirus Proteins Graham Bottley, John R. Holt, Nicola J. James and G. Eric Blair 17. Capture ELISA Quantitation of Mouse Adenovirus Type 1 in Infected Organs Amanda R. Welton and Katherine R. Spindler 18. Preparation and Titration of CsCl-Banded Adenovirus Stocks Ann E. Tollefson, Mohan Kuppuswamy, Elena V. Shashkova, Konstantin Doronin, and William S. M. Wold