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HUMAN GENE THERAPY
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 125-134Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2016.140
Keywords
mini-intronic plasmid; miniorigins; AAV vectors; enhance transgene expression; intron
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL064274] Funding Source: Medline
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We previously developed a mini-intronic plasmid (MIP) expression system in which the essential bacterial elements for plasmid replication and selection are placed within an engineered intron contained within a universal 5' UTR noncoding exon. Like minicircle DNA plasmids (devoid of bacterial backbone sequences), MIP plasmids overcome transcriptional silencing of the transgene. However, in addition MIP plasmids increase transgene expression by 2 and often >10 times higher than minicircle vectors in vivo and in vitro. Based on these findings, we examined the effects of the MIP intronic sequences in a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector system. Recombinant AAV vectors containing an intron with a bacterial replication origin and bacterial selectable marker increased transgene expression by 40 to 100 times in vivo when compared with conventional AAV vectors. Therefore, inclusion of this noncoding exon/intron sequence upstream of the coding region can substantially enhance AAV-mediated gene expression in vivo.
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