Journal
GENE THERAPY
Volume 10, Issue 18, Pages 1616-1622Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302044
Keywords
smooth muscle cells; recombinant adenoviral vectors; gene transfer
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- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS061107-01A1, R01 NS054193-01A1, R01 NS061107, R01 NS042893, R01 NS057711, R21 NS054143, R01 NS057711-01A2, R01 NS042893-01A1, U01 NS052465-01A2, R01 NS054193, R21 NS054143-01A2, U01 NS052465] Funding Source: Medline
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Recombinant adenoviruses are employed widely for vascular gene transfer. Vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) are a relatively poor target for transgene expression after adenovirus-mediated gene delivery, however, even when expression is regulated by powerful, constitutive viral promoters. The major immediate-early murine cytomegalovirus enhancer/promoter (MlEmCMV) elicits substantially greater transgene expression than the human cytomegalovirus promoter (MlEhCMV) in all cell types in which they have been compared. The Woodchuck hepatitis virus post-transcriptional regulatory element (WPRE) increases transgene expression in numerous cell lines, and fragments of the smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SMMHC) promoter increase expression within SMC from heterologous promoters. We therefore, compared the expression of beta-galactosidase after adenovirus-mediated gene transfer of lacZ under the transcriptional regulation of a variety of combinations of the promoters and enhancers described, in vitro and in porcine coronary arteries. We demonstrate that inclusion of WPRE and a fragment of the rabbit SMMHC promoter along with MlEmCMV increases beta-galactosidase expression 90-fold in SMC in vitro and approximate to 40-fold in coronary arteries, compared with vectors in which expression is regulated by MlEhCMV alone. Expression cassette modification represents a simple method of improving adenovirus-mediated vascular gene transfer efficiency and has important implications for the development of efficient cardiovascular gene therapy strategies.
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