Abstract:
:Administration of recombinant adenoviral (AdV) vectors to animals can lead to inflammatory and immune responses. For therapeutic indications in which repeated treatment is necessary, such as cystic fibrosis (CF), these responses can limit the therapeutic usefulness of the vector. In principle, the utility of the vector can be improved by increasing its therapeutic index, that is, by either increasing its efficacy or decreasing its toxicity. A strategy that would enhance the efficacy of an adenoviral approach would allow the use of fewer virus particles to achieve a given level of transgene expression, and thereby also reduce unwanted effects such as immune responses. Following up on our observation that treating polarized normal human bronchial epithelial cells with calcium (Ca(2+))-free medium or the calcium chelator ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA) significantly enhanced the subsequent transfection of these cells with cationic lipid:pDNA complexes, we have now asked whether such a treatment protocol might also improve the ability of AdV to infect these cells. Treating polarized airway epithelial cells with EGTA led to a dramatic increase in AdV-mediated transduction, as demonstrated by an approximately 50-fold increase in transgene expression. This strategy was also tested in vivo and resulted in substantial increases (up to 50-fold) in the ability of AdV vectors to infect mouse tracheal epithelium. Transfection of mouse trachea with an AdV aerosol was also significantly increased by pretreatment with EGTA. The enhancing effects of EGTA could not be duplicated with hypo- or hyperosmotic treatments. Light microscopy of mouse trachea that had been EGTA treated and then infected with AdV demonstrated an EGTA-mediated AdV infection of airway epithelial cells. The apparent enhanced potency of AdV for airway cells resulting from this strategy provides a significant increase in the therapeutic index of this gene delivery vector, and may increase the likelihood that it can be used for clinical indications requiring chronic administration of the vector.
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Hum Gene Therjournal_title
Human gene therapyauthors
Chu Q,St George JA,Lukason M,Cheng SH,Scheule RK,Eastman SJdoi
10.1089/104303401300042348keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2001-03-20 00:00:00pages
455-67issue
5eissn
1043-0342issn
1557-7422journal_volume
12pub_type
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