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Heart-specific targeting of beta-galactosidase by the ventricle-specific cardiac myosin light chain 2 promoter using adenovirus vectors.

Abstract：

:Adenoviruses are attractive vectors for gene transfer into cardiac muscle. However, their promiscuous tissue tropism, which leads to an ectopic expression of the transgene, is a considerable limitation. To restrict expression to cardiomyocytes, we have constructed two recombinant adenoviruses (Ad-MLC2-250betagal and Ad-MLC2-2100betagal) containing the beta-galactosidase reporter gene under the control of the 250- or 2100-bp rat ventricle-specific cardiac myosin light chain-2v promoter (MLC-2v). Our in vitro and in vivo data have evidenced that the 2100-bp promoter allows stronger beta-galactosidase activity than the 250-bp promoter and that the deleted promoter allows a weak beta-galactosidase expression in skeletal muscle-derived cells in vitro. In contrast to the in vitro results, the highly deleted MLC-2v promoter of 250 pb conserved its heart specificity in in ovo and in vivo when introduced into the adenovirus genome, indicating that the specificity of this promoter is neither altered by the inverted terminal repeat nor by the enhancer of the Ela promoter, both of which located in the 5' flanking region of the promoter. Systemic injections of both recombinant adenoviruses into chicken embryos showed beta-galactosidase expression mainly in the right ventricle of the heart. We have confirmed the cardiac specificity of both promoters in mammalian species after injection of both recombinant adenoviruses into the heart of adult rats in vivo. The comparison of both promoters in vitro and in vivo has shown that the 250-bp MLC-2v promoter is 80% less active than the 2100-bp MLC-2v promoter and has enabled us to conclude that the MLC-2v promoter of 2100 bp is the most appropriate for efficient expression of a reporter gene or a therapeutic cardiac gene (e.g., SERCA2a or minidystrophin gene).

journal_name

Hum Gene Ther

journal_title

Human gene therapy

authors

Griscelli F,Gilardi-Hebenstreit P,Hanania N,Franz WM,Opolon P,Perricaudet M,Ragot T

doi

10.1089/hum.1998.9.13-1919

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1919-28

issue

eissn

1043-0342

issn

1557-7422

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Heart-specific targeting of beta-galactosidase by the ventricle-specific cardiac myosin light chain 2 promoter using adenovirus vectors.