title: Recombinant adenovirus vector bearing antisense macrophage migration inhibitory factor cDNA prevents acute lipopolysaccharide-induced liver failure in mice.
abstract: Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pleiotropic cytokine involved in delayed hypersensitivity and cellular immunity. MIF also acts as a proinflammatory cytokine and counterregulates the anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids. Exogenous gene transfer mediated by adenovirus is useful to study a particular molecular function as well as to develop gene therapy strategies. A recombinant adenovirus containing sense and antisense murine MIF (mMIF) cDNA inserts was constructed using a cosmid-terminal protein complex method. The sense mMIF adenovirus (AxCA-mMIFS) efficiently induced mMIF in COS-7 cells that endogenously lack mMIF in a dose-dependent manner. In contrast, the antisense mMIF adenovirus (AxCA-mMIFAS) inhibited the expression of mMIF in NIH3T3 cells in a dose-dependent manner. To assess the pathophysiologic role of MIF in acute liver failure, we induced acute onset of liver damage in mice (male Jcl:ICR) by a combined treatment of Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). mMIF level in the liver of mice infected with AxCA-mMIFAS showed a significant reduction in MIF production in response to BCG-LPS compared with mice treated without viral infection and with AxCA-mMIFS. In addition, the immunohistochemical staining demonstrated that F4/80 antigen on macrophage was enhanced in liver infected with AxCA-mMIFS but reduced in liver infected with AxCA-mMIFAS. The staining intensity is correlated with the mMIF antigen level in liver tissue. The survival rate of mice infected with AxCA-mMIFAS was significantly higher than that of mice treated with PBS and infected with AxCA-LacZ in BCG-LPS. These results suggest that inhibition of MIF production, using recombinant adenovirus bearing the antisense MIF gene, reduced the mortality rate in BCG-LPS-induced liver failure in mice. This finding might aid in the further development of gene therapy targeting MIF.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iwaki
authors.forename: Motoi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugimura
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nishihira
authors.forename: Toshiki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuura
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Naohiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kanayama
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D001500:BCG Vaccine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D019556:COS Cells; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000276:immunology; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000633:toxicity; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008263:Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D016376:Oligonucleotides, Antisense / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D013047:Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms; D015996:Survival Rate; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D001500:BCG Vaccine; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D008263:Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors; D016376:Oligonucleotides, Antisense; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins