title: A Novel Adenoviral Hybrid-vector System Carrying a Plasmid Replicon for Safe and Efficient Cell and Gene Therapeutic Applications.
abstract: In dividing cells, the two aims a gene therapeutic approach should accomplish are efficient nuclear delivery and retention of therapeutic DNA. For stable transgene expression, therapeutic DNA can either be maintained by somatic integration or episomal persistence of which the latter approach would diminish the risk of insertional mutagenesis. As most monosystems fail to fulfill both tasks with equal efficiency, hybrid-vector systems represent promising alternatives. Our hybrid-vector system synergizes high-capacity adenoviral vectors (HCAdV) for efficient delivery and the scaffold/matrix attachment region (S/MAR)-based pEPito plasmid replicon for episomal persistence. After proving that this plasmid replicon can be excised from adenovirus in vitro, colony forming assays were performed. We found an increased number of colonies of up to sevenfold in cells that received the functional plasmid replicon proving that the hybrid-vector system is functional. Transgene expression could be maintained for 6 weeks and the extrachromosomal plasmid replicon was rescued. To show efficacy in vivo, the adenoviral hybrid-vector system was injected into C57Bl/6 mice. We found that the plasmid replicon can be released from adenoviral DNA in murine liver resulting in long-term transgene expression. In conclusion, we demonstrate the efficacy of our novel HCAdV-pEPito hybrid-vector system in vitro and in vivo.Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids (2013) 2, e83; doi:10.1038/mtna.2013.11; published online 2 April 2013.
authors.affiliation: 1] Virology, Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany [2] Current address: Research Laboratory Endocrinology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
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