Concatamerization of Adeno-Associated Virus Circular Genomes Occurs through Intermolecular Recombination
AUTOR(ES)
Yang, Jusan
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Long-term recombinant AAV (rAAV) transgene expression in muscle has been associated with the molecular conversion of single-stranded rAAV genomes to high-molecular-weight head-to-tail circular concatamers. However, the mechanisms by which these large multimeric concatamers form remain to be defined. To this end, we tested whether concatamerization of rAAV circular intermediates occurs through intra- or intermolecular mechanisms of amplification. Coinfection of the tibialis muscle of mice with rAAV alkaline phosphatase (Alkphos)- and green fluorescent protein (GFP)-encoding vectors was used to evaluate the frequency of circular concatamer formation by intermolecular recombination of independent viral genomes. The GFP shuttle vector also encoded ampicillin resistance and contained a bacterial origin of replication to allow for bacterial rescue of circular intermediates from Hirt DNA of infected muscle samples. The results demonstrated a time-dependent increase in the abundance of rescued plasmids encoding both GFP and Alkphos, which reached 33% of the total circular intermediates by 120 days postinfection. Furthermore, these large circular concatamers were capable of expressing both GFP- and Alkphos-encoding transgenes following transient transfection in cell lines. These findings demonstrate that concatamerization of AAV genomes in vivo occurs through intermolecular recombination of independent monomer circular viral genomes and suggest new viable strategies for delivering multiple DNA segments at a single locus. Such developments will expand the utility of rAAV for splicing large gene inserts or large promoter-gene combinations carried by two or more independent rAAV vectors.
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