Long-lasting adenovirus transgene expression in mice through neonatal intrathymic tolerance induction without the use of immunosuppression.
AUTOR(ES)
DeMatteo, R P
RESUMO
The major barrier to the clinical application of adenovirus gene therapy for diseases that require stable transgene expression is the immunogenicity of recombinant adenovirus, which ordinarily limits the duration of its effects to a period of about 2 weeks. We postulated that tolerance to adenovirus could be induced and transgene expression could be prolonged if T lymphocytes underwent thymic selection in the presence of adenovirus antigens. Mice were inoculated in the thymus with a recombinant adenovirus containing the lacZ marker gene during the neonatal period at a time before T-cell maturation had occurred. When the virus was administered intravenously to these mice in adulthood, they were found to have an impaired adenovirus-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response which allowed prolonged hepatic lacZ expression, for up to 260 days. The ability to achieve unresponsiveness to a recombinant adenovirus after inoculation of the thymus in neonates extends the paradigm of intrathymic tolerance induction. Furthermore, this model will enable the study of stable adenovirus transgene expression in vivo without the use of immunosuppression and ultimately may have clinical utility.
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