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processed as described in panel A showing no hybridization<br />
signal. From Zhao JE, Lochumuller H, Nalbantoglu J,<br />
Allen C, Prescott S, Massie B, Karpati G (1997) Study of<br />
adenovirus-mediated dystrophin minigene transfer to<br />
skeletal muscle by combined microscopic display of<br />
adenoviral DNA and dystrophin. Hum <strong>Gene</strong> Ther 8, 1565-<br />
1573. With kind permission of the authors (George Karpati,<br />
Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada) and Mary Ann<br />
Liebert, Inc.<br />
have shown production and secretion of α1-antitrypsin by<br />
the lung cells (Rosenfeld et al, 1991).<br />
A transductional preference of adenovirus-polylysine-<br />
DNA complexes and E1A/B-deleted replication-deficient<br />
adenoviruses was demonstrated for the prostate carcinoma<br />
cell lines DU145, LNCaP, and PC-3 over primary human<br />
bone marrow cells and the leukemia cell line KG-1; this<br />
finding led to a strategy to purge bone marrow of a<br />
specific subset of prostate carcinoma cells (Kim et al,<br />
1997).<br />
Figure 2 shows the localization of a recombinant<br />
adenoviral vector carrying 6.3 kb of dystrophin cDNA,<br />
driven by the CMV promoter, by in situ PCR following<br />
intramuscular injection to immunosuppressed mdx mice.<br />
Figure 3. shows a comparison of the persistence of<br />
dystrophin expression and adenoviral genomes in<br />
immunosuppressed versus immunocompetent mdx mice.<br />
The maximum number of fibers containing recombinant<br />
adenovirus was maintained until 60 days in<br />
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immunosuppressed mice but for only 10 days in<br />
immunocompetent animals. Thus, optimization of<br />
immunosuppression could assure successful long term<br />
dystrophin gene transfer for gene <strong>therapy</strong> of Duchenne<br />
muscular dystrophy (Zhao et al, 1997).<br />
A number of RAC-approved protocols for gene<br />
transfer to humans use recombinant adenoviruses<br />
(Appendix 1, protocols 118-157). <strong>Gene</strong>s transferred to<br />
patients with recombinant adenoviruses include p53<br />
(#130, 131, 147, 148, 152-156), RB (#140), CFTR (#118-<br />
123, 125, 128, 129), HSV-tk (126, 127, 132, 136, 139,<br />
141, 143, 145, 146), cytosine deaminase (#134, 151),<br />
VEGF (#157), IL-2 (#135), GM-CSF (#149, 150), antierbB-2<br />
single chain antibody (#133), ornithine<br />
transcarbamylase (#137), and GP100 melanoma antigen<br />
(#142).