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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).

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