Affiliation:
1. Departments of Internal Medicine1 and
2. Neurosurgery,2 University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) type VII patients lack functional β-glucuronidase, leading to systemic and central nervous system dysfunction. In this study we tested whether recombinant adenovirus that encodes β-glucuronidase (Adβgluc), delivered intravenously and into the brain parenchyma of MPS type VII mice, could provide long-term transgene expression and correction of lysosomal distension. We also tested whether systemic treatment with the immunosuppressive anti-CD40 ligand antibody, MR-1, affected transgene expression. We found substantial plasma β-glucuronidase activity for over 9 weeks after gene transfer in the MR-1- treated group, with subsequent decline in activity corresponding to a delayed anti-β-glucuronidase antibody response. At 16 weeks, near wild-type amounts of β-glucuronidase activity and striking reduction of lysosomal pathology were detected in livers from mice that had received either MR-1 cotreatment or control antibody. In the lung and kidney, β-glucuronidase activity was markedly higher for the MR-1-treated group. β-Glucuronidase activity in the brain persisted independently of MR-1 treatment. Activity was intense in the injected hemisphere and was also evident in the noninjected cortex and striatum, with dramatic improvements in storage deposits in areas of both hemispheres. These results indicate that prolonged enzyme expression from transgenes delivered to deficient liver and brain can mediate pervasive correction and illustrate the potential for gene therapy of MPS and other lysosomal storage diseases.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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