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J Virol, January 1998, p. 789-795, Vol. 72, No. 1
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Exchange of Viral Promoter/Enhancer Elements with Heterologous Regulatory Sequences Generates Targeted Hybrid Long Terminal Repeat Vectors for Gene Therapy of Melanoma

R. M. Diaz,1 T. Eisen,2 I. R. Hart,1 and R. G. Vile3,*

Richard Dimbleby Department of Cancer Research/ICRF Laboratory, Rayne Institute, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH,1 Marie Curie Research Institute, The Chart, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL,2 and ICRF Laboratory of Molecular Therapy, ICRF Oncology Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN,3 United Kingdom

Received 13 May 1997/Accepted 24 September 1997

To generate transcriptionally targeted vectors, tissue-specific elements of the human tyrosinase promoter were exchanged with corresponding viral elements in the Moloney murine leukemia virus long terminal repeat (LTR). From these experiments, a vesicular stomatitis virus type G pseudotyped, hybrid LTR vector that contained three tyrosinase enhancer elements and gave high-level, tightly tissue-specific expression at high titers (3 × 107 CFU/ml) was constructed.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: ICRF Laboratory of Molecular Therapy, ICRF Oncology Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, DuCane Rd., London, W12 0NN. Phone: 181 383 8584. Fax: 181 383 3258. E-mail: R.Vile{at}icrf.icnet.uk.




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