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Journal of Virology, March 1999, p. 1949-1955, Vol. 73, No. 3
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Structure of Adeno-Associated Virus Vector DNA following Transduction of the Skeletal Muscle

Nathalie Vincent-Lacaze,1 Richard O. Snyder,2 Régis Gluzman,1 Delphine Bohl,3 Catherine Lagarde,2 and Olivier Danos1,*

Gene Therapy Program, Genethon III, CNRS URA 1922, Evry,1 and Laboratoire Retrovirus et Transfert Génétique, Institut Pasteur, Paris,3 France, and Cell Genesys, Foster City, California2

Received 16 November 1998/Accepted 30 November 1998

The skeletal muscle provides a very permissive physiological environment for adeno-associated virus (AAV) type 2-mediated gene transfer. We have studied the early steps leading to the establishment of permanent transgene expression, after injection of recombinant AAV (rAAV) particles in the quadriceps muscle of mice. The animals received an rAAV encoding a secreted protein, murine erythropoietin (mEpo), under the control of the human cytomegalovirus major immediate-early promoter and were sacrificed between 1 and 60 days after injection. The measurement of plasma Epo levels and of hematocrits indicated a progressive increase of transgene expression over the first 2 weeks, followed by a stabilization at maximal plateau values. The rAAV sequences were analyzed by Southern blotting following neutral or alkaline gel electrophoresis of total DNA from injected muscles. While a high number of rAAV sequences were detected during the first 5 days following the injection, only a few percent of these sequences was retained in the animals analyzed after 2 weeks, in which transgene expression was maximal. Double-stranded DNA molecules resulting from de novo second-strand synthesis were detected as early as day 1, indicating that this crucial step of AAV-mediated gene transfer is readily accomplished in the muscle. The templates driving stable gene expression at later time points are low in copy number and structured as high-molecular-weight concatemers or interlocked circles. The presence of the circular form of the rAAV genomes at early time points suggests that the molecular transformations involved in the formation of stable concatemers may involve a rolling-circle type of DNA replication.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Gene Therapy Program, Genethon III, CNRS URA 1922, Evry, France. Phone: 33-1-69 47 29 64. Fax: 33-1-69 47 28 38. E-mail: odanos{at}genethon.fr.

Journal of Virology, March 1999, p. 1949-1955, Vol. 73, No. 3
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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