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CpG-free plasmids confer reduced inflammation and sustained pulmonary gene expression

  • S.C Hyde
  • , I.A Pringle
  • , S Abdullah
  • , A.E Lawton
  • , L.A Davies
  • , A Varathalingam
  • , G Nunez-Alonso
  • , A.M Green
  • , R.P Bazzani
  • , S.G Sumner-Jones
  • , M Chan
  • , H Li
  • , N.S Yew
  • , S.H Cheng
  • , A.C Boyd
  • , J.C Davies
  • , U Griesenbach
  • , D.J Porteous
  • , D.N Sheppard
  • , F.M Munkonge
  • E.W Alton, D.R Gill

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Abstract

Pulmonary delivery of plasmid DNA (pDNA)/cationic liposome complexes is associated with an acute unmethylated CG dinucleotide (CpG)-mediated inflammatory response and brief duration of transgene expression. We demonstrate that retention of even a single CpG in pDNA is sufficient to elicit an inflammatory response, whereas CpG-free pDNA vectors do not. Using a CpG-free pDNA expression vector, we achieved sustained (Z56 d) in vivo transgene expression in the absence of lung inflammation.
Translated title of the contributionCpG-free plasmids confer reduced inflammation and sustained pulmonary gene expression
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)549 - 551
Number of pages3
JournalNature Biotechnology
Volume26
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2008

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Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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