Patent Application: US-70960996-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides adeno - associated virus materials and methods which are useful for dna delivery to cells . more particularly , the invention provides recombinant aav genomes , methods for packaging raav genomes , stable host cell lines producing raav and methods for delivering genes of interest to cells utilizing the raav . particularly disclosed are raav useful in generating immunity to human immunodeficiency virus - 1 and in therapeutic gene delivery for treatment of neurological disorders .

Description:
the present invention is illustrated by the following examples relating to the production and use of raav of the invention . example 1 describes the construction of a vector including a raav genome containing the siv rev and envelope ( gp160 ) genes , while example 2 describes the construction of a vector including the aav rep - cap genes and a neomycin resistance gene . example 3 sets out the construction of a vector to be used to generate stable cell lines producing raav from the vectors described in examples 1 and 2 . the generation of stable cell lines producing raav encoding the siv rev and gp160 proteins is detailed in example 4 . example 5 describes the generation of stable cell lines expressing the aav rep - cap genes . example 6 presents results of infection of various mammalian cells and cell lines with the raav described in example 4 which show that gp160 protein is expressed in the infected cells . a vector including a raav genome containing a siv rev and envelope ( gp160 ) gene cassette was constructed from an existing plasmid designated psub201 samulski et al ., supra !. fig2 is a diagram of plasmid psub201 wherein restriction endonuclease sites are shown and abbreviated as follows : p , pvuii ; x , xbai ; b , bamhi ; h , hindiii ; and n , naei . the plasmid contains a modified wild - type aav2 genome cloned between the pvuii restriction sites . the dna sequence of the wild - type aav2 genome is set out in seq id no : 1 . the aav2 sequence was modified to include convenient restriction sites . specifically , two xbal restriction sites were added via linker addition at sequence positions 190 and 4484 . these sites are internal to 191 bp inverted terminal repeats ( itrs ) which included the 145 bp itrs of the aav genome . the insertion of these sites allows the complete removal of the internal 4 . 3 kb fragment containing the aav rep - cap genes upon xbai digestion of the plasmid . in fig2 the 191 bp itrs are designated by inverted arrows . the raav genome vector of the invention ( paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 ) was generated in several steps . first , plasmid psub201 was digested with xbai and the approximately 4 kb vector fragment including the aav itrs was isolated . a cmv gene expression cassette was then inserted between the aav itrs by blunt end ligation . the cmv expression cassette was derived as a 1 . 8 kb xbai - afliii dna fragment from the vector pcmv - neo - bam described in karasuyama et al ., j . exp . med ., 169 : 13 - 25 ( 1989 ). prior to ligation , the molecular ends were filled in using the klenow fragment of dna polymerase i . the cmv expression cassette contained a 750 bp portion of the cmv immediate early promoter , followed by a 640 bp intron and a 360 bp polyadenylation signal sequence which were derived from the rabbit β - globin gene . between the intron and poly a sequences were two cloning sites : a unique bamhi site and two flanking ecori restriction sites . the resulting vector was named paav / cmv . see fig3 a wherein restriction endonuclease cleavage sites are shown and abbreviated as follows : b , bamhi ; e , ecori ; n , nael ; and p , pvuii . second , the paav / cmv expression vector was linerized at the bamhi site and sticky ends were blunted with klenow . a pcr - generated , 2 . 7 kb siv subgenomic fragment containing the rev and envelope ( gp160 ) sequences seq id no : 2 , hirsch et al ., nature , 339 : 389 - 392 ( 1989 )! was cloned into the blunt - ended bamhi site . the resulting recombinant aav genome vector , paav / cmv / sivrev - gp 160 , is 8 . 53 kb in length . see fig3 b wherein restriction endonuclease cleavage sites are shown and abbreviated as follows : n , nael and p , pvuii . the vector contains the following dna segments in sequence : ( 1 ) an aav itr , ( 2 ) the cmv promoter , ( 3 ) the rabbit β - globin intron , ( 4 ) the siv rev and envelope sequences , ( 5 ) the rabbit β - globin polyadenylation signal , and ( 6 ) an aav itr . in transient transfection assays of human 293 cells , this vector resulted in high levels of expression of the siv gp160 protein as determined by radioimmunoprecipitation assays using polyclonal sera from monkeys infected with siv . the invention specifically contemplates substitution by standard recombinant dna techniques of the following sequences for the siv rev / envelope sequences in the foregoing vector : hiv - 1 rev / envelope sequences ( the hiv - 1 mn rev / envelope sequence is set out in seq id no : 3 ); nerve growth factor levi - montalcini , science , 237 : 1154 - 1162 ( et al .,)! ; ciliary neurotrophic factor manthorpe et al ., beginning at p . 135 in nerve growth factors , wiley and sons ( 1989 )! ; glial cell derived neurotrophic factor lin et al ., science , 260 : 1130 - 1132 ( 1993 )! ; transforming growth factors puolakkainen et al ., beginning at p . 359 in neurotrophic factors , academic press ( 1993 )! ; acidic and basic fibroblast growth factors unsicker et al ., beginning at p . 313 in neurotrophic factors , academic press ( 1993 )! ; neurotrophin 3 maisonpierre et al ., genomics , 10 : 558 - 568 ( 1991 )! ; brain - derived neurotrophic factor maisonpierre , supra ! ; neurotrophin 4 / 5 berkemeier et al ., neuron , 7 : 857 - 866 ( 1991 )! ; tyrosine hydroxylase grima et al ., nature , 326 : 707 - 711 ( 1987 )! ; and aromatic amino acid decarboxylase sumi et al ., j . neurochemistry , 55 : 1075 - 1078 ( 1990 )!. a plasmid designated psv40 / neo / rep - cap which contains the aav rep - cap genes and a neomycin resistance gene was constructed to be used in conjunction with the raav genome vector described in example 1 to generate a stable cell line producing raav . a plasmid designated paav / svneo ( samulski et al ., supra ) was digested with ecori and bamhi to release a 2 . 7 kb insert including a 421 bp portion of the sv40 early promoter , a 1 . 4 kb neomycin resistance gene , and a 852 bp dna fragment containing the sv40 small t splice site and sv40 polyadenylation signal . this released insert was cloned into the ecori and bamhi sites of pbluescript ks + ( stratagene , la jolla , calif .) to generate the 5 . 66 kb plasmid psv40 / neo . next , the approximately 4 . 3 kb dna fragment containing the aav rep - cap genes , derived from the digestion of psub201 with xbai as described in example 1 , was ligated into the xbai restriction site of psv40 / neo to create the plasmid psv40 / neo / rep - cap ( about 10 kb ). the construction of this plasmid is detailed in first half of fig4 wherein restriction endonuclease sites are shown and abbreviated as follows : b , bamhi ; e , ecori ; hindiii ; p , pvuii ; n , noti ; rv , ecorv ; and x , xbai . this plasmid was functional in transient assays for rep and cap activity and was itself ultimately used to derive stable cell lines ( see example 5 below ). a final vector to be used to generate stable cell lines producing raav was generated from vector paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 ( example 1 ) and plasmid psv40 / neo / rep - cap ( example 2 ). the construction entailed removing the neo - rep - cap gene cassette from psv40 / neo / rep - cap and inserting it into a unique naei site in paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 ( see fig3 b ). specifically , vector paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 / neo / rep - cap was made by agarose gel band isolating a 7 . 0 kb ecorv - noti dna fragment containing the sv / neo and rep - cap expression domains from psv40 / neo / rep - cap . the sticky ends of the fragment were blunted with klenow and the fragment was ligated into the blunt - ended naei site of paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 . see fig4 . vector paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 / neo / rep - cap ( atcc 6963contains the following elements : ( 1 ) the raav genome ; ( 2 ) aav rep - cap genes ; and ( 3 ) the neomycin resistance gene . the vector paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 / neo / rep - cap was used to generate stable cells lines containing both the raav genome of the invention and aav rep - cap genes . hela cells at 70 % confluency were transfected with 10 μg of paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 / neo / rep - cap plasmid dna in 100 mm dishes . cells were transfected for 6 hours after formation of dotap / dna complexes in serum minus media as prescribed by the manufacturer &# 39 ; s protocol ( boehringer - mannheim , indianapolis , ind .). following the removal of the transfection medium , dmem media containing 10 % fetal bovine serum was added to the cells . three days later , media supplemented with 700 μg / ml geneticin ( gibco - brl , gaithersburg , md .) was used to select for cells that stably expressed the neomycin resistance gene . fresh geneticin containing dmem media was added every four days . geneticin resistant clones were selected 10 - 14 days after selective media was added . a total of fifty - five colonies were selected and transferred to 24 - well plates and expanded for further analysis . the fifty - five neomycin resistant hela cell lines were initially screened for functional rep gene activity ; twenty - one scored positive . rep gene activity was assayed by infecting the cell lines with adenovirus type 5 ( ad5 ). infection by adenovirus transactivates the rep and cap genes . this results in the replication of the raav genome and subsequent encapsidation of these sequences into infectious raav particels . a schematic representation of raav production is shown in fig5 . following maximum ad5 - induced cytopathic effect ( cpe ; rounding of cells and 90 % detachment from the culture flask ), cell lysates were prepared and hirt dna ( low molecular weight dna ) was isolated hirt , j . mol . biol ., 26 : 365 - 369 ( 1967 )!. southern blot analysis was used to visualize the synthesis of recombinant aav ( raav ) replicative forms ( single strand , monomeric , and dimeric forms ). control wells not receiving ad5 were always negative . cell lines with high relative levels of rep gene activity were selected for further study . to assay for cap gene functionality , cell lines were infected with ad5 and clarified lysates prepared after the development of maximum cpe . the cell lysates , ad5 , and wild - type aav were used to infect hela cells . following the development of ad5 induced cpe ( 72 hr ), hirt dna was isolated and southern blot analysis performed . cell line lysates that gave rise to gp160 hybridizable raav ( siv gp160 ) replicative sequences were scored positive for capsid production . an infectious unit / ml ( iu / ml ) titer of raav produced by each cell line was derived by co - infecting c12 cells ( exhibiting stable rep and cap gene expression ) with ad5 and a serial ten - fold dilution of the clarified cell line lysate to be tested . after maximum ad5 - induced cpe , hirt dna was isolated and southern blot analysis performed to detect the presence of raav replicative forms . the end - point dilution that produced visible monomeric and dimeric replication intermediates was taken as the titer . titer estimation was based on two to four replicate experiments . results of characterization of eight of the fifty - five cell lines are shown in table 1 below wherein &# 34 ; nd &# 34 ; indicates a value was not determined . table 1______________________________________cell line rep function cap function titer ( iu / ml ) ______________________________________a5 ++ + 10 . sup . 4a11 ++++ + 10 . sup . 5a15 ++++ + 10 . sup . 5a37 ++++ + nda60 +++++ - & lt ; 10 . sup . 1a64 +++++ + 10 . sup . 6a69 ++ - nda80 ++++ + 10 . sup . 5______________________________________ cell line a64 ( atcc crl 11639 ) produced a high titer of raav ( 10 6 iu / ml ) in clarified lysates . this titer is approximately 1000 - fold higher than the titer of raav reported by vincent et al ., supra . the raav produced by the various cell lines was also tested for its ability to express siv gp160 in hela cells infected with the recombinant virus . concentrated stocks of raav produced by the eight stable cell lines listed in table 1 were generated . cell lysates containing raav particles were subjected to step density gradient ( cscl ) purification . after desalting dialysis and heat - inactivation of ad5 , the raav particles were used to infect ( transduce ) hela cells in culture . two lines of investigation were pursued . first , the transduced cells were tested for the presence of siv gp160 - specific mrna by performing rt - pcr on total rna collected 72 hours after transduction . primers specific for siv gp160 amplified a predicted 300 bp fragment only in the presence of reverse transcriptase and taq polymerase ; samples run without reverse transcriptase were uniformly negative . second , hela cells were transduced with various dilutions of the same raav / siv stock as described above and , at 72 hours post transduction , indirect immunofluorescence was performed on the infected cells . at all dilutions tested ( out to 1 : 200 ), cells positive for the siv gp160 protein were detected ; lower dilutions clearly had more positive cells . the a64 cell line was tested for wild - type aav production by a standard method . the cell line was infected with adenovirus to produce raav as a lysate . the lysate was then used to infect normal hela cells either : ( i ) alone ; ( ii ) with adenovirus ; or ( iii ) with adenovirus and wild - type aav . as a control , hela cells were infected with adenovirus and wild - type aav without raav . hirt dna was prepared and analyzed by southern blotting ( two different blots ) for replicating forms of either raav or wild - type aav . no wild - type aav was detected in a64 cells not exposed to wild - type aav . because the present invention involves the establishment of stable cell lines containing not only copies of the aav rep and cap genes , but also of the raav genome ( with itrs flanking dna of interest ), raav is produced by merely infecting the cell line with adenovirus . transfection of exogenous dna is not required , thereby increasing the efficiency of raav production compared to previously described methods . other significant features of the invention are that no wild - type aav is produced and that scale - up for production of raav is easy and is limited only by normal constraints of cell growth in culture . concurrent with the generation of the stable cells described in example 4 , stable hela cell lines were established by similar methods which contained rep - cap genes but no raav genome using plasmid psv40 / neo / rep - cap ( example 2 ). a total of fifty - two neomycin resistant hela cell lines were isolated and characterized . to test for rep gene function , each cell line was infected with ad5 and subsequently transfected with paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 . following ad5 - induced cpe ( 72 hr ), hirt dna was isolated and southern blot analysis performed . rep gene function was scored positive for cell lines that produced monomeric and dimeric raav gp160 sequences . the intensity of autoradiographic signal was used as a relative measure of rep gene expression ( 1 - 5 +). ad5 minus control samples never produced raav replicative forms . cap gene proficiency was assayed in a similar manner ( ad5 infection and paav / cmv / sivrev - gp160 transfection ), except that a clarified cell lysate was prepared after the development of maximum cpe . hela cells were then co - infected with a portion of the clarified cell lysate , ad5 , and wild - type aav . hirt dna was isolated 72 hours later , and hybridization analysis was used to visualize the existence of raav / gp160 replicative forms ( monomeric and dimeric ). in the assay described , the c12 cell line yielded the highest relative proportion of raav / gp160 / 120 sequences . results of the characterization assays are presented for eight cell lines are presented in table 2 wherein the abbreviation &# 34 ; nd &# 34 ; indicates that a value was not determined . table 2______________________________________cell line rep function cap function______________________________________c2 +++++ + c12 ++++ +++ c16 - ndc18 +++ ndc23 +++ ndc25 +++ - c27 ++ ndc44 ++++ + ______________________________________ there are two principal uses for the stable cell lines expressing rep - cap sequences : ( 1 ) generating raav particles if the cell lines are transfected with a raav genome and infected with helper virus ; and ( 2 ) determining raav infectious titers . to estimate raav infectious titers , these cell lines are co - infected with adenovirus and serial dilutions of the raav stock . after maximum cpe , hirt dna is isolated and replicative raav forms are visualized by southern blot analysis . end point titration ( last raav stock dilution to give positive hybridization signal ) is then used to determine the infectious titer . the ability of the raav produced by hela cell line a64 to infect ( transduce ) and produce siv gp160 protein in various mammalian cell types in addition to hela cells ( see example 4 ) was assayed . the raav ( at a multiplicity of infection of approximately 1 ) was used to infect cells either in a monolayer or in suspension , depending on the cell type . three days after raav infection , the cells were fixed in acetone / methanol and evaluated for the production of gp160 by indirect immunofluorescence using polyclonal antisera from an siv - infected monkey . the following cells or cell lines were infected and shown to produce gp160 ; fetal rat brain cells ( neurons and glial cells ), mouse 3t3 fibroblasts , mouse vagina , human vagina , human colon , human and monkey lymphocytes and 293 cells . no non - permissive cell type was identified . these results demonstrate that the raav produced by the a64 cell line infects a wide range of mammalian cell types and leads to cell surface expression of the siv envelop gene product , gp160 , in the transduced cells . while the present invention has been described in terms of preferred embodiments , it understood that variations and improvements will occur to those skilled in the art . therefore , only such limitations as appear in the claims should be placed on the invention . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 3 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 4680 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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