Patent Application: US-32919606-A

Abstract:
the present invention relates to providing human primary fibroblasts with a nucleic acid of interest with , among others , the purpose to improve the taking of , for example , skin transplants , particularly , methods of transducing fibroblasts with the nucleic acid of interest by means of gene delivery vehicles , in particular chimeric recombinant adenovirus - based gene delivery vehicles . the present invention is exemplified by an adenovirus serotype 5 genome - based vector with an adenoviral fiber protein of a b - type or a d - type adenovirus , in particular adenovirus type 40 or 16 , and wherein the nucleic acid of interest encodes a protein which improves angiogenesis and / or neurovascularization , in particular myogenin or myod .

Description:
to illustrate the invention , the following examples are provided but not intended to limit the scope of the invention . the complete genome of adenovirus serotype 5 has been cloned into various plasmids or cosmids to allow easy modification of parts of the adenovirus serotype 5 genome , while still retaining the capability to produce recombinant virus . for this purpose , the following plasmids were generated : in order to facilitate blunt end cloning of the itr sequences , wild - type human adenovirus type 5 ( ad5 ) dna was treated with klenow enzyme in the presence of excess dntps . after inactivation of the klenow enzyme and purification by phenol / chloroform extraction followed by ethanol precipitation , the dna was digested with bamhi . this dna preparation was used without further purification in a ligation reaction with pbr322 - derived vector dna prepared as follows : pbr322 dna was digested with ecorv and bamhi , dephosphorylated by treatment with tsap enzyme ( life technologies ) and purified on lmp agarose gel ( seaplaque gtg ). after transformation into competent e . coli dh5α ( life techn .) and analysis of ampicillin - resistant colonies , one clone was selected that showed a digestion pattern as expected for an insert extending from the bamhi site in ad5 to the right itr . sequence analysis of the cloning border at the right itr revealed that the most 3 ′ g residue of the itr was missing ; the remainder of the itr was found to be correct . the missing g residue is complemented by the other itr during replication . pbr / ad . bam - ritr was digested with bamhi and sali . the vector fragment including the adenovirus insert was isolated in lmp agarose ( seaplaque gtg ) and ligated to a 4 . 8 kb sali - bamhi fragment obtained from wt ad5 dna and purified with the geneclean ii kit ( bio 101 , inc .). one clone was chosen and the integrity of the ad5 sequences was determined by restriction enzyme analysis . clone pbr / ad . sal - ritr contains adeno type 5 sequences from the sali site at bp 16746 up to and including the ritr ( missing the most 3 ′ g residue ). wild - type adenovirus type 5 dna was digested with clai and bamhi , and the 20 . 6 kb fragment was isolated from gel by electro - elution . pbr322 was digested with the same enzymes and purified from agarose gel by geneclean . both fragments were ligated and transformed into competent dh5α . the resulting clone pbr / ad . cla - bam was analyzed by restriction enzyme digestion and shown to contain an insert with adenovirus sequences from bp 919 to 21566 . clone pbr / ad . cla - bam was linearized with ecori ( in pbr322 ) and partially digested with aflii . after heat inactivation of aflii for 20 minutes at 65 ° c ., the fragment ends were filled in with klenow enzyme . the dna was then ligated to a blunt double - stranded oligo linker containing a paci site ( 5 ′- aattgtc ttaattaa ccgcttaa - 3 ′) ( seq id no : 1 ). this linker was made by annealing the following two oligonucleotides : 5 ′- aattgtcttaattaaccgc - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 1 ) and 5 ′- aattgcggttaattaagac - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 2 ), followed by blunting with klenow enzyme . after precipitation of the ligated dna to change the buffer , the ligations were digested with an excess paci enzyme to remove concatameres of the oligo . the 22016 bp partial fragment containing ad5 sequences from bp 3534 up to 21566 and the vector sequences was isolated in lmp agarose gel ( seaplaque gtg ), religated and transformed into competent dh5α . one clone that was found to contain the paci site and that had retained the large adeno fragment was selected and sequenced at the 5 ′ end to verify correct insertion of the paci linker in the ( lost ) aflii site . to allow insertion of a paci site near the itr of ad5 in clone pbr / ad . bam - ritr , about 190 nucleotides were removed between the clai site in the pbr322 backbone and the start of the itr sequences . this was done as follows : pbr / ad . bam - ritr was digested with clai and treated with nuclease bal31 for varying lengths of time ( 2 ′, 5 ′, 10 ′ and 15 ′). the extent of nucleotide removal was followed by separate reactions on pbr322 dna ( also digested at the clai site ), using identical buffers and conditions . bal31 enzyme was inactivated by incubation at 75 ° c . for 10 minutes , and the dna was precipitated and resuspended in a smaller volume of te buffer . to ensure blunt ends , dnas were further treated with t4 dna polymerase in the presence of excess dntps . after digestion of the ( control ) pbr322 dna with sali , satisfactory degradation (˜ 150 bp ) was observed in the samples treated for 10 minutes or 15 minutes . the 10 minutes or 15 minutes treated pbr / ad . bam - ritr samples were then ligated to the above - described blunted paci linkers ( see pbr / ad . aflii - bam ). ligations were purified by precipitation , digested with excess paci and separated from the linkers on an lmp agarose gel . after religation , dnas were transformed into competent dh5α and colonies analyzed . ten clones were selected that showed a deletion of approximately the desired length and these were further analyzed by t - track sequencing ( t7 sequencing kit , pharmacia biotech ). two clones were found with the paci linker inserted just downstream of the ritr . after digestion with paci , clone # 2 has 28 bp and clone # 8 has 27 bp attached to the itr . cosmid vector pwe15 ( clontech ) was used to clone larger ad5 inserts . first , a linker containing a unique paci site was inserted in the ecori sites of pwe115 , creating pwe . pac . to this end , the double - stranded paci oligo as described for pbr / ad . aflii - bamhi was used but now with its ecori protruding ends . the following fragments were then isolated by electro - elution from agarose gel : pwe . pac digested with paci , pbr / aflii - bam digested with paci and bamhi and pbr / ad . bam - ritr # 2 digested with bamhi and paci . these fragments were ligated together and packaged using one phage packaging extracts ( stratagene ) according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s protocol . after infection into host bacteria , colonies were grown on plates and analyzed for the presence of the complete insert . pwe / ad . aflii - ritr contains all adenovirus type 5 sequences from bp 3534 ( aflii site ) up to and including the right itr ( missing the most 3 ′ g residue ). adenovirus 5 wild - type dna was treated with klenow enzyme in the presence of excess dntps and subsequently digested with sali . two of the resulting fragments , designated left itr - sal ( 9 . 4 ) and sal ( 16 . 7 )- right itr , respectively , were isolated in lmp agarose ( seaplaque gtg ). p3r322 dna was digested with ecorv and sali and treated with phosphatase ( life technologies ). the vector fragment was isolated using the geneclean method ( bio 101 , inc .) and ligated to the ad5 sali fragments . only the ligation with the 9 . 4 kb fragment gave colonies with an insert . after analysis and sequencing of the cloning border , a clone was chosen that contained the full itr sequence and extended to the sali site at bp 9462 . pbr / ad . litr - sal ( 9 . 4 ) is digested with sali and dephosphorylated ( tsap , life technologies ). to extend this clone up to the third sali site in ad5 , pbr / ad . cla - bam was linearized with bamhi and partially digested with sali . a 7 . 3 kb sali fragment containing adenovirus sequences from 9462 - 16746 was isolated in lmp agarose gel and ligated to the sali - digested pbr / ad . litr - sal ( 9 . 4 ) vector fragment . pwe . pac was digested with clai and 5 ′ protruding ends were filled using klenow enzyme . the dna was then digested with paci and isolated from agarose gel . pwe / aflii - ritr was digested with ecori and , after treatment with klenow enzyme , digested with paci . the large 24 kb fragment containing the adenoviral sequences was isolated from agarose gel and ligated to the clai - digested and blunted pwe . pac vector using the ligation express ™ kit ( clontech ). after transformation of ultracompetent xl 10 - gold cells ( stratagene ), clones were identified that contained the expected insert . pwe / aflii - ecori contains ad5 sequences from bp 3534 - 27336 . the absence of sequence overlap between the recombinant adenovirus and e1 sequences in the packaging cell line is essential for safe , rca - free generation and propagation of new recombinant viruses . the adapter plasmid pmlpi . tk is an example of an adapter plasmid designed for use according to the invention in combination with the improved packaging cell lines of the invention . this plasmid was used as the starting material to make a new vector in which nucleic acid molecules comprising specific promoter and gene sequences can be easily exchanged . first , a pcr fragment was generated from pzipδmo + pyf101 ( n − ) template dna ( described in wo 96 / 35798 ) with the following primers : ltr - 1 : 5 ′- ctg tac gta cca gtg cac tgg cct agg cat gga aaa ata cat aac tg - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 3 ) and ltr - 2 : 5 ′- gcg gat cct tcg aac cat ggt aag ctt ggt acc gct agc gtt aac cgg gcg act cag tca atc g - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 4 ). pwo dna polymerase ( boehringer mannheim ) was used according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s protocol with the following temperature cycles : once 5 minutes 20 at 95 ° c . ; 3 minutes at 55 ° c . ; and 1 minute at 72 ° c ., and 30 cycles of 1 minute at 95 ° c ., 1 minute at 60 ° c ., 1 minute at 72 ° c ., followed by once 10 minutes at 72 ° c . the pcr product was then digested with bamhi and ligated into pmlp10 ( levrero et al . 1991 ) vector digested with pvuii and bamhi , thereby generating vector pltr10 . this vector contains adenoviral sequences from bp 1 up to bp 454 followed by a promoter consisting of a part of the mo - mulv ltr having its wild - type enhancer sequences replaced by the enhancer from a mutant polyoma virus ( pyf101 ). the promoter fragment was designated l420 . next , the coding region of the murine hsa gene was inserted . pltr10 was digested with bstbi followed by klenow treatment and digestion with ncoi . the hsa gene was obtained by pcr amplification on puc18 - hsa ( kay et al . 1990 ) using the following primers : hsa1 , 5 ′- gcg cca cca tgg gca gag cga tgg tgg c - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 5 ) and hsa2 , 5 ′- gtt aga tct aag ctt gtc gac atc gat cta cta aca gta gag atg tag aa - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 6 ). the 269 bp amplified fragment was subcloned in a shuttle vector using the ncoi and bglii sites . sequencing confirmed incorporation of the correct coding sequence of the hsa gene , but with an extra tag insertion directly following the tag stop codon . the coding region of the hsa gene , including the tag duplication , was then excised as an ncoi ( sticky )- sali ( blunt ) fragment and cloned into the 3 . 5 kb ncoi ( sticky )/ bstbi ( blunt ) fragment from pltr10 , resulting in pltr - hsa10 . finally , pltr - hsa10 was digested with ecori and bamhi , after which the fragment containing the left itr , packaging signal , l420 promoter and hsa gene was inserted into vector pmlpi . tk digested with the same enzymes and thereby replacing the promoter and gene sequences . this resulted in the new adapter plasmid pad / l420 - hsa that contains convenient recognition sites for various restriction enzymes around the promoter and gene sequences . snabi and avrii can be combined with hpai , nhei , kpni , hindiii to exchange promoter sequences , while the latter sites can be combined with the clai or bamhi sites 3 ′ from the hsa coding region to replace genes in this construct . another adapter plasmid that was designed to allow easy exchange of nucleic acid molecules was made by replacing the promoter , gene and poly a sequences in pad / l420 - hsa with the cmv promoter , a multiple cloning site , an intron and a poly - a signal . for this purpose , pad / l420 - hsa was digested with avrii and bglii followed by treatment with klenow to obtain blunt ends . the 5 . 1 kb fragment with pbr322 vector and adenoviral sequences was isolated and ligated to a blunt 1570 bp fragment from pcdna1 / amp ( invitrogen ) obtained by digestion with hhai and avrii followed by treatment with t4 dna polymerase . this adapter plasmid was named pclip . to generate e1 - deleted recombinant adenoviruses with the new plasmid - based system , the following constructs are prepared : a ) an adapter construct containing the expression cassette with the gene of interest linearized with a restriction enzyme that cuts at the 3 ′ side of the overlapping adenoviral genome fragment , preferably not containing any pbr322 vector sequences , and these two dna molecules are further purified by phenol / chloroform extraction and ethanol precipitation . co - transfection of these plasmids into an adenovirus packaging cell line , preferably a cell line according to the invention , generates recombinant replication - deficient adenoviruses by a one - step homologous recombination between the adapter and the complementing construct . alternatively , instead of pwe / ad . aflii - ritr , other fragments can be used ; e . g ., pbr / ad . cla - bam digested with ecori and bamhi or pbr / ad . aflii - bamhi digested with paci and bamhi can be combined with pbr / ad . sal - ritr digested with sali . in this case , three plasmids are combined and two homologous recombinations are needed to obtain a recombinant adenovirus . it is to be understood that those skilled in the art may use other combinations of adapter and complementing plasmids without departing from the present invention . a general protocol as outlined below and meant as a non - limiting example of the present invention has been performed to produce several recombinant adenoviruses using various adapter plasmids and the ad . aflii - ritr fragment . adenovirus packaging cells ( per . c6 ) were seeded in ˜ 25 cm 2 flasks and the next day , when they were at ˜ 80 % confluency , transfected with a mixture of dna and lipofectamine agent ( life techn .) as described by the manufacturer . routinely , 40 μl of lipofectamine , 4 μg of adapter plasmid and 4 μg of the complementing adenovirus genome fragment aflii - ritr ( or 2 μg of all three plasmids for the double homologous recombination ) are used . under these conditions , transient transfection efficiencies of ˜ 50 % ( 48 hours post transfection ) are obtained as determined with control transfections using a pad / cmv - lacz adapter . two days later , cells are passaged to ˜ 80 cm 2 flasks and further cultured . approximately five ( for the single homologous recombination ) to eleven days ( for the double homologous recombination ) later , a cytopathogenic effect ( cpe ) is seen , indicating that functional adenovirus has formed . cells and medium are harvested upon full cpe and recombinant virus is released by freeze - thawing . an extra amplification step in an 80 cm 2 flask is routinely performed to increase the yield since , at the initial stage , the titers are found to be variable despite the occurrence of full cpe . after amplification , viruses are harvested and plaque purified on per . c6 cells . individual plaques are tested for viruses with active transgenes . besides replacements in the e1 region , it is possible to delete or replace ( part of ) the e3 region in the adenovirus because e3 functions are not necessary for the replication , packaging and infection of the ( recombinant ) virus . this creates the opportunity to use a larger insert or to insert more than one gene without exceeding the maximum package size ( approximately 105 % of wt genome length ). this can be done , e . g ., by deleting part of the e3 region in the pbr / ad . bam - ritr clone by digestion with xbai and religation . this removes ad5 wt sequences 28592 - 30470 including all known e3 coding regions . another example is the precise replacement of the coding region of gp19k in the e3 region with a polylinker allowing insertion of new sequences . this , 1 ) leaves all other coding regions intact and 2 ) obviates the need for a heterologous promoter since the transgene is driven by the e3 promoter and pa sequences , leaving more space for coding sequences . to this end , the 2 . 7 kb ecori fragment from wt ad5 containing the 5 ′ part of the e3 region was cloned into the ecori site of pbluescript ( ks − ) ( stratagene ). next , the hindiii site in the polylinker was removed by digestion with ecorv and hindiii and subsequent religation . the resulting clone pbs . eco - eco / ad5dhiii was used to delete the gp19k coding region . primers 1 ( 5 ′- ggg tat tag gcc aa agg cgc a - 3 ′) ( seq id no : 7 ) and 2 ( 5 ′- gat ccc atg gaa gct tgg gtg gcg acc cca gcg - 3 ′) ( seq id no : 8 ) were used to amplify a sequence from pbs . eco - eco / ad5dhiii corresponding to sequences 28511 to 28734 in wt ad5 dna . primers 3 ( 5 ′- gat ccc atg ggg atc ctt tac taa gtt aca aag cta - 3 ′) ( seq id no : 9 ) and 4 ( 5 ′- gtc gct gta gtt gga ctg g - 3 ′) ( seq id no : 10 ) were used on the same dna to amplify ad5 sequences from 29217 to 29476 . the two resulting pcr fragments were ligated together by virtue of the new introduced ncoi site and subsequently digested with xbai and muni . this fragment was then ligated into the pbs . eco - eco / ad5δhiii vector that was digested with xbai ( partially ) and muni , generating pbs . eco - eco / ad5δhiii . δgp19k . to allow insertion of foreign genes into the hindiii and bamhi site , an xbai deletion was made in pbs . eco - eco / ad5δhiii . δgp19k to remove the bamhi site in the bluescript polylinker . the resulting plasmid , pbs . eco - eco / ad5δhiiiδgp19kδxbai , contains unique hindiii and bamhi sites corresponding to sequences 28733 ( hindiii ) and 29218 ( bamhi ) in ad5 . after introduction of a foreign gene into these sites , either the deleted xbai fragment is re - introduced , or the insert is recloned into pbs . eco - eco / ad5δhiii . δgp19k using hindiii and , for example , muni . using this procedure , we have generated plasmids expressing hsv - tk , hil - 1a , rat il - 3 , luciferase or . lacz . the unique srfi and noti sites in the pbs . eco - eco / ad5δhiii . δgp19k plasmid ( with or without inserted gene of interest ) are used to transfer the region comprising the gene of interest into the corresponding region of pbr / ad . bam - ritr , yielding construct pbr / ad . bam - ritpagp19k ( with or without the inserted gene of interest ). this construct is used as described supra to produce recombinant adenoviruses . in the viral context , expression of inserted genes is driven by the adenovirus e3 promoter . recombinant viruses that are both e1 and e3 deleted are generated by a double homologous recombination procedure as described above for e1 - replacement vectors using a plasmid - based system consisting of : a ) an adapter plasmid for e1 replacement according to the invention , with or without insertion of a first gene of interest , c ) the pbr / ad . bam - ritrδgp19k plasmid with or without insertion of a second gene of interest . in addition to manipulations in the e3 region , changes of ( parts of ) the e4 region can be accomplished easily in pbr / ad . bam - ritr . generation and propagation of such a virus , however , in some cases demands complementation in trans . the method to generate recombinant adenoviruses by co - transfection of two or more separately cloned adenovirus sequences is described infra . one of these cloned adenovirus sequences was modified such that the adenovirus serotype 5 fiber dna was deleted and substituted for unique restriction sites , thereby generating “ template clones ” which allow for the easy introduction of dna sequences encoding for fiber protein derived from other adenovirus serotypes . the fiber coding sequence of adenovirus serotype 5 is located between nucleotides 31042 and 32787 . to remove the adenovirus serotype 5 dna - encoding fiber , we started with construct pbr / ad . bam - ritr . first , an ndei site was removed from this construct . for this purpose , pbr322 plasmid dna was digested with ndei , after which protruding ends were filled using klenow enzyme . this pbr322 plasmid was then re - ligated , digested with ndei and transformed into e . coli dh5α . the obtained pbr / δndei plasmid was digested with scai and sali , and the resulting 3198 bp vector fragment was ligated to the 15349 bp scai - sali fragment derived from pbr / ad . bam - ritr , resulting in plasmid pbr / ad . bam - ritrtδndei , which hence contained a unique ndei site . next , a pcr was performed with oligonucleotides ny - up : 5 ′- cga cat atg tag atg cat tag ttt gtg tta tgt ttc aac gtg - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 11 ) and ny - down : 5 ′- gga gac cac tgc cat gtt - 3 ′ ( seq id no : 12 ). during amplification , both an ndei ( bold face ) and an nsii restriction site ( underlined ) were introduced to facilitate cloning of the amplified fiber dnas . amplification consisted of 25 cycles , each consisting of 45 seconds at 94 ° c ., 1 minute at 60 ° c ., and 45 seconds at 72 ° c . the pcr reaction contained 25 pmol of oligonucleotides ny - up or ny - down , 2 mm dntp , pcr buffer with 1 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , and 1 unit of elongase heat stable polymerase ( gibco , the netherlands ). 10 % of the pcr product was run on an agarose gel which demonstrated that the expected dna fragment of ± 2200 bp was amplified . this pcr fragment was subsequently purified using a geneclean kit system ( bio101 inc .). then , both the constructs pbr / ad . bam - ritrδndei as well as the pcr product were digested with restriction enzymes ndei and sbf i . the pcr fragment was subsequently cloned using t4 ligase enzyme into the ndei and sbf i digested pbr / ad . bam - ritrδndei , generating pbr / ad . bamrδfib . this plasmid allows insertion of any pcr amplified fiber sequence through the unique ndei and nsii sites that are inserted in place of the removed fiber sequence . viruses can be generated by a double homologous recombination in packaging cells described infra using an adapter plasmid , construct pbr / ad . aflii - ecori digested with paci and ecori and a pbr / ad . bamrδfib construct in which heterologous fiber sequences have been inserted . to increase the efficiency of virus generation , the construct pbr / ad . bamrδfib was modified to generate a paci site flanking the right itr . hereto , pbr / ad . bamrδfib was digested with avrii and the 5 kb adenofragment was isolated and introduced into the vector pbr / ad . bam - ritr . pac # 8 replacing the corresponding avrii fragment . the resulting construct was named pbr / ad . bamrδfib . pac . once a heterologous fiber sequence is introduced in pbr / ad . bamrδfib . pac , the fiber - modified right - hand adenovirus clone may be introduced into a large cosmid clone as described for pwe / ad . aflii - ritr in example 1 . such a large cosmid clone allows generation of adenovirus by only one homologous recombination , making the process extremely efficient . to enable amplification of the dnas encoding fiber protein derived from alternative serotypes , degenerate oligonucleotides were synthesized . for this purpose , first known dna sequences encoding for fiber protein of alternative serotypes were aligned to identify conserved regions in both the tail - region as well as the knob - region of the fiber protein . from the alignment , which contained the nucleotide sequence of 19 different serotypes representing all six subgroups , ( degenerate ) oligonucleotides were synthesized ( see table 2 ). also shown in table 2 is the combination of oligonucleotides used to amplify the dna - encoding fiber protein of a specific serotype . the amplification reaction ( 50 μl ) contained 2 mm dntps , 25 pmol of each oligonucleotide , standard 1 × pcr buffer , 1 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , and 1 unit pwo heat stable polymerase ( boehringer ) per reaction . the cycler program contained 20 cycles , each consisting of 30 seconds 94 ° c ., 60 seconds 60 - 64 ° c ., and 120 seconds at 72 ° c . 10 % of the pcr product was run on an agarose gel which demonstrated that a dna fragment was amplified . of each different template , two independent pcr reactions were performed after which the independent pcr fragments obtained were sequenced to determine the nucleotide sequence . from 11 different serotypes , the nucleotide sequence could be compared to sequences present in genbank . of all other serotypes , the dna - encoding fiber protein was previously unknown and was therefore aligned with known sequences from other subgroup members to determine homology , i . e ., sequence divergence . of the 51 human serotypes known to date , all fiber sequences , except for serotypes 1 , 6 , 18 , and 26 , have been amplified and sequenced . all amplified fiber dnas as well as the vector ( pbr / ad . bamrδfib ) were digested with ndei and nsii . the digested dnas were subsequently run on an agarose gel , after which the fragments were isolated from the gel and purified using the geneclean kit ( bio101 inc .). the pcr fragments were then cloned into the ndei and nsii sites of pbr / adbamrδfib , thus generating pbr / adbamrfibxx ( where xx stands for the serotype number of which the fiber dna was isolated ). so far , the fiber sequence of serotypes 5 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 16 / 17 / 19 / 21 / 24 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 32 / 33 / 34 / 35 / 36 / 37 / 38 / 40 - s / 40 - l / 41 - s / 42 / 45 / 47 / 49 / 51 have been cloned into pbr / adbamrfibxx . from pbr / adbamrfibxx ( where xx is 5 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 13 / 16 / 17 / 24 / 27 / 30 / 32 / 33 / 34 / 35 / 38 / 40 - s / 40 - l / 45 / 47 / 49 / 51 ), a cosmid clone in pwe / ad . aflii - ritr ( see example 1 ) was generated to facilitate efficient virus generation . this cosmid cloning resulted in the formation of construct pwe / ad . aflii - ritr / fibxx ( where xx stands for the serotype number of which the fiber dna was isolated ). to generate recombinant ad 5 virus carrying the fiber of serotype 12 , 16 , 28 , 40 - l , 51 , and 5 , three constructs , pclip / luciferase , pwe / adaflii - eco and pbr / adbamritr . pac / fibxx ( xx = 12 , 16 , 28 , 40 - l , 51 , and 5 ), were transfected into adenovirus producer cells . to generate recombinant ad 5 virus carrying the fiber of 5 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 16 / 17 / 19 / 21 / 24 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 32 / 33 / 34 / 35 / 36 / 37 / 38 / 40 - s / 40 - l / 41 - s / 42 / 45 / 47 / 49 / 51 , two constructs , pclip / luciferase and pwe / ad . aflii - ritr / fibxx , were transfected into adenovirus producer cells . for transfection , 2 μg of pclip / luciferase and 4 μg of both pwe / adaflii - eco and pbr / adbamritr . pac / fibxx ( or in case of cosmids : 4 μg of pclip / luciferase plus 4 μg of pwe / ad . aflii - ritr / fibxx ) were diluted in serum - free dmem to 100 μl total volume . to this dna suspension , 100 μl 1 × diluted lipofectamine ( gibco ) was added . after 30 minutes at room temperature , the dna - lipofectamine complex solution was added to 2 . 5 ml of serum - free dmem , which was subsequently added to a t25 tissue culture flask . this flask contained 2 × 10 6 per . c6 cells that were seeded 24 hours prior to transfection . two hours later , the dna - lipofectamine complex containing medium was diluted once by the addition of 2 . 5 ml dmem supplemented with 20 % fetal calf serum . again , 24 hours later , the medium was replaced by fresh dmem supplemented with 10 % fetal calf serum . cells were cultured for 6 - 8 days , subsequently harvested , and freeze / thawed three times . cellular debris was removed by centrifugation for 5 minutes at 3000 rpm ( room temperature ). of the 12 . 5 ml supernatant , 3 - 5 ml was used to again infect per . c6 cells ( t80 tissue culture flasks ). this re - infection results in full cytopathogenic effect ( cpe ) after 5 - 6 days , after which the adenovirus is harvested as described above . of the supernatant obtained from transfected per . c6 cells , 10 ml was used to inoculate a 1 liter fermentor which contained 1 - 1 . 5 × 10 6 cells / ml per . c6 that were specifically adapted to grow in suspension . three days after inoculation , the cells were harvested and pelleted by centrifugating for 10 minutes at 1750 rpm at room temperature . the chimeric adenoviruses present in the pelleted cells were subsequently extracted and purified using the following downstream processing protocol . the pellet was dissolved in 50 ml 10 mm napo 4 − and frozen at − 20 ° c . after thawing at 37 ° c ., 5 . 6 ml deoxycholate ( 5 % w / v ) was added , after which the solution was homogenated . the solution was subsequently incubated for 15 minutes at 37 ° c . to completely crack the cells . after homogenizing the solution , 1875 μl ( 1m ) mgcl 2 − was added and 5 ml 100 % glycerol . after the addition of 375 μl dnase ( 10 mg / ml ), the solution was incubated for 30 minutes at 37 ° c . cell debris was removed by centrifugation at 1880 × g for 30 minutes at room temperature without the brake on . the supernatant was subsequently purified from proteins by loading on 10 ml of freon . upon centrifugation for 15 minutes at 2000 rpm without brake at room temperature , three bands are visible of which the upper band represents the adenovirus . this band was isolated by pipetting , after which it was loaded on a tris / hcl ( 1m ) buffered cesium chloride block gradient ( range : 1 . 2 to 1 . 4 g / ml ). upon centrifugation at 21 , 000 rpm for 2 . 5 hours at 10 ° c ., the virus was purified from remaining protein and cell debris since the virus , in contrast to the other components , does not migrate into the 1 . 4 g / ml cesium chloride solution . the virus band is isolated , after which a second purification using a tris / hcl ( 1m ) buffered gradient of 1 . 33 g / ml of cesium chloride is performed . after virus loading on top of this gradient , the virus is centrifuged for 17 hours at 55 , 000 rpm at 10 ° c . subsequently , the virus band is isolated and , after the addition of 30 μl of sucrose ( 50 w / v ), excess cesium chloride is removed by three rounds of dialysis , each round comprising of 1 hour . for dialysis , the virus is transferred to dialysis slides ( slide - a - lizer , cut off 10 , 000 kd , pierce , usa ). the buffers used for dialysis are pbs , which are supplemented with an increasing concentration of sucrose ( round 1 to 3 : 30 ml , 60 ml , and 150 ml sucrose ( 50 % w / v )/ 1 . 5 liter pbs , all supplemented with 7 . 5 ml 2 % ( w / v ) camgcl 2 ). after dialysis , the virus is removed from the slide - a - lizer , after which it is aliquoted in portions of 25 and 100 μl upon which the virus is stored at − 85 ° c . to determine the number of virus particles per ml , 100 μl of the virus batch is run on a high - pressure liquid chromatograph ( hplc ). the adenovirus is bound to the column ( anion exchange ), after which it is eluted using a nacl gradient ( range 300 - 600 mm ). by determining the area under the virus peak , the number of virus particles can be calculated . to determine the number of infectious units ( iu ) per ml present in a virus batch , titrations are performed on 911 cells . for this purpose , 4 × 10 4 911 cells are seeded per well of 96 - well plates in rows b , d , and f in a total volume of 100 μl per well . three hours after seeding , the cells are attached to the plastic support , after which the medium can be removed . to the cells a volume of 200 μl is added , in duplicate , containing different dilutions of virus ( range : 10 2 times diluted to 2 × 10 9 ). by screening for cpe , the highest virus dilution which still renders cpe after 14 days is considered to contain at least one infectious unit . using this observation , together with the calculated amount of virus volume present in these wells , renders the number of infectious units per ml of a given virus batch . the production results , i . e ., virus particles per ml and iu per ml or those chimeric adenoviruses that were produced , all with the luciferase cdna as a marker , are shown in table 3 . to test for expression on primary fibroblasts of membrane molecules known to be involved in ad5 infection , the presence of car , mhc class i , and α v - integrins was assayed on a flow cytometer . for this purpose , 1 × 10 5 huvec cells or huvsmc were washed once with pbs / 0 . 5 % bsa , after which the cells were pelleted by centrifugation for 5 minutes at 1750 rpm at room temperature . subsequently , 10 μl of a 100 times diluted α v β3 antibody ( mab 1961 , brunswick chemie , amsterdam , the netherlands ), a 100 times diluted α v β5 antibody ( mab 1976 , brunswick chemie , amsterdam , the netherlands ), or a 2 , 000 times diluted car antibody ( a kind gift of dr . bergelson , harvard medical school , boston , usa ( hsu et al . 1988 )) was added to the cell pellet , after which the cells were incubated for 30 minutes at 4 ° c . in a dark environment . after this incubation , cells were washed twice with pbs / 0 . 5 % bsa and again pelleted by centrifugation for 5 minutes at 1750 rpm room temperature . to label the cells , 10 ml of rat anti mouse igg1 labeled with phycoerythrine ( pe ) was added to the cell pellet , upon which the cells were again incubated for 30 minutes at 4 ° c . in a dark environment . finally , the cells were washed twice with pbs / 0 . 5 % bsa and analyzed on a flow cytometer . the results of these experiments are shown in fig1 . from the results it can be concluded that primary human fibroblasts do not express detectable levels of car or mhc - class i , confirming that these cells are difficult to transduce with an adenovirus which enters the cells via these molecules . human primary fibroblasts were routinely maintained in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagles medium ( dmem ) supplemented with 10 % fetal calf serum . fibroblasts tested were from different origins . normal human fibroblasts were obtained from coriell ( gm09503 ), or were isolated from skin biopsies from healthy human individuals . in a first experiment , 10 5 fibroblasts were seeded in wells of 24 - well plates . the next day , cells were exposed to either 100 , 500 , or 1000 virus particles per cell of recombinant fiber chimeric viruses carrying the fiber of serotype 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 16 , 17 , 24 , 27 , 30 , 32 , 33 , 35 , 38 , 40 - s , 40 - l , 45 , 47 , 49 , or 51 . in these experiments , the parent vector ( fib5 ) was taken along as a reference . forty - eight hours after the addition of virus , cells were washed twice with 1 ml pbs , after which cells were lysed by adding 100 μl of cell lysis buffer . lysates were subsequently transferred to 96 - well plates and stored at − 20 ° c . until luciferase activity measurement . luciferase activity was determined using a bioluminescence machine , the luciferase assay kit from promega ( catalog no . e - 1501 ) and the instructions provided by the manufacturer . the results of the luciferase transgene expression measured in primary human fibroblasts after transduction with the panel of fiber chimeric viruses is shown in fig2 . the results demonstrate that several fiber chimeric viruses perform better on fibroblasts as compared to the parent vector ( ad5 ). these viruses carry the fiber from a subgroup b virus , i . e ., 11 , 16 , 35 , and 51 . also , several , but not all , viruses carrying a fiber originating from subgroup d , i . e ., 9 , 13 , 17 , 32 , 38 , seem better equipped for transducing fibroblasts . also , the short fiber of serotype 40 ( 40 - s ), an f - group virus , performs better than ad5 . clearly , based on luciferase expression , the ad5 vector carrying a fiber of serotype 16 looked most promising . in a next experiment , ad5 was directly compared to ad5 . fib16 , ad5 . fib35 , and ad5 . fib51 using green fluorescent protein ( gfp ) as a marker gene . this marker gene allows single cell analysis using a flow cytometer . infection of fibroblasts using the gfp viruses was performed identical to that described above . the results of gfp expression are shown in fig3 . these results confirm the results of the first experiment for the fiber chimeric viruses ad5 . fib16 , ad5 . fib35 , and ad5 . fib51 . in another experiment , primary fibroblasts were isolated from 4 different donors and cultured . subsequently , these cells were transduced in parallel with adenoviral vectors . the vectors that were used in this case were recombinant ad5 and ad5 . fib51 ( adenovirus serotype 5 with a fiber protein derived from adenovirus serotype 51 ). both recombinant vectors harbor a lacz transgene . the dosages that were used for transduction were 0 , 25 , 50 , 100 , 250 and 500 virus particles per cell ( vp / cell ). cells were incubated with the adenoviruses for 1 hour and washed thereafter with fresh medium . subsequently , cells were further incubated for 48 hours , after which the cells were stained for lacz expression and counted under a light microscope and compared to the non - 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