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D Iu Logunov

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[Genetic vaccines].

Vaccination with DNA-vaccines is a new approach in immunization that implies application of genetic constructions coding certain proteins of various pathogens instead of conventional ways of vaccination with inactivated or attenuated microorganisms. The main advantage of this approach consists in possibility to induce immune response in cases when the disease cannot be prevented by routinely used prophylactic vaccines. This advantage is attributed to the ability of DNA-vaccines to focus immune response (cellular, humoral or both) upon one or several certain pathogenic antigens, which is impossible in principle when conventional vaccines are used and does not occur during an infectious process. The efficiency of DNA-vaccines is currently being tested in various pre-clinical and clinical trials. Genetic vaccination has induced protective or therapeutic immune response in a significant number of these trials. However, despite numerous positive results, clinical use of DNA-vaccines has not been recommended yet.

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[The CELO-ANG recombinant avian adenovirus with human angiogenine gene inducing neovascularization in the anterior tibial muscle of rat].

The CELO recombinant avian adenovirus carrying the gene coding the human angiogenine (ANG) synthesis was obtained. Expression of the angiogenine gene was shown in the LMH cell culture after infection with the CELO-ANG virus. The ability of CELO recombinant adenoviruses to carry out the delivery and expression of alien genes in muscle cells was demonstrated in experiments with laboratory animals (Wistar line rats). The induced neovascularization in rat muscles after the animals were administered the CELO-ANG viruses was shown.

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[The induction of neovascularization in chorioallantoic membrane of chicken embryos transfected by a recombinant plasmid containing human angiogenin gene].

A method was elaborated to evaluate the biological activity of expression products of gene in the plasmid vectors, which are crucial for the synthesis of growth factor of blood vessels. It was proven as possible that the chrioallantonic membrane (CAM) of chicken's embryos could be transfected by recombinant plasmids containing both the reporter and target genes. The efficiency of CAM transfection was assessed by a plasmid carrying the reporter gene of green fluorescent protein (GFP). Finally, it was demonstrated that, at an infiltration of the recombinant plasmid containing the human angiogenine gene, its expression products induce the neovascularization in the CAM cells of chicken's embryos and stimulate an accretion in vessels of the 1st, 2nd and 3d orders.

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[Eukaryotic vectors of Celo avian adenovirus genome, carrying GFP and human IL-2 genes].

Recombinant CELO avian adenoviruses carrying green fluorescent protein (GFP) and and human interleukin-2 (IL-2) genes were obtained by homologous recombination in cell culture. The resultant recombinant CELO viruses are reproduced in chick embryos in the renal tubular and chorionic allantoic membrane cells. The ability of CELO vectors to transduce human and animal cells was studied in vitro (in cell cultures) and in vivo (in laboratory animals). GFP gene delivery and expression in recombinant CELO virus in tumors in C57BL/6 mice were for the first time demonstrated for B16 melanoma. Human IL-2 gene expression and protein accumulation in allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with CELO-IL-2 vector were detected for the first time.

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[Delivery of secreted placental alkaline phosphatase (SEAP) gene in vitro and in vivo as a component of recombinant avian adenovirus (CELO)].

Recombinant adenoviruses capable of expressing the gene of secreted placentary alkaline phosphatase (SEAP) under control of CMV-promoter was obtained on the basis of CELO avian adenovirus and human adenovirus-5 (Ad5) genomes. The efficiency of the CELO vector was determined in experiments with transduction of human (293, A549, and H1299), mouse (B16), and avian (LMH) cell cultures. It was shown in C57BL/6 mice in vivo that SEAP gene is expressed under conditions of intravenous, intranasal, and intratumoral application of recombinant adenovirus CELO-SEAP. The duration of expression of the alkaline phosphatase CELO = SEAP gene in immunocompetent mouse body was 21 days. The level of SEAP gene expression was measured in the allantois fluid of chicken embryo infected with recombinant adenovirus CELO-SEAP.

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[The induction of protective immune response in mice vaccinated by recombinant avian adenovirus CELO expressing glycoprotein G of the rabies virus].

The recombinant avian adenovirus CELO-gpRb expressing glycoprotein G of rabies virus (strain TS-80, ARRIW&M, Pokrov, Russia) was used for mice vaccination against rabies. Double intramuscular immunization by recombinant CELO-gpRb adenovirus in a dose 10(9) pfu per mouse caused the induction of virus neutralizing antibodies (VNA) synthesis in 78% of mice, while twice repeated intradermal injections of the recombinant adenovirus failed to induce the VNA production. The protection level in groups of vaccinated mice after intracerebral injection of CVS rabies virus in a dose of 100 MLD50 was equal to 45% at single intramuscular immunization and to 91% after twice repeated intramuscular immunization. The recombinant adenoviral vaccine against rabies, based on CELO viral genome, has a good perspective for domestic and wild animal vaccination, not only due to rather high protection level, but also because the production of adenoviral CELO vaccine in chicken embryos is of high technology and inexpensive.

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