Mark A. Kay

Publication List Details

Period

1987 - 2009

Number

69

Co-Authors

Combined proteomic-RNAi screen for host factors involved in human hepatitis delta virus replication (2009)

Cao, Dan, Haussecker, Dirk, Huang, Yong, Kay, Mark A.

Human hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is the only animal virus known to replicate its RNA genome using a host polymerase because its only virally encoded proteins, the small and large hepatitis delta...

Large-scale molecular characterization of adeno-associated virus vector integration in mouse liver (2008)

Hiroyuki Nakai, Xiaolin Wu, Sally Fuess, Theresa A. Storm, David Munroe, Eugenio Montini, ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector holds promise for gene therapy. Despite a low frequency of chromosomal integration of vector genomes, recent studies have raised concerns about the...

Site-directed transposon integration in human cells (2007)

Yant, Stephen R., Huang, Yong, Akache, Bassel, Kay, Mark A.

The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon is a promising gene transfer vector that integrates nonspecifically into host cell genomes. Herein, we attempt to direct transposon integration into predetermined...

Site-directed transposon integration in human cells (2007)

Yant, Stephen R., Huang, Yong, Akache, Bassel, Kay, Mark A.

The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon is a promising gene transfer vector that integrates nonspecifically into host cell genomes. Herein, we attempt to direct transposon integration into predetermined...

Host factors that impact the biodistribution and persistence of multipotent adult progenitor cells (2006)

O'shaughnessy, Matthew J, Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Angela, McElmurry, Ron T, Bell, Scott, Riddle, Megan, ...

Multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs) are marrow-derived pluripotent stem cells with a broad differentiation potential. We sought to identify factors that affect adoptively transferred MAPCs. In...

Real-time in vivo imaging of stem cells following transgenesis by transposition (2005)

Osborn, Mark, Bell, Scott, McElmurry, Ron, Xia, Lily, Riddle, Megan, ...

Previous studies have identified Sleeping Beauty transposons as efficient vectors for nonviral gene delivery in mammalian cells. However, studies demonstrating the usefulness of transposons as gene...

High-Resolution Genome-Wide Mapping of Transposon Integration in Mammals (2004)

Stephen R. Yant, Xiaolin Wu, Yong Huang, Brian Garrison, Shawn M. Burgess, Mark A. Kay

The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon is an emerging tool for transgenesis, gene discovery, and therapeutic gene delivery in mammals. Here we studied 1,336 SB insertions in primary and cultured...

In vivo activity of nuclease-resistant siRNAs (2004)

LAYZER, JULIANA M., MCCAFFREY, ANTON P., TANNER, ALICE K., HUANG, ZAN, KAY, MARK A., SULLENGER, BRUCE A.

Chemical modifications have been incorporated into short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) without reducing their ability to inhibit gene expression in mammalian cells grown in vitro. In this study, we begin...

Structural analysis of the Drosophila rpA1 gene, a member of the eucaryotic 'A' type ribosomal protein family (1987)

Qian, Su, Zhang, Jing-Yu, Kay, Mark A., Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo

The expression of ribosomal protein (r-protein) genes is uniquely regulated at the translational level during early development of Drosophila. Here we report results of a detailed analysis of the...

Transient immunomodulation with anti-CD40 ligand antibody and CTLA4Ig enhances persistence and secondary adenovirus-mediated gene transfer into mouse liver

Kay, Mark A., Meuse, Leonard, Gown, Allen M., Linsley, Peter, Hollenbaugh, Diane, Aruffo, Alejandro, ...

Although recombinant adenovirus vectors offer a very efficient means by which to transfer genetic information into cells in vivo, antigen-dependent immunity limits the duration of gene expression and...

Gene therapy

Kay, Mark A., Liu, Dexi, Hoogerbrugge, Peter M.

In recent years, there have been a number of technological breakthroughs that have allowed for clinical trials in gene therapy to be initiated. In combination with the genome initiative, the...

Correction of the retinal dystrophy phenotype of the RCS rat by viral gene transfer of Mertk

Vollrath, Douglas, Feng, Wei, Duncan, Jacque L., Yasumura, Douglas, D'Cruz, Patricia M., Chappelow, Aimee, ...

The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) rat is a widely studied animal model of retinal degeneration in which the inability of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) to phagocytize shed photoreceptor outer...

Transient Inhibition of CD28 and CD40 Ligand Interactions Prolongs Adenovirus-Mediated Transgene Expression in the Lung and Facilitates Expression after Secondary Vector Administration

Wilson, Christopher B., Embree, Lisa J., Schowalter, David, Albert, Richard, Aruffo, Alejandro, Hollenbaugh, Diane, ...

Recombinant adenovirus vectors have been used to transfer genes to the lungs in animal models, but the extent and duration of primary transgene expression and the ability to achieve expression after...

Inhibition of NF-κB Activation in Combination with Bcl-2 Expression Allows for Persistence of First-Generation Adenovirus Vectors in the Mouse Liver

Lieber, André, He, Chen-Yi, Meuse, Leonard, Himeda, Charis, Wilson, Christopher, Kay, Mark A.

NF-κB is a key regulator of the innate antiviral immune response, due in part to its transcriptional activation of cytokines and adhesion molecules, which, in turn, function in chemotaxis and...

Nuclear Import of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus DNA Mediated by Adenovirus Preterminal Protein Is Not Sufficient for Efficient Retroviral Transduction in Nondividing Cells

Lieber, André, Kay, Mark A., Li, Zong-Yi

Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMLV)-derived vectors require cell division for efficient transduction, which may be related to an inability of the viral DNA-protein complex to cross the nuclear...

Nonrandom Transduction of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors in Mouse Hepatocytes In Vivo: Cell Cycling Does Not Influence Hepatocyte Transduction

Miao, Carol H., Nakai, Hiroyuki, Thompson, Arthur R., Storm, Theresa A., Chiu, Winnie, Snyder, Richard O., ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors (rAAV) show promise in preclinical trials for the treatment of genetic diseases including hemophilia. Liver-directed gene transfer results in a slow rise in...

Recruitment of Single-Stranded Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vector Genomes and Intermolecular Recombination Are Responsible for Stable Transduction of Liver In Vivo

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Storm, Theresa A., Kay, Mark A.

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors stably transduce hepatocytes in experimental animals. Following portal-vein administration of rAAV vectors in vivo, single-stranded (ss) rAAV genomes...

Implication of Interfering Antibody Formation and Apoptosis as Two Different Mechanisms Leading to Variable Duration of Adenovirus-Mediated Transgene Expression in Immune-Competent Mice

Schowalter, David B., Himeda, Charis L., Winther, Brian L., Wilson, Christopher B., Kay, Mark A.

This study explores the genetic and immunologic factors involved in the differences in duration of transgene expression following in vivo transduction with recombinant adenoviruses. Different strains...

Isolation of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vector-Cellular DNA Junctions from Mouse Liver

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Iwaki, Yuichi, Kay, Mark A., Couto, Linda B.

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors allow for sustained expression of transgene products from mouse liver following a single portal vein administration. Here a rAAV vector expressing...

Integrating Adenovirus–Adeno-Associated Virus Hybrid Vectors Devoid of All Viral Genes

Lieber, André, Steinwaerder, Dirk S., Carlson, Cheryl A., Kay, Mark A.

Recently, we demonstrated that inverted repeat sequences inserted into first-generation adenovirus (Ad) vector genomes mediate precise genomic rearrangements resulting in vector genomes devoid of all...

Extrachromosomal Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vector Genomes Are Primarily Responsible for Stable Liver Transduction In Vivo

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Yant, Stephen R., Storm, Theresa A., Fuess, Sally, Meuse, Leonard, Kay, Mark A.

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors stably transduce hepatocytes in experimental animals. Although the vector genomes are found both as extrachromosomes and as chromosomally integrated...

A Prenylation Inhibitor Prevents Production of Infectious Hepatitis Delta Virus Particles

Bordier, Bruno B., Marion, Patricia L., Ohashi, Kazuo, Kay, Mark A., Greenberg, Harry B., Casey, John L., ...

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) causes both acute and chronic liver disease throughout the world. Effective medical therapy is lacking. Previous work has shown that the assembly of HDV virus-like...

A Limited Number of Transducible Hepatocytes Restricts a Wide-Range Linear Vector Dose Response in Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Liver Transduction

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Thomas, Clare E., Storm, Theresa A., Fuess, Sally, Powell, Sharon, Wright, J. Fraser, ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors are promising vehicles for achieving stable liver transduction in vivo. However, the mechanisms of liver transduction are not fully understood, and...

Episomal Persistence of Recombinant Adenoviral Vector Genomes during the Cell Cycle In Vivo

Ehrhardt, Anja, Xu, Hui, Kay, Mark A.

Previously we showed that recombinant adenoviral helper-dependent (HD) vectors result in long-term transgene expression levels in vivo which slowly declined by 95% over a period of 1 year. In this...

In vivo antiviral efficacy of prenylation inhibitors against hepatitis delta virus

Bordier, Bruno B., Ohkanda, Junko, Liu, Ping, Lee, So-Young, Salazar, F.H., Marion, Patricia L., ...

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) can dramatically worsen liver disease in patients coinfected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). No effective medical therapy exists for HDV. The HDV envelope requires HBV...

Nonhomologous-End-Joining Factors Regulate DNA Repair Fidelity during Sleeping Beauty Element Transposition in Mammalian Cells

Yant, Stephen R., Kay, Mark A.

Herein, we report that the DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) regulates the DNA damage introduced during Sleeping Beauty (SB) element excision and reinsertion in mammalian cells. Using both...

Rapid Uncoating of Vector Genomes Is the Key to Efficient Liver Transduction with Pseudotyped Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors

Thomas, Clare E., Storm, Theresa A., Huang, Zan, Kay, Mark A.

Transduction of the liver with single-stranded adeno-associated virus serotype 2 (AAV2) vectors is inefficient; less than 10% of hepatocytes are permissive for stable transduction, and transgene...

Mutational Analysis of the N-Terminal DNA-Binding Domain of Sleeping Beauty Transposase: Critical Residues for DNA Binding and Hyperactivity in Mammalian Cells

Yant, Stephen R., Park, Julie, Huang, Yong, Mikkelsen, Jacob Giehm, Kay, Mark A.

The N-terminal domain of the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposase mediates transposon DNA binding, subunit multimerization, and nuclear translocation in vertebrate cells. For this report, we studied the...

Unrestricted Hepatocyte Transduction with Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype 8 Vectors in Mice

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Fuess, Sally, Storm, Theresa A., Muramatsu, Shin-ichi, Nara, Yuko, Kay, Mark A.

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors can mediate long-term stable transduction in various target tissues. However, with rAAV serotype 2 (rAAV2) vectors, liver transduction is confined to...

High-Resolution Genome-Wide Mapping of Transposon Integration in Mammals

Yant, Stephen R., Wu, Xiaolin, Huang, Yong, Garrison, Brian, Burgess, Shawn M., Kay, Mark A.

The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon is an emerging tool for transgenesis, gene discovery, and therapeutic gene delivery in mammals. Here we studied 1,336 SB insertions in primary and cultured...

Large-Scale Molecular Characterization of Adeno-Associated Virus Vector Integration in Mouse Liver

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Wu, Xiaolin, Fuess, Sally, Storm, Theresa A., Munroe, David, Montini, Eugenio, ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector holds promise for gene therapy. Despite a low frequency of chromosomal integration of vector genomes, recent studies have raised concerns about the...

Liver Transduction with Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Is Primarily Restricted by Capsid Serotype Not Vector Genotype

Grimm, Dirk, Pandey, Kusum, Nakai, Hiroyuki, Storm, Theresa A., Kay, Mark A.

We and others have recently reported highly efficient liver gene transfer with adeno-associated virus 8 (AAV-8) pseudotypes, i.e., AAV-2 genomes packaged into AAV-8 capsids. Here we studied whether...

In vivo activity of nuclease-resistant siRNAs

LAYZER, JULIANA M., MCCAFFREY, ANTON P., TANNER, ALICE K., HUANG, ZAN, KAY, MARK A., SULLENGER, BRUCE A.

Chemical modifications have been incorporated into short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) without reducing their ability to inhibit gene expression in mammalian cells grown in vitro. In this study, we begin...

Transient immunomodulation with anti-CD40 ligand antibody and CTLA4Ig enhances persistence and secondary adenovirus-mediated gene transfer into mouse liver

Kay, Mark A., Meuse, Leonard, Gown, Allen M., Linsley, Peter, Hollenbaugh, Diane, Aruffo, Alejandro, ...

Although recombinant adenovirus vectors offer a very efficient means by which to transfer genetic information into cells in vivo, antigen-dependent immunity limits the duration of gene expression and...

Gene therapy

Kay, Mark A., Liu, Dexi, Hoogerbrugge, Peter M.

In recent years, there have been a number of technological breakthroughs that have allowed for clinical trials in gene therapy to be initiated. In combination with the genome initiative, the...

Correction of the retinal dystrophy phenotype of the RCS rat by viral gene transfer of Mertk

Vollrath, Douglas, Feng, Wei, Duncan, Jacque L., Yasumura, Douglas, D'Cruz, Patricia M., Chappelow, Aimee, ...

The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) rat is a widely studied animal model of retinal degeneration in which the inability of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) to phagocytize shed photoreceptor outer...

Transient Inhibition of CD28 and CD40 Ligand Interactions Prolongs Adenovirus-Mediated Transgene Expression in the Lung and Facilitates Expression after Secondary Vector Administration

Wilson, Christopher B., Embree, Lisa J., Schowalter, David, Albert, Richard, Aruffo, Alejandro, Hollenbaugh, Diane, ...

Recombinant adenovirus vectors have been used to transfer genes to the lungs in animal models, but the extent and duration of primary transgene expression and the ability to achieve expression after...

Inhibition of NF-κB Activation in Combination with Bcl-2 Expression Allows for Persistence of First-Generation Adenovirus Vectors in the Mouse Liver

Lieber, André, He, Chen-Yi, Meuse, Leonard, Himeda, Charis, Wilson, Christopher, Kay, Mark A.

NF-κB is a key regulator of the innate antiviral immune response, due in part to its transcriptional activation of cytokines and adhesion molecules, which, in turn, function in chemotaxis and...

Nuclear Import of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus DNA Mediated by Adenovirus Preterminal Protein Is Not Sufficient for Efficient Retroviral Transduction in Nondividing Cells

Lieber, André, Kay, Mark A., Li, Zong-Yi

Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMLV)-derived vectors require cell division for efficient transduction, which may be related to an inability of the viral DNA-protein complex to cross the nuclear...

Nonrandom Transduction of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors in Mouse Hepatocytes In Vivo: Cell Cycling Does Not Influence Hepatocyte Transduction

Miao, Carol H., Nakai, Hiroyuki, Thompson, Arthur R., Storm, Theresa A., Chiu, Winnie, Snyder, Richard O., ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors (rAAV) show promise in preclinical trials for the treatment of genetic diseases including hemophilia. Liver-directed gene transfer results in a slow rise in...

Recruitment of Single-Stranded Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vector Genomes and Intermolecular Recombination Are Responsible for Stable Transduction of Liver In Vivo

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Storm, Theresa A., Kay, Mark A.

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors stably transduce hepatocytes in experimental animals. Following portal-vein administration of rAAV vectors in vivo, single-stranded (ss) rAAV genomes...

Implication of Interfering Antibody Formation and Apoptosis as Two Different Mechanisms Leading to Variable Duration of Adenovirus-Mediated Transgene Expression in Immune-Competent Mice

Schowalter, David B., Himeda, Charis L., Winther, Brian L., Wilson, Christopher B., Kay, Mark A.

This study explores the genetic and immunologic factors involved in the differences in duration of transgene expression following in vivo transduction with recombinant adenoviruses. Different strains...

Isolation of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vector-Cellular DNA Junctions from Mouse Liver

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Iwaki, Yuichi, Kay, Mark A., Couto, Linda B.

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors allow for sustained expression of transgene products from mouse liver following a single portal vein administration. Here a rAAV vector expressing...

Integrating Adenovirus–Adeno-Associated Virus Hybrid Vectors Devoid of All Viral Genes

Lieber, André, Steinwaerder, Dirk S., Carlson, Cheryl A., Kay, Mark A.

Recently, we demonstrated that inverted repeat sequences inserted into first-generation adenovirus (Ad) vector genomes mediate precise genomic rearrangements resulting in vector genomes devoid of all...

Extrachromosomal Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vector Genomes Are Primarily Responsible for Stable Liver Transduction In Vivo

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Yant, Stephen R., Storm, Theresa A., Fuess, Sally, Meuse, Leonard, Kay, Mark A.

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors stably transduce hepatocytes in experimental animals. Although the vector genomes are found both as extrachromosomes and as chromosomally integrated...

A Prenylation Inhibitor Prevents Production of Infectious Hepatitis Delta Virus Particles

Bordier, Bruno B., Marion, Patricia L., Ohashi, Kazuo, Kay, Mark A., Greenberg, Harry B., Casey, John L., ...

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) causes both acute and chronic liver disease throughout the world. Effective medical therapy is lacking. Previous work has shown that the assembly of HDV virus-like...

A Limited Number of Transducible Hepatocytes Restricts a Wide-Range Linear Vector Dose Response in Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Liver Transduction

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Thomas, Clare E., Storm, Theresa A., Fuess, Sally, Powell, Sharon, Wright, J. Fraser, ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors are promising vehicles for achieving stable liver transduction in vivo. However, the mechanisms of liver transduction are not fully understood, and...

Episomal Persistence of Recombinant Adenoviral Vector Genomes during the Cell Cycle In Vivo

Ehrhardt, Anja, Xu, Hui, Kay, Mark A.

Previously we showed that recombinant adenoviral helper-dependent (HD) vectors result in long-term transgene expression levels in vivo which slowly declined by 95% over a period of 1 year. In this...

In vivo antiviral efficacy of prenylation inhibitors against hepatitis delta virus

Bordier, Bruno B., Ohkanda, Junko, Liu, Ping, Lee, So-Young, Salazar, F.H., Marion, Patricia L., ...

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) can dramatically worsen liver disease in patients coinfected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). No effective medical therapy exists for HDV. The HDV envelope requires HBV...

Nonhomologous-End-Joining Factors Regulate DNA Repair Fidelity during Sleeping Beauty Element Transposition in Mammalian Cells

Yant, Stephen R., Kay, Mark A.

Herein, we report that the DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) regulates the DNA damage introduced during Sleeping Beauty (SB) element excision and reinsertion in mammalian cells. Using both...

Rapid Uncoating of Vector Genomes Is the Key to Efficient Liver Transduction with Pseudotyped Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors

Thomas, Clare E., Storm, Theresa A., Huang, Zan, Kay, Mark A.

Transduction of the liver with single-stranded adeno-associated virus serotype 2 (AAV2) vectors is inefficient; less than 10% of hepatocytes are permissive for stable transduction, and transgene...

Mutational Analysis of the N-Terminal DNA-Binding Domain of Sleeping Beauty Transposase: Critical Residues for DNA Binding and Hyperactivity in Mammalian Cells

Yant, Stephen R., Park, Julie, Huang, Yong, Mikkelsen, Jacob Giehm, Kay, Mark A.

The N-terminal domain of the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposase mediates transposon DNA binding, subunit multimerization, and nuclear translocation in vertebrate cells. For this report, we studied the...

Unrestricted Hepatocyte Transduction with Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype 8 Vectors in Mice

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Fuess, Sally, Storm, Theresa A., Muramatsu, Shin-ichi, Nara, Yuko, Kay, Mark A.

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors can mediate long-term stable transduction in various target tissues. However, with rAAV serotype 2 (rAAV2) vectors, liver transduction is confined to...

High-Resolution Genome-Wide Mapping of Transposon Integration in Mammals

Yant, Stephen R., Wu, Xiaolin, Huang, Yong, Garrison, Brian, Burgess, Shawn M., Kay, Mark A.

The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon is an emerging tool for transgenesis, gene discovery, and therapeutic gene delivery in mammals. Here we studied 1,336 SB insertions in primary and cultured...

Large-Scale Molecular Characterization of Adeno-Associated Virus Vector Integration in Mouse Liver

Nakai, Hiroyuki, Wu, Xiaolin, Fuess, Sally, Storm, Theresa A., Munroe, David, Montini, Eugenio, ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector holds promise for gene therapy. Despite a low frequency of chromosomal integration of vector genomes, recent studies have raised concerns about the...

Liver Transduction with Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Is Primarily Restricted by Capsid Serotype Not Vector Genotype

Grimm, Dirk, Pandey, Kusum, Nakai, Hiroyuki, Storm, Theresa A., Kay, Mark A.

We and others have recently reported highly efficient liver gene transfer with adeno-associated virus 8 (AAV-8) pseudotypes, i.e., AAV-2 genomes packaged into AAV-8 capsids. Here we studied whether...

In vivo activity of nuclease-resistant siRNAs

LAYZER, JULIANA M., MCCAFFREY, ANTON P., TANNER, ALICE K., HUANG, ZAN, KAY, MARK A., SULLENGER, BRUCE A.

Chemical modifications have been incorporated into short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) without reducing their ability to inhibit gene expression in mammalian cells grown in vitro. In this study, we begin...

The 37/67-Kilodalton Laminin Receptor Is a Receptor for Adeno-Associated Virus Serotypes 8, 2, 3, and 9

Akache, Bassel, Grimm, Dirk, Pandey, Kusum, Yant, Stephen R., Xu, Hui, Kay, Mark A.

Adeno-associated virus serotype 8 (AAV8) is currently emerging as a powerful gene transfer vector, owing to its capability to efficiently transduce many different tissues in vivo. While this is...

Site-directed transposon integration in human cells

Yant, Stephen R., Huang, Yong, Akache, Bassel, Kay, Mark A.

The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon is a promising gene transfer vector that integrates nonspecifically into host cell genomes. Herein, we attempt to direct transposon integration into predetermined...

Host factors that impact the biodistribution and persistence of multipotent adult progenitor cells

Tolar, Jakub, O'Shaughnessy, Matthew J., Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Angela, McElmurry, Ron T., Bell, Scott, Riddle, Megan, ...

Multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs) are marrow-derived pluripotent stem cells with a broad differentiation potential. We sought to identify factors that affect adoptively transferred MAPCs. In...

Therapeutic application of RNAi: is mRNA targeting finally ready for prime time?

Grimm, Dirk, Kay, Mark A.

With unprecedented speed, RNA interference (RNAi) has advanced from its basic discovery in lower organisms to becoming a powerful genetic tool and perhaps our single most promising biotherapeutic for...

DNA Palindromes with a Modest Arm Length of ≳20 Base Pairs Are a Significant Target for Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vector Integration in the Liver, Muscles, and Heart in Mice▿

Inagaki, Katsuya, Lewis, Susanna M., Wu, Xiaolin, Ma, Congrong, Munroe, David J., Fuess, Sally, ...

Our previous study has shown that recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector integrates preferentially in genes, near transcription start sites and CpG islands in mouse liver (H. Nakai, X. Wu,...

The Role of DNA-PKcs and Artemis in Opening Viral DNA Hairpin Termini in Various Tissues in Mice▿

Inagaki, Katsuya, Ma, Congrong, Storm, Theresa A., Kay, Mark A., Nakai, Hiroyuki

A subset of cellular DNA hairpins at double-strand breaks is processed by DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs)- and Artemis-associated endonuclease. DNA hairpin termini of...

Distinct pathways of genomic progression to benign and malignant tumors of the liver

Tward, Aaron D., Jones, Kirk D., Yant, Stephen, Cheung, Siu Tim, Fan, Sheung Tat, Chen, Xin, ...

We used several of the genetic lesions commonly associated with human liver tumors to reconstruct genetic progression to hepatocellular carcinoma and adenoma in mouse models. We initiated...

Postintegrative Gene Silencing within the Sleeping Beauty Transposition System▿

Garrison, Brian S., Yant, Stephen R., Mikkelsen, Jacob Giehm, Kay, Mark A.

The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon represents an important vehicle for in vivo gene delivery because it can efficiently and stably integrate into mammalian genomes. In this report, we examined...

In Vitro and In Vivo Gene Therapy Vector Evolution via Multispecies Interbreeding and Retargeting of Adeno-Associated Viruses ▿ †

Grimm, Dirk, Lee, Joyce S., Wang, Lora, Desai, Tushar, Akache, Bassel, Storm, Theresa A., ...

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes differ broadly in transduction efficacies and tissue tropisms and thus hold enormous potential as vectors for human gene therapy. In reality, however, their use...

Silencing of Hepatic Fatty Acid Transporter Protein 5 in Vivo Reverses Diet-induced Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Improves Hyperglycemia*S⃞

Doege, Holger, Grimm, Dirk, Falcon, Alaric, Tsang, Bernice, Storm, Theresa A., Xu, Hui, ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a serious health problem linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes. To investigate the biological outcome and therapeutic potential of hepatic fatty acid uptake...