pH-sensitive immunoliposomes mediate target-cell-specific delivery and controlled expression of a foreign gene in mouse.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Department of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-0840.

Published: November 1987

A plasmid containing the Escherichia coli chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene under the control of a mammalian cAMP-regulated promoter was entrapped in H-2Kk antibody-coated liposomes composed of dioleoyl phosphatidylethanolamine, cholesterol, and oleic acid (pH-sensitive immunoliposomes). The entrapped or free DNA was injected intraperitoneally into immunodeficient (nude) BALB/c mice bearing ascites tumor generated by H-2Kk-positive RDM-4 lymphoma cells. About 20% of the injected immunoliposomes were taken up by the target RDM-4 cells. Uptake was much less when liposomes without antibody were used. The presence of the targeting antibody on liposomes also significantly decreased the nonspecific uptake of liposomes by the spleen. Significant CAT enzyme activity was detected in RDM-4 cells from mice treated with DNA entrapped in the pH-sensitive immunoliposomes. Furthermore, CAT expression in RDM-4 cells was under the control of cAMP, as only the cells from mice injected with 8-bromo-cAMP and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine showed CAT activity. CAT activity in liver and spleen was much lower (by factors of 12 and 5, respectively) than in the RDM-4 cells, and the activities in these reticuloendothelial organs were not regulated by cAMP. CAT activity in RDM-4 cells from mice injected with DNA entrapped in pH-insensitive immunoliposomes (containing phosphatidylcholine in place of phosphatidylethanolamine) was approximately one-fourth that in RDM-4 cells from mice injected with pH-sensitive immunoliposomes, indicating the superior delivery efficiency of the pH-sensitive liposomes. These results are discussed in terms of the DNA-carrier potential of immunoliposomes in therapy of cancer and genetic diseases.

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