Reducing the immunostimulatory activity of CpG-containing plasmid DNA vectors for non-viral gene therapy

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The mammalian innate immune system has the ability to recognise and direct a response against incoming foreign DNA. The primary signal that triggers this response is unmethylated CpG motifs present in the DNA sequence of various disease-causing pathogens. These motifs are rare in vertebrate DNA, but abundant in bacterial and some viral DNAs. Because gene therapy generally involves the delivery of DNA from either...

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