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Murphy KC, Ruscetti M. Advances in Making Cancer Mouse Models More Accessible and Informative through Non-Germline Genetic Engineering. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2024; 14:a041348. [PMID: 37277206 PMCID: PMC10982712 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) allow for modeling of spontaneous tumorigenesis within its native microenvironment in mice and have provided invaluable insights into mechanisms of tumorigenesis and therapeutic strategies to treat human disease. However, as their generation requires germline manipulation and extensive animal breeding that is time-, labor-, and cost-intensive, traditional GEMMs are not accessible to most researchers, and fail to model the full breadth of cancer-associated genetic alterations and therapeutic targets. Recent advances in genome-editing technologies and their implementation in somatic tissues of mice have ushered in a new class of mouse models: non-germline GEMMs (nGEMMs). nGEMM approaches can be leveraged to generate somatic tumors de novo harboring virtually any individual or group of genetic alterations found in human cancer in a mouse through simple procedures that do not require breeding, greatly increasing the accessibility and speed and scale on which GEMMs can be produced. Here we describe the technologies and delivery systems used to create nGEMMs and highlight new biological insights derived from these models that have rapidly informed functional cancer genomics, precision medicine, and immune oncology.
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- Katherine C Murphy
- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA;
- Immunology and Microbiology Program, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
- Cancer Center, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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Bigildeev AE, Petinati NA, Drize NJ. How Methods of Molecular Biology Shape Our Understanding of the Hematopoietic System. Mol Biol 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893319050029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The demonstrated presence in adult tissues of cells with sustained tissue regenerative potential has given rise to the concept of tissue stem cells. Assays to detect and measure such cells indicate that they have enormous proliferative potential and usually an ability to produce all or many of the mature cell types that define the specialized functionality of the tissue. In the hematopoietic system, one or only a few cells can restore lifelong hematopoiesis of the whole organism. To what extent is the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells required during normal hematopoiesis? How does the constant maintenance of hematopoiesis occur and what is the behavior of the hematopoietic stem cells in the normal organism? How many of the hematopoietic stem cells are created during the development of the organism? How many hematopoietic stem cells are generating more mature progeny at any given moment? What happens to the population of hematopoietic stem cells in aging? This review will attempt to describe the results of recent research which contradict some of the ideas established over the past 30 years about how hematopoiesis is regulated.
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- Nina Drize
- Federal Government Budget Institution National Research Center for Hematology, Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Federal Government Budget Institution National Research Center for Hematology, Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Nazari R, Joshi S. Exploring the potential of group II introns to inactivate human immunodeficiency virus type 1. J Gen Virol 2008; 89:2605-2610. [PMID: 18796730 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.2008/004333-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This study examined whether insertion of a mobile group II intron into infectious human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) provirus DNA could inhibit virus replication. Introns targeted against two sites within the integrase-coding region were used. The intron-inserted HIV-1 provirus DNA clones were isolated and tested for virus replication. Similar amounts of HIV-1 RNA, Gag protein and progeny virus were produced from HIV-1 provirus DNA and intron-inserted HIV-1 provirus DNA. However, when the progeny virus was tested for its infectivity, although the group II intron-inserted HIV-1 RNA was packaged and reverse-transcribed, the dsDNA failed to integrate, as expected in the absence of a functional integrase, and virus replication was aborted. These results demonstrate that group II introns can confer 'complete' inhibition of HIV-1 replication at the intended step and should be further exploited for HIV-1 gene therapy and other targeted genetic repairs.
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- Reza Nazari
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2, Canada.,Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2, Canada
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Wyke JA, Akroyd J, Gillespie DA, Green AR, Poole C. Proviral position effects: possible probes for genes that suppress transcription. CIBA FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM 2007; 142:117-27; discussion 127-30. [PMID: 2545418 DOI: 10.1002/9780470513750.ch8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Rous sarcoma virus, an oncogenic avian retrovirus, readily causes morphological transformation of chick cells, but in infected rat cells transformation is rare because proviral transcription is inefficient. This constraint is not due to a lack of positive transcriptional factors, or an excess of negative ones, but reflects the site of proviral integration in rat cell DNA. In most sites the provirus is almost invariably silent, in others it is correspondingly active, whilst in a third category expression fluctuates in concert with transitions in chromatin structure. Transcriptional fluctuations are mediated both by flanking cell DNA in cis and by trans-acting cell genes, suggesting that proviral position effects are sensors for genes that down-regulate transcription, perhaps by determining chromatin configuration. We have tried to identify such genes by gene transfer, karyology and insertional mutagenesis. The variable success of these three approaches indicates that the transcriptional down-regulator(s) need act only transiently. This is consistent with a function that operates in ontogeny or differentiation to down-regulate genes whose silence is then perpetuated by other means. The loss of such functions may predispose to neoplasia.
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- J A Wyke
- Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Garscube Estate, Bearsden, Glasgow
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Frattini A, Blair HC, Sacco MG, Cerisoli F, Faggioli F, Catò EM, Pangrazio A, Musio A, Rucci F, Sobacchi C, Sharrow AC, Kalla SE, Bruzzone MG, Colombo R, Magli MC, Vezzoni P, Villa A. Rescue of ATPa3-deficient murine malignant osteopetrosis by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in utero. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:14629-34. [PMID: 16195375 PMCID: PMC1253616 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507637102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Autosomal recessive osteopetrosis (ARO) is a paradigm for genetic diseases that cause severe, often irreversible, defects before birth. In ARO, osteoclasts cannot remove mineralized cartilage, bone marrow is severely reduced, and bone cannot be remodeled for growth. More than 50% of the patients show defects in the osteoclastic vacuolar-proton-pump subunit, ATP6a3. We treated ATP6a3-deficient mice by in utero heterologous hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant from outbred GFP transgenic mice. Dramatic phenotype rescue by GFP osteoclasts was obtained with engraftment, which was observed in most cases. Engraftment survived for variable periods. Recipients were not immunosuppressed, and graft-versus-host disease was not observed in all pups born after in utero treatment. Thus, differentiation of unmatched HSC transplanted in utero is sufficient to prevent fatal defects in ARO and may prevent complications of ARO unresponsive to conventional bone marrow transplantation. The presence of defective cells is not a barrier to the rescue of the phenotype by donor HSC.
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- Annalisa Frattini
- Human Genome Department, Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 20090 Segrate, Milan, Italy
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Cairns LA, Moroni E, Levantini E, Giorgetti A, Klinger FG, Ronzoni S, Tatangelo L, Tiveron C, De Felici M, Dolci S, Magli MC, Giglioni B, Ottolenghi S. Kit regulatory elements required for expression in developing hematopoietic and germ cell lineages. Blood 2003; 102:3954-62. [PMID: 12907433 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-04-1296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The Kit (White) gene encodes the transmembrane receptor of stem cell factor/Kit ligand (KL) and is essential for the normal development/maintenance of pluripotent primordial germ cells (PGCs), hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), melanoblasts, and some of their descendants. The molecular basis for the transcriptional regulation of Kit during development of these important cell types is unknown. We investigated Kit regulation in hematopoietic cells and PGCs. We identified 6 DNase I hypersensitive sites (HS1-HS6) within the promoter and first intron of the mouse Kit gene and developed mouse lines expressing transgenic green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the control of these regulatory elements. A construct driven by the Kit promoter and including all 6 HS sites is highly expressed during mouse development in Kit+ cells including PGCs and hematopoietic progenitors (erythroid blast-forming units and mixed colony-forming units). In contrast, the Kit promoter alone (comprising HS1) is sufficient to drive low-level GFP expression in PGCs, but unable to function in hematopoietic cells. Hematopoietic expression further requires the addition of the intronproximal HS2 fragment; HS2 also greatly potentiates the activity in PGCs. Thus, HS2 acts as an enhancer integrating transcriptional signals common to 2 developmentally unrelated stem cell/progenitor lineages. Optimal hematopoietic expression further requires HS3-HS6.
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- Linda A Cairns
- Dipartimento Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università Milano-Bicocca-Piazza delle Scienze, 2 Milan, Italy
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The ability of lentiviral vectors to transfer genes into human hematopoietic stem cells was studied, using a human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1)–derived vector expressing the green fluorescence protein (GFP) downstream of the phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) promoter and pseudotyped with the G protein of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). High-efficiency transduction of human cord blood CD34+cells was achieved after overnight incubation with vector particles. Sixteen to 28 percent of individual colony-forming units granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) colonies derived from cord blood CD34+ cells were positive by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the GFP gene. The transduction efficiency of SCID-repopulating cells (SRC) within the cord blood CD34+population was assessed by serial transplantation into nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient (NOD/SCID) mice. When 400 000 cord blood CD34+ cells were transplanted into primary recipients, all primary and secondary recipients contained and expressed the transgene. Over 50% of CFU-GM colonies derived from the bone marrow of these primary and secondary recipients contained the vector on average as determined by PCR. Transplantation of transduced cells in limiting dilution generated GFP+ lymphoid and myeloid progeny cells that may have arisen from a single SRC. Inverse PCR analysis was used to amplify vector-chromosomal junctional fragments in colonies derived from SRC and confirmed that the vector was integrated. These results show that lentiviral vectors can efficiently transduce very primitive human hematopoietic progenitor and stem cells.
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The ability of lentiviral vectors to transfer genes into human hematopoietic stem cells was studied, using a human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1)–derived vector expressing the green fluorescence protein (GFP) downstream of the phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) promoter and pseudotyped with the G protein of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). High-efficiency transduction of human cord blood CD34+cells was achieved after overnight incubation with vector particles. Sixteen to 28 percent of individual colony-forming units granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) colonies derived from cord blood CD34+ cells were positive by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the GFP gene. The transduction efficiency of SCID-repopulating cells (SRC) within the cord blood CD34+population was assessed by serial transplantation into nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient (NOD/SCID) mice. When 400 000 cord blood CD34+ cells were transplanted into primary recipients, all primary and secondary recipients contained and expressed the transgene. Over 50% of CFU-GM colonies derived from the bone marrow of these primary and secondary recipients contained the vector on average as determined by PCR. Transplantation of transduced cells in limiting dilution generated GFP+ lymphoid and myeloid progeny cells that may have arisen from a single SRC. Inverse PCR analysis was used to amplify vector-chromosomal junctional fragments in colonies derived from SRC and confirmed that the vector was integrated. These results show that lentiviral vectors can efficiently transduce very primitive human hematopoietic progenitor and stem cells.
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Sonntag KC, Nebhard N, Haller GW, Yasumoto A, Sachs DH, LeGuern C. Assessment of transduction rates of porcine bone marrow. JOURNAL OF HEMATOTHERAPY & STEM CELL RESEARCH 2000; 9:721-6. [PMID: 11091496 DOI: 10.1089/15258160050196768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Although drug resistance is commonly used as an indicator of gene transfer in various cellular contexts, the assessment of drug resistance is often imprecise and over-estimated. To measure accurately transduction efficiencies of the retroviral-mediated transfer of genes encoding the neomycine phosphotransferase (Neo(r)) and porcine major histocompatibility (MHC) class II in pig bone marrow cells (BMC), the fraction of targeted progenitors was evaluated by both colony-forming unit granulocytes/macrophages assays (G418r CFU-GM) and by PCR analysis of the transgenes (Tg). Transduced and untransduced BMC were selected at different concentrations of G418 and revealed high individual variability of drug sensitivity. Comparison of the results obtained by estimating the CFU frequency and the PCR assays on drug-resistant colonies demonstrated a marked overestimation of BM transduction rates when determined by G418 resistance alone, because only approximately one-third of individual colonies were positive for both the Neo(r) and the class II Tg. Because this discrepancy is likely to affect the overall assessment of transduction rates using drug resistance markers, our data attest for the need of a combination of molecular assays to determine transduction efficiencies accurately.
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- K C Sonntag
- Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH-East, Boston 02129, USA
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Singwi S, Ramezani A, Ding SF, Joshi S. Targeted RNases: a feasibility study for use in HIV gene therapy. Gene Ther 1999; 6:913-21. [PMID: 10505117 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3300884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A targeted RNase would be ideal for gene therapy of several acquired and inherited disorders. Such an RNase may be engineered to contain a ribonucleolytic domain and a specific target RNA binding domain. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, an RNase targeted against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) RNA--Tev-RNase T1--was designed and tested for its use in HIV-1 gene therapy. A human CD4+ T lymphoid (MT4) cell line and human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) were transduced with retroviral vectors lacking or expressing the tevT1 gene. Expression of enzymatically functional Tev-RNase T1 protein and its lack of toxicity was demonstrated in stable MT4 transductants. Compared with control cells lacking this protein, both transduced MT4 cells and PBLs expressing Tev-RNase T1 delayed HIV-1 replication. Tev-RNase T1 was shown to act after integration, since HIV-1 proviral DNA could be detected, but the amount of HIV-1 RNA produced in MT4 cells and PBLs was significantly decreased. This study demonstrates the feasibility of a targeted RNase strategy for therapeutic use.
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- S Singwi
- Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
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Ding SF, Noronha J, Joshi S. Co-packaging of sense and antisense RNAs: a novel strategy for blocking HIV-1 replication. Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:3270-8. [PMID: 9628929 PMCID: PMC147669 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.13.3270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Retroviral vectors were engineered to express either sense (MoTiN-TRPsie+) or sense and antisense (MoTN-TRPsie+/-) RNAs containing the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) trans -activation response (TAR) element and the extended packaging (Psie) signal. The Psie signal includes the dimer linkage structure (DLS) and the Rev response element (RRE). Amphotropic vector particles were used to transduce a human CD4+ T-lymphoid (MT4) cell line. Stable transductants were then tested for sense and antisense RNA production and susceptibility to HIV-1 infection. HIV-1 production was significantly decreased in cells transduced with MoTiN-TRPsie+ and MoTN-TRPsie+/-vectors. Efficient packaging of sense and most remarkably of antisense RNA was observed within the virus progeny. Infectivity of this virus was significantly decreased in both cases, suggesting that the interfering RNAs were co-packaged with HIV-1 RNA. Vector transduction was not expected to occur and was not observed. Inhibition of HIV-1 replication was also demonstrated in human peripheral blood lymphocytes transduced with retroviral vectors expressing antisense RNA. These results suggest that (i) both sense and antisense RNAs were co-packaged with HIV-1 RNA, (ii) the co-packaged sense and antisense RNAs inhibited virus infectivity and (iii) the co-packaged sense and antisense RNAs were not transduced. Sense and antisense RNA-based strategies may also be used to co-package other interfering RNAs (e.g. ribozymes) to cleave HIV-1 virion RNA.
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- S F Ding
- Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E2, Canada
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Joshi S, Ding SF, Liem SE. Co-packaging of non-vector RNAs generates replication-defective retroviral vector particles: a novel approach for blocking retrovirus replication. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:3199-203. [PMID: 9241231 PMCID: PMC146898 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.16.3199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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A Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMuLV)-derived packaging retroviral vector, pUCMoTN-PR3, was previously developed in which the packaging (psi) signal was cloned within the 5'-long terminal repeat (LTR) U3-r and U5 sequences. The MoTN-PR3 vector particles released from a transfected packaging cell line contain RNAs with r-psi-U5 sequences at the 5'-end and U3-r sequences at the 3'-end. Upon infection, these vector particles can efficiently transduce the neomycin phosphotransferase (neo) gene to the target cells. The structure of the proviral DNA synthesized in these cells was shown to contain modified 5'- and 3'-LTRs with U3-r-psi-U5 sequences, indicating that this vector can undergo reverse transcription and integration. Analysis of psi signal-containing RNAs revealed that in addition to vector RNA transcribed from the MoMuLV 5'-LTR promoter, readthrough neo RNA transcribed from the internal herpes simplex virus (HSV) thymidine kinase (tk) promoter and cellular RNAs transcribed from the MoMuLV 3'-LTR promoter are produced. Of these, the downstream cellular RNAs are also packaged within the vector particles. These vector particles containing the vector and non-vector RNAs carrying the MoMuLV psi signal are non-infectious. It is proposed that intracellular expression of packageable non-viral RNAs may represent an effective strategy for inhibiting animal and plant virus replication.
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- S Joshi
- Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E2, Canada.
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Letourneau S, Greenbaum M, Cournoyer D. Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer of rat glutathione S-transferase Yc confers in vitro resistance to alkylating agents in human leukemia cells and in clonogenic mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells. Hum Gene Ther 1996; 7:831-40. [PMID: 8860835 DOI: 10.1089/hum.1996.7.7-831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Recently, we have reported that N2Yc, a Moloney-based retrovirus vector expressing the Yc isoform of rat glutathione S-transferase (GST-Yc), conferred resistance to alkylating agents in mouse NIH-3T3 fibroblasts. In this report, we address the feasibility of using rat GST-Yc somatic gene transfer to confer chemoprotection to the hematopoietic system. Human chronic myelogenous leukemia K-562 cells were efficiently transduced with the N2Yc retrovirus vector and showed a significant increase in the 50% inhibitory concentration of chlorambucil (3.2- to 3.3-fold), mechlorethamine (4.7- to 5.3-fold), and melphalan (2.1- to 2.2-fold). In addition, primary murine clonogenic hematopoietic progenitor cells transduced with the N2Yc vector were significantly more resistant to alkylating agents in vitro than cells transduced with the antisense N2revYc vector. The survival of Yc-transduced hematopoietic colonies at 400 nM mechlorethamine and 4 mu M chlorambucil was 39.4% and 42.6%, respectively, compared to 27.2% and 30.4% for N2revYc-transduced cells. Future experiments will determine the level of chemoprotection achievable in vivo, following transplantation of N2Yc-transduced hematopoietic cells in mice.
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- S Letourneau
- Department of Medicine, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada
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Federico M, Nappi F, Ferrari G, Chelucci C, Mavilio F, Verani P. A nonproducer, interfering human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 provirus can be transduced through a murine leukemia virus-based retroviral vector: recovery of an anti-HIV mouse/human pseudotype retrovirus. J Virol 1995; 69:6618-26. [PMID: 7474070 PMCID: PMC189570 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.11.6618-6626.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The expression of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 provirus (F12-HIV) cloned from a nonproducer, chronically infected CD4 down-regulated Hut-78 cell clone (F12) does not lead to the formation of viral particles and, upon transfection in HeLa CD4+ cells, confers resistance to HIV superinfection without affecting the CD4 receptor exposure. In an attempt to transfer the anti-HIV properties of F12-HIV into human primary cell, we constructed a Moloney murine leukemia virus-based retroviral vector containing an F12-HIV genome lacking the 3' long terminal repeat and part of the nef gene, which was expressed under the control of its 5' long terminal repeat. The F12-HIV genome was inserted in the orientation opposite to that of the murine leukemia virus transcriptional unit and was designated the N2/F12-HIV nef-antisense vector. Lymphoblastoid CEMss cells, as well as human peripheral blood lymphocytes, were successfully transduced by the recombinant retrovirus emerging from the producer PA317 clones. CEMss clones expressing the F12-HIV nef-antisense vector became resistant to HIV superinfection even at the highest utilized multiplicity of infection (10(5) 50% tissue culture infective doses per 10(6) cells). In transduced CEMss cells the viral interference induced by the F12-HIV expression is not due to CD4 HIV receptor down-regulation. Nonproducer, interfering HIV proviruses transduced into retroviral vectors may, therefore, provide an alternative strategy for the protection of CD4+ human primary cells from HIV infection, which strategy may be used in designating a safe and efficient gene therapy protocol for patients with AIDS.
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- M Federico
- Laboratory of Virology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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A simple and efficient procedure for generating stable expression libraries by cDNA cloning in a retroviral vector. Mol Cell Biol 1994. [PMID: 8289827 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.2.880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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cDNA expression cloning is a powerful method for the rescue and identification of genes that are able to confer a readily identifiable phenotype on specific cell types. Retroviral vectors provide several advantages over DNA-mediated gene transfer for the introduction of expression libraries into eukaryotic cells since they can be used to express genes in a wide range of cell types, including those that form important experimental systems such as the hemopoietic system. We describe here a straightforward and efficient method for generating expression libraries by using a murine retroviral vector. Essentially, the method involves the directional cloning of cDNA into the retroviral vector and the generation of pools of stable ecotropic virus producing cells from this DNA. The cells so derived constitute the library, and the virus they yield is used to infect appropriate target cells for subsequent functional screening. We have demonstrated the feasibility of this procedure by constructing several large retroviral libraries (10(5) to 10(6) individual clones) and then using one of these libraries to isolate cDNAs for interleukin-3 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor on the basis of the ability of these factors to confer autonomous growth on the factor-dependent hemopoietic cell line FDC-P1. Moreover, the frequency at which these factor-independent clones were isolated approximated the frequency at which they were represented in the original plasmid library. These results suggest that expression cloning with retroviruses is a practical and efficient procedure and should be a valuable method for the isolation of important regulatory genes.
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Rayner JR, Gonda TJ. A simple and efficient procedure for generating stable expression libraries by cDNA cloning in a retroviral vector. Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:880-7. [PMID: 8289827 PMCID: PMC358442 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.2.880-887.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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cDNA expression cloning is a powerful method for the rescue and identification of genes that are able to confer a readily identifiable phenotype on specific cell types. Retroviral vectors provide several advantages over DNA-mediated gene transfer for the introduction of expression libraries into eukaryotic cells since they can be used to express genes in a wide range of cell types, including those that form important experimental systems such as the hemopoietic system. We describe here a straightforward and efficient method for generating expression libraries by using a murine retroviral vector. Essentially, the method involves the directional cloning of cDNA into the retroviral vector and the generation of pools of stable ecotropic virus producing cells from this DNA. The cells so derived constitute the library, and the virus they yield is used to infect appropriate target cells for subsequent functional screening. We have demonstrated the feasibility of this procedure by constructing several large retroviral libraries (10(5) to 10(6) individual clones) and then using one of these libraries to isolate cDNAs for interleukin-3 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor on the basis of the ability of these factors to confer autonomous growth on the factor-dependent hemopoietic cell line FDC-P1. Moreover, the frequency at which these factor-independent clones were isolated approximated the frequency at which they were represented in the original plasmid library. These results suggest that expression cloning with retroviruses is a practical and efficient procedure and should be a valuable method for the isolation of important regulatory genes.
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- J R Rayner
- Hanson Centre for Cancer Research, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia
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Cohli H, Fan B, Joshi RL, Ramezani A, Li X, Joshi S. Inhibition of HIV-1 multiplication in a human CD4+ lymphocytic cell line expressing antisense and sense RNA molecules containing HIV-1 packaging signal and Rev response element(s). ANTISENSE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 1994; 4:19-26. [PMID: 7914762 DOI: 10.1089/ard.1994.4.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Moloney murine leukemia virua (MoMuLV)-derived retroviral vectors were engineered to express human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) packaging (psi) signal and Rev response element (RRE) sequences in either sense or antisense orientation. The RRE sequences were expressed under the control of the herpes simplex virus (HSV) thymidine kinase (tk) promoter fused to the HIV-1 trans-activation-responsive (TAR) element, while the psi signal sequences were expressed under control of the HSV tk promoter. Both RRE and psi signal sequences were expressed as part of the 3' untranslated region of the neomycin phosphotransferase (neo) mRNA. The constructs were used to transfect/infect packaging cell lines and the retroviral vector particles released were used to infect a human CD4+ lymphocyte-derived MT4 cell line. The stable MT4 transformants, harboring proviral vector DNA expressing one to two copies of HIV-1 RRE and psi signal in either antisense or sense orientation, were each tested for their susceptibility to HIV-1 infection. Compared to the results obtained with the control cells lacking any of the test DNA sequences, the rate of HIV-1 production remained unaltered in RRE1+ (sense RNA containing a single copy of RRE) RNA-containing cells, whereas it was delayed in cells expressing both RRE2+ (sense RNA containing two copies of RRE) and RRE1- (antisense RNA containing a single copy of RRE) RNA-expressing cells. In cells expressing HIV-1 psi signal, HIV-1 production remained unaltered in psi + RNA-expressing cells, whereas it was delayed by up to 30 days in psi - RNA-expressing cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- H Cohli
- Department of Microbiology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Liem SE, Ramezani A, Li X, Joshi S. The development and testing of retroviral vectors expressing trans-dominant mutants of HIV-1 proteins to confer anti-HIV-1 resistance. Hum Gene Ther 1993; 4:625-34. [PMID: 8280800 DOI: 10.1089/hum.1993.4.5-625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Trans-dominant mutants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Tat and Rev are attractive candidates for use in gene therapy in the treatment of HIV-1 infections because both are essential for viral replication. Retroviral vectors were constructed to allow either Tat-inducible or Tat- and Rev-inducible expression of trans-dominant mutants of Tat and Rev. These vectors were used to infect a human CD4+ lymphocyte-derived cell line, MT4. To determine the efficacy of various Tat and Rev mutants in inhibiting HIV-1 multiplication, MT4 cells containing mutant-expressing constructs were infected with HIV-1, and the amount of HIV-1 released in the culture medium was measured for up to 30 days. A high level of resistance was observed in cells expressing the double tat/rev mutant in a Tat-inducible manner.
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- S E Liem
- University of Toronto, Department of Microbiology, Ontario, Canada
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Methods of modern molecular genetics have been developed that allow stable transfer and expression of foreign DNA sequences in human and other mammalian somatic cells. It is therefore no surprise that the methods have been applied in attempts to complement genetic defects and correct disease phenotypes. Two decades of research have now led to the first clinically applicable attempts to introduce genetically modified cells into human beings to cure diseases caused at least partially by genetic defects. We discuss here some of the strategies being followed for both in vitro and in vivo application of therapeutic gene transfer and summarize some of the technical and conceptual difficulties associated with somatic-cell gene therapy.
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- K Roemer
- Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0634
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Einerhand MP, Valerio D. Gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells: prospects for human gene therapy. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1992; 177:217-35. [PMID: 1353431 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-76912-2_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/25/2023]
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- M P Einerhand
- Gene Therapy Department, Institute of Applied Radiobiology and Immunology-TNO, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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Moore KA, Scarpa M, Kooyer S, Utter A, Caskey CT, Belmont JW. Evaluation of lymphoid-specific enhancer addition or substitution in a basic retrovirus vector. Hum Gene Ther 1991; 2:307-15. [PMID: 1838933 DOI: 10.1089/hum.1991.2.4-307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Two novel retroviral vectors bearing lymphoid-specific enhancers were tested for improved expression of human adenosine deaminase (hADA) in tissue culture cells and in mouse bone marrow transplant recipients. These vectors carried either an added human T-cell receptor alpha-chain enhancer (delta N2TADA) or a substitution of the Moloney long terminal repeat (LTR) enhancer with the murine immunoglobulin mu heavy-chain first intron enhancer (delta N2 mu ADA). Each vector was produced at a titer of approximately 10(6) infectious units/ml and efficiently transduced hADA into murine fibroblast and myeloma cells in culture. No quantitative difference in expression was observed between the enhancer modified vectors and the basic retrovirus vector (delta N2ADA). In addition, each vector efficiently conferred hADA expression in lymphoid, myeloid, and erythroid cells of long-term transplanted mice. The majority of the transduced-marrow recipients demonstrated expression of the human enzyme for 4-8 months with each of the three vectors.
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MESH Headings
- Adenosine Deaminase/biosynthesis
- Adenosine Deaminase/genetics
- Animals
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Cells, Cultured
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Fibroblasts
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Vectors
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin mu-Chains/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Moloney murine leukemia virus/genetics
- Multiple Myeloma/pathology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Retroviridae/genetics
- Transduction, Genetic
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- K A Moore
- Institute for Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030
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Joshi S, Van Brunschot A, Asad S, van der Elst I, Read SE, Bernstein A. Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 multiplication by antisense and sense RNA expression. J Virol 1991; 65:5524-30. [PMID: 1895401 PMCID: PMC249050 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.10.5524-5530.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) primarily infects CD4+ lymphocytes and macrophages and causes AIDS in humans. Retroviral vectors allowing neomycin phosphotransferase (npt) gene expression were engineered to express 5' sequences of HIV-1 RNA in the antisense or sense orientation and used to transform the human CD4+ lymphocyte-derived MT4 cell line. Cells expressing antisense or sense RNA to the HIV-1 tat mRNA leader sequence, as part of the 3' untranslated region of the npt mRNA, remained sensitive to HIV-1 infection. In contrast, resistance to HIV-1 infection was observed in cells expressing antisense RNA to the HIV-1 primer-binding site or to the region 5' to the primer-binding site as part of the 3' region of the npt mRNA. Cells expressing the tat mRNA leader sequence in the sense orientation as a precise replacement of the 5' untranslated region of npt mRNA were also resistant to HIV-1. These results indicate that sense and antisense approaches can be used to interfere with HIV-1 multiplication.
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- S Joshi
- Department of Microbiology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Weerasinghe M, Liem SE, Asad S, Read SE, Joshi S. Resistance to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in human CD4+ lymphocyte-derived cell lines conferred by using retroviral vectors expressing an HIV-1 RNA-specific ribozyme. J Virol 1991; 65:5531-4. [PMID: 1895402 PMCID: PMC249052 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.10.5531-5534.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Toward gene therapy for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infections in AIDS, Moloney murine leukemia virus-derived retroviral vectors were engineered to allow constitutive and tat-inducible expression of an HIV-1 5' leader sequence-specific ribozyme (Rz1). These vectors were used to infect the human CD4+ lymphocyte-derived MT4 cell line. The stable MT4 transformants expressing an HIV-1 RNA-specific ribozyme, under the control of the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (tk) promoter, were found to be somewhat resistant to HIV-1 infection as virus production was delayed. In cells allowing ribozyme expression under control of the simian virus 40 or cytomegalovirus promoter, the rate of HIV-1 multiplication was slightly decreased, and virus production was delayed by about 14 days. The highest level of resistance to HIV-1 infection was observed in MT4 cells transformed with a vector containing a fusion tk-TAR (trans activation-responsive) promoter to allow ribozyme expression in a constitutive and tat-inducible manner; no HIV-1 production was observed 22 days after infection of these cells. These results indicate that retroviral vectors expressing HIV-1 RNA-specific ribozymes can be used to confer resistance to HIV-1 infection.
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- M Weerasinghe
- Department of Microbiology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Forrester LM, Bernstein A, Rossant J, Nagy A. Long-term reconstitution of the mouse hematopoietic system by embryonic stem cell-derived fetal liver. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:7514-7. [PMID: 1881890 PMCID: PMC52331 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.17.7514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Murine embryonic stem (ES) cells are permanent blastocyst-derived cell lines capable of contributing to a wide variety of tissues, including the germ line, after injection into host blastocysts. Recently, we have shown that ES cells can produce all of the cells of the developing fetus after aggregation with developmentally compromised tetraploid embryos. Completely ES cell-derived embryos die perinatally, but the liver of these embryos is a source of entirely ES cell-derived hematopoietic progenitors. We have taken 14- to 15-day fetal liver cells from ES cell-tetraploid chimeras and reconstituted the hematopoietic system of lethally irradiated adult recipient mice. ES cell-derived hematopoietic stem cells were capable of long-term (greater than 6 months) repopulation of irradiated recipients, and all hematopoietic cell lineages analyzed (erythrocytes, T cells, mast cells, and macrophages) were derived exclusively from ES cells in such recipients. Thus, ES cells retain the capacity to differentiate into all hematopoietic cell types after prolonged passage in culture. This approach should provide a direct route to the production of mice whose hematopoietic cells carry genetic alterations that would be lethal if passed through the germ line.
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- L M Forrester
- Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Samuel Lunenfield Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Ploemacher RE, Sluijs JP. In vitro frequency analysis of spleen colony-forming and marrow-repopulating hemopoietic stem cells in the mouse. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01666133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Soriano P, Friedrich G, Lawinger P. Promoter interactions in retrovirus vectors introduced into fibroblasts and embryonic stem cells. J Virol 1991; 65:2314-9. [PMID: 2016762 PMCID: PMC240581 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.5.2314-2319.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The activity of the Moloney murine leukemia virus promoter is restricted in mouse embryonic stem cells. Gene expression with retrovirus vectors can be achieved in these cells if internal promoters are used. To address the possible influence of the viral enhancer sequences on expression from the internal promoter, we have constructed high-titer, self-inactivating retrovirus vectors which delete viral regulatory sequences upon integration in the host genome. We show that deleting most of the viral enhancer sequences has no significant effect on viral titer. This enhancer deletion leads to either an increase or a decrease in the amount of RNA transcribed from the internal promoter, but no consistent change can be found with any type of vector. The same changes in expression from the internal promoter observed in embryonic stem cells are also observed in 3T3 fibroblast cells, in which the viral promoter is active. These results indicate that viral regulatory elements influence expression from an internal promoter independently of expression from the virus promoter.
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- P Soriano
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Beck-Engeser G, Stocking C, Just U, Albritton L, Dexter M, Spooncer E, Ostertag W. Retroviral vectors related to the myeloproliferative sarcoma virus allow efficient expression in hematopoietic stem and precursor cell lines, but retroviral infection is reduced in more primitive cells. Hum Gene Ther 1991; 2:61-70. [PMID: 1863641 DOI: 10.1089/hum.1991.2.1-61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Retroviral vectors are considered to be the most suited vehicles for somatic gene therapy with hematopoietic stem cells as targets. Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into differentiation-restricted hematopoietic precursor (FDC-P1, FDC-P2) and multipotent progenitor (stem) cell lines (FDC-Pmix) is inefficient. Two cellular restrictions are involved. One is specific for stem but not precursor cells and is at the level of transcription. Due to a unique property of the transcriptional control region of the myeloproliferative sarcoma virus (MPSV), vectors derived from MPSV are not affected by this block. The second restriction occurs before proviral DNA synthesis and integration. This inhibition of effective viral infection depends on the state of differentiation, being more pronounced in multipotent clonogenic blast cells. This block to retroviral infection affects all retroviral vectors tested.
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- G Beck-Engeser
- Heinrich-Pette-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie und Immunologie, Universität Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Fauser AA. Long-term expression of gene introduction into normal human T-lymphocytes by retroviral-mediated gene transfer. J Cell Biochem 1991; 45:353-8. [PMID: 2045429 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240450408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Human T-lymphocytes are long lived, easily accessible, mature, and capable of proliferation. They are theoretically a suitable target for retroviral mediated gene transfer. To test this hypothesis, normal human T-cells obtained from bone marrow and peripheral blood were stimulated with phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and infected 24 h later with the retroviral vector N2 which carries the bacterial neo gene. T-lymphocytes were propagated in culture for up to 14 weeks with interleukin-2 (IL-2). Analysis by whole cell RNA dot/blot using a single stranded RNA probe demonstrated persistent expression of the neo gene. Preliminary functional studies revealed that both helper and suppressor functions were preserved in the infected cells in culture. These results demonstrate that normal T-cells are capable of long-term expression of genes introduced by retroviral mediated gene transfer and are potential target cells for somatic gene therapy.
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- A A Fauser
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg FRG
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The growth of human hematopoietic cells in immune-deficient mice promises to revolutionize our ability to study the normal developmental program of human hematopoiesis and the biological consequences of aberrant proliferation and differentiation. Advances in stem cell purification will require assays to test for function, and the identification and the characterization of novel hematopoietic growth factors will be aided by in vivo experiments. The engraftment of hematopoietic cells directly from patients with disease should ultimately lead to animal models for many human hemopathies and leukemias. Already important preliminary experiments have established the feasibility of such models for leukemia, cancer, infectious diseases, and autoimmunity. The production of human antibodies directed against toxic agents for which humans cannot be immunized could provide the basis for improved pharmaceuticals. Although an important foundation has been laid, much work remains to explore the full potential of this mouse transplantation system.
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- J E Dick
- Department of Genetics, Research Institute Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Mice homozygous for the scid mutation on chromosome 16 have a severe combined immune deficiency as a result of their inability to correctly rearrange their immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes. In scid mice, when precursors for B and T lymphocytes reach the stage of development requiring expression of these surface receptors, a defective recombinase system aberrantly cuts and rejoins the receptor gene segments greatly reducing the efficiency of producing functional receptors. As a result, most scid mice have no detectable B or T lymphocytes. We have demonstrated that the scid defect is not specific to lymphocyte development. Myeloid cells and fibroblasts from scid mice show a marked increase in sensitivity to ionizing radiation, indicating that the scid mutation leads to an inability to repair DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation as well as interfering with rearrangement of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes.
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- G M Fulop
- Division of Immunology and Cancer Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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Williams DA. Expression of introduced genetic sequences in hematopoietic cells following retroviral-mediated gene transfer. Hum Gene Ther 1990; 1:229-39. [PMID: 1964394 DOI: 10.1089/hum.1990.1.3-229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The use of retroviral vectors allows efficient transfer of genes into a variety of mammalian cells. A focus of research over the past 6 years has been the use of retroviral vectors to effect gene transfer into hematopoietic cells. These transduced cells might then be used for gene therapy of severe genetic diseases affecting blood cells. In spite of early optimism concerning the transfer and expression of a variety of gene sequences in hematopoietic cells, progress in obtaining the goal of stable and long-term expression of introduced genes in progeny of hematopoietic stem cells has been slow, frustrating, and only partially successful. This slow progress has been due, in part, to lack of understanding of the control of gene regulation in primary cells but also to the complexity of hematopoietic stem cell biology in both murine and large animal species. This review attempts to summarize the progress that has been made in the expression of genes introduced into hematopoietic cells and the difficulties still remaining before meaningful application of gene transfer methods can be expected to cure human diseases of bone marrow-derived cells.
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- D A Williams
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Childrens Hospital, Boston, MA
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van Beusechem VW, Kukler A, Einerhand MP, Bakx TA, van der Eb AJ, van Bekkum DW, Valerio D. Expression of human adenosine deaminase in mice transplanted with hemopoietic stem cells infected with amphotropic retroviruses. J Exp Med 1990; 172:729-36. [PMID: 1974914 PMCID: PMC2188546 DOI: 10.1084/jem.172.3.729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Amphotropic recombinant retroviruses were generated carrying sequences encoding human adenosine deaminase (ADA). Transcription of the human ADA gene was under control of a hybrid long terminal repeat in which the enhancer from the Moloney murine leukemia virus was replaced by an enhancer from the F101 host-range mutant of polyoma virus. Hemopoietic stem cells in murine bone marrow were infected with this virus under defined culture conditions. As a result, 59% of day-12 colony forming unit spleen (CFU-S) stem cells became infected without any in vitro selection. Infected CFU-S were shown to express human ADA before transplantation and this expression sustained upon in vivo maturation. Mice transplanted with infected bone marrow exhibited human ADA expression in lymphoid, myeloid, and erythroid cell types. Moreover, human ADA expression persisted in secondary and tertiary transplanted recipients showing that human ADA-expressing cells were derived from pluripotent stem cells. These characteristics of our amphotropic viruses make them promising tools in gene therapy protocols for the treatment of severe combined immunodeficiency caused by ADA deficiency. In this respect it is also relevant that the viral vector that served as backbone for the ADA vector was previously shown to be nonleukemogenic.
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- V W van Beusechem
- Institute of Applied Radiobiology and Immunology-TNO, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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Keith WN, Brown R, Pragnell IB. Retrovirus mediated transfer and expression of GM-CSF in haematopoietic cells. Br J Cancer 1990; 62:388-94. [PMID: 1698441 PMCID: PMC1971443 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1990.304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Two retrovirus vectors were compared for their ability to express granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) in a haematopoietic cell line, FDCP1, which is dependent on GM-CSF for survival. Both a MoMLV-based vector pVneoGM, and a MPSV-based vector, M3neoGM, were found to be capable of transmitting and expressing both GM-CSF and neomycin sequences in the myeloid FDCP1 cell line. Our results also demonstrate that pVneoGM is more efficient at generating GM-CSF independent colonies than M3neoGM. Analysis of cell lines derived after infection confirmed pVneoGM expressed higher levels of GM-CSF. Cell lines generated by infection with pVneoGM responded to levels of exogenous recombinant GM-CSF which did not stimulate growth of the parental cell line, suggesting autocrine stimulation may convey a proliferative advantage under sub-optimal growth conditions. Finally the parental vectors pVneo and M3neo were shown to be capable of expressing the neomycin gene in both murine haematopoietic progenitor and stem cells.
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- W N Keith
- CRC Department of Medical Oncology, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK
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- J F Apperley
- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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Metcalf D, Nicola NA, Gearing DP, Gough NM. Low-affinity placenta-derived receptors for human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor can deliver a proliferative signal to murine hemopoietic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4670-4. [PMID: 2162053 PMCID: PMC54178 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.12.4670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Retrovirally mediated introduction of a cDNA encoding a placenta-derived low-affinity receptor for human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) into murine FDC-P1 hemopoietic cells allowed these cells to proliferate when stimulated by human GM-CSF. The expressed human receptors on cloned lines were of low affinity (Kd = 4-6 nM), were internalized, and did not interact with endogenous GM-CSF receptors. Concentrations of human GM-CSF of 6.5-13 nM were required to stimulate 50% maximal colony formation versus a concentration of murine GM-CSF of 6 pM; this difference is comparable with the difference in relative affinities of the human and murine receptors for their respective ligands. If maintained in murine GM-CSF, cells able to bind or respond to human GM-CSF were rapidly lost due to transcriptional inactivation of the inserted cDNA. The observations indicate that low-affinity receptors for human GM-CSF can deliver a proliferative signal in appropriate cells and that the signaling mechanisms are not species-specific.
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- D Metcalf
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
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Osborne WR, Hock RA, Kaleko M, Miller AD. Long-term expression of human adenosine deaminase in mice after transplantation of bone marrow infected with amphotropic retroviral vectors. Hum Gene Ther 1990; 1:31-41. [PMID: 2081183 DOI: 10.1089/hum.1990.1.1-31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Three retroviral vectors, containing a human adenosine deaminase (ADA) cDNA linked to either the simian virus 40 (SV40) early promoter, the human cytomegalovirus (CMV) immediate early promoter, or the Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMLV) promoter, were tested for their ability to express ADA following infection and transplantation of murine bone marrow. Virus was produced by using PA317 amphotropic retrovirus packaging cells. The titer of each of the vectors was similar and no helper virus was detected. Human ADA was expressed in the blood of some animals for 6 months after transplantation of infected marrow, and vector DNA was found in the spleen and in bone marrow from these animals. The percentage of animals expressing human ADA (33%) and the amount of human ADA in blood (1-5% of total ADA) was similar for each of the vectors. These results show that amphotropic vectors are capable of infecting pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells having long-term repopulating ability, and that a variety of promoters allow gene expression following differentiation of these early cells.
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- W R Osborne
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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McLachlin JR, Cornetta K, Eglitis MA, Anderson WF. Retroviral-mediated gene transfer. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1990; 38:91-135. [PMID: 2183296 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60709-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- J R McLachlin
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Wilson JM, Danos O, Grossman M, Raulet DH, Mulligan RC. Expression of human adenosine deaminase in mice reconstituted with retrovirus-transduced hematopoietic stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:439-43. [PMID: 2296599 PMCID: PMC53279 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.1.439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Recombinant retroviruses encoding human adenosine deaminase (ADA; adenosine aminohydrolase, EC 3.5.4.4) have been used to infect murine hematopoietic stem cells. In bone marrow transplant recipients reconstituted with the genetically modified cells, human ADA was detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of the recipients for at least 6 months after transplantation. In animals analyzed in detail 4 months after transplantation, human ADA and proviral sequences were detected in all hematopoietic lineages; in several cases, human ADA activity exceeded the endogenous activity. These studies demonstrate the feasibility of introducing a functional human ADA gene into hematopoietic stem cells and obtaining expression in multiple hematopoietic lineages long after transplantation. This approach should be helpful in designing effective gene therapies for severe combined immunodeficiency syndromes in humans.
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- J M Wilson
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
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Chang JM, Johnson GR. Gene transfer into hemopoietic stem cells using retroviral vectors. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CELL CLONING 1989; 7:264-80. [PMID: 2671164 DOI: 10.1002/stem.5530070502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Gene transfer to hemopoietic cells offers a variety of new approaches to the experimental hematologist as well as potentially providing a means for correcting a number of genetic disorders of humans. From the experimental viewpoint, gene transfer utilizing retroviral vectors introduces new methods for analyzing hemopoietic cell lineages, and the effects of over-expression of genes affecting hemopoietic cell proliferation and differentiation. The unique properties of retroviral vectors and the optimized methods currently in use to infect hemopoietic cells are represented as a brief review of a rapidly expanding new field of experimental hematology.
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- J M Chang
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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Gene targeting with retroviral vectors: recombination by gene conversion into regions of nonhomology. Mol Cell Biol 1989. [PMID: 2725520 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.4.1621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have designed and constructed integration-defective retroviral vectors to explore their potential for gene targeting in mammalian cells. Two nonoverlapping deletion mutants of the bacterial neomycin resistance (neo) gene were used to detect homologous recombination events between viral and chromosomal sequences. Stable neo gene correction events were selected at a frequency of approximately 1 G418r cell per 3 x 10(6) infected cells. Analysis of the functional neo gene in independent targeted cell clones indicated that unintegrated retroviral linear DNA recombined with the target by gene conversion for variable distances into regions of nonhomology. In addition, transient neo gene correction events which were associated with the complete loss of the chromosomal target sequences were observed. These results demonstrated that retroviral vectors can recombine with homologous chromosomal sequences in rodent and human cells.
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Ellis J, Bernstein A. Retrovirus vectors containing an internal attachment site: evidence that circles are not intermediates to murine retrovirus integration. J Virol 1989; 63:2844-6. [PMID: 2724414 PMCID: PMC250795 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.6.2844-2846.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Murine cells were infected with a retrovirus vector containing a defective native attachment (att) site, an internal att site, and a neo gene. Analysis of the proviruses by virus rescue and Southern blots demonstrated that internal att sites were not utilized for integration and could not complement defects in the native site. These data suggest that murine retroviruses do not integrate in vivo through tandem long terminal repeat circular DNA intermediates.
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- J Ellis
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Multiple replication-defective retrovirus vectors were tested for their ability to transfer and express human adenosine deaminase in vitro and in vivo in a mouse bone marrow transplantation model. High-titer virus production was obtained from vectors by using both a retrovirus long terminal repeat promoter and internal transcriptional units with human c-fos and herpes virus thymidine kinase promoters. After infection of primary murine bone marrow with one of these vectors, human adenosine deaminase was detected in 60 to 85% of spleen colony-forming units and in the blood of 14 of 14 syngeneic marrow transplant recipients. This system offers the opportunity to assess methods for increasing efficiency of gene transfer, for regulation of expression of foreign genes in hematopoietic progenitors, and for long-term measurement of the stability of expression in these cells.
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Gossler A, Joyner AL, Rossant J, Skarnes WC. Mouse embryonic stem cells and reporter constructs to detect developmentally regulated genes. Science 1989; 244:463-5. [PMID: 2497519 DOI: 10.1126/science.2497519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 368] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A strategy was devised for identifying regions of the mouse genome that are transcriptionally active in a temporally and spatially restricted manner during development. The approach is based on the introduction into embryonic stem cells of two types of lacZ reporter constructs that can be activated by flanking mouse genomic sequences. Embryonic stem cells containing the lacZ constructs were used to produce chimaeric mice. Developmental regulation of lacZ expression occurred at a high frequency. Molecular cloning of the flanking endogenous genes and introduction of these potential insertional mutations into the mouse germ line should provide an efficient means of identifying and mutating novel genes important for the control of mammalian development.
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- A Gossler
- Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute, Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Toronto, Canada
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Ellis J, Bernstein A. Gene targeting with retroviral vectors: recombination by gene conversion into regions of nonhomology. Mol Cell Biol 1989; 9:1621-7. [PMID: 2725520 PMCID: PMC362579 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.4.1621-1627.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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We have designed and constructed integration-defective retroviral vectors to explore their potential for gene targeting in mammalian cells. Two nonoverlapping deletion mutants of the bacterial neomycin resistance (neo) gene were used to detect homologous recombination events between viral and chromosomal sequences. Stable neo gene correction events were selected at a frequency of approximately 1 G418r cell per 3 x 10(6) infected cells. Analysis of the functional neo gene in independent targeted cell clones indicated that unintegrated retroviral linear DNA recombined with the target by gene conversion for variable distances into regions of nonhomology. In addition, transient neo gene correction events which were associated with the complete loss of the chromosomal target sequences were observed. These results demonstrated that retroviral vectors can recombine with homologous chromosomal sequences in rodent and human cells.
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- J Ellis
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Zwiebel JA, Freeman SM, Kantoff PW, Cornetta K, Ryan US, Anderson WF. High-level recombinant gene expression in rabbit endothelial cells transduced by retroviral vectors. Science 1989; 243:220-2. [PMID: 2911735 DOI: 10.1126/science.2911735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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By virtue of its immediate contact with the circulating blood, the endothelium provides an attractive target for retroviral vector transduction for the purpose of gene therapy. To see whether efficient gene transfer and expression was feasible, rabbit aortic endothelial cells were infected with three Moloney murine leukemia virus-derived retroviral vectors. Two of these vectors carry genes encoding products that are not secreted: N2, containing only the selectable marker gene neoR, and SAX, containing both neoR gene and an SV40-promoted adenosine deaminase (ADA) gene. The third vector, G2N, contains a secretory rat growth hormone (rGH) gene and an SV40-promoted neoR gene. Infection with all three vectors resulted in expression of the respective genes. A high level of human ADA expression was observed in infected endothelial cell populations both before and after selection in G418. G2N-infected rabbit aortic endothelial cells that were grown on a synthetic vascular graft continued to secrete rGH into the culture medium. These studies suggest that endothelial cells may serve as vehicles for the introduction in vivo of functioning recombinant genes.
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- J A Zwiebel
- Laboratory of Molecular Hematology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- D B Kohn
- Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 28092
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Del Pozzo G, Guardiola J. Construction of hygromycin-resistant retroviral cloning vectors. Nucleic Acids Res 1988; 16:11372. [PMID: 3205745 PMCID: PMC339022 DOI: 10.1093/nar/16.23.11372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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- G Del Pozzo
- International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy
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Belmont JW, MacGregor GR, Wager-Smith K, Fletcher FA, Moore KA, Hawkins D, Villalon D, Chang SM, Caskey CT. Expression of human adenosine deaminase in murine hematopoietic cells. Mol Cell Biol 1988; 8:5116-25. [PMID: 3072474 PMCID: PMC365613 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.12.5116-5125.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Multiple replication-defective retrovirus vectors were tested for their ability to transfer and express human adenosine deaminase in vitro and in vivo in a mouse bone marrow transplantation model. High-titer virus production was obtained from vectors by using both a retrovirus long terminal repeat promoter and internal transcriptional units with human c-fos and herpes virus thymidine kinase promoters. After infection of primary murine bone marrow with one of these vectors, human adenosine deaminase was detected in 60 to 85% of spleen colony-forming units and in the blood of 14 of 14 syngeneic marrow transplant recipients. This system offers the opportunity to assess methods for increasing efficiency of gene transfer, for regulation of expression of foreign genes in hematopoietic progenitors, and for long-term measurement of the stability of expression in these cells.
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- J W Belmont
- Institute for Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Guild BC, Finer MH, Housman DE, Mulligan RC. Development of retrovirus vectors useful for expressing genes in cultured murine embryonal cells and hematopoietic cells in vivo. J Virol 1988; 62:3795-801. [PMID: 3418785 PMCID: PMC253524 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.10.3795-3801.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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A series of retrovirus vectors were constructed in which cellular promoter elements derived from the chicken beta-actin and human histone H4 genes were introduced within the proviral transcriptional unit of Moloney murine leukemia virus in order to promote expression of inserted sequences. Each of these vectors gave rise to high titer of virus capable of transferring the expected proviral structure to cells. Inclusion of normal 5' splice sequences or a portion of viral gag sequences in these constructions resulted in significant increases in virus titer. Each construction was transcriptionally active in NIH 3T3 cells and in undifferentiated F9 cells. One of the vectors, HSG-neo, which contained the human histone H4 promoter, was shown to be transcriptionally active in hematopoietic cells derived from long-term reconstituted bone marrow transplant recipients engrafted with transduced stem cells. These vectors should be of general use for obtaining efficient gene expression in embryonal and hematopoietic cells.
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- B C Guild
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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