Lentivirus Vector-Mediated Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Transfer of Common Gamma-Chain Cytokine Receptor in Rhesus Macaques
AUTOR(ES)
An, Dong Sung
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Nonhuman primate model systems of autologous CD34+ cell transplant are the most effective means to assess the safety and capabilities of lentivirus vectors. Toward this end, we tested the efficiency of marking, gene expression, and transplant of bone marrow and peripheral blood CD34+ cells using a self-inactivating lentivirus vector (CS-Rh-MLV-E) bearing an internal murine leukemia virus long terminal repeat derived from a murine retrovirus adapted to replicate in rhesus macaques. In vitro cytokine stimulation was not required to achieve efficient transduction of CD34+ cells resulting in marking and gene expression of the reporter gene encoding enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) following transplant of the CD34+ cells. Monkeys transplanted with mobilized peripheral blood CD34+ cells resulted in EGFP expression in 1 to 10% of multilineage peripheral blood cells, including red blood cells and platelets, stable for 15 months to date. The relative level of gene expression utilizing this vector is 2- to 10-fold greater than that utilizing a non-self-inactivating lentivirus vector bearing the cytomegalovirus immediate-early promoter. In contrast, in animals transplanted with autologous bone marrow CD34+ cells, multilineage EGFP expression was evident initially but diminished over time. We further tested our lentivirus vector system by demonstrating gene transfer of the human common gamma-chain cytokine receptor gene (γc), deficient in X-linked SCID patients and recently successfully used to treat disease. Marking was 0.42 and .001 HIV-1 vector DNA copy per 100 cells in two animals. To date, all EGFP- and γc-transplanted animals are healthy. This system may prove useful for expression of therapeutic genes in human hematopoietic cells.
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