Mutagenesis of retroviral vectors transducing human beta-globin gene and beta-globin locus control region derivatives results in stable transmission of an active transcriptional structure.
AUTOR(ES)
Leboulch, P
RESUMO
Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer of the human beta-globin gene into hematopoietic stem cells is an attractive approach to the therapy of human beta-globin gene disorders. However, expression of the transduced beta-globin gene linked to its proximal cis-acting sequences (-0.8 to +0.3 kb from the cap site) is considerably below the level required for a significant therapeutic effect. The discovery of the beta-locus control region (beta-LCR), organized in four major DNase I hypersensitive sites far upstream of the human beta-like globin gene cluster, provided a potential means to achieve a high level of expression of a linked human beta-globin gene, but initial attempts to incorporate beta-LCR derivatives in retroviral vectors resulted in the production of low-titer viruses with multiple rearrangements of the transmitted proviral structures. We now describe how extensive mutagenesis of the transduced beta-globin gene, eliminating a 372 bp intronic segment and multiple reverse polyadenylation and splicing signals, increases viral titer significantly and restores stability of proviral transmission upon infection of cell lines and bone marrow-repopulating cells. These optimized vectors have enabled us to analyze the expression properties of various retrovirally transduced beta-LCR derivatives in dimethylsulfoxide-induced murine erythroleukemia cells and to achieve ratios of human beta-globin/murine beta maj-globin mRNA, on a per gene basis, as high as 80%.
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