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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
25
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-12-18
pubmed:abstractText
Homologous recombination (gene targeting) has many desirable features for gene therapy, because it can precisely correct mutant genes and restore their normal expression, and random nonhomologous integration of DNA is infrequent in cells in which homologous recombination has occurred. There are, however, no reports of attempts to use homologous recombination to correct mutant genes in normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which are prime cells for therapy of a variety of hematological and other conditions, presumably because of their low abundance and uncertainty that homologous recombination can occur at a usable frequency in these cells. The experiments reported here encourage optimism in this respect by demonstrating targeted correction of a defective hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase gene in hematopoietic progenitor cells that can form colonies in methylcellulose culture. These clonogenic cells are in the same lineage as HSCs but are more abundant and more mature and so less pluripotent. Corrected colonies were identified by their survival in selective medium after electroporation of correcting DNA into unfractionated mouse bone marrow cells and were confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR and sequencing. The observed frequency (4.4 +/- 3.3 x 10(-5) per treated clonogenic cell) is the same as in embryonic stem cells (2.3 +/- 0.4 x 10(-5)) with the same DNA and mutation. These data suggest that gene targeting to correct mutant genes eventually will prove feasible in HSCs capable of long-term bone marrow reconstitution.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
97
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13807-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Gene correction in hematopoietic progenitor cells by homologous recombination.
pubmed:affiliation
Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Medicine, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7525, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.