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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-1-8
pubmed:abstractText
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) represent an important target for the treatment of various blood disorders. As the source of critical cells within the immune system, genetic modification of HSCs can also be used to modulate immune responses. The effectiveness of HSC-mediated gene therapy largely depends on efficient gene delivery into long-term repopulating progenitors and targeted transgene expression in an appropriate progeny of the transduced pluripotent HSCs. Self-inactivating (SIN) lentiviral vectors have been demonstrated to be capable of transducing mitotically inactive cells, including HSCs, and accommodating a nonviral promoter to control the transgene expression in transduced cells. In this study, we constructed 2 SIN lentiviral vectors, EF.GFP and DR.GFP, to express the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene controlled solely by the promoter of either a housekeeping gene EF-1alpha or the human HLA-DRalpha gene, which is selectively expressed in antigen-presenting cells (APCs). We demonstrated that both vectors efficiently transduced human pluripotent CD34+ cells capable of engrafting nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficiency (NOD/SCID) mice. When the EF.GFP vector was used, constitutive high-level GFP expression was obtained in all the human HSC progeny detectable in NOD/SCID mice and in subsequent in vitro differentiation assays, indicating that engrafting human HSCs have been transduced. In contrast, the DR.GFP vector mediated transgene expression specifically in human HLA-DR+ cells and highly in differentiated dendritic cells (DCs), which are critical in regulating immunity. Furthermore, human DCs derived from transduced and engrafted human cells potently stimulated allogeneic T-cell proliferation. This study demonstrated successful targeting of transgene expression to APCs/DCs after stable gene transduction of pluripotent HSCs.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0006-4971
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
99
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
399-408
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Bone Marrow Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Dendritic Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Feasibility Studies, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Genes, Reporter, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Genes, Synthetic, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Genetic Vectors, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Graft Survival, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Green Fluorescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-HLA-DR Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Hematopoietic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Isoantigens, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Lentivirus, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Leukocytes, Mononuclear, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Luminescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Macrophages, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Mice, Inbred NOD, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Mice, SCID, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Peptide Elongation Factor 1, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Spleen, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:11781219-Transgenes
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Targeting transgene expression to antigen-presenting cells derived from lentivirus-transduced engrafting human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Immunology and Hematopoiesis, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't