Retroviral stem cell gene therapy

Menzo Havenga, Peter Hoogerbrugge, Dinko Valerio, Helmuth H.G. Van Es

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Long-term in vivo gene transfer studies in mice have shown that recombinant murine retroviruses are able to infect murine hemopoietic stem cells with high efficiency. Taken together the results indicated that the proviral structure was present at high frequency in circulating hemopoietic cells resulting in significant expression levels. Because of the success of these murine studies, it was believed that gene therapy would soon be applicable to treat a wide variety of congenital or acquired human diseases associated with the hemopoietic system. However, results from gene transfer studies in nonhuman primates and first human clinical trails have indicated that murine retrovirus infection of primate hemopoietic stem cells is inefficient. Although there are essential differences between the murine and primate gene therapy studies with respect to the recombinant viruses and transduction protocols used, these differences cannot solely account for the differences observed in infection efficiency. Therefore, in recent years effort has been spent on the identification of factors limiting retroviral transduction of primate hemopoietic stem cells. Increasing knowledge concerning hemopoiesis and retroviral infection has helped in identifying a number of limiting factors. Novel transduction strategies and tools have been generated which attempt to circumvent these limiting factors. These factors as well as the strategies that showed increased retroviral infection of primate hemopoietic stem cells will be discussed.

Originele taal-2Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)162-179
Aantal pagina's18
TijdschriftStem Cells
Volume15
Nummer van het tijdschrift3
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 1997
Extern gepubliceerdJa

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