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ArticleGene therapy2001

A highly efficient and consistent method for harvesting large volumes of high-titre lentiviral vectors.

B Zhang, H Q Xia, G Cleghorn, G Gobe, M West, M Q Wei

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Article in Gene therapy, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

B ZhangDepartment of Medicine, Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
H Q Xia
G Cleghorn
G Gobe
M West
M Q Wei
Prince Charles Hospital · AUBrisbane School of Theology · AURoyal Children's Hospital · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lentiviral vectors pseudotyped with vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (VSV-G) are emerging as the vectors of choice for in vitro and in vivo gene therapy studies. However, the current method for harvesting lentivectors relies upon ultracentrifugation at 50,000 g for 2 h. At this ultra-high speed, rotors currently in use generally have small volume capacity. Therefore, preparations of large volumes of high-titre vectors are time-consuming and laborious to perform. In the present study, viral vector supernatant harvests from vector-producing cells (VPCs) were pre-treated with various amounts of poly-L-lysine (PLL) and concentrated by low speed centrifugation. Optimal conditions were established when 0.005% of PLL (w/v) was added to vector supernatant harvests, followed by incubation for 30 min and centrifugation at 10,000 g for 2 h at 4 degrees C. Direct comparison with ultracentrifugation demonstrated that the new method consistently produced larger volumes (6 ml) of high-titre viral vector at 1 x 10(8) transduction unit (TU)/ml (from about 3,000 ml of supernatant) in one round of concentration. Electron microscopic analysis showed that PLL/viral vector formed complexes, which probably facilitated easy precipitation at low-speed concentration (10,000 g), a speed which does not usually precipitate viral particles efficiently. Transfection of several cell lines in vitro and transduction in vivo in the liver with the lentivector/PLL complexes demonstrated efficient gene transfer without any significant signs of toxicity. These results suggest that the new method provides a convenient means for harvesting large volumes of high-titre lentivectors, facilitate gene therapy experiments in large animal or human gene therapy trials, in which large amounts of lentiviral vectors are a prerequisite.

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AnimalsCationsCell LineCentrifugationGenetic VectorsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHumansLentivirusLiverLuminescent ProteinsMiceMice, Inbred BALB CPolylysineTransduction, GeneticTumor Cells, CulturedUltracentrifugationCationsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsLuminescent ProteinsPolylysine

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