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ArticleBrain research2006

Long-term inducible expression in striatal neurons from helper virus-free HSV-1 vectors that contain the tetracycline-inducible promoter system.

Qingshen Gao, Mei Sun, Xiaodan Wang, Guo-Rong Zhang, Alfred I Geller

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Article in Brain research, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors.

Qingshen GaoDepartment of Neurology, Research Building 3, West Roxbury VA Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 1400 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA.
Mei Sun
Xiaodan Wang
Guo-Rong Zhang
Alfred I Geller

Funding

Promoters for Long-term Expression from HSV-1 VectorsR01NS045855 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI GELLER, ALFRED I. · 2003 to 2011
$2.0M
GENE THERAPY FOR AGING DISORDERSR01AG016777 · NIA · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI GELLER, ALFRED I. · 2000 to 2004
$1.4M
High-titer helper virus-free HSV-1 vectorsR01AG021193 · NIA · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI GELLER, ALFRED I. · 2003 to 2007
$1.3M
Enhanced HSV-1 Vector Particles for Neural Gene TherapyR01NS043107 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI GELLER, ALFRED I. · 2001 to 2004
$1.1M
NIA NIH HHS AG021193NIA NIH HHS AG16777NIA NIH HHS R01 AG016777NIA NIH HHS R01 AG021193NINDS NIH HHS NS043107NINDS NIH HHS NS045855NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS043107NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS045855
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Abstract

Direct gene transfer into neurons in the brain via a virus vector system has potential for both examining neuronal physiology and for developing gene therapy treatments for neurological diseases. Many of these applications require precise control of the levels of recombinant gene expression. The preferred method for controlling the levels of expression is by use of an inducible promoter system, and the tetracycline (tet)-inducible promoter system is the preferred system. Helper virus-free Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) vectors have a number of the advantages, including their large size and efficient gene transfer. Also, we have reported long-term (14 months) expression from HSV-1 vectors that contain a modified neurofilament heavy gene promoter. A number of studies have reported short-term, inducible expression from helper virus-containing HSV-1 vector systems. However, long-term, inducible expression has not been reported using HSV-1 vectors. The goal of this study was to obtain long-term, inducible expression from helper virus-free HSV-1 vectors. We examined two different vector designs for adapting the tet promoter system to HSV-1 vectors. One design was an autoregulatory design; one transcription unit used a tet-regulated promoter to express the tet-regulated transcription factor tet-off, and another transcription unit used a tet-regulated promoter to express the Lac Z gene. In the other vector design, one transcription unit used the modified neurofilament heavy gene promoter to express tet-off, and another transcription unit used a tet-regulated promoter to express the Lac Z gene. The results showed that both vector designs supported inducible expression in cultured fibroblast or neuronal cell lines and for a short time (4 days) in the rat striatum. Of note, only the vector design that used the modified neurofilament promoter to express tet-off supported long-term (2 months) inducible expression in striatal neurons.

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AnimalsCorpus StriatumCricetinaeFibroblastsGene Expression Regulation, ViralGenetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesHelper VirusesHerpesvirus 1, HumanLac OperonMaleNeurofilament ProteinsNeuronsPC12 CellsPromoter Regions, GeneticRatsneurofilament protein HNeurofilament ProteinsRepressor Proteinstetracycline resistance-encoding transposon repressor protein

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PMID16545782
PMCPMC2581870
OpenAlexW1996442841

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