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ArticleGene therapy2009

Transduction of human neural progenitor cells with foamy virus vectors for differentiation-dependent gene expression.

I Rothenaigner, S Kramer, M Meggendorfer, A Rethwilm, R Brack-Werner

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Article in Gene therapy, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Advances in foamy virus vector technology and disease correction could speed the path to clinical application.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2012
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  7. Foamy virus vectors for gene transfer.Expert opinion on biological therapy · 2009
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

I RothenaignerInstitute of Virology, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
S Kramer
M Meggendorfer
A Rethwilm
R Brack-Werner
Helmholtz Zentrum München · DEUniversity of Würzburg · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural progenitor cells are potential vehicles for delivery of therapeutic agents into the brain. Differentiation-dependent promoters may be useful to target the therapeutic transgene expression to specific neural cell types. Here we explored the potential of vectors based on the foamy virus (FV) for genetic engineering of neural progenitor cells. We demonstrate that FV vectors can mediate stable long-term constitutive expression of the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) in neural progenitor cells. For differentiation-dependent gene expression, we constructed a FV vector with an internal expression cassette containing the human 2.2 kb promoter (Gfa2) of the astrocyte-specific glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and sequences encoding EGFP. We show FV-vector-mediated delivery of the Gfa2-egfp transgene into the human neural stem cell line HNSC.100 and differentiation-dependent expression in stably transduced cell populations. Differentiation of the FV-transduced HNSC.100 cells to astrocytes upregulated expression of both the Gfa2-egfp transgene and the native gfap gene, confirming differentiation-dependent activation of the transduced Gfa2 promoter. These results demonstrate that differentiation-dependent gene expression can be achieved by FV-vector-mediated gene transfer to neural progenitor cells. Our findings support the use of FV vectors for the genetic engineering of neural progenitor cells for therapeutic and research applications.

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Genetic VectorsTransduction, GeneticAstrocytesCell DifferentiationCell LineGene Expression RegulationGenetic EngineeringGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinHumansNeuronsSpumavirusStem CellsGlial Fibrillary Acidic Protein

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PMID19052634
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