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ArticleHuman gene therapy2008

Neonatal intravenous injection of a gammaretroviral vector has a low incidence of tumor induction in mice.

Mindy Tittiger, Xiucui Ma, Lingfei Xu, Katherine P Ponder

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Article in Human gene therapy, 2008. 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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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Perinatal gene transfer to the liver.Current pharmaceutical design · 2011
    Review
  3. Article
  4. A self-inactivating gamma-retroviral vector reduces manifestations of mucopolysaccharidosis I in mice.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2010
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Mindy TittigerDepartment of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Xiucui Ma
Lingfei Xu
Katherine P Ponder

Funding

Washington University DDRCC Supplemental Equipment RequestP30DK052574 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Nicholas O. Davidson · 2000 to 2026
$30.8M
WU P&FP30DK020579 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Jennifer Lynn Powers Carson · 2013 to 2026
$27.1M
TRANSGENICS COREP60DK020579 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SCHAFFER, JEAN E. · 1986 to 2012
$25.2M
RETROVIRAL VECTOR-MEDIATED LIVER GENE THERAPY FOR MPS IR01DK066448 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI PONDER, KATHERINE P. · 2003 to 2013
$2.8M
IMPROVED METHODS FOR IN VIVO HEPATIC GENE THERAPYR01DK054061 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI PONDER, KATHERINE P. · 1997 to 2006
$1.7M
RETROVIRAL VECTOR-MEDIATED LIVER GENE THERAPY FOR MPS IR56DK066448 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI PONDER, KATHERINE P. · 2007 to 2008
$321k
NIDDK NIH HHS DK20579NIDDK NIH HHS DK66448NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK052574NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK52574NIDDK NIH HHS P60 DK020579NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK054061NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK066448NIDDK NIH HHS R56 DK066448
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neonatal intravenous injection of gammaretroviral vectors (gamma-RVs) with an intact long terminal repeat (LTR) and an internal liver promoter can result in long-term expression in liver cells and correction of mucopolysaccharidosis. Some expression also occurs in blood cells and brain, which likely derives from the LTR, and may contribute to clinical efficacy. The goal of this project was to determine whether neonatal gene therapy with an LTR-intact gamma-RV would induce tumors in mice. Fifty-one normal newborn C57BL/6 mice were injected intravenously at 10(10) transducing units/kg with a gamma-RV expressing canine beta-glucuronidase (GUSB) cDNA. This resulted in transduction of 23 +/- 9% of hepatocytes as determined by histochemical staining, and 0.24 +/- 0.20 copy of gamma-RV DNA per cell in liver as determined by real-time polymerase chain reaction. Serum GUSB activity was stable for 1.75 years after transduction at 705 +/- 119 units/ml. Ninety-six percent of mice survived for the duration of evaluation, which was similar to the survival rate for 65 control mice that were not injected with gamma-RV. One gamma-RV-treated mouse (2%) developed a small (diameter, 2 mm) liver adenoma, which was similar to the frequency of liver adenomas (2%) or hepatocellular carcinoma (2%) in untreated mice. Although 22% of gamma-RV-treated mice developed hematopoietic tumors, none contained high gamma-RV DNA copy numbers, and the frequency was similar to that in the control group (22%). We conclude that neonatal intravenous injection of an LTR-intact gamma-RV does not have a high risk of inducing cancer in mice.

Indexed as

Genetic VectorsAdenomaAnimalsAnimals, NewbornCarcinoma, HepatocellularDogsGammaretrovirusGlucuronidaseHematologic NeoplasmsIncidenceInjections, IntravenousLiver Neoplasms, ExperimentalMiceMice, Inbred C57BLSurvival RateTransduction, GeneticGlucuronidase

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PMID19866493
PMCPMC2891155

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