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Trial reportEMBO molecular medicine2011

Integration profile of retroviral vector in gene therapy treated patients is cell-specific according to gene expression and chromatin conformation of target cell.

Luca Biasco, Alessandro Ambrosi, Danilo Pellin, Cynthia Bartholomae, Immacolata Brigida, Maria Grazia Roncarolo, Clelia Di Serio, Christof von Kalle, Manfred Schmidt, Alessandro Aiuti

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Trial report in EMBO molecular medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Turning "trashed" genomic loci into treasurable sites for integrating chimeric antigen receptors in T and NK cells.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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  19. TEG001 Insert Integrity from Vector Producer Cells until Medicinal Product.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Luca BiascoSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (HSR-TIGET), Milano, Italy.
Alessandro Ambrosi
Danilo Pellin
Cynthia Bartholomae
Immacolata Brigida
Maria Grazia Roncarolo
Clelia Di Serio
Christof von Kalle
Manfred Schmidt
Alessandro Aiuti

Funding

Telethon TGT06F01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The analysis of genomic distribution of retroviral vectors is a powerful tool to monitor 'vector-on-host' effects in gene therapy (GT) trials but also provides crucial information about 'host-on-vector' influences based on the target cell genetic and epigenetic state. We had the unique occasion to compare the insertional profile of the same therapeutic moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) vector in the context of the adenosine deaminase-severe combined immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID) genetic background in two GT trials based on infusions of transduced mature lymphocytes (peripheral blood lymphocytes, PBL) or a single infusion of haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSC). We found that vector insertions are cell-specific according to the differential expression profile of target cells, favouring, in PBL-GT, genes involved in immune system and T-cell functions/pathways as well as T-cell DNase hypersensitive sites, differently from HSC-GT. Chromatin conformations and histone modifications influenced integration preferences but we discovered that only H3K27me3 was cell-specifically disfavoured, thus representing a key epigenetic determinant of cell-type dependent insertion distribution. Our study shows that MLV vector insertional profile is cell-specific according to the genetic/chromatin state of the target cell both in vitro and in vivo in patients several years after GT.

Indexed as

Genetic VectorsVirus IntegrationAdenosine DeaminaseChromatinGene Expression ProfilingGenetic TherapyHematopoietic Stem CellsHistonesHumansLymphocytesRetroviridaeSevere Combined ImmunodeficiencyAdenosine DeaminaseChromatinHistones

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PMID21243617
PMCPMC3060339

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