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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2013

Systemic delivery of fusogenic membrane glycoprotein-expressing neural stem cells to selectively kill tumor cells.

Detu Zhu, Dang Hoang Lam, Yovita Ida Purwanti, Sal Lee Goh, Chunxiao Wu, Jieming Zeng, Weimin Fan, Shu Wang

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Detu ZhuDepartment of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Dang Hoang Lam
Yovita Ida Purwanti
Sal Lee Goh
Chunxiao Wu
Jieming Zeng
Weimin Fan
Shu Wang
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology · SGNational University of Singapore · SGFirst Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intravenously injected neural stem cells (NSCs) can infiltrate both primary and metastatic tumor sites; thus, they are attractive tumor-targeting vehicles for delivering anticancer agents. However, because the systemic distribution of the injected NSCs involves normal organs and might induce off-target actions leading to unintended side effects, clinical applications of this approach is impeded. Given that the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (VSV-G) can promote the formation of multinucleated syncytia to kill cells in a pH-dependent manner, we engineered a pH sensor of VSV-G and generated a novel VSV-G mutant that efficiently promotes syncytium formation at the tumor extracellular pH (pHe) but not at pH 7.4. Using transduced NSCs derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), the VSV-G mutant was delivered into mice with metastatic breast cancers in the lung through tail vein injection. Compared with the conventional stem cell-based gene therapy that uses the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSVtk) suicide gene, this treatment did not display toxicity to normal non-targeted organs while retaining therapeutic effects in tumor-bearing organs. Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of a new approach for achieving tumor-selective killing effects following systemic stem cell administration. Its potential in stem cell-based gene therapy for metastatic cancer is worthy of further exploration.

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AnimalsBreast NeoplasmsCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyCell DeathCell Line, TumorDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGenes, Transgenic, SuicideGenetic TherapyGiant CellsHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMembrane GlycoproteinsMiceNeoplasm MetastasisG protein, vesicular stomatitis virusMembrane GlycoproteinsViral Envelope Proteins

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PMID23752308
PMCPMC3734663
OpenAlexW2016099900

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