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ArticleBioMed research international2015

DNA methylation and histone modifications are the molecular lock in lentivirally transduced hematopoietic progenitor cells.

Siew Ching Ngai, Rozita Rosli, Akram Al Abbar, Syahril Abdullah

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Article in BioMed research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Siew Ching NgaiMedical Genetics Laboratory, Clinical Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ; School of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Nottingham Malaysia, Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia.
Rozita RosliMedical Genetics Laboratory, Clinical Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ; Genetics & Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Akram Al AbbarMedical Genetics Laboratory, Clinical Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ; Genetics & Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Syahril AbdullahMedical Genetics Laboratory, Clinical Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ; Genetics & Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0003-2718-6266
Serdang Hospital · MYUniversity of Nottingham Malaysia Campus · MY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stable introduction of a functional gene in hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) has appeared to be an alternative approach to correct genetically linked blood diseases. However, it is still unclear whether lentiviral vector (LV) is subjected to gene silencing in HPCs. Here, we show that LV carrying green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter gene driven by cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter was subjected to transgene silencing after transduction into HPCs. This phenomenon was not due to the deletion of proviral copy number. Study using DNA demethylating agent and histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor showed that the drugs could either prevent or reverse the silencing effect. Using sodium bisulfite sequencing and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay, we demonstrated that DNA methylation occurred soon after LV transduction. At the highest level of gene expression, CMV promoter was acetylated and was in a euchromatin state, while GFP reporter gene was acetylated but was strangely in a heterochromatin state. When the expression declined, CMV promoter underwent transition from acetylated and euchromatic state to a heterochromatic state, while the GFP reporter gene was in deacetylated and heterochromatic state. With these, we verify that DNA methylation and dynamic histone modifications lead to transgene silencing in HPCs transduced with LV.

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Hematopoietic Stem CellsCytomegalovirusDNA MethylationEuchromatinGene Expression RegulationGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHistone CodeHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsHistone DeacetylasesHumansLentivirusPromoter Regions, GeneticTransduction, GeneticTransgenesEuchromatinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsHistone Deacetylases

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PMID25961011
PMCPMC4417590
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