Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29361371›Full record

ArticleBiologicals : journal of the International Association of Biological Standardization2018

Mass spectrometry analysis reveals differences in the host cell protein species found in pseudotyped lentiviral vectors.

Sabine Johnson, Jun X Wheeler, Robin Thorpe, Mary Collins, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Yuan Zhao

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Article in Biologicals : journal of the International Association of Biological Standardization, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sabine JohnsonDivision of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Blanche Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 3QG, UK; Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Jun X WheelerDivision of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Blanche Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 3QG, UK.
Robin ThorpeDivision of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Blanche Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 3QG, UK.
Mary CollinsDivision of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Blanche Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 3QG, UK; Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Yasuhiro TakeuchiDivision of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Blanche Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 3QG, UK; Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Yuan ZhaoDivision of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Blanche Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 3QG, UK. Electronic address: Yuan.Zhao@nibsc.org.
National Institute for Biological Standards and Control · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lentiviral vectors (LVs) have been successfully used in clinical trials showing long term therapeutic benefits. Studying the role of cellular proteins in lentivirus HIV-1 life cycle can help understand virus assembly and budding, leading to improvement of LV production for gene therapy. Lentiviral vectors were purified using size exclusion chromatography (SEC). The cellular protein composition of LVs produced by two different methods was compared: the transient transfection system pseudotyped with the VSV-G envelope, currently used in clinical trials, and a stable producer cell system using a non-toxic envelope derived from cat endogenous retrovirus RD114, RDpro. Proteins of LVs purified by size exclusion chromatography were identified by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). A smaller number of cellular protein species were detected in stably produced vectors compared to transiently produced vector samples. This may be due to the presence of co-purified VSV-G vesicles in transiently produced vectors. AHNAK (Desmoyokin) was unique to RDpro-Env vectors. The potential role in LV particle production of selected proteins identified by MS analysis including AHNAK was assessed using shRNA gene knockdown technique. Down-regulation of the selected host proteins AHNAK, ALIX, and TSG101 in vector producer cells did not result in a significant difference in vector production.

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Virus AssemblyVirus ReleaseAnimalsCatsGenetic VectorsHEK293 CellsHumansLentivirusMass SpectrometryAHNAKALIXHost proteinsLentiviral vectorsMass spectrometry

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PMID29361371
PMCPMC5910304
OpenAlexW2789561300

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