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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2020

Rhodopsin Genomic Loci DNA Nanoparticles Improve Expression and Rescue of Retinal Degeneration in a Model for Retinitis Pigmentosa.

Min Zheng, Rajendra N Mitra, Ellen R Weiss, Zongchao Han

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Next generation therapeutics for retinal neurodegenerative diseases.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2024
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  4. Gene Therapy for Rhodopsin Mutations.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Min ZhengDepartment of Ophthalmology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Rajendra N MitraDepartment of Ophthalmology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Ellen R WeissDepartment of Cell Biology and Physiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Zongchao HanDepartment of Ophthalmology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Division of Pharmacoengineering & Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: zongchao@med.unc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

DESENSITIZATION OF CONE VISUAL SIGNALING PATHWAYSR01EY012224 · NEI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WEISS, ELLEN RUTH · 2000 to 2019
$5.4M
Targeting Retinitis Pigmentosa Using Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of Genomic DNAR01EY026564 · NEI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HAN, ZONGCHAO · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012224NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of gene therapy may allow replacement of the defective gene. Minigenes, such as cDNAs, are often used. However, these may not express normal physiological genetic profiles due to lack of crucial endogenous regulatory elements. We constructed DNA nanoparticles (NPs) that contain either the mouse or human full-length rhodopsin genomic locus, including endogenous promoters, all introns, and flanking regulatory sequences of the 15-16 kb genomic rhodopsin DNA inserts. We transduced the NPs into primary retinal cell cultures from the rhodopsin knockout (RKO) mouse in vitro and into the RKO mouse in vivo and compared the effects on different functions to plasmid cDNA NP counterparts that were driven by ubiquitous promoters. Our results demonstrate that genomic DNA vectors resulted in long-term high levels of physiological transgene expression over a period of 5 months. In contrast, the cDNA counterparts exhibited low levels of expression with sensitivity to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress mechanism using the same transgene copy number both in vitro and in vivo. This study demonstrates for the first time the transducing of the rhodopsin genomic locus using compacted DNA NPs.

Indexed as

Gene ExpressionGenetic TherapyNanoparticlesAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDNAEndoplasmic Reticulum StressGene Transfer TechniquesHumansMiceMice, KnockoutPhotoreceptor Cells, VertebrateRetinal DegenerationRetinitis PigmentosaRhodopsinTransgenesDNARhodopsinfull-length genomic DNAgene deliverynanoparticlesphysiological transgene expressionretinitis pigmentosa

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PMID31879189
PMCPMC7001086
OpenAlexW2995067990

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