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ArticleMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2020

βT87Q-Globin Gene Therapy Reduces Sickle Hemoglobin Production, Allowing for

Selami Demirci, Bjorg Gudmundsdottir, Quan Li, Juan J Haro-Mora, Tina Nassehi, Claire Drysdale, Morgan Yapundich, Jackson Gamer, Fayaz Seifuddin, John F Tisdale and 1 more

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Article in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Selami DemirciCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Bjorg GudmundsdottirCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Quan LiLaboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Juan J Haro-MoraCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Tina NassehiCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Claire DrysdaleCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Morgan YapundichCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Jackson GamerCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Fayaz SeifuddinBioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
John F TisdaleCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Naoya UchidaCellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
National Institutes of Health · USNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · USNational Heart Lung and Blood Institute · US

Funding

Sickle cell disease molecular pathogenesis and drug therapyZIADK029053 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI EATON, WILLIAM · 2009 to 2025
$24.8M
Isolation, characterization, and transplantation of candidate stem cellsZIAHL006009 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI TISDALE, JOHN · 2009 to 2025
$13.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lentiviral addition of βT87Q-globin, a modified β-globin with an anti-sickling mutation, is currently being used in gene therapy trials for sickle cell disease (SCD) and β-thalassemia patients. βT87Q-globin interferes with sickle hemoglobin (HbS) polymerization. Here, we generated the SCD mutation in an immortalized human erythroid cell line (HUDEP-2) to investigate the anti-sickling activity of βT87Q-globin. Sickle HUDEP-2 (sHUDEP-2) cells produced robust HbS after differentiation and sickled under deoxygenated conditions, comparable with SCD CD34

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gene therapyhemoglobinimmortalized erythrocytessickle cell disease

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PMID32405513
PMCPMC7210457
OpenAlexW3016996248

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