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Pigtailed macaques as a model to study long-term safety of lentivirus vector-mediated gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies.


ABSTRACT: Safely achieving long-term engraftment of genetically modified hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that maintain therapeutic transgene expression is the benchmark for successful application of gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies. We used the pigtailed macaque HSC transplantation model to ascertain the long-term safety and stability of a ?-globin lentivirus vector. We observed stable gene-modified cells and fetal hemoglobin expression for 3 years. Retrovirus integration site (RIS) analysis spanning 6 months to 3.1 years revealed vastly disparate integration profiles, and dynamic fluctuation of hematopoietic contribution from different gene-modified HSC clones without evidence for clonal dominance. There were no perturbations of the global gene-expression profile or expression of genes within a 300?kb region of RIS, including genes surrounding the most abundantly marked clones. Overall, a 3-year long follow-up revealed no evidence of genotoxicity of the ?-globin lentivirus vector with multilineage polyclonal hematopoiesis, and HSC clonal fluctuations that were not associated with transcriptome dysregulation.

SUBMITTER: Kiem HP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4448740 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Pigtailed macaques as a model to study long-term safety of lentivirus vector-mediated gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies.

Kiem Hans-Peter HP   Arumugam Paritha I PI   Burtner Christopher R CR   Fox Catherine F CF   Beard Brian C BC   Dexheimer Phillip P   Adair Jennifer E JE   Malik Punam P  

Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development 20141217


Safely achieving long-term engraftment of genetically modified hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that maintain therapeutic transgene expression is the benchmark for successful application of gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies. We used the pigtailed macaque HSC transplantation model to ascertain the long-term safety and stability of a γ-globin lentivirus vector. We observed stable gene-modified cells and fetal hemoglobin expression for 3 years. Retrovirus integration site (RIS) analysis spanning 6  ...[more]

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