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NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 8, Pages 1017-1021Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1227
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 59350, CA 08748] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL 57612, HL 66952] Funding Source: Medline
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We demonstrate here the capacity of erythroid cells to mediate long-term, systemic and therapeutic protein delivery in vivo. By targeting human factor IX (hFIX) expression to late-stage erythropoiesis, we achieve long-term hFIX secretion at levels significantly higher (> tenfold) than those obtained with an archetypal ubiquitous promoter in a mouse model of hemophilia B. Erythroid cell-derived hFIX is biologically active, resulting in phenotypic correction of the bleeding disorder. In addition to achieving high expression levels and resistance to transcriptional silencing, red cell-mediated protein delivery offers multiple advantages including immune tolerance induction, reduction of the risk of insertional oncogenesis and relative ease of application by either engrafting transduced hematopoietic stem cells or transfusing ex vivo-generated, stem cell-derived erythroid cells.
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