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HUMAN GENE THERAPY
卷 19, 期 2, 页码 167-178出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2007.125
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Gene transfer may become a powerful clinical tool for the delivery of secreted therapeutic polypeptides, provided that the in situ production of these peptides can be tightly regulated by the administration of a small inducer molecule. Particularly efficient control may be achieved by simultaneously using two regulation systems that interfere with the biosynthesis of the therapeutic factor at two different levels. Therefore, we have developed a set of two lentiviral vectors containing two regulation systems. These systems are induced by nonimmunosuppressive derivatives of rapamycin (rapalogs) and allow simultaneous control of expression and of exocytosis of secreted therapeutic polypeptides. The set of vectors was used to produce green fluorescent protein (GFP) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF); GFP served as a model factor to demonstrate expression and entry into the exocytotic pathway in transduced cells. The constructs allowed robust in vitro expression and secretion of the polypeptides in the presence of rapalog AP21967. Withdrawal of the inducer resulted in efficient downregulation. In vivo, tightly regulated production of GFP and GDNF was observed after injection of the constructs into the striata of mice. The vectors thus fulfill key requirements for application in gene therapy.
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