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A high-titer lentiviral production system mediates efficient transduction of differentiated cells including beating cardiac myocytes.

Abstract：

:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, lentivirus) type-1 based vectors have a number of attractive features for gene therapy, including the ability to transduce non-dividing cells and long term transgene expression. We used a three-plasmid expression system to generate pseudotyped lentivirus-based vectors by transient transfection of human embryonic kidney 293T cells in the presence of sodium butyrate, which is known to activate the long terminal repeat-directed expression of HIV. Using this system we successfully generated versatile high titer lentivirus at titers of up to 2 x 10(8) transducing units/ml (TU/ml), and improved transduction efficiency in various cell types from seven to over twenty fold. We demonstrate its applicability of these vectors for the efficient transduction of non-dividing cells, including post mitotic beating rat cardiac myocytes and well-differentiated rat L6 myofibers. While both lentivirus-based and murine retrovirus-based vectors effectively transduced dividing cardiac fibroblasts and L6 muscle myoblasts in culture, lentivirus-based vectors also efficiently transduced cardiac myocytes and yielded titers of (6.3 +/- 1.2) x 10(5) TU/ml; however murine retrovirus-based vectors showed low transduction efficiency with titers reaching only (8.9 +/- 2.1) x 10(2) TU/ml. Furthermore, even 12 days after induction of differentiation of L6 myofibers, lentivirus-mediated transduction of beta-galactosidase (beta-Gal) at approximately 30-40% of the maximum expression levels achieved in replicating myoblasts. In contrast, the expression of beta-Gal following transduction of the myofibers by murine retrovirus-based vectors fell to less than 1% of an already reduced level of transduction in undifferentiated confluent myoblasts. These results demonstrate that lentivirus-based vectors can efficiently transduce both well-differentiated cardiac myocytes and differentiated myofibers. This appears to be an efficient method and provides a new tool for research and therapy for cardiovascular diseases.

journal_name

J Mol Cell Cardiol

journal_title

Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology

authors

Sakoda T,Kasahara N,Hamamori Y,Kedes L

doi

10.1006/jmcc.1999.1035

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Has Abstract

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1999-11-01 00:00:00

pages

2037-47

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eissn

0022-2828

issn

1095-8584

pii

S0022-2828(99)91035-0

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A high-titer lentiviral production system mediates efficient transduction of differentiated cells including beating cardiac myocytes.