Faculty Research 1990 - 1999

Engraftment of immune-deficient mice with primitive hematopoietic cells from beta-thalassemia and sickle cell anemia patients: implications for evaluating human gene therapy protocols.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1995

Keywords

Anemia-Sickle-Cell: ge, pa, th, Animal, Bone-Marrow: cy, Cell-Differentiation, Cell-Division, Clinical-Protocols: st, Disease-Models-Animal, Erythroid-Progenitor-Cells, Evaluation-Studies, Gene-Expression-Regulation, Gene-Therapy: st, Genetic-Vectors: st, Globin: ge, me, Hematopoietic-Stem-Cell-Transplantation, Human, Mice, Mice-Inbred-NOD, Mice-SCID, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S, Transcription-Genetic

First Page

163

Last Page

172

JAX Source

Hum Mol Genet 1995 Feb;4(2):163-72

Abstract

Permanent correction of genetic deficiencies of the hematopoietic system requires gene transfer into stem cells and long-term lineage specific expression after autologous transplantation. However, progress to develop gene therapy protocols has been hampered by the absence of in vivo assays that detect genetically deficient human hematopoietic stem cells and their diseased differentiated progeny. The establishment of systems to transplant human cells into immune-deficient SCID mice provides such an assay. We report that primitive bone marrow cells from beta-thalassemia major and sickle cell anemia patients engraft immune-deficient mice, giving rise to high levels of human erythroid and myeloid cells in response to treatment with human cytokines. The bone marrow of transplanted mice contained the entire erythroid lineage from BFU-E to mature erythrocytes expressing human gamma, beta or beta s-globin. Moreover, human erythroid cells from mice transplanted with sickle cell anemia bone marrow showed characteristic sickling under reducing conditions in an in vitro assay. This model provides a powerful in vivo system that can be used to evaluate the efficiency of globin gene transfer into primitive human hematopoietic cells, lineage-specific expression in mature erythrocytes, and ultimately correction of the cellular defect found in the erythroid lineage.

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