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  • Title: Development and analysis of retroviral vectors expressing human factor VIII as a potential gene therapy for hemophilia A.
    Author: Chuah MK, VandenDriessche T, Morgan RA.
    Journal: Hum Gene Ther; 1995 Nov; 6(11):1363-77. PubMed ID: 8573610.
    Abstract:
    To develop a potential gene therapy strategy for the treatment of hemophilia A, we constructed several retroviral vectors expressing a B-domain-deleted factor VIII (FVIII) cDNA. We confirmed previous reports that when the FVIII cDNA is inserted into a retroviral vector, the vector mRNA is decreased resulting in significantly (100- to 1,000-fold) lower vector titers. In an attempt to overcome this inhibition we pursued two independent strategies. First, site-directed mutagenesis was employed to change the structure of a putative 1.2-kb FVIII RNA inhibitory sequence (INS). Second, the FVIII gene was transcribed from a retroviral vector containing a 5' intron. Results demonstrated that the intron increased FVIII expression up to 20-fold and viral titer up to 40-fold but conservative mutagenesis of the putative FVIII INS region failed to yield a significant increase in FVIII expression or titer. Using the improved FVIII splicing vector, we transduced a variety of cell types and were able to demonstrate relatively high FVIII expression (10-60 ng of FVIII/10(6) cells/24 hr). These results underscore the usefulness of these transduced cell types for potential in vivo delivery of FVIII.
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