Evaluation of pathological manifestations of disease in mucopolysaccharidosis VII mice after neonatal hepatic gene therapy.
Evaluation of pathological manifestations of disease in mucopolysaccharidosis VII mice after neonatal hepatic gene therapy.
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新生肝基因治疗后粘多糖贮积症VII小鼠疾病病理表现的评估。
DOI:
10.1006/mthe.2002.0809
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2002
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Ponder,KatherineParker
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Xu,Lingfei;Mango,RobertL;Sands,MarkS;Haskins,MarkE;Ellinwood,NMatthew;Ponder,KatherineParker
Mucopolysaccharidosis VII (MPS VII) is a lysosomal storage disease caused by β-glucuronidase (GUSB) deficiency. Intravenous injection of a retroviral vector expressing canine GUSB into neonatal MPS VII mice resulted in transduction of 6 to 35% of hepatocytes, which secreted GUSB into blood. Serum GUSB activity was stable for 6 months at 600 (low expression) to 10,000 (high expression) U/ml, and enzyme was modified appropriately with mannose 6-phosphate. The average serum GUSB activity (3531 U/ml) is the highest long-term expression reported for MPS VII mice after gene therapy. Secreted enzyme was taken up by other tissues, as the average enzyme activity was >13% of normal in somatic organs and 2% of normal in brain. Low expression markedly reduced histopathological evidence of lysosomal storage in liver, spleen, kidney, small intestine, neurons, and glial cells. High expression appeared to be more effective than low expression at reducing lysosomal storage in aorta, heart valves, thymus, bronchial epithelium, cornea, and retinal pigmented epithelium. Future experiments will determine if greater pathological improvements will consistently be observed in retrovirus-treated MPS VII mice with higher serum GUSB activity relative to animals with lower activity and if these result in clinical benefits.