CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF A SAFE AND EFFICIENT AMPHOTROPIC PACKAGING CELL-LINE
CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF A SAFE AND EFFICIENT AMPHOTROPIC PACKAGING CELL-LINE
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DOI:
10.1016/0042-6822(88)90101-8
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发表时间:
1988-12-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
BANK, A
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作者:
MARKOWITZ, D;GOFF, S;BANK, A
An amphotropic retrovirus packaging cell line was constructed in which the gag, pol, and env genes of the helper virus are separated on two different plasmids and in which the packaging signals and 3'' long terminal repeats are removed. To do this, a plasmid containing the Moloney murine leukemia virus gag and pol genes was transfected into NIH 3T3 cells, and a plasmid containing the 4070A amphotropic env gene was transfected into one of the resulting clones which produced a high level of reverse transcriptase. A clone producing a high level of amphotropic env protein (GP+envAm12) was then isolated. When transfected into GP+envAm12 cells, titers of the retroviral vector N2, containing a neomycin resistance gene, ranged from 102 to > 106 CFU/ml on 3T3 cells, from 1.3 .times. 104 to 2.7 .times. 105 CFU/ml on HeLa cells, and from 1.0 .times. 102 to 6.0 .times. 103 CFU/ml on K562 cells when assayed by G418 resistance. These titers were comparable to titers obtained using the PA317 cell line. Tests for the safety of the GP+envAm12 packaging line showed no evidence for the generation of wild-type virus. Thus, the efficiency and safety of the GP+enAm12 cell line in gene transfer into human cells may provide an optimal system for experiments whose goal is human gene therapy.