Generation of Healthy Mice from Gene-Corrected Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.

Autor: Wu, Guangming, Liu, Na, Rittelmeyer, Ina, Sharma, Amar Deep, Sgodda, Malte, Zaehres, Holm, Bleidißel, Martina, Greber, Boris, Gentile, Luca, Han, Dong Wook, Rudolph, Cornelia, Steinemann, Doris, Schambach, Axel, Ott, Michael, Schöler, Hans R., Cantz, Tobias
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Zdroj: PLoS Biology; Jul2011, Vol. 9 Issue 7, p1-14, 14p, 1 Color Photograph, 2 Charts, 4 Graphs
Abstrakt: Using the murine model of tyrosinemia type 1 (fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase [FAH] deficiency; FAH-/- mice) as a paradigm for orphan disorders, such as hereditary metabolic liver diseases, we evaluated fibroblast-derived FAH-/--induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) as targets for gene correction in combination with the tetraploid embryo complementation method. First, after characterizing the FAH-/- iPS cell lines, we aggregated FAH-/--iPS cells with tetraploid embryos and obtained entirely FAH-/--iPS cell-derived mice that were viable and exhibited the phenotype of the founding FAH-/- mice. Then, we transduced FAH cDNA into the FAH-/--iPS cells using a third-generation lentiviral vector to generate genecorrected iPS cells. We could not detect any chromosomal alterations in these cells by high-resolution array CGH analysis, and after their aggregation with tetraploid embryos, we obtained fully iPS cell-derived healthy mice with an astonishing high efficiency for full-term development of up to 63.3%. The gene correction was validated functionally by the long-term survival and expansion of FAH-positive cells of these mice after withdrawal of the rescuing drug NTBC (2-(2-nitro-4- fluoromethylbenzoyl)-1,3-cyclohexanedione). Furthermore, our results demonstrate that both a liver-specific promoter (transthyretin, TTR)-driven FAH transgene and a strong viral promoter (from spleen focus-forming virus, SFFV)-driven FAH transgene rescued the FAH-deficiency phenotypes in the mice derived from the respective gene-corrected iPS cells. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that a lentiviral gene repair strategy does not abrogate the full pluripotent potential of fibroblast-derived iPS cells, and genetic manipulation of iPS cells in combination with tetraploid embryo aggregation provides a practical and rapid approach to evaluate the efficacy of gene correction of human diseases in mouse models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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