Transient proteasome inhibition as a strategy to enhance lentiviral transduction of hematopoietic CD34+ cells and T lymphocytes: Implications for the use of low viral doses and large-size vectors

Autor: Dario Sangiolo, Alessandro Cignetti, Giulia Mesiano, Loretta Gammaitoni, Noela Jordaney, Cristina Cammarata, Valeria Leuci, Wanda Piacibello, Massimo Aglietta, Sonia Capellero, Angela Rita Elia, Paola Circosta, Maja Todorovic, George E. Georges, Franca Fagioli, Marina Lesnikova
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Journal of Biotechnology. 156:218-226
ISSN: 0168-1656
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2011.09.001
Popis: The proteasome system restricts lentiviral transduction of stem cells. We exploited proteasome inhibition as a strategy to enhance transduction of both hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and T lymphocytes with low dose or large-size lentiviral vectors (LV). HSC showed higher transduction efficiency if transiently exposed to proteasome inhibitor MG132 (41.8% vs 10.7%, p < 0.0001). Treatment with MG132 (0.5 μM) retained its beneficial effect with 3 different LV of increasing size up to 10.9 Kb (p < 0.01). We extended, for the first time, the application of proteasome inhibition to the transduction of T lymphocytes. A transient exposure to MG132 significantly improved lentiviral T-cell transduction. The mean percentage of transduced T cells progressively increased from 13.5% of untreated cells, to 21% (p = 0.3), 30% (p = 0.03) and 37% (p = 0.01) of T lymphocytes that were pre-treated with MG132 at 0.1, 0.5 and 1 μM, respectively. MG132 did not affect viability or functionality of HSC or T cells, nor significantly increased the number of integrated vector copies. Transient proteasome inhibition appears as a new procedure to safely enhance lentiviral transduction of HSC and T lymphocytes with low viral doses. This approach could be useful in settings where the use of large size vectors may impair optimal viral production.
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