Chemoprotective gene transfer II: multilineage in vivo protection of haemopoiesis against the effects of an antitumour agent by expression of a mutant human O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase.
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Chinnasamy, NachimuthuRafferty, Joseph A
Hickson, Ian
Lashford, Linda S
Longhurst, S J
Thatcher, Nick
Margison, Geoffrey P
Dexter, T Michael
Fairbairn, Leslie J
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CRC Sections of Genome Damage and Repair, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester, UK.Issue Date
1998-06
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Murine bone marrow cells were transduced ex vivo with a retrovirus encoding an O6-benzylguanine (O6-beG) insensitive, double mutant form of the human DNA repair protein O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (hATPA/GA). In animals reconstituted with the transduced bone marrow, about 50% of cells in the multipotent spleen colony-forming cells (CFU-S) and lineage restricted granulocyte-macrophage (GM-CFC) haemopoietic progenitor populations were found to be carrying the transgene and this correlated with the frequency of bone marrow cells and spleen colonies which stained positive for hATPA/GA by immunocyto-chemistry. Expression of hATPA/GA was associated with significant in vivo protection of both CFU-S (P = 0.001) and GM-CFC (P < 0.024) against the toxicity of the antitumour methylating agent, temozolomide, given in combination with O6-beG. Expression of hATPA/GA also led to a reduction in the frequency of combined O6-beG/temozolomide-induced micronuclei seen in polychromatic erythrocytes (P < 0.003). This study is the first to demonstrate in vivo protection of multipotent haemopoietic progenitors against the toxic and clastogenic effects of an O6-alkylating agent in the presence of O6-beG. It also represents the first report of reduced clastogenesis as a consequence of expression of an O6-beG-resistant ATase. In the accompanying article we report hATPA/GA-mediated resistance of human CD34+ haemopoietic progenitors to combined O6-beG/O6-alkylating agent toxicity. Together these two reports suggest that a gene therapy strategy whereby protection of normal haemopoietic tissue may be combined with O6-beG-mediated tumour sensitisation may be efficacious in achieving an increase in therapeutic index.Citation
Chemoprotective gene transfer II: multilineage in vivo protection of haemopoiesis against the effects of an antitumour agent by expression of a mutant human O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase. 1998, 5 (6):842-7 Gene Ther.Journal
Gene TherapyDOI
10.1038/sj.gt.3300699PubMed ID
9747465Type
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0969-7128ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/sj.gt.3300699
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