1. The Engineered MARCH8-Resistant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Glycoprotein Enhances Lentiviral Vector Transduction
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Hong Sun, Di Zhang, Fei Zhao, Shan Mei, Chen Liang, Liang Wei, Fei Guo, Jianwei Wang, Xiaoman Liu, Shan Cen, Zhangling Fan, Fengwen Xu, Li Guo, Yu Huang, and Siqi Hu
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viruses ,Genetic enhancement ,Genetic Vectors ,Mutant ,Virus ,Viral vector ,03 medical and health sciences ,Transduction (genetics) ,0302 clinical medicine ,Viral Envelope Proteins ,Ubiquitin ,Transduction, Genetic ,Genetics ,Animals ,Molecular Biology ,Glycoproteins ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Chemistry ,Lentivirus ,Genetic Therapy ,biology.organism_classification ,Ubiquitin ligase ,Cell biology ,Vesicular stomatitis virus ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,biology.protein ,Molecular Medicine ,Vesicular Stomatitis - Abstract
Lentiviral vectors are one of the most commonly used viral delivery systems for gene therapy. Vesicular stomatitis virus-G envelope glycoprotein (VSV G)-pseudotyped lentiviral vectors have been widely used in clinical studies for treatment of virus infections and genetic deficient diseases. However, the efficiency of lentiviral vector transduction has been long recognized as a limiting factor in clinical gene therapy application, especially in transducing hematopoietic stem cells. MARCH8 (membrane-associated RING-CH 8), an E3 ubiquitin ligase, has been reported to target and downregulate VSV G. Results in this study show that MARCH8 induces ubiquitination and lysosome degradation of VSV G, and knockout of MARCH8 in virus-producing cells increases lentiviral vector transduction by elevating the level of VSV G protein. We then engineered VSV G mutant that has the lysine residues in the cytoplasmic domain substituted for arginine, and showed that this G mutant resists degradation by MARCH8, and allows the enhancement of transduction efficiency of lentiviral vector particles than the parental VSV G protein. This engineered VSV G mutant thus further advances the lentiviral vector system as a powerful tool in gene therapy.
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- 2021