Increased engraftment of human short term repopulating hematopoietic cells in NOD/SCID/IL2rYnull mice by lentiviral expression of NUP98-HOXA10HD

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Abstract

Techniques to expand human hematopoietic stem cells ex-vivo could be beneficial to the fields of clinical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and gene therapy targeted at hematopoietic stem cells. NUP98-HOXA10HD is a relatively newly discovered fusion gene that in mouse transplant experiments has been shown to increase numbers of hematopoietic stem cells. We evaluated whether this fusion gene could be used to expand engrafting human primitive CD34+ cells in an immunodeficient mouse model. Gene transfer was achieved using a lentiviral based vector. The engraftment of mobilized peripheral blood human CD34+ cells grown in culture for one week after gene transfer was evaluated 3-4 months after transplant and found to be 2-3 fold higher in the NUP98-HOXA10HD groups as compared to controls. These data suggest an expansive effect at least at the short term human repopulating cell level. Further evaluation in long term repopulating models and investment in a NUP98-HOXA10HD protein seems worthy of consideration. Additionally, the results here provide strong impetus to utilize NUP98-HOXA10HDasatool to search for underlying genes and pathways involved in hematopoietic stem cell expansion that can be enhanced and have an even more potent expansive effect.

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Abraham, A., Kim, Y. S., Zhao, H., Humphries, K., & Persons, D. A. (2016). Increased engraftment of human short term repopulating hematopoietic cells in NOD/SCID/IL2rYnull mice by lentiviral expression of NUP98-HOXA10HD. PLoS ONE, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147059

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