Abstract
Immune-deficient Rag2-/- mice were used as nuclear donors for transfer into enucleated oocytes, and the resulting blastocysts were cultured to isolate an isogenic embryonic stem cell line. One of the mutated alleles in the Rag2-/- ES cells was repaired by homologous recombination, thereby restoring normal Rag2 gene structure. Mutant mice were treated with the repaired ES cells in two ways. (1) Immune-competent mice were generated from the repaired ES cells by tetraploid embryo complementation and were used as bone marrow donors for transplantation. (2) Hematopoietic precursors were derived by in vitro differentiation from the repaired ES cells and engrafted into mutant mice. Mature myeloid and lymphoid cells as well as immunoglobulins became detectable 3-4 weeks after transplantation. Our results establish a paradigm for the treatment of a genetic disorder by combining therapeutic cloning with gene therapy.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 17-27 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Cell |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 5 2002 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wish to acknowledge Wayne Yokoyama for helpful insights into the role of NK cells in transplant rejection, and we wish to thank Jianzhu Chen for Rag2 −/− C57Bl/6 mice. K.H. was supported by a Ph.D. fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. Support to G.Q.D was from National Institutes of Health grants (CA86991 and DK59279), the National Science Foundation, MIT Biotechnology Process Engineering Center, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. G.Q.D. is the Birnbaum Scholar of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America. Support to R.J. was from the National Cancer Institute (grant 5-R37-CA84198). We thank Jessica Dausman and Ruth Flannery for technical assistance with the mice.
