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Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein as Selectable Marker of Retroviral-Mediated Gene Transfer in Immature Hematopoietic Bone Marrow Cells
Marti F.A. Bierhuizen,
Yvonne Westerman,
Trudi P. Visser,
Wati Dimjati,
Albertus W. Wognum, and
Gerard Wagemaker
From the Institute of Hematology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The further improvement of gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells and their direct progeny will be greatly facilitated by markers that allow rapid detection and efficient selection of successfully transduced cells. For this purpose, a retroviral vector was designed and tested encoding a recombinant version of the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein that is enhanced for high-level expression in mammalian cells (EGFP). Murine cell lines (NIH 3T3, Rat2) and bone marrow cells transduced with this retroviral vector demonstrated a stable green fluorescence signal readily detectable by flow cytometry. Functional analysis of the retrovirally transduced bone marrow cells showed EGFP expression in in vitro clonogenic progenitors (GM-CFU), day 13 colony-forming unit-spleen (CFU-S), and in peripheral blood cells and marrow repopulating cells of transplanted mice. In conjunction with fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) techniques EGFP expression could be used as a marker to select for greater than 95% pure populations of transduced cells and to phenotypically define the transduced cells using antibodies directed against specific cell-surface antigens. Detrimental effects of EGFP expression were not observed: fluorescence intensity appeared to be stable and hematopoietic cell growth was not impaired. The data show the feasibility of using EGFP as a convenient and rapid reporter to monitor retroviral-mediated gene transfer and expression in hematopoietic cells, to select for the genetically modified cells, and to track these cells and their progeny both in vitro and in vivo.
Blood, Vol. 90 No. 9 (November 1), 1997:
pp. 3304-3315
© 1997 by The American Society of Hematology.
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