Measles virus envelope pseudotyped lentiviral vectors transduce quiescent human HSCs at an efficiency without precedent

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Lévy, Camille | Amirache, Fouzia | Girard-Gagnepain, Anais | Frecha, Cecilia | Roman-Rodriguez, Francisco J. | Bernadin, Ornellie | Costa, Caroline | Nègre, Didier | Gutierrez-Guerrero, Alejandra | Vranckx, Lenard S. | Clerc, Isabelle | Taylor, Naomi | Thielecke, Lars | Cornils, Kerstin | Bueren, Juan A. | Rio, Paula | Gijsbers, Rik | François-Loïc, Cosset | Verhoeyen, Els

Edité par CCSD ; The American Society of Hematology -

International audience. Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC)-based gene therapy trials are now moving toward the use of lentiviral vectors (LVs) with success. However, one challenge in the field remains: efficient transduction of HSCs without compromising their stem cell potential. Here we showed that measles virus glycoprotein-displaying LVs (hemagglutinin and fusion protein LVs [H/F-LVs]) were capable of transducing 100% of early-acting cytokine-stimulated human CD34+ (hCD34+) progenitor cells upon a single application. Strikingly, these H/F-LVs also allowed transduction of up to 70% of nonstimulated quiescent hCD34+ cells, whereas conventional vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSV-G)-LVs reached 5% at the most with H/F-LV entry occurring exclusively through the CD46 complement receptor. Importantly, reconstitution of NOD/SCIDγc-/- (NSG) mice with H/F-LV transduced prestimulated or resting hCD34+ cells confirmed these high transduction levels in all myeloid and lymphoid lineages. Remarkably, for resting CD34+ cells, secondary recipients exhibited increasing transduction levels of up to 100%, emphasizing that H/F-LVs efficiently gene-marked HSCs in the resting state. Because H/F-LVs promoted ex vivo gene modification of minimally manipulated CD34+ progenitors that maintained stemness, we assessed their applicability in Fanconi anemia, a bone marrow (BM) failure with chromosomal fragility. Notably, only H/F-LVs efficiently gene-corrected minimally stimulated hCD34+ cells in unfractionated BM from these patients. These H/F-LVs improved HSC gene delivery in the absence of cytokine stimulation while maintaining their stem cell potential. Thus, H/F-LVs will facilitate future clinical applications requiring HSC gene modification, including BM failure syndromes, for which treatment has been very challenging up to now.

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