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. 1992 Apr 15;89(8):3357–3361. doi: 10.1073/pnas.89.8.3357

Expression of human factor IX in mice after injection of genetically modified myoblasts.

S N Yao 1, K Kurachi 1
PMCID: PMC48866  PMID: 1565626

Abstract

Hemophilia B is an X chromosome-linked recessive bleeding disorder. To develop a somatic gene therapy for this disease, we have examined whether mouse skeletal myoblasts can serve as efficient vehicles for systemic delivery of recombinant factor IX. When mouse myoblasts (C2C12) transduced with a Moloney murine leukemia virus-based vector containing the bacterial beta-galactosidase gene were injected into mouse skeletal muscles, they fused with the existing and regenerating myofibers and continued to express beta-galactosidase. C2C12 myoblasts that were infected with recombinant retroviruses containing a human factor IX cDNA secreted biologically active human factor IX cDNA secreted biologically active human factor IX into the culture medium at a rate of 2.6 micrograms per 10(6) cells per day. Myotubes derived from these cells in culture continued to express human factor IX (0.68 micrograms/day from myotubes derived from 10(6) C2C12 cells). After injection of the transduced C2C12 myoblasts into skeletal muscles of mice, the systemic level of recombinant human factor IX was found to be as high as approximately 1 microgram/ml of serum. These results provide the rationale for using skeletal myoblasts as an efficient gene delivery vehicle in the somatic gene therapy for hemophilia B.

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