Human Artificial Chromosome Vectors Meet Stem Cells: New Prospects for Gene Delivery

Overview

Journal Stem Cell Rev

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2006 Dec 5

PMID 17142886

Citations 12

Authors

Xianying Ren

Candice Ginn T Tahimic

Motonobu Katoh

Akihiro Kurimasa

Toshiaki Inoue

Mitsuo Oshimura

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Abstract

The recent emergence of stem cell-based tissue engineering has now opened up new venues for gene therapy. The task now is to develop safe and effective vectors that can deliver therapeutic genes into specific stem cell lines and maintain long-term regulated expression of these genes. Human artificial chromosomes (HACs) possess several characteristics that require gene therapy vectors, including a stable episomal maintenance, and the capacity for large gene inserts. HACs can also carry genomic loci with regulatory elements, thus allowing for the expression of transgenes in a genetic environment similar to the chromosome. Currently, HACs are constructed by a two prone approaches. Using a top-down strategy, HACs can be generated from fragmenting endogenous chromosomes. By a bottom-up strategy, HACs can be created de novo from cloned chromosomal components using chromosome engineering. This review describes the current advances in developing HACs, with the main focus on their applications and potential value in gene delivery, such as HAC-mediated gene expression in embryonic, adult stem cells, and transgenic animals.

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