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2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

IMPROVED GENE TRANSDUCTION WITH RECOMBINANT AAV FOLLOWING IMMUNE TOLERANCE.

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 16K07081
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Laboratory animal science
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

Ishii Akiko  筑波大学, 医学医療系, 講師 (10400681)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 喜納 裕美 (早下裕美)  日本医科大学, 大学院医学研究科, 助教 (60532728)
岡田 浩典  日本医科大学, 大学院医学研究科, 研究生 (80416271)
Research Collaborator Okada Takashi  
Takeda Sin'ichi  
Sankai Tadashi  
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Keywords遺伝子治療 / 免疫寛容 / 筋ジストロフィー / アデノ随伴ウイルス / カニクイザル
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is a promising viral vector for gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Emergence of circulating dystrophin-specific T cells was reported in DMD patients treated with rAAV. Therefore, immunomodulation is a necessary requirement for successful gene therapy. Immune tolerance induction is immunosuppressive method and we used it as a novel alternative for this purpose. Our research consist on inducing immune tolerance using dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) and the effects on the AAV-mediated expression of LacZ in the skeletal muscle of cynomolgus monkey. Without DPSCs, LacZ expression was not detected at any point of the observation period. Using DPSCs, LacZ expression was successfully detected at 48 weeks after the injection.
DPSCs administration was able to reduce immune response to rAAV9 and LacZ. This DPSCs-assisted transduction strategy can enhance the therapeutic benefits of AAV-mediated gene therapy of DMD.

Free Research Field

遺伝子治療

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

Duchenne型筋ジストロフィーは,根本的な治療法がなく,遺伝子治療法の確立が望まれている.本研究は組換えAAVが筋ジストロフィーの遺伝子治療に用いることができるかどうかを検討する研究であり,ヒトの遺伝子治療の基礎的研究として重要である.iPS細胞を使用しても,何らかの方法により効率的に欠失している遺伝子の導入が必要である.AAVは病原性がないこと,長期発現が可能であることからもっとも有望な遺伝子導入法である.本研究で組換えAAVの安全性および免疫寛容の誘導による効果の持続法が確立されれば,他の遺伝性疾患に対する遺伝子治療も選択肢が広がり,遺伝子疾患患者にとって福音であり社会的意義は大きい.

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Published: 2020-03-30  

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