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Production of lentiviral vectors

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Merten, Otto-Wilhelm, Hebben, Matthias, Bovolenta, Chiara·2016·Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development

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Lentiviral vectors (LV) have seen considerably increase in use as gene therapy vectors for the treatment of acquired and inherited diseases. This review presents the state of the art of the production of these vectors with particular emphasis on their large-scale production for clinical purposes. In contrast to oncoretroviral vectors, which are produced using stable producer cell lines, clinical-grade LV are in most of the cases produced by transient transfection of 293 or 293T cells grown in cell factories. However, more recent developments, also, tend to use hollow fiber reactor, suspension culture processes, and the implementation of stable producer cell lines. As is customary for the biotech industry, rather sophisticated downstream processing protocols have been established to remove any undesirable process-derived contaminant, such as plasmid or host cell DNA or host cell proteins. This review compares published large-scale production and purification processes of LV and presents their process performances. Furthermore, developments in the domain of stable cell lines and their way to the use of production vehicles of clinical material will be presented.

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  • Lentiviral vectors have become very popular for clinical applications due to their ability to more efficiently transduce nonproliferating or slowly proliferating cells, such as CD34+ stem cells.

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Authors
Merten, O.-W., Hebben, M., & Bovolenta, C.
Affiliations
  • Genethon (France) (FR)
  • MolMed (Italy) (IT)
Corresponding author
Merten, Otto-Wilhelm
Venue
Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016
Volume
3
Pages
16017
ISSN
2329-0501 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W103437854
Cited by
294
References
124
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Keywords
lentiviral vectors, large-scale vector production, gene therapy vectors, transient transfection, HEK293T cells, cell factories, hollow fiber bioreactor, suspension culture, downstream processing, vector purification

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