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  • Epigenetic control of multi...
    Monteferrario, Davide; David, Marion; Tadi, Satish K.; Zhou, Yuanyue; Marchetti, Irène; Jeanneau, Caroline; Saviane, Gaëlle; Dupont, Coralie F.; Martelli, Angélique E.; Truong, Lynn N.; Eshleman, Jason A.; Ng, Colman C.; Huston, Marshall W.; Davis, Gregory D.; Fontenot, Jason D.; Reik, Andreas; Rosa, Maurus de la; Fenard, David

    Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 06/2024, Letnik: 32, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Gene silencing without gene editing holds great potential for the development of safe therapeutic applications. Here, we describe a novel strategy to concomitantly repress multiple genes using zinc finger proteins fused to Krüppel-Associated Box repression domains (ZF-Rs). This was achieved via the optimization of a lentiviral system tailored for the delivery of ZF-Rs in hematopoietic cells. We showed that an optimal design of the lentiviral backbone is crucial to multiplex up to three ZF-Rs or two ZF-Rs and a chimeric antigen receptor. ZF-R expression had no impact on the integrity and functionality of transduced cells. Furthermore, gene repression in ZF-R-expressing T cells was highly efficient in vitro and in vivo during the entire monitoring period (up to 10 weeks), and it was accompanied by epigenetic remodeling events. Finally, we described an approach to improve ZF-R specificity to illustrate the path toward the generation of ZF-Rs with a safe clinical profile. In conclusion, we successfully developed an epigenetic-based cell engineering approach for concomitant modulation of multiple gene expressions that bypass the risks associated with DNA editing. Display omitted David Fenard and colleagues developed a lentiviral backbone for the multiplexing of up to three ZF-R sequences, allowing an efficient, stable, and specific epigenetic control of multiple genes in T cells or Tregs after a single lentiviral transduction event.