Lentiviral vectors with a defective integrase allow efficient and sustained transgene expression in vitro and in vivo

S Philippe, C Sarkis, M Barkats… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Lentivirus-derived vectors are among the most promising viral vectors for gene therapy
currently available, but their use in clinical practice is limited by the associated risk of …

Transient gene expression by nonintegrating lentiviral vectors

SJ Nightingale, RP Hollis, KA Pepper, D Petersen… - Molecular Therapy, 2006 - cell.com
Nonintegrating lentiviral (NIL) vectors were produced from HIV-1-based lentiviral vectors by
introducing combinations of mutations made to disable the integrase protein itself and to …

Integrase-defective lentiviral vectors: progress and applications

MB Banasik, PB McCray - Gene therapy, 2010 - nature.com
Lentiviral vectors (LVs) offer the advantages of a large packaging capacity, broad cell
tropism or specific cell-type targeting through pseudotyping, and long-term expression from …

Efficient transfer, integration, and sustained long-term expression of the transgene in adult rat brains injected with a lentiviral vector.

L Naldini, U Blömer, FH Gage… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
We describe the construction of a safe, replication-defective and efficient lentiviral vector
suitable for in vivo gene delivery. The reverse transcription of the vector was found to be a …

Notable reduction in illegitimate integration mediated by a PPT-deleted, nonintegrating lentiviral vector

B Kantor, M Bayer, H Ma, J Samulski, C Li, T McCown… - Molecular Therapy, 2011 - cell.com
Nonintegrating lentiviral vectors present a means of reducing the risk of insertional
mutagenesis in nondividing cells and enabling short-term expression of potentially …

Non-integrating lentiviral vectors

C Sarkis, S Philippe, J Mallet… - Current gene …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Lentiviral vectors are among the most efficient gene transfer tools for dividing and non-
dividing cells. However, insertional mutagenesis has been observed in clinical trials with …

Targeted genome modifications using integrase‐deficient lentiviral vectors

TI Cornu, T Cathomen - Molecular Therapy, 2007 - cell.com
Gene correction aims at repairing a defective gene directly in the cellular genome, which
warrants tissue-specific and sustained expression of the repaired gene through its …

Novel integrase-defective lentiviral episomal vectors for gene transfer

J Vargas Jr, GL Gusella, V Najfeld, ME Klotman… - Human gene …, 2004 - liebertpub.com
High levels of circular viral extrachromosomal DNA (E-DNA) are normally produced after
infection with integration-competent and-incompetent lentiviruses. Although E-DNA has …

Unintegrated lentivirus DNA persistence and accessibility to expression in nondividing cells: analysis with class I integrase mutants

DT Saenz, N Loewen, M Peretz, T Whitwam… - Journal of …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
The circumstances under which unintegrated lentivirus DNA can persist and be a functional
template for transcription and protein expression are not clear. We constructed and validated …

Use of nonintegrating lentiviral vectors for gene therapy

NJ Philpott, AJ Thrasher - Human gene therapy, 2007 - liebertpub.com
Vectors based on lentiviruses have become potent tools for efficient gene transfer to multiple
cell types both in vitro and in vivo. In part this is attributable to the stability of transduction …