Patent Application: US-12270302-A

Abstract:
the present disclosure relates to a method for introducing a hematopoietic cell into the brain of a mammal , by administering bone marrow - derived progenitor cells into the body of the mammal by intravenous injection . the bone marrow - derived cell is preferably a cell that differentiates into a glial cell . the disclosure also relates to a method for delivery of therapeutic protein molecules into the brain of a mammal , by administering to a mammal an effective amount of bone marrow - derived progenitor cells which contain a gene having a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a functional therapeutic protein . isolated recombinant cells and a pharmaceutical composition are also provided .

Description:
experiment 1 : gene transfer and bone marrow transplantation gene transfer into hematopoietic precursors was done as previously described ( 11 , 12 ), with the addition of stem cell factor to optimize transduction of reconstituting hematopoietic stem cells ( 13 ). c57bl / 6j mice ( jackson laboratories , bar harbor , me . ), 6 - 8 weeks old , were used as donors . forty - eight hours before marrow harvest , the mice were injected with 5 - fluorouracil at a dose of 150 mg / kg to ablate mature blood cells and thereby induce progenitor cells into cycle . upon harvest , marrow was placed into liquid culture in suspension dishes and grown in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagle &# 39 ; s medium containing 15 % fetal bovine serum ( whittaker bioproducts , walkersville , md .) and supplemented with il - 3 ( 50 ng / ml ), il - 6 ( 100 ng / ml ) and stem cell factor ( 100 ng / ml ). growth factors were used to maintain early hematopoietic cells in cycle ( 13 ). all were obtained from r & amp ; d systems ( minneapolis , minn .). after 48 hr in culture with growth factors , marrow cells were collected and added to tissue culture dishes containing the f5b producer cell line at subconfluent density . f5b cells shed the n2 retroviral vector , packaged with the ecotropic envelope and carrying the bacterial gene for neomycin resistance ( neo r ) ( 14 ). following 48 hr co - culture with f5b cells , bone marrow cells were collected by gentle aspiration , suspended to 1 × 10 7 cells / ml in phosphate buffered saline ( pbs , in all cases 0 . 1 m phosphate , 140 mm nacl , ph 7 . 6 ) and injected intravenously ( 2 - 3 × 10 6 cells / mouse ) via the tail vein into sub - lethally irradiated ( 4 . 5 gy ) female wbb6f1 / j - kit w / kit w - v mice . wbb6f1 / j - kit w / kit w - v mice are particularly good recipients for bone marrow transplantation because they have genetically defective stem cells ( 15 ). this gives normal c57bl / 6j donor stem cells a strong repopulating advantage . in transplants of male donor marrow into female recipients , some marrow was marked with retroviral vector as described . in other cases , marrow was harvested , washed with pbs , and transplanted directly into recipient mice without culturing in growth factor - containing medium or irradiation of recipient animals . a total of 46 mice were transplanted , 38 with vector tagged marrow and 8 with male marrow . five of the transplants with vector tagged marrow used male donor cells . mice were sacrificed at various times after transplantation . at least two animals were analyzed at each time point , although more were used at the 14 day ( n = 10 ), 35 day ( n = 14 ), and 70 day ( n = 6 ) time points . tissues were collected and immediately frozen on dry ice for subsequent sectioning . some animals underwent cardiac perfusion with pbs before tissue harvest . animals for perfusion were anesthetized with carbon dioxide , then their chest was opened and pbs was introduced through a cannula placed in the left ventricle . the left atrium was incised to allow release of blood . animals were perfused with 50 ml of ice cold pbs over a period of 5 min . tissues were evaluated with both oligonucleotide and rna probes . to detect neo transcripts , two oligonucleotide probes were prepared , complementary to the sequence of the neo r gene either from nucleotides 222 - 269 or from nucleotides 447 - 494 ( numbering with the a of the initiation codon as 1 ). the oligonucleotides were labeled using terminal transferase ( boehringer - mannheim , indianapolis , ind .) and 35 s - datp ( new england nuclear , boston , mass .) as described previously ( 16 ). an rna probe , complementary to the entire neo r coding region , was labeled with 35 s - utp using sp6 polymerase ( 17 ). labeling with radioactive probes was detected by dipping hybridized sections in photographic emulsion . emulsion was exposed for 14 days , then developed and sections were stained , air dried , and coverslipped for microscopic examination . to detect male bone marrow cells transplanted into female recipients , sequences specific to the donor mouse y chromosome were detected using a complementary rna probe derived from the plasmid py353 / b ( 18 ). gfap gene expression was detected using an rna probe complementary to the entire gfap coding region . the y chromosome and gfap probes were labeled using digoxigenin - utp ( 19 ), and digoxigenin labeling was developed for gfap using alkaline phosphatase as described ( 19 ). for detection of the donor y chromosome , before overnight hybridization with digoxigenin - labeled probes at 55 ° c ., the slides were heated at 90 ° c . for 10 minutes in hybridization buffer containing the probes to improve access to nuclear dna . the digoxigenin - labeled y chromosome was visualized using a modification ( mezey et al ., in preparation ) of an immuno - staining amplification method ( 20 ), which results in green fluorescein isothiocyanate ( fitc ) fluorescence . twelve - micron thick frozen sections were cut in a cryostat and ishh was performed as described previously ( 16 , 17 ). the sections were fixed , dehydrated , and delipidated in ethanol and chloroform and then hybridization buffer containing the probe ( s ) was put on the sections . slides were incubated overnight in a humidified chamber at 37 ° c . ( for oligonucleotide probes ) or 55 ° c . ( for riboprobes ). to confirm that y chromosome ishh coincided with cell nuclei , sections were counterstained with ethidium bromide or 4 ′, 6 - diamidino - 2 - phenylindole ( dapi ). staining was detected by illumination with a mercury lamp using a microscope equipped for fluorescence micrography . for combined ishh / immunohistochemical analysis , sections were fixed as described previously ( 21 ). they were then incubated for 30 minutes at room temperature in 3 % normal goat serum diluted in pbs ( containing 0 . 6 % triton - x 100 ) to block nonspecific binding . then , the sections were exposed for one hour at room temperature to either 1 ) a polyclonal rabbit antibody that detects the mouse f4 / 80 monocyte / macrophage marker ( 22 ) or 2 ) a polyclonal rabbit antibody against the astroglial marker gfap ( sigma , st . louis , mo .) used at a dilution of 1 : 2000 . binding of non - labeled primary antisera was detected with either a biotinylated or goat anti - rabbit igg ( jackson immunoresearch laboratories , inc ., west grove , pa . ), both diluted 1 : 500 . to detect biotinylated secondary antibody , the sections were incubated for one hour in an avidin - biotin - peroxidase complex diluted 1 : 250 in pbs with 0 . 6 % triton - x 100 ( 23 ). the slides were then transferred into 0 . 1 m tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 6 ) and were developed using diaminobenzidine as a substrate . following a thorough wash , the sections were processed for ishh . co - labeling of cells was determined using a combination of bright - field , polarized , fluorescent , and epi - illumination microscopy . controls for the immunostaining included leaving out the primary antibodies and using several secondary antibodies ( from different species ) to confirm that there was no nonspecific binding . experiment 5 : detection of donor cells in the brain after bone marrow transplantation to evaluate the appearance and distribution of donor cells in the brains of recipient mice , animals were sacrificed 3 , 5 , 7 , 14 , 28 , 35 , 42 and 70 days after transplantation with bone marrow cells . at least two animals transplanted with retrovirally tagged marrow were studied at each time point . mice transplanted with male marrow were analyzed at 35 days ( n = 9 ) and 70 days ( n = 4 ) after transplantation . using probes specific to the vector neo r transcripts , donor cells were detected beginning with day three , the earliest time of analysis . many cells were easily detected throughout the brain by day seven and cells continued to be detected at all subsequent times . to estimate total number of neo r - positive cells in a brain , every 25th section was collected and all labeled cells in the sections were counted . the number of labeled cells was multiplied by 25 to arrive at the approximate total number of marked cells in a brain . these calculations showed that the overall number of marrow - derived cells per brain gradually increased with increasing time after transplantation . three days after transplant , 500 cells were detected per brain . two to 4 weeks after transplant the number of cells present had increased to at least 2000 per brain . in several animals more than 10 , 000 cells per brain were seen , and in one animal the number of cells was over 30 , 000 . at one week , and occasionally at later times , concentrations of neo r - marked cells were observed in the basal subarachnoid space . bright - and dark - field photographs were taken of the same section 14 days post - bone marrow transplantation , and cells marked by the retroviral vector ( cells positive by ishh with 35 - labeled oligonucleotide or riboprobe ) were detected in the hippocampus , septum , hypothalamus , and within the ependyma of the third ventricle . cells were also detected , among other regions , in the cortex , habenula , pons and cerebellum . labeled cells were detected after pbs perfusion , indicating that bone marrow - derived cells were an integral part of the brain parenchyma . double exposures of a brightfield image with a darkfield image were made of the same area . the darkfield image was photographed using a red filter so that the autoradiographic grains would appear red . similar regional distribution of donor marrow cells was seen using the y chromosome probe to detect male donor cells . donor cells ( cells positive for the y chromosome by ishh ) were detected in several brain regions of a female recipient six weeks after transplantation with male bone marrow cells . photomicrographs were made of a section through the ventral mesencephalon using a rhodamine filter to excite ethidium bromide staining of the nucleus , a fitc filter to excite y chromosome - specific fitc staining , and / or a double pass filter to show overlap of y chromosome labeling and nucleus - specific ethidium bromide staining . ethidium bromide counter - staining ( to highlight the nucleus ) confirmed the nuclear localization of the y chromosome probe . many male donor - derived cells were easily detected throughout the brain 35 days after transplantation and cells continued to be detected at all subsequent times . cells positive for the y chromosome marker were detected in the mesencephalon , septum , striatum , and habenula . cells were also detected in the cortex , pons , and cerebellum , among other regions ( data not shown ). ex vivo manipulation of the bone marrow cells was not necessary , because male cells were detected in female recipients &# 39 ; brains even when the transplant was done immediately after marrow harvest . several parameters were used to verify that the labeling observed after ishh was specific . first , no labeling was detected in any tissues of animals transplanted with non - marked bone marrow cells . that is , without retroviral tagging , probes for the neo r gene exhibited no background labeling , and the y chromosome probe did not label female tissues . with the y chromosome riboprobe , we also confirmed that both sense and antisense probes exhibited the same distribution , as expected when hybridizing to chromosomal dna . the pattern of retrovirally - labeled cells was identical in all tissues analyzed , both qualitatively and quantitatively , regardless of which probe was used . finally , we found donor cells in hematologic organs such as bone marrow and spleen at all time points analyzed . the pattern of engraftment was qualitatively similar between retrovirally tagged and male donor cells . however , when female mice were transplanted with retrovirally tagged male marrow , more donor cells were detected with the y chromosome probe than with the neo r probe . hence , not all of the cells migrating from the bone marrow into the brain expressed the retrovirally introduced neo r gene at a level high enough to be detected by ishh . experiment 6 : labeling of brain sections after ishh with the microglial marker f4 / 80 the f4 / 80 detects the plasma membrane protein f4 / 80 expressed exclusively on macrophages and microglia ( 22 ). co - localization in brain sections ( cells co - expressing the microglial marker f4 / 80 and the neo r retroviral tag ) revealed cells labeled by the n2 retroviral vector that also expressed the f4 / 80 antigen , confirming that bone marrow - derived cells do contribute to the microglial population in the adult brain . however , only a small percentage of ishh - positive cells were labeled by immunostaining . similarly , the minority of antigen - positive cells was doubly labeled by ishh . the distribution of doubly labeled cells reflected the distribution of cells labeled only by ishh or by immunohistochemistry , i . e ., they were widely distributed throughout the brain . the f4 / 80 monocyte / macrophage antigen was detected by indirect immunofluorescent antibody labeling , and 35 s - radiolabeled probes were used to hybridize to neo r mrna . photomicrographs were made of a representative field from an animal sacrificed 35 days after bone marrow transplantation . in one representative photomicrograph , a cell in the center stained positive for the f4 / 80 antigen ( red ) and exhibited labeling with radioactive probe to neo r transcripts . darkfield images were photographed using a green filter so that autoradiographic grains would appear green ( yellow where they overlap red immunostaining ). experiment 7 : labeling of brain sections for both the astroglial marker gfap and the neo r retroviral or y chromosome donor cell tag the ishh - positive , f4 / 80 negative cells could be cells of the myeloid lineage that had not differentiated to express the f4 / 80 antigen . or , they could represent a contribution of bone marrow - derived cells to other than myeloid cell lineages . to distinguish between these alternative possibilities , ishh - positive cells were examined for the expression of another lineage marker , gfap , specific for astroglia . surprisingly , we found occasional cells that were labeled both by ishh ( for the donor marrow neo r marker ) and by indirect immunohistochemistry ( for gfap ). photomicrographs were made of cells within the optic tract expressing gfap protein using peroxidase - based immunohistochemical staining combined with ishh to detect expression of neo r transcripts . double labeled cells were identified adjacent to clusters of grains indicative of neo r - marked cells that did not express gfap and gfap - positive cells that were not marked with the retroviral tag . counting all of the donor cells present in every 25th section obtained from recipient mice four weeks after transplantation ( n = 3 ), we calculated that as many as 3 × 10 4 neo r - marked donor cells were present per brain . of that total donor cell number , we estimated between 0 . 5 % and 2 % exhibited gfap expression . to confirm that gfap mrna was present in some neo r - positive cells , we also did double ishh analysis . cells co - expressing gfap and neo r mrnas were identified using a digoxigenin - labeled riboprobe against gfap mrna together with a 35 s - labeled probe for the neo r gene marking the donor marrow . photomicrographs were made of sections through the cerebral cortex . polarized epifluorescent illumination was used to emphasize grains indicative of hybridization with 35 s - labeled probe for neo r . brightfield illumination was used to emphasize digoxigenin staining of gfap transcripts . we found cells labeled with both probes . their frequency was approximately equal to the frequency of the ishh / gfap immunostained double cells . we also found doubly labeled cells in multiple animals when ishh ( which was used to detect male cells with the y chromosome marker ) was combined with immunohistochemistry ( to detect gfap protein ). using dapi staining to highlight the nucleus and three - channel photomicrography , we confirmed that the y - chromosome ishh was associated with the nuclei of gfap - positive cells . photomicrographs were made of double - labeled cells found in the brains of female recipient mice 10 weeks after bone marrow transplantation . male donor cells were detected with a y chromosome - specific riboprobe as described above . astroglia were identified using a cy3 - labeled polyclonal antibody against the astroglial marker gfap . in particular , sections were made through the cortex , through the septum , and through the corpus callosum . some sections were illuminated with ultraviolet light to excite dapi fluorescent staining of the nucleus . nuclei from all cells were stained . some sections were illuminated to excite fitc staining of the y chromosome . some sections were illuminated to excite cy3 - immunostaining of gfap . photomicrographs were also made of single fields from sections through the amygdala . in some photomicrographs , green fitc staining was used to detect the y chromosome . in other sections , red gfap immunostaining was photographed , while still other photomicrographs were double exposures of the same field , first with a double band pass filter to excite fitc and cy3 fluorescence , then with ultraviolet illumination to excite the blue dapi fluorescent staining of the nucleus . dark - and bright - field photographs ( of the same section ) were also made that showed several cells exhibiting labeling for the y chromosome marker in the fronto / polar cortex of an animal six weeks after bone marrow transplantation are indicated . experiment 8 : detection of neo r - marked cells in the brain after bone marrow transplantation with retrovirally - marked bone marrow neo r - marked cells were detected in the brain after bone marrow transplantation with retrovirally - marked bone marrow . photomicrographs were made of representative cells positive for neo r transcripts visualized by in situ hybridization histochemistry ( ishh ). positive cells were found in the region of the third ventricle of hypothalmus ( hth ) of animals sacrificed 35 days after bone marrow transplantation . ishh - positive cells were found within the arcuate nucleus of animals sacrificed 14 days post - bone marrow transplantation . in addition , ishh - positive cells were detected in animals 14 days post - bone marrow transplantation . in addition , bright and darkfield photographs were made of the same field in several of the animals . these photomicrographs showed cells exhibiting labeling for neo r transcripts in the hippocampus of animals two weeks after bone marrow transplantation ( ca3 - ca3 region of the hippocampus ). experiment 9 : behavior of marrow - derived glia in a rat ischemic injury model acute cortical ischemia was induced in spontaneously hypertensive ( shr ) rats as follows : under halothane anesthesia , the left middle cerebral artery was exposed using a subtemporal approach ( 36 ), and permanently occluded by electrocoagulation midway between the inferior cerebral vein and lateral olfactory tract . forty - eight hours after surgery , animals were sacrificed and their brains were collected for analysis . y chromosome - specific hybridization indicating marrow - derived cells in the cortex of brains of transplanted rats was quantified . the graph in fig1 compares the number of such cells detected in the lesioned ischemic vs . the contralateral non - ischemic side of three animals following mca occlusion . in addition , the number of marrow - derived cells was compared between the two hemispheres of two intact animals . statistical analysis of 10 brain sections from the lesioned animals using the wilcoxon signed rank test revealed a significantly higher number of y + nuclei on the ischemic side compared with the contralateral non - ischemic cortex ( p = 0 . 038 ). on the other hand , no such difference was found between the two hemispheres in seven sections obtained from intact animals ( p & gt ; 0 . 1 ). the number of y chromosome - positive astrocytes was determined in three lesioned and two intact animals . microscopic fields were randomly selected based on identifying well - structured astrocytes using astrocyte - specific anti - gfap immunofluorescence . subsequently , the number of y chromosome positive astrocytes was counted , and a comparison made between the two hemispheres . in each of the three lesioned animals , more male donor marrow - derived astrocytes were detected on the ischemic side than on the non - ischemic side ( fig2 ). the increase in number of marrow - derived astrocytes in lesioned animals was 47 % for experimental animal 1 ( e 1 ), 36 % for experimental animal 2 ( e 2 ), and 14 % for experimental animal 3 ( e 3 ). in intact rats , generally smaller differences in the number of marrow derived astrocytes between the two hemispheres were detected ( 5 % for control 1 , 21 % for control 2 ). 1 . summary of observations in rats following middle cerebral artery occlusion a . marrow - derived cells can be detected throughout the brains of transplanted rats , including in the ischemic parietal cortex . b . marrow - derived astrocytes participate in the gliosis induced by mca occlusion . c . more marrow - derived cells were detected in the ischemic cortex than in the contralateral non - ischemic cortex . d . more marrow - derived astrocytes were detected in the ischemic cortex than in the contralateral non - ischemic cortex . marrow - derived cells can be detected throughout the brains of female rats following transplantation with male bone marrow . such cells are detectable in transplant recipients before and after brain injury . as we previously observed in mice , some marrow - derived cells differentiate into astrocytes . such astrocytes participate in lesion - induced gliosis . results with the acute mca occlusion experiment show that there is some preferential association of marrow - derived cells , in particular astrocytes , with the region of gliosis . preferential association of marrow - derived glia with regions of gliosis shows that these cells could be used as vehicles to deliver therapeutic genes to sites of cns injury . experiment 10 : effect of transplantation with genetically engineered marrow cells in a mouse model of parkinson &# 39 ; s disease mouse marrow was harvested and transduced with a retroviral vector as described . cells were transduced with an mlv - based vector expressing rat glial cell line - 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