Patent Application: US-16860808-A

Abstract:
a method of treating a fetus or embryo suspected of having a congenital condition that involves an abnormal or missing protein , the method has the steps of a . providing a plurality of human umbilical cord blood in a form suitable for intravenous administration ; a b . administering the human umbilical cord blood cells to a mother carrying a fetus of embryo suspected of having said congenital condition . such congenital conditions include sanfilippo &# 39 ; s syndrome , hunter &# 39 ; s syndrome , hurler &# 39 ; s syndrome , tay - sachs disease , gaucher &# 39 ; s disease , von gierke &# 39 ; s disease , pompes disease , cori disease , andersen disease , mcardle &# 39 ; s disease , hers disease , tauri &# 39 ; s disease or type ix glycogen storage disease .

Description:
maternal cells have recently been discovered to pass into the fetus during pregnancy in human , mammalian and other animal models . however , functional benefits of maternal microchimerism in utero are unknown . here we have taken advantage of this route for prenatal delivery of α - n - acetylglucosaminidase ( naglu ) enzyme into the enzyme - deficient mouse model of sanfilippo syndrome type b ( mps iii b ). enzymatically sufficient mononuclear cells ( mnc ) from human umbilical cord blood ( hucb ) were administered intravenously into heterozygous females previously mated with heterozygous males on the 5 th day of pregnancy during implantation of blastocysts in this murine model . the major findings were as follows : 1 ) administered mnc hucbcs transmigrated and diffused into the embryos / fetuses ( e12 . 5 ); 2 ) some transmigrated cells expressed cd34 and cd117 antigens , blood cell precursors and stem cells , respectively ; 3 ) transmigrated cells were found in both the maternal and embryonic parts of placentas ; 4 ) transmigrated cells corrected naglu enzyme activity in all embryos ; 5 ) administered mnc hucbcs were extensively distributed in the organs and blood of heterozygous mothers at one week after transplantation . results indicated that prenatal delivery of naglu enzyme by mnc hucbc administration into mothers of enzyme - deficient embryo mice raises the enzyme level and may present a significant opportunity for new biotechnological therapeutics , including , but not limited to autologous or xenotransplantations or derivatives thereof to treat many inherited disorders in humans and mammals . herein we disclose prenatal delivery of the missing enzyme for the treatment of mps iii b . the long - established dogma of restricted materno - fetal cell passage through the placental barrier is now being re - examined . reported studies in humans ( 14 - 20 ) and experimental ( mostly murine models ( 21 , 22 ) or pregnancy have shown cell exchanges between the maternal and fetal circulations without classical signs or symptoms of incompatibility or rejection . maternal cells were found in 20 % of examined cord blood samples from male babies ; 14 % of maternal cells were t - lymphocytes ( t - cells ) and 4 % of cells were cd34 positive ( 14 ) early stage hematopoietic cells . conversely , fetal cells passed into the maternal circulation during pregnancy ( 15 - 18 ). it has been shown that fetal lymphocytes passed actively into the mother &# 39 ; s blood relative early ( 15 weeks &# 39 ; gestation ) ( 17 ). moreover , fetal cells transferred to the mother may develop the multilineage capacity to differentiate into epithelial and hepatic cells within maternal tissues ( 18 ), such plasticity of stem cells is an unexpected finding . such bilateral trafficking of nucleated cells between the fetus and the mother has been detected in separated as well as the same feto - maternal pairs using sensitive pcr - based tests ( 19 ). there fetal - derived dna sequences were found in maternal peripheral blood in 26 of 51 cases ( 51 %); whereas , maternal dna sequences were detected in 16 of 38 cases ( 42 %) of the umbilical cord samples , higher than previously described ( 14 ). interestingly , bilateral cell traffic was established in 28 cases . in animal studies , transplacental traffic of nucleated maternal cells was established in mouse scid / scid fetuses at 12 . 5 gestational day ( gd ) or in offspring with normal lymphoid development at 16 . 5 gd ( 21 ). predominantly , maternal cell chimerism was observed in fetal bone marrow and some cells were detected in the postnatal spleen . another interesting study using molecular techniques demonstrated that maternal t - cells of immunized pregnant mice crossed the placenta into the fetus and induced antigen - specific immunological tolerance in the offspring ( 22 ). although the mechanism of two - way , materno - fetal and feto - maternal cell bilateral passage through the placenta was still unknown , it was suggested that this phenomenon could be due to developing immunotolerance between the mother and the fetus ( 14 , 20 ) or to “ help the fetus to build a better defense system ” ( 22 ). either passive or active bilateral cell trafficking might occur at delivery or during prenatal development ( 14 , 19 ). however , it is clear that the immunological relationship between mother and fetus plays an important role in materno - fetal immune recognition . presently studies are focusing on the critical features of the immune system responses of mother and embryo / fetus during normal pregnancy ( 23 - 25 ), or , in the course of pathological conditions , such as autoimmune diseases ( 26 , 27 ). this emerging evidence of nucleated maternal cell trafficking into fetal circulation prompted us to test a new therapeutic prenatal strategy . if the transplantation of enzymatically sufficient cells into a mother &# 39 ; s blood circulation allows their migration into the mps type iii b fetus , the migrating cells could replace the missing enzyme . human umbilical cord blood cells ( hucbcs ) may be preferable to other cell sources to accomplish this task . compared to bone marrow cells , hucbcs have a more immature morphology of the myelocytic / monocytic cells , smaller numbers of mature neutrophils and unique ultrastructural elements , such as nuclear pockets in the neutrophils , which accelerate the transport of rna to the cytoplasm ( 28 ). hematopoietic progenitors from hucbcs are rich in the most primitive stem cells ( 29 - 31 ). moreover , the immune immaturity of hucbcs can help reduce the risk of graft - versus - host disease after transplantation ( 32 , 33 ). recently hucbc transplants from unrelated donors were shown to improve neurocognitive performance and decrease somatic features in patients with hurler &# 39 ; s syndrome ( mps i ) ( 34 ). more recently , we showed that mononuclear hucbcs contain and release naglu enzyme in vitro ( 35 ). when these enzymatically sufficient cells were administered into the lateral cerebral ventricle of 1 - month - old mice modeling mps iii b , they prevented histopathological changes , probably due to replacement of the deficient naglu enzyme ( 35 ). transplanted hubcbs survived long term ( 7 months ), migrated into the parenchyma of the brain and expressed neural antigens and exhibited neuron - and astrocyte - like morphology . transplant benefits were also demonstrated by stable cytoarchitecture in the hippocampus and cerebellum and by reduced gags in the livers of treated mutant mice . these findings suggest that hucbc may have therapeutic potential for enzyme delivery in mps iii b . transplantation of hucbcs early in the disease may further improve results , or even prevent the disease directly or at least the clinical manifestations of the disease . throughout this application , various publications are referenced . the disclosures of all of these publications and those references cited within those publications in their entireties are hereby incorporated by reference into this application in order to more fully describe the state of the art to which this invention pertains . the following examples are not intended to limit the scope of the claims to the invention , but are rather intended to be exemplary of certain embodiments . any variations in the exemplified methods which occur to the skilled artisan are intended to fall within the scope of the present invention . all animals used in the study were obtained from the usf established colony of naglu mice developed from heterozygous sanfilippo type b b6 . 129s6 - naglu tm1fn breeding pairs ( the jackson laboratory , bar harbor , mass .). the first generation ( f1 ) was obtained from these breeding pairs by crossing male with female ( both heterozygous ) to produce littermates of three phenotypes : homozygote , heterozygote and wild - type . phenotyping of all animals were performed by enzyme assay the five mating pairs of these heterozygous naglu mice and two pairs c57bl / 6 ( control ) at 7 - 8 weeks of age were used for the study . all mice had been maintained on a 12 : 12 hr dark : light cycle and given food and water ad libitum . this was the first pregnancy for all female mice in the study . to obtain timed pregnancies , females were paired with males in the afternoon prior to the end of the light cycle . on the following 3 days , females were examined early in the morning for the presence of a copulatory vaginal plug ( a mixture of secretions of the vesicular and coagulating glands of the male ). the plug usually fills the vagina from cervix to vulva . the first day of gestation , stage e0 . 5 , was considered to be the day the plug was found . hucbcs were prepared for transplantation on the 5 th day of pregnancy . cryopreserved mononuclear ( mnc ) human umbilical cord cells ( hucbcs ) ( saneron ccel therapeutics , inc ., tamps , fla .) from unrelated donors were thawed rapidly at 37 ° c ., then transferred slowly with a pipette into a 15 - ml centrifuge tube containing isolyte s , ph 7 . 4 ( braun / mcgaw pharmaceuticals ). prenatal delivery of mnc hucbcs was performed on the 5 th day of pregnancy ( embryonic stage e5 . 5 ). the mnc hucbcs or medium ( 3 × 10 6 cells in isolyte s or isolyte s alone ) to mothers under anesthesia with isofluorane ( 2 - 5 % in 2 l o 2 / min ). the jugular vein was exposed and isolated using blunt dissection . the vein was ligated and a hole was made with a 26 gauge needle . a 31 gauge needle attached to a 10 μl hamilton syringe was placed into the lumen of the vein and sutured in place . the cells or medium were delivered over 5 min . the needle was withdrawn , the suture tightened , and the incision closed . females receiving hucbcs were immunosuppressed with cyclosporine a ( 20 mg / kg orally per day ) during the post - transplantation period . the mothers of four litters totaling 29 embryos intravenously received cells and one mother of 9 embryos received media . two additional litters of 14 embryos ( no - tx group ) from c57bl / 6 pregnant females did not receive cells or medium injection . seven days after the injections , heterozygote females were euthanatized and embryos ( e12 . 5 ) and related placentas were removed for identification of transmigrated hucb cells by immunohistochemistry and western immunoblot analysis . embryos from one randomly selected transplanted heterozygote female were used to determine naglu enzyme activity . embryos , including placentas , from c57bl / 6 females were removed at the same embroyinc state ( e12 . 5 ) and used as controls . the brains and organs from transplanted females were also removed for immunohistochemical analysis of administered cell distribution . seven days after the injections , heterozygous females were euthanatized and embryos ( e12 . 5 ) and related placentas were removed for identification of transmigrated hucbcs by immunohistochemistry and western immunoblot analysis . embryos from one randomly selected transplanted heterozygous female were used to determine naglu enzyme activity . embryos , including placentas , from c57bl / 6 females were removed at the same embryonic state ( e12 . 5 ) and used as controls . the brains and organs from transplanted females were also removed for immunohistochemical analysis of administered cell distribution . female mice were anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital ( 60 mg / kg ip ) and perfused transcardially with 4 % paraformaldehyde in 0 . 1 m phosphate buffer ( pb ; ph 7 . 2 ). the embryos , placentas and mother &# 39 ; s organs were post - fixed and then cryoprotected in 20 % sucrose in 0 . 1 m pb overnight . sagittal sections were cut at 30 μm in a cryostat . serial sections were thaw - mounted on slides , washed with deionized water to remove the freezing medium and then rinsed several times in pbs . the hucbcs were identified by the human - specific market as we described previously ( 41 ). briefly , the primary mouse monoclonal anti - human nuclei ( hunu , 1 : 50 , chemicon , temecula , calif .) antibody was pre - incubated with a monovalent goat anti - mouse fab fragment antibody conjugated to fitc ( 1 : 200 , jackson immunoresearch , west grove , pa .). after blocking the tissue for 30 min , this antibody complex was applied to the tissue sections and incubated overnight at 4 ° c . after rinsing a few times in pbs , the sections were double immunostained with mouse monoclonal anti - human antibodies for cd34 ( 1 : 50 , santa cruz biotech , santa cruz , calif .) and stem cell factor receptor ( cd117 , c - kit receptor , 1 : 100 , spring bioscience , fremont , calif .). the next day , the slides were incubated with goat anti - mouse secondary antibody conjugated to rhodamine ( 1 : 1000 , alexa , molecular probes , invitrogen , carlsbad , calif .) for 2 hr . after several rinses in pbs , the sections were coverslipped with vectashield dapi ( vector laboratories , burlingame , calif .) and examined under epifluorescence using an olympus research microscope . hucbcs were observed in the brains and abdominal organs in females one wk after they received the cells . cells identified by hunu specific antigen expression were found inside and outside the cns . hucbcs were identified in the brain ( cerebral cortex , hippocampus , choroid plexus and striatum ) and organs ( heart , lung , kidney and spleen ). although most grafted cells were found in the blood vessels of the aforementioned organs , some also were observed in the parenchyma . embryos and placentas ( n = 11 ) from two randomly selected hucbc - treated females were analyzed for the presence of transmigrated cells , using the hunu marker for anti - human nuclei . the embryo / placenta units ( n = 8 ) from medium - injected heterozygous females and c57bl / 6 females served as controls . morphological analyses of embryos and placentas were also performed . examination revealed transmigration of hucbcs into many areas and parts of the embryos ( fig1 ). mainly , the cells were present in the primitive ectomeninx ( fig1 a ), the loosely packed cephalic mesenchyme ( fig1 b and 1c ), the choroid plexus extending into the lateral ventricle ( fig1 d ), and the choroid plexus extending from the roof of the fourth ventricle ( fig1 e ). cells were found in areas around the dorsal root ganglion ( fig1 g ) and the cartilage primordium of the vertebral body ( fig1 h ). many cells were identified in the embryo liver ( fig1 f ), and some were cd34 positive ( fig1 i ). cd117 was found in some cells in marginal or mantle layers of the spinal cord ( fig1 j , l ). cells doubly positive for hunu and cd117 antigens also were found in the fourth ventricle . interestingly , a cell attached to the ventricle wall displayed epithelial - like cell morphology ( fig1 m ). notably , no morphological abnormalities were found in fetuses from mothers receiving hucbcs , and their developmental features at this state ( e12 . 5 ) were similar to fetuses from medium - injected heterozygotes or c547bl / 6 females . for additional identification of hucbcs , western immunoblot assay was used on the embryos and placentas from the three types of offspring ( cell transplanted , medium injected and c57bl / 6 control ). hucbcs ( 10 7 ), after several washes in pbs , were used as an assay control . a homogenizer was used to extract proteins in a homogenization buffer containing 20 mm tris ( ph 8 . 0 ), 1 mm edta , 1 mm dithiothreitol , 0 . 5 mm spermine , 0 . 5 mm spermidine , 50 % glycerol and protease inhibitors . homogenates were rocked for 30 min after addition of 1 / 10 volume of 2 . 5 m kcl and spun at 14000 rpm for 30 min . protein concentration was measured using the bicinchoninic acid ( bca ) method . proteins extracted from different embryo tissues were separated on a 12 % sds - pasge gel and transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane using a biorad ( hercules , calif .) semi - dry transblot technique according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . the membranes were blocked overnight at 4 ° c . in a solution containing 5 % dry milk and tris - buffered saline ( tbs ) composed of 200 mm nacl and 50 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 4 ) and supplemented with 0 . 04 % tween - 20 . the membranes were rinsed in tbs - tween mixture and incubated overnight at 4 ° c . with primary hunu using 1 : 50 dilution by 1 % dry milk prepared in tbs - tween . after washing 3 × for 10 min with tbs - tween at 4 ° c ., the membranes were incubated with anti - mouse secondary antibody conjugated with horseradish peroxidase ( 1 : 2000 santa cruz biotechnology ) for 1 hr at room temperature . the blot was developed by ecl western blotting detection kit ( amersham , piscataway , n . j .). naglu enzyme assay was performed in all fetuses ( n = 5 , e12 . 5 ) from one randomly chosen litter whose heterozygous mother received hucbcs . naglu enzyme activity was similar in all embryos , ranging from 1 . 203 - 1 . 355 nmol / h / protein , which was also similar to their parents ( table 3 ). the level of enzyme detected in heterozygous parents at 2 mo of age , 1 wk before cell administration , was 1 . 035 nmol / h / protein in females and 1 . 369 nmol / h / protein in males . for histological analysis of embryos and placentas , routine paraffin processing was performed on tissues . paraffin sections were cut at 5 μm intertals . embryonic tissues were stained with 0 . 1 % cresyl violet . hematoxylin and eosin staining was performed on the placentas . the pregnant uterus , placenta and embryos were dissected following a standardized technique described by ward and devor - henneman ( 36 ) to minimize variability . the number of normal placental sites as well as sites of spontaneous resorption / dead embryos in each mother were counted and crown - to - rump length of each embryo was measured . additionally , placenta size in all three dimensions ( length , width , thickness ) was determined . the entire uterine horns , the yolk sac , placenta and embryos themselves were carefully inspected and observations were recorded . there were no undeveloped or dead embryos in the litter chosen for naglu testing . after dissection of the mouse uterus at 12 . 5 gd , embryos and placentas were examined . table 4 provides a numerical tabulation regarding viable / nonviable fetuses and morphometric characteristics of embryos / placentas in each group . a data are presented as mean (± s . e . m .). no significant differences were found in crown - to - rump lengths of treated ( mnc hucb naglu +/−) or non - treated ( medium naglu +/−, no - tx c57bl / 6 +/+) embryos . length of placenta from either cell - treated or medium - treated naglu embryos were significantly less (** p & lt ; 0 . 001 , anova ) less than those from c57bl / 6 embryos . the placental thickness of placenta from cell - treated embryos was significantly less (* p & lt ; 0 . 01 , anova ) and tended to be less from medium - treated naglu embryos compared with c57bl / 6 embryos . the number of embryos and embryo crown - to - rump lengths did not differ between heterozygote offspring receiving hucbcs or medium or between the heterozygote offspring and the c57bl / 6 control females . intrauterine embryonic death , common in placental mammals , was observed in the heterozygotes receiving cells ( 13 . 8 %) or medium ( 11 . 1 %), as well as c57bl / 6 females ( 14 . 3 %). no dead embryos were detected in two heterogygous females that received hucbcs . examination showed normal placental development ( full red color , vascular expansion ) in all embryos , except for the dead fetuses , which presented as amorphous masses . no further examination of these latter embryo / placental masses was pursued since intrauterine mortality , up to 20 %, is considered normal ( 36 , 37 ). although no gross abnormalities were noted in placentas , the length and thickness of placentas from heterozygous females were significantly less than those from c57bl / 6 mice ( table 4 ). placentas from both heterozygote and c57bl / 6 females appeared structurally normal ( fig2 a and b , respectively ). however , the placental thickness in heterozygous females was significantly reduced compared to control c57bl / 6 mice . this difference was due to decreased thickness of the decidua ( the maternal part ) in the heterozygous females , as shown in fig2 a . also the chorionic plate in this mouse was thinner . structural characteristics of the embryonically derived labyrinth , spongiotrophoblast , and giant cell trophoblast of the heterozygous females were within normal limits . the labyrinth is comprised mainly of embryonal labyrinth trophoblasts , embryonal endothelium - forming blood vessels and maternal blood cells . immunohistochemical staining for hucbcs demonstrated their presence in the deciduas of the treated heterozygous females ( fig1 , 1 a ). some cells were observed in the spongiotrophoblast layer ( fig2 , 3 a ), labyrinth ( fig2 , 4 a ) and the chorionic plate ( fig2 , 5 a ). data have been presented as means ± standard errors of the means based on a normal gaussian distribution ( i . e ., the bell - shaped curve ). the one - way anova with newman - keuls multiple comparison post - hoc test was used . the anova test assumes that the data were sampled from populations with gaussian distributions . this assumption was tested using the kolmogorov - smirnov test ( ks - test ) which has no assumption about the distribution of data . we have proven that hucbcs injected into the systemic circulation of heterozygous females modeling mps iii b on the 5 th day of pregnancy transmigrated and diffused into embryos , as determined 7 days later ( e12 . 5 ). some transmigrated hucbcs expressed cd34 , which is associated with human hematopoietic progenitor cells , and cd117 , which has been associated with stem cells , among other cell types . transmigrated hucbcs were found in both the maternal and embryonic parts of the placentas . naglu enzyme activity was similar in all embryos and similar to the level of their heterozygous females and males at one week before transplantation . because with two heterozygous parents , there was a 25 % chance of homozygous (−/−) enzyme in the offspring , in which case no intrinsic naglu would be present , this result supports our inference that the hucbcs helped increase the level of naglu . besides replacing naglu , the data support the use of umbilical cord blood cells for other lysosomal storage diseases , other storage diseases , as well as other congenital or inherited conditions . in a follow - up study , we investigated if mononuclear cells derived from human umbilical cord blood ( mnc hucb ) transplanted into additional pregnant female mice modeling sanfilippo syndrome type b at the 5 th day of pregnancy could correct enzyme deficiency in offspring at birth . this differed from the preceding study in which gestation was interrupted at the seventh day after mnc hucbc transplantation . again both parents were heterozygous for the mutation . all pups were euthanatized at 1 - 2 hours after birth . the normal distribution of pup phenotypes from heterozygote parents is : 50 % heterozygote , 25 % wild type , and 25 % homozygote . results showed that phenotype distribution in pups from control non - treated mother (# 24c , see table 5 ) was 60 % heterozygote , 20 % wild type , and 20 % homozygote . when we transplanted 3 × 10 6 mnc hucb cells into mother # 21 , enzyme activity was not corrected in newborn pups ( 45 % heterozygote , 22 % wild type , and 33 % homozygote ). with an increased dose of 9 × 10 6 cells we completely corrected enzyme activity in the offspring of mother # 25 ( 60 % heterozygote and 40 % wild type ). no homozygous pups were identified from this mother . another mother (# 27 ) receiving 9 × 10 6 cells had 56 % heterozygote , 33 % wild type , and only 11 % homozygote pups . in other words , only one pup from mother # 27 had uncorrected enzyme levels , rather than the expected 2 - 3 pups from this litter size . prenatal delivery of mnc hucbcs into pregnant female mice modeling sanfilippo syndrome type b at the 5 th day of pregnancy corrected naglu enzyme deficiency in offspring at birth . this benefit was dose dependent . also , it appears that the probability of enzyme correction may be affected by the mouse litter size , with pups in smaller litters being more likely to have their enzyme deficiency corrected . this invention has been described in an illustrative manner , and it is to be understood that the terminology used is intended to be in the nature of description , rather than limitation . obviously , many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings and one of ordinary skill in the art , in light of this teaching , can generate additional embodiments and modifications without departing from the spirit of or exceeding the scope of the claims of this invention . therefore , it is to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims , the invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described . accordingly , it is to be understood that the drawings and descriptions herein are proffered by way of example to facilitate comprehension of the invention and should not be construed to limit the scope thereof . 1 . neufeld e f and muenzer j ( 1995 ) the mucopolysaccharidoses . in t he m etabolic and m olecular b ases of i nherited d isease ( scriver c r et al eds ) 7 th ed , vol ii , pp 2365 - 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