Multiple Displacement Amplification Enables Large-Scale Clonal Analysis following Retroviral Gene Therapy
- 1 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 82 (5), 2448-2455
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00584-07
Abstract
Analysis of the fate of retrovirally transduced cells after transplantation is often hampered by the scarcity of available DNA. We evaluated a promising method for whole-genome amplification, called multiple displacement amplification (MDA), with respect to even and accurate representation of retrovirally transduced genomic DNA. We proved that MDA is a suitable method to subsequently quantify engraftment efficiencies by quantitative real-time PCR by analyzing retrovirally transduced DNA in a background of untransduced DNA and retroviral integrations found in primary material from a retroviral transplantation model. The portion of these retroviral integrations in the amplified samples was 1.02-fold (range 0.2, to 2.1-fold) the portion determined in the original genomic DNA. Integration site analysis by ligation-mediated PCR (LM-PCR) is essential for the detection of retroviral integrations. The combination of MDA and LM-PCR showed an increase in the sensitivity of integration site analysis, as a specific integration site could be detected in a background of untransduced DNA, while the transduced DNA made up only 0.001%. These results show for the first time that MDA enables large-scale sensitive detection and reliable quantification of retrovirally transduced human genomic DNA and therefore facilitates follow-up analysis in gene therapy studies even from the smallest amounts of starting material.Keywords
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