341. Nucleic Acid Delivery Using Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-Based Vesicles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gene delivery methods are essential to understand fundamental cellular mechanisms and to develop new therapies. Recombinant viruses are efficient to transfer nucleic acids but their safety is a concern. In addition, some commercial transfection reagents (including lipids and cationic polymers) and electroporation methods are cytotoxic. Interestingly, the sole expression of G envelope protein of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) in mammalian cells can lead to the formation of VSV-G pseudotyped vesicles (V-VSV-G). In presence of polybrene, these vesicles are able to transfer plasmids in a large panel of animal cells. Unfortunately, the production of V-VSV-G and their use for nucleic acid delivery is poorly documented. Here we propose to improve this promising method of transfection. At first we developed a V-VSV-G production process by transient transfection of HEK-293 cells using polyethylenimine (PEI). Three modes of production were compared: cells cultivated in adherence, in suspension and on micro-carriers. Also we demonstrated that the quantity of vesicles produced depends on the VSV-G sequence used. The harvest of V-VSV-G from cell culture media was also optimized. Then, several parameters potentially involved in the formation and the transfer efficiency of V-VSV-G/DNA complex were studied: polybrene concentration, order of addition of mix transfection components, incubation time of the complexes, medium of transfection, etc. Stability studies also demonstrated that V-VSV-G are robust particles: DNA transfer capacity of V-VSV-G is efficient after 10 freezing and thawing cycles and V-VSV-G can be stored for long term at +4 °C, -20 °C and -80 °C. Finally, V-VSV-G/DNA ratio was optimized for three different cell types. Transfection efficiency of 70 % and 55 % were obtained for HEK-293 and HeLa cells respectively, with 1 µg of V-VSV-G and 0.4 µg of DNA. Transfection of refractory cells such as human myoblasts, reached 25 % with 5 µg of V-VSV-G and 0.8 µg of DNA. V-VSV-G can also deliver large plasmids (18 kb). Furthermore, no cytotoxicity was observed in cells transfected with these complexes. Presently, the potential of V-VSV-G to transfer siRNA is investigated. In conclusion, V-VSV-G is a powerful tool for nucleic acid delivery which could be useful for several applications oriented toward cell and gene therapies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".