Basic & Clinical Medicine ›› 2023, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (12): 1876-1880.doi: 10.16352/j.issn.1001-6325.2023.12.1876

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Lentivirus vector in gene therapy of β-thalassemia

LIU Yize1, CHAN Ying1,2, ZHU Baosheng1,2*   

  1. 1. School of Medicine, Kunming University of Science and Technology,Kunming 650500;
    2. Department of Medical Genetics, the First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province,the Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650032, China
  • Received:2022-11-01 Revised:2023-06-12 Online:2023-12-05 Published:2023-11-29
  • Contact: * bszhu@aliyun.com

Abstract: β-thalassemia is a common monogenic inherited blood disorder caused by mutations of β-globin gene which results to synthesis obstacles or abnormal structure of β-globin. Gene therapy mediated by lentiviral vector(LVV) is divided into gene-integration strategies using LVV to add fully functional β-hemoglobin(HBB) genes to chromosomes and gene-editing strategies using LVV to deliver specific ribozymes to hematopoietic stem cells for in situ repair of HBB genes. Improving viral titration and transduction efficiency, reducing target loss and advancing clinical trials are the main targets of these two strategies.

Key words: lentivirus vector, gene therapy, β-thalassemia

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