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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY
Volume 95, Issue 3, Pages 299-310Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s12185-012-1013-1
Keywords
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome; Gene targeting; Protein transduction domain; Gene therapy
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)
- Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare
- JSPS-KOSEF
- Creative Research Initiatives, a National Research Foundation of Korea
- Korean Government [2010-0000733]
- Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Program
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Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X-linked immunodeficiency disease affecting cell morphology and signal transduction in hematopoietic cells. The function of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) and its partners in protein interaction have been studied intensively in mice; however, detailed biochemical characterization of its signal transduction and assessment of its functional consequence in human WASp-deficient lymphocytes remain difficult. In this study, we generated Nalm-6 cells in which the WAS protein gene (WASP) was disrupted by homologous recombination-based gene targeting and a cell-permeable form of recombinant WASp for functional study. The WASP(-/-) cells showed impaired adhesive capacity and polarization to plate-bound anti-CD47 mAb, anti-CD9 mAb, or to fibronectin. The defective morphological changes were accompanied by impaired intracellular signaling. In addition, the WASp-deficient cells displayed augmented apoptosis induced by CD24 cross-linking. A recombinant fusion protein composed of Hph-1 cell-permeable peptide and WASp prepared in Escherichia coli. Hph-1-WASp was efficiently transduced and expressed in WASP(-/-) Nalm-6 cells in a dose-dependent manner. The wild-type WASp, but not the mutant restored adhesion capacity, spreading morphology, and cytoskeletal reorganization. Additionally, the recombinant protein was successfully transduced into normal lymphocytes. These findings suggest that gene-disrupted model cell lines and cell-permeable recombinant proteins may serve as important tools for the detailed analysis of intracellular molecules involved in PID.
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