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Design and applications of gene therapy vectors for mucopolysaccharidosis in Colombia.
Gene Therapy ( IF 5.1 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-02 , DOI: 10.1038/s41434-019-0086-3 Carlos J Alméciga-Diaz 1 , Luis A Barrera 2
Gene Therapy ( IF 5.1 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-02 , DOI: 10.1038/s41434-019-0086-3 Carlos J Alméciga-Diaz 1 , Luis A Barrera 2
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The authors briefly describe their work in the construction of viral derived vectors for the use in gene therapy of muchopolysaccharide storage diseases (MPS), especially in Morquio A syndrome. The motivations to undertake that line of research about twenty years ago was the belief that gene therapy was the most plausible treatment for monogenic diseases due to the transient effect and its difficulty to reach bone tissue of the only effective treatment in use, the enzyme replacement therapy. The strategy used to increase the bone targeting was to include in the vectors an aspartic acid octapeptide that increases their affinity for the oppositely charged hydroxyapatite molecule of bone. It is also discussed the difficulties to do front line research in many developing countries, due to the extended belief that their research money should be mainly devoted to projects that render solutions in a very short time. However, the authors argue in favor of doing research in gene therapy, because it is proving to be the solution for many monogenic diseases, and therefore there is a need of people with good command of GT all over the world, in order to make good use of that therapy especially for ex-vivo treatments.
更新日期：2019-11-18
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