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      High-resolution insertion-site analysis by linear amplification-mediated PCR (LAM-PCR).

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          Integrating vector systems used in clinical gene therapy have proven their therapeutic potential in the long-term correction of immunodeficiencies. The integration loci of such vectors in the cellular genome represent a molecular marker unique for each transduced cell and its clonal progeny. To gain insight into the physiology of gene-modified hematopoietic repopulation and vector-related influences on clonal contributions, we have previously introduced a technology--linear amplification-mediated (LAM) PCR--for detecting and sequencing unknown DNA flanking sequences down to the single cell level (Supplementary Note online). LAM-PCR analyses have enabled qualitative and quantitative measurements of the clonal kinetics of hematopoietic regeneration in gene transfer studies, and uncovered the clonal derivation of non-leukemogenic and leukemogenic insertional side effects in preclinical and clinical gene therapy studies. The reliability and robustness of this method results from the initial preamplification of the vector-genome junctions preceding nontarget DNA removal via magnetic selection. Subsequent steps are carried out on a semisolid streptavidin phase, including synthesis of double complementary strands, restriction digest, ligation of a linker cassette onto the genomic end of the fragment and exponential PCR(s) with vector- and linker cassette-specific primers. LAM-PCR can be adjusted to all unknown DNA sequences adjacent to a known DNA sequence. Here we describe the use of LAM-PCR analyses to identify 5' long terminal repeat (LTR) retroviral vector adjacent genomic sequences.

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          Journal
          Nat Methods
          Nature methods
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          1548-7105
          1548-7091
          Dec 2007
          : 4
          : 12
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Translational Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 350, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. manfred.schmidt@nct-heidelberg.de
          Article
          nmeth1103
          10.1038/nmeth1103
          18049469
          751f2aef-22ac-498b-985e-e2a5f46e24fd
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