• Ewelina Mamcarz, Sheng Zhou, Timothy Lockey, Hossam Abdelsamed, Shane J Cross, Guolian Kang, Zhijun Ma, Jose Condori, Jola Dowdy, Brandon Triplett, Chen Li, Gabriela Maron, Juan C Aldave Becerra, Joseph A Church, Elif Dokmeci, James T Love, Ana C da Matta Ain, Hedi van der Watt, Xing Tang, William Janssen, Byoung Y Ryu, Suk See De Ravin, Mitchell J Weiss, Benjamin Youngblood, Janel R Long-Boyle, Stephen Gottschalk, Michael M Meagher, Harry L Malech, Jennifer M Puck, Morton J Cowan, and Brian P Sorrentino.
• From the Departments of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (E.M., B.T., W.J., S.G.), Hematology (S.Z., Z.M., J.C., J.D., X.T., B.Y.R., M.J.W., B.P.S.), Therapeutics Production and Quality (T.L., M.M.M.), Immunology (H.A., B.Y.), Pharmaceutical Sciences (S.J.C.), Biostatistics (G.K., C.L.), and Infectious Diseases (G.M.), St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Division, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, Lima, Peru (J.C.A.B.); the Department of Pediatrics, Allergy-Immunology Division, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles (J.A.C.), and the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy-Immunology-Bone Marrow Transplantation, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco (J.R.L.-B., J.M.P., M.J.C.) - both in California; the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (E.D.); University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Tulsa (J.T.L.); Departamento de Pediatria da Universidade de Taubaté, Conselho Nacional de Medicina, São Paulo (A.C.M.A.); Copperfield Childcare, Claremont, South Africa (H.W.); and the Genetic Immunotherapy Section, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (S.S.D.R., H.L.M.).
• N. Engl. J. Med. 2019 Apr 18; 380 (16): 1525-1534.

BackgroundAllogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1) often fails to reconstitute immunity associated with T cells, B cells, and natural killer (NK) cells when matched sibling donors are unavailable unless high-dose chemotherapy is given. In previous studies, autologous gene therapy with γ-retroviral vectors failed to reconstitute B-cell and NK-cell immunity and was complicated by vector-related leukemia.MethodsWe performed a dual-center, phase 1-2 safety and efficacy study of a lentiviral vector to transfer IL2RG complementary DNA to bone marrow stem cells after low-exposure, targeted busulfan conditioning in eight infants with newly diagnosed SCID-X1.ResultsEight infants with SCID-X1 were followed for a median of 16.4 months. Bone marrow harvest, busulfan conditioning, and cell infusion had no unexpected side effects. In seven infants, the numbers of CD3+, CD4+, and naive CD4+ T cells and NK cells normalized by 3 to 4 months after infusion and were accompanied by vector marking in T cells, B cells, NK cells, myeloid cells, and bone marrow progenitors. The eighth infant had an insufficient T-cell count initially, but T cells developed in this infant after a boost of gene-corrected cells without busulfan conditioning. Previous infections cleared in all infants, and all continued to grow normally. IgM levels normalized in seven of the eight infants, of whom four discontinued intravenous immune globulin supplementation; three of these four infants had a response to vaccines. Vector insertion-site analysis was performed in seven infants and showed polyclonal patterns without clonal dominance in all seven.ConclusionsLentiviral vector gene therapy combined with low-exposure, targeted busulfan conditioning in infants with newly diagnosed SCID-X1 had low-grade acute toxic effects and resulted in multilineage engraftment of transduced cells, reconstitution of functional T cells and B cells, and normalization of NK-cell counts during a median follow-up of 16 months. (Funded by the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities and others; LVXSCID-ND ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01512888.).Copyright © 2019 Massachusetts Medical Society.

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