Successful Peripheral T-Lymphocyte–Directed Gene Transfer for a Patient With Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Caused by Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency

Autor: Kotani H, Masafumi Yamada, Ichiro Kobayashi, Shuzo Matsumoto, McGarrity Gj, Makoto Ohtsu, Tadashi Ariga, Motohiko Okano, M. Onodera, Atsushi Tame, Hirofumi Furuta, Nobuaki Kawamura, Blaese Rm, Yukio Sakiyama
Rok vydání: 1998
Předmět:
Zdroj: Blood. 91:30-36
ISSN: 1528-0020
0006-4971
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v91.1.30
Popis: Ten patients with adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA−) have been enrolled in gene therapy clinical trials since the first patient was treated in September 1990. We describe a Japanese ADA− severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) patient who has received periodic infusions of genetically modified autologous T lymphocytes transduced with the human ADA cDNA containing retroviral vector LASN. The percentage of peripheral blood lymphocytes carrying the transduced ADA gene has remained stable at 10% to 20% during the 12 months since the fourth infusion. ADA enzyme activity in the patient's circulating T cells, which was only marginally detected before gene transfer, increased to levels comparable to those of a heterozygous carrier individual and was associated with increased T-lymphocyte counts and improvement of the patient's immune function. The results obtained in this trial are in agreement with previously published observations and support the usefulness of T lymphocyte-directed gene transfer in the treatment of ADA−SCID.
Databáze: OpenAIRE