Zinc finger nuclease-mediated gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells results in reactivation of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell disease

Autor: Samuel Lessard, Pauline Rimmelé, Hui Ling, Kevin Moran, Benjamin Vieira, Yi-Dong Lin, Gaurav Manohar Rajani, Vu Hong, Andreas Reik, Richard Boismenu, Ben Hsu, Michael Chen, Bettina M. Cockroft, Naoya Uchida, John Tisdale, Asif Alavi, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, Mehrdad Abedi, Isobelle Galeon, David Reiner, Lin Wang, Anne Ramezi, Pablo Rendo, Mark C. Walters, Dana Levasseur, Robert Peters, Timothy Harris, Alexandra Hicks
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-74716-7
Popis: Abstract BIVV003 is a gene-edited autologous cell therapy in clinical development for the potential treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are genetically modified with mRNA encoding zinc finger nucleases (ZFN) that target and disrupt a specific regulatory GATAA motif in the BCL11A erythroid enhancer to reactivate fetal hemoglobin (HbF). We characterized ZFN-edited HSC from healthy donors and donors with SCD. Results of preclinical studies show that ZFN-mediated editing is highly efficient, with enriched biallelic editing and high frequency of on-target indels, producing HSC capable of long-term multilineage engraftment in vivo, and express HbF in erythroid progeny. Interim results from the Phase 1/2 PRECIZN-1 study demonstrated that BIVV003 was well-tolerated in seven participants with SCD, of whom five of the six with more than 3 months of follow-up displayed increased total hemoglobin and HbF, and no severe vaso-occlusive crises. Our data suggest BIVV003 represents a compelling and novel cell therapy for the potential treatment of SCD.
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