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MOLECULAR THERAPY-METHODS & CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages 241-258Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.omtm.2017.05.003
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Kidney Foundation of Canada
- University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and Alberta Health Services
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Fabry disease is a rare lysosomal storage disorder (LSD). We designed multiple recombinant lentivirus vectors (LVs) and tested their ability to engineer expression of human alpha-galactosidase A (alpha-gal A) in transduced Fabry patient CD34(+) hematopoietic cells. We further investigated the safety and efficacy of a clinically directed vector, LV/AGA, in both ex vivo cell culture studies and animal models. Fabry mice transplanted with LV/AGA-transduced hematopoietic cells demonstrated alpha-gal A activity increases and lipid reductions in multiple tissues at 6 months after transplantation. Next we found that LV/AGA-transduced Fabry patient CD34(+) hematopoietic cells produced even higher levels of alpha-gal A activity than normal CD34(+) hematopoietic cells. We successfully transduced Fabry patient CD34(+) hematopoietic cells with near-clinical grade LV/AGA in small-scale cultures and then validated a clinically directed scale-up transduction process in a GMP-compliant cell processing facility. LV-transduced Fabry patient CD34(+) hematopoietic cells were subsequently infused into NOD/SCID/Fabry (NSF) mice; alpha-gal A activity corrections and lipid reductions were observed in several tissues 12 weeks after the xenotransplantation. Additional toxicology studies employing NSF mice xenotransplanted with the therapeutic cell product demonstrated minimal untoward effects. These data supported our successful clinical trial application (CTA) to Health Canada and opening of a first-in-the-world gene therapy trial for Fabry disease.
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