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BLOOD
Volume 105, Issue 7, Pages 2699-2706Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-07-2648
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Immune function has been restored in 9 of 10 children with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency by gamma c gene transfer in CD34(+) cells. The distribution of both T-cell receptor (TCR) V beta family usage and TCR V beta complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) length revealed a broadly diversified T-cell repertoire. Retroviral integration site analysis in T cells demonstrated a high number of distinct insertion sites, indicating poly-clonality of genetically corrected cell clones, in all patients. Detection of gamma c transgene expression on patients' mature myeloid cells has prompted us to investigate the nature of the most immature transduced hematopoietic precursor cells. Insertion sites shared by T and B lymphocytes as well as highly purified granulocytes and monocytes demonstrate the correction of common multipotent progenitor cells. Moreover, our data show that differentiated leukocytes share the same exact insertion sites with CD34(+) cells that we obtained 8 months later and that were able to generate long-term culture-initiating cells (LTC-ICs). This finding demonstrates the initial transduction of very primitive multipotent progenitor cells with self-renewal capacity. These results provide a first evidence in the setting of a clinical trial that CD34(+) cells maintain both lymphomyeloid potential as well as self-renewal capacity after ex vivo manipulation. (c) 2005 by The American Society of Hematology.
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