Immunodeficiency: Long-term persistence of a polyclonal t cell repertoire after gene therapy for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (original) (raw)

Science Translational Medicine, 2011

Abstract

X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1) is caused by mutations in the common cytokine receptor g chain. These mutations classically lead to complete absence of functional T and natural killer cell lineages as well as to intrinsically compromised B cell function. Although human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is highly successful in SCID-X1 patients, HLA-mismatched procedures can be associated with prolonged immunodeficiency, graft-versus-host disease, and increased overall mortality. Here, 10 children were treated with autologous CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells transduced with a conventional gammaretroviral vector. The patients did not receive myelosuppressive conditioning and were monitored for immunological recovery after cell infusion. All patients were alive after a median follow-up of 80 months (range, 54 to 107 months), and a functional polyclonal T cell repertoire was restored in all patients. Humoral im...

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