Complete correction of murine Artemis immunodeficiency by lentiviral vector-mediated gene transfer.

ABSTRACT: Artemis gene mutations are responsible for the development of a severe combined immunodeficiency [radiation-sensitive (RS) SCID] characterized by a severe B and T cell deficiency and a normal natural killer cell population. To establish the feasibility of a gene therapy approach to the treatment of RS-SCID, we generated a series of lentiviral vectors expressing human Artemis from different promoters and used them to transduce highly purified hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from Artemis knockout mice. HSCs transduced by the different viruses were transplanted into either lethally irradiated Rag-1-deficient animals or Artemis knockout mice treated with a nonmyeloablative dose of Busulfan. In both models, transplantation of HSCs transduced by a vector that used a murine phosphoglycerate kinas

SUBMITTER: Mostoslavsky G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1637595 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature