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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on June 21, 2002; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-04-1245.
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Blood, 15 October 2002, Vol. 100, No. 8, pp. 2732-2736
GENE THERAPY
Gene therapy of Fanconi anemia: preclinical efficacy using
lentiviral vectors
Francesco Galimi,
Meenakshi Noll,
Yoshiyuki Kanazawa,
Timothy Lax,
Cindy Chen,
Markus Grompe, and
Inder M. Verma
From the Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for
Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA; and the Department of Molecular and
Medical Genetics, Oregon Health Science University, Portland.
Fanconi anemia (FA) is an inherited cancer susceptibility syndrome
caused by mutations in a DNA repair pathway including at least 6 genes
(FANCA, FANCC, FANCD2, FANCE, FANCF, and FANCG). The
clinical course of the disease is dominated by progressive, life-threatening bone marrow failure and high incidence of acute myelogenous leukemia and solid tumors. Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a therapeutic option but requires HLA-matched donors. Gene therapy holds great promise for FA, but previous attempts
to use retroviral vectors in humans have proven ineffective given the
impaired proliferation potential of human FA hematopoietic progenitors
(HPCs). In this work, we show that using lentiviral vectors efficient
genetic correction can be achieved in quiescent hematopoietic
progenitors from Fanca / and
Fancc / mice. Long-term repopulating
HPCs were transduced by a single exposure of unfractionated bone marrow
mononuclear cells to lentivectors carrying the normal gene. Notably, no
cell purification or cytokine prestimulation was
necessary. Resistance to DNA- damaging agents was fully restored by
lentiviral transduction, allowing for in vivo selection of the
corrected cells with nonablative doses of cyclophosphamide. This study
strongly supports the use of lentiviral vectors for FA gene therapy in humans.

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