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Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Oct 15;133(2):335–347.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.07.052

Table III.

PID Gene Transfer Studies Currently Open

Study Center(s) Sponsor(s) Vector Treatment Regimen Publications
X-SCID
Activation Date: 2011;
recruiting
Registration:
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01129544 (London & Paris);
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01175239 (Boston MA, Cincinnati OH & Los Angeles CA)
Parallel European and
North American studies.
Europe: Great Ormond
Street Hospital, London,
UK; Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris,
FR
USA: Children’s
Hospital, Boston MA;
Children’s Hospital
Medical Center,
Cincinnati, OH;
University of California,
Los Angeles, CA
UK: Great Ormond
Street Hospital, NHS
Foundation Trust (PI:
A. Thrasher)
FR: Assistance
Publique-Hôpitaux
Paris (PI: A. Fischer)
USA: NIAID, NIH
(PI: D. A. Williams)
Virus: Gamma retrovirus
Insert: IL2R gamma chain
Modifications: WPRE post-translational regulatory element to
enhance expression
Safety modifications: EFS (EF1α short) cellular internal
promoter; U3 deletion in LTR (SIN configuration)
Vector development: C. Baum, Hannover Medical School,
Germany
Vector manufacture: University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
Target: BM CD34+ cells
Conditioning:
None
Zychlinski (2008);50
Pai S-Y (2011);51
Hacein-Bey-Abina (2010) (report of
follow-up for earlier studies using a
gamma retrovirus vector);52
Fischer (2010) (review).53
Activation Date: 2012,
recruiting
Registration:
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01512888
St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital,
Memphis, TN
NHLBI, NIH (PI: B. Sorrentino) Virus: Lentivirus
Insert: IL2R gamma chain
Safety modifications: EFS (EF1α short) cellular internal
promoter; U3 deletion in LTR (SIN configuration); enhancer
blocking insulator sequence(s)
Vector development: B. Sorrentino, St. Jude, Memphis, TN, USA
Target: BM CD34+ cells
Conditioning:
None
NA
X-SCID in Older
Children
Activation Date: 2010;
recruiting
Registration:
Clinical Trials.gov
NCT01306019
NIAID, NIH Clinical
Center, Bethesda, MD
NIAID, NIH
(PI: S. S. DeRaven, H. L. Malech)
Virus: Lentivirus
Insert: IL2R gamma chain
Safety modifications: EFS (EF1α short) cellular internal
promoter; U3 deletion in LTR (SIN configuration);enhancer
blocking insulator sequence(s)
Vector development: B. Sorrentino, St. Jude, Memphis, TN
Target: PBSC CD34+ cells
Conditioning:
Busulfan 6mg/kg
NA
ADA SCID
Activation Date:
May 2013; recruiting
Registration:
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01852071
University of California,
Los Angeles, CA &
NHGRI, NIH Clinical
Center, Bethesda, MD
NIAID, NIH (PI: D.B.
Kohn)
Virus: Lentivirus
Modifications: codon optimized human ADA cDNA, WPRE
post-translational regulatory element to enhance expression
Safety modifications: EFS (EF1α short) cellular internal
promoter; U3 enhancer deletion in LTR (SIN configuration)
Vector manufacture: IUVPF
Target: BM CD34+ cells
PEG-ADA:
Discontinue
Conditioning:
Myeloreductive Busulfan (4 mg/kg)
Candotti (2012)54 (previous work of this group in ADA SCID using a gamma retrovirus vector);
Gaspar (2012) 55(editorial).
Activation Date:
November 2011;
recruiting
Registration:
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01380990
Great Ormond Street
Hospital, London, UK
Great Ormond Street
Hospital, NHS
Foundation Trust (PI: H. B. Gaspar, A. Thrasher)
Virus: Lentivirus
Modifications: codon optimized human ADA cDNA, WPRE
post-translational regulatory element to enhance expression
Safety modifications: EFS (EF1α short) cellular internal
promoter; U3 enhancer deletion in LTR (SIN configuration)
Vector manufacture: IUVPF
Target: BM CD34+ cells
PEG-ADA:
Discontinue
Conditioning:
Myeloreductive
Busulfan (4 mg/kg)
X-CGD
Activation Date: 2006
Registration:
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT00394316
NIAID, NIH Clinical
Center, Bethesda, MD
NIAID, NIH (PI: E. Kang, H. L. Malech) Virus: Gamma retrovirus MFGS
Insert: gp91phox
Target: PBSC CD34+ cells
Conditioning: Busulfan (10 mg/kg)
Graft: CD34+
dose target 5 ×
10e6/kg
Kang (2010);56
Kang (2012).57
Activation Date:
In development
Registration: Pending
NIAID, NIH Clinical
Center, Bethesda, MD
NIAID, NIH (PI: E. Kang, H. L. Malech) Virus: Lentivirus
Insert: gp91phox
Safety modifications: EFS (EF1α short) cellular internal
promoter; U3 deletion in LTR (SIN configuration); enhancer
blocking insulator sequence(s)
Target: PBSC CD34+ cells
Conditioning:
TBA
Activation Date:
In development
Registration:
Pending
Great Ormond Street
Hospital, London, UK;
Hôpital Necker-Enfant
Malades, Paris, FR;
University Hospital
Frankfurt and Institute for
Biomedical Research,
Georg-Speyer-Haus,
Frankfurt, Germany;
University Children’s
Hospital Zürich,
Switzerland
Great Ormond Street
Hospital, NHS
Foundation Trust (PI: A. Thrasher)
Virus: Lentivirus
Insert: gp91phox
Modifications: Regulated promoter (chimeric CatG/cFes promoter with mutated TATA box contains binding sites for transcription factors needed for commitment & differentiation myeloid cells to granulocyte lineage)
Vector manufacture: Genethon, Paris, FR
Target: PBSC CD34+ cells
Conditioning:
TBA
Santilli (2011).58
WAS
Activation Date: 2006–2009; recruitment
complete, follow-up
continuing.
Registration:
German Clinical Trials
Register Number
DRKS00000330
Hannover Medical
School Children’s
Hospital, Germany
Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinscha
ft and
Bundesministerium fur
Bildung und
Forschung (PI: C. Klein)
Virus: GALV pseudotyped CMMP, a novel derivative of
MFG, which is a type of MLV gamma retrovirus
Insert: WASp
Modifications: MLV LTRs are replaced with the
corresponding myeloproliferative sarcoma virus (MPSV)
LTRs (this is a strong viral promoter) and the normal MLV
tRNA primer binding site is replaced by a glutamine tRNA
primer binding site.
Vector manufacture: Hannover Medical School, Germany
Target: PBSC CD34+ cells
Conditioning:
Partially
myeloablative
Busulfan 8 mg/kg
Boztug (2010);59
Paruzynski (2012)60 (report of insertional mutagenesis resulting in leukemia).
Activation Date: 2011;
recruiting
Registration:
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01347242
(London);
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01515462 (Milan);
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01347346 (Paris);
ClinicalTrials.gov
NCT01410825 (Boston)
Europe: Great Ormond
Street Hospital, London,
UK; San Raffale
Telethon Institute of
Gene Therapy, Milan, IT;
Hôpital Necker-Enfants
Malades, Paris, FR
USA: Children’s
Hospital, Boston MA
UK: Great Ormond
Street Hospital, NHS
Foundation Trust (PI: A. Thrasher)
IT: IRCCS San
Raffaele and
Fondazione Telethon
(PI: A. Aiuti, M. G. Roncarolo)
FR: Assistance
Publique- Hôpitaux
Paris (PI: A. Fischer)
USA: GTRP, NHLBI,
Bethesda, MD (PI: D. A. Williams, S.-Y. Pai, L. Notarangelo)
Virus: Lentivirus
Insert: WASp
Modifications: WPRE post-translational regulatory element to
enhance expression
Safety modifications: hWAS endogenous promoter
Vector manufacture: Genethon, Paris, FR;
Target: PBSC CD34+ cells
Pre-Conditioning:
Anti-CD20
monoclonal Ab
Conditioning:
Reduced intensity
Busulfan (4 mg/kg),
Fludarabine (120 mg/m2); ATG if
autoimmune
manifestations
Science (a manuscript is in press; not
yet available);
Scaramuzza ( 2012);61
Biasco L (2012).62

Gamma-retrovirus and lentivirus vectors have been/are used in PID; adeno-associated virus is not persistent in proliferating bone marrow stem cells and lymphocytes (so cannot be used for GT for PID). The necessity to transfect CD34 ex vivo or lymphocytes ex vivo is cumbersome, but relatively effective. WPRE = Woodchuck hepatitis virus post-transcriptional regulatory element; LTR = long terminal repeat; SIN= self-inactivating; MLV = Moloney murine leukemia virus; MPSV = Myeloproliferative sarcoma virus. IUVPF = Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, Vector Production Facility. GTRP = Gene Therapy Resource Program, NHLBI, NIH.