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Magrin E, Semeraro M, Hebert N, Joseph L, Magnani A, Chalumeau A, Gabrion A, Roudaut C, Marouene J, Lefrere F, Diana JS, Denis A, Neven B, Funck-Brentano I, Negre O, Renolleau S, Brousse V, Kiger L, Touzot F, Poirot C, Bourget P, El Nemer W, Blanche S, Tréluyer JM, Asmal M, Walls C, Beuzard Y, Schmidt M, Hacein-Bey-Abina S, Asnafi V, Guichard I, Poirée M, Monpoux F, Touraine P, Brouzes C, de Montalembert M, Payen E, Six E, Ribeil JA, Miccio A, Bartolucci P, Leboulch P, Cavazzana M. Long-term outcomes of lentiviral gene therapy for the β-hemoglobinopathies: the HGB-205 trial. Nat Med 2022; 28:81-88. [PMID: 35075288 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-021-01650-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
Sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (TDT) are the most prevalent monogenic disorders worldwide. Trial HGB-205 ( NCT02151526 ) aimed at evaluating gene therapy by autologous CD34+ cells transduced ex vivo with lentiviral vector BB305 that encodes the anti-sickling βA-T87Q-globin expressed in the erythroid lineage. HGB-205 is a phase 1/2, open-label, single-arm, non-randomized interventional study of 2-year duration at a single center, followed by observation in long-term follow-up studies LTF-303 ( NCT02633943 ) and LTF-307 ( NCT04628585 ) for TDT and SCD, respectively. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were similar to those for allogeneic transplantation but restricted to patients lacking geno-identical, histocompatible donors. Four patients with TDT and three patients with SCD, ages 13-21 years, were treated after busulfan myeloablation 4.6-7.9 years ago, with a median follow-up of 4.5 years. Key primary endpoints included mortality, engraftment, replication-competent lentivirus and clonal dominance. No adverse events related to the drug product were observed. Clinical remission and remediation of biological hallmarks of the disease have been sustained in two of the three patients with SCD, and frequency of transfusions was reduced in the third. The patients with TDT are all transfusion free with improvement of dyserythropoiesis and iron overload.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elisa Magrin
- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Biothérapie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Unité de Recherche Clinique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Univ Paris Est Creteil, INSERM, EFS, IMRB, Créteil, France.,Hôpital Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Biothérapie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- IMAGINE Institute, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Biothérapie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Biothérapie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Unité de Recherche Clinique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- IMAGINE Institute, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Pediatric Immunology and Hematology Department, Hôpital Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
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- Pediatric Immunology and Hematology Department, Hôpital Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
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- CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Division of Innovative Therapies, Institut François Jacob, Fontenay aux Roses, France.,Bluebird Bio, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Univ Paris Est Creteil, INSERM, EFS, IMRB, Créteil, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Biothérapie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Department of Hematology, Fertility Preservation, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Pharmacy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine (INTS), Paris, France
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- Pediatric Immunology and Hematology Department, Hôpital Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Unité de Recherche Clinique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Univ Paris Est Creteil, INSERM, EFS, IMRB, Créteil, France.,CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Division of Innovative Therapies, Institut François Jacob, Fontenay aux Roses, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Biothérapie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Necker-Enfants Malades, INSERM U1151, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
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- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Nord, CHU de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Lenval, Nice, France
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- Unité d'Hémato-Oncologie Infantile. Hôpital de l'Archet 2, Nice, France
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- Department of Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, La Pitié-Salpêtrière, and Sorbonne University, Pierre et Marie Curie School of Medicine, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Onco-hematology, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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- Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France
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- CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Division of Innovative Therapies, Institut François Jacob, Fontenay aux Roses, France
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- IMAGINE Institute, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Biotherapy Department, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Centre d'Investigation Clinique-Biothérapie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants-Malades, GH Paris Centre, Paris, France.,Bluebird Bio, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
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- IMAGINE Institute, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Univ Paris Est Creteil, INSERM, EFS, IMRB, Créteil, France.,Hôpital Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France
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- CEA, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Division of Innovative Therapies, Institut François Jacob, Fontenay aux Roses, France. .,Genetics Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Université de Paris, Paris, France. .,IMAGINE Institute, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France. .,Biotherapy Department and Clinical Investigation Center, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, INSERM, Paris, France.
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Demirci S, Gudmundsdottir B, Li Q, Haro-Mora JJ, Nassehi T, Drysdale C, Yapundich M, Gamer J, Seifuddin F, Tisdale JF, Uchida N. βT87Q-Globin Gene Therapy Reduces Sickle Hemoglobin Production, Allowing for Ex Vivo Anti-sickling Activity in Human Erythroid Cells. MOLECULAR THERAPY-METHODS & CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT 2020; 17:912-921. [PMID: 32405513 PMCID: PMC7210457 DOI: 10.1016/j.omtm.2020.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Lentiviral addition of βT87Q-globin, a modified β-globin with an anti-sickling mutation, is currently being used in gene therapy trials for sickle cell disease (SCD) and β-thalassemia patients. βT87Q-globin interferes with sickle hemoglobin (HbS) polymerization. Here, we generated the SCD mutation in an immortalized human erythroid cell line (HUDEP-2) to investigate the anti-sickling activity of βT87Q-globin. Sickle HUDEP-2 (sHUDEP-2) cells produced robust HbS after differentiation and sickled under deoxygenated conditions, comparable with SCD CD34+ progeny. Lentiviral transduction provided 9.5–26.8 pg/cell βT87Q-globin (R2 = 0.83) in a vector copy number (VCN)-dependent manner, resulting in a significant reduction of sickling ratios (R2 = 0.92). Interestingly, βT87Q-globin transduction markedly reduced endogenous βS-globin (R2 = 0.84) to an undetectable level (0.4–16.8 pg/cell) in sHUDEP-2 cells, as well as endogenous β-globin in human CD34+ cell-derived erythroid cells. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis with βT87Q-transduced sHUDEP-2 and human CD34+-derived cells revealed activation of inflammation- and proliferation-related programs, suggesting minimal changes in background gene expression except for βT87Q-globin expression and endogenous β/βS-globin suppression. In summary, using sHUDEP-2 and CD34+-derived cells, we demonstrated that lentiviral addition of βT87Q-globin strongly reduced endogenous β-/βS-globin expression, resulting in an anti-sickling effect. Our findings should be helpful to understand the anti-sickling effects of therapeutic genes in SCD gene therapy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Selami Demirci
- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
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