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  • - Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a serious genetic disorder caused by mutations in a gene that affects immune system function, particularly impacting blood cells.
  • - The study aimed to develop a gene correction technique that could work for most WAS patients by integrating a corrective gene sequence into their own cells, specifically targeting their hematopoietic stem cells.
  • - The researchers successfully demonstrated that this approach restored normal protein function in immune cells from WAS patients, suggesting a promising method for future treatments using the patients' own modified cells.

Article Abstract

Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a severe X-linked primary immunodeficiency resulting from a diversity of mutations distributed across all 12 exons of the gene. encodes a hematopoietic-specific and developmentally regulated cytoplasmic protein (WASp). The objective of this study was to develop a gene correction strategy potentially applicable to most WAS patients by employing nuclease-mediated, site-specific integration of a corrective gene sequence into the endogenous chromosomal locus. In this study, we demonstrate the ability to target the integration of -containing constructs into intron 1 of the endogenous gene of primary CD34 hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), as well as WASp-deficient B cell lines and WASp-deficient primary T cells. This intron 1 targeted integration (TI) approach proved to be quite efficient and restored WASp expression in treated cells. Furthermore, TI restored WASp-dependent function to WAS patient T cells. Edited CD34 HSPCs exhibited the capacity for multipotent differentiation to various hematopoietic lineages and in transplanted immunodeficient mice. This methodology offers a potential editing approach for treatment of WAS using patient's CD34 cells.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10897892PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.omtm.2024.101208DOI Listing

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