β-ExagamglogeneAutotemcel

Franco Locatelli1, Peter Lang1, Donna Wall1

  • 1From IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù (F.L., M.A.) and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (F.L.), Rome, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan (M.D.C.), and the Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro (M.A.) - all in Italy; University Children's Hospital Tübingen (R.H.), and the Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies" and the German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Tübingen, University of Tübingen (P.L.), Tübingen, the Division of Pediatric Stem Cell Therapy, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, and Clinical Immunology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf (R.M.), and the University of Regensburg, Regensburg (S.C.) - all in Germany; the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto (D.W.), and BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (A.M.L.) - all in Canada; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St. Mary's Hospital (J.F.), and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (B.C.) - both in London; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (A.J.S.); Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (J.L.K., S.G.); Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University (M.M.), and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University (S.S.) - both in New York; Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago (R.I.L.); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens (A.K.); Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston (P.K., D.S., L.R., Y.B., C.S., L.Z., W.E.H.), and CRISPR Therapeutics, Cambridge (P.K.M.) - both in Massachusetts; and Sarah Cannon Research Institute at the Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial, Nashville (H.F.).

概括

通过exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) 基因治疗,在91%的依赖输血的β-thalassemia患者中实现了输血独立性. 这种CRISPR-Cas9治疗重新激活胎儿血红蛋白,在治疗这种遗传性血液疾病方面取得了重大进展.

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