Unexpected Death of a Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patient in an N-of-1 Trial of rAAV9-delivered CRISPR-transactivator

An N-of-1 trial was developed to deliver a dCas9-VP64 transgene designed to upregulate the cortical dystrophin as a custom therapy for a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patient. After showing signs of mild cardiac dysfunction and pericardial effusion, the patient acutely decompensated and sustained cardiac arrest six-days after dosing and succumbed two-days later. Post-mortem examination revealed severe acute-respiratory distress syndrome with diffuse alveolar damage. Vector biodistribution data was obtained and revealed minimal expression of transgene in liver. There was no evidence of AAV9 antibodies nor of effector T cell reactivity. These findings demonstrate innate immune signaling with capillary leak as a form of toxicity in an advanced DMD case treated with high-dose rAAV gene therapy..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 18. Mai Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lek, Angela [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Brenda [VerfasserIn]
Keeler, Allison [VerfasserIn]
Blackwood, Meghan [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Kaiyue [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Shushu [VerfasserIn]
Sylvia, Katelyn [VerfasserIn]
Batista, Ana Rita [VerfasserIn]
Artinian, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
Kokoski, Danielle [VerfasserIn]
Parajuli, Shestruma [VerfasserIn]
Putra, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Carreon, Chrystalle Katte [VerfasserIn]
Lidov, Hart [VerfasserIn]
Woodman, Keryn [VerfasserIn]
Pajusalu, Sander [VerfasserIn]
Spinazzola, Janelle [VerfasserIn]
Gallagher, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
LaRovere, Joan [VerfasserIn]
Baulderson, Diane [VerfasserIn]
Black, Lauren [VerfasserIn]
Sutton, Keith [VerfasserIn]
Horgan, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Lek, Monkol [VerfasserIn]
Flotte, Terence [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.05.16.23289881

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XBI039574830