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NCT number NCT00394316
Other study ID # 070017
Secondary ID 07-I-0017
Status Terminated
Phase Early Phase 1
First received
Last updated
Start date October 30, 2006
Est. completion date April 8, 2014

Study information

Verified date April 8, 2014
Source National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) is an inherited disorder caused by an abnormal gene that fails to make the protein known as gp91 phox. This protein is part of a group of proteins that work to create hydrogen peroxide in neutrophils. Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that helps fight infections. As a result, patients who do not make this gp91 phox frequently develop life-threatening infections. In addition, these neutrophils often act abnormally, resulting in the creation of a granuloma, which is an abnormal collection of cells. These granulomas can then become large enough to block organs, such as the bladder and/or intestines, causing significant problems. Patients are usually treated with antibiotics (often needed for extended periods of time) for the infections caused by CGD, and with corticosteroids for the granulomas. However, these drugs do not cure CGD itself, and can have significant side effects. Thus patients with CGD do not have a normal life expectancy.

The only available cure to date for CGD is Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT), where the blood-making cells from a specially matched brother or sister donor (allogeneic) or a similarly matched unrelated donor are given to the patient after the patient has undergone some kind of chemotherapy or radiation in preparation for receiving the cells. If the cells from the donor engraft (or survive in the marrow), the patient can be cured; however, there is a risk that the cells may not engraft or that they may later get rejected from the body. Also, the cells from the donor can react against the patient, causing a serious disorder called "Graft Versus Host Disease" (GVHD). Although there are a number of methods used to try to reduce and/or prevent graft rejection and/or GVHD, these complications can still occur even with the newer methods now being developed. The risks of such complications are lower when a brother or sister is used as the donor; however, not all patients (even those with siblings) will have an ideally matched donor. Hence, transplantation, especially when using an unrelated donor, is not always a perfect cure.

Because the gene responsible for making the gp91 phox is known, it is possible to use gene therapy to try to cure this disease. In gene therapy, some of the blood-making cells are taken from the patient using a technique called apheresis. The normal gene is placed into the cells using special viruses called retroviruses. The cells are then able to produce the normal protein. In this trial, the patient will receive a small dose of chemotherapy called busulfan, lower than what is traditionally used in allogeneic BMT, and the newly corrected cells will then be put back into the patient.

Even with the best standard of care, a number of patients with CGD will still die from infection. For those patients who have an unresponsive or progressive infection and do not have a possible sibling donor, their only hope is either a Matched Unrelated Donor (MUD) transplant, which has a high risk of causing death itself, or gene therapy. Hence, we would propose using gene therapy in these patients as this has less risk of causing death, but can still possibly offer a cure. Even if the corrected cells do not remain life long to rid the patients entirely of their disease, as long as they persist for even a few months, they would be able to at least clear the current infection for which the patients are being considered for enrollment in this protocol. Further, they would still be eligible to undergo a matched unrelated donor transplant in the event that gene therapy does not confer any benefit.


Description:

X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) is an inherited disorder caused by an abnormal gene that fails to make the protein known as gp91 phox. This protein is part of a group of proteins that work to create hydrogen peroxide in neutrophils. Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that helps fight infections. As a result, patients who do not make this gp91 phox frequently develop life-threatening infections. In addition, these neutrophils often act abnormally, resulting in the creation of a granuloma, which is an abnormal collection of cells. These granulomas can then become large enough to block organs, such as the bladder and/or intestines, causing significant problems. Patients are usually treated with antibiotics (often needed for extended periods of time) for the infections caused by CGD, and with corticosteroids for the granulomas. However, these drugs do not cure CGD itself, and can have significant side effects. Thus patients with CGD do not have a normal life expectancy.

The only available cure to date for CGD is Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT), where the blood-making cells from a specially matched brother or sister donor (allogeneic) or a similarly matched unrelated donor are given to the patient after the patient has undergone some kind of chemotherapy or radiation in preparation for receiving the cells. If the cells from the donor engraft (or survive in the marrow), the patient can be cured; however, there is a risk that the cells may not engraft or that they may later get rejected from the body. Also, the cells from the donor can react against the patient, causing a serious disorder called Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD). Although there are a number of methods used to try to reduce and/or prevent graft rejection and/or GVHD, these complications can still occur even with the newer methods now being developed. The risks of such complications are lower when a brother or sister is used as the donor; however, not all patients (even those with siblings) will have an ideally matched donor. Hence, transplantation, especially when using an unrelated donor, is not always a perfect cure.

Because the gene responsible for making the gp91 phox is known, it is possible to use gene therapy to try to cure this disease. In gene therapy, some of the blood-making cells are taken from the patient using a technique called apheresis. The normal gene is placed into the cells using special viruses called retroviruses. The cells are then able to produce the normal protein. In this trial, the patient will receive a small dose of chemotherapy called busulfan, lower than what is traditionally used in allogeneic BMT. Then the newly corrected cells will be put back into the patient.

Even with the best standard of care, a number of patients with CGD will still die from infection. For those patients who have an unresponsive or progressive infection and do not have a possible sibling donor, their only hope is either a Matched Unrelated Donor (MUD) transplant, which has a high risk of causing death itself, or gene therapy. Hence, we would propose using gene therapy in these patients as this has less risk of causing death, but can still possibly offer a cure. Even if the corrected cells do not remain lifelong to rid the patients entirely of their disease, as long as they persist for even a few months, they would be able to at least clear the current infection for which the patients are being considered for enrollment in this protocol. Further, they would still be eligible to undergo a matched unrelated donor transplant in the event that gene therapy does not confer any benefit.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Terminated
Enrollment 3
Est. completion date April 8, 2014
Est. primary completion date April 8, 2014
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Male
Age group 3 Years to 55 Years
Eligibility - INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Have a diagnosis of X-linked CGD (i.e., a gp91-phox gene mutation/defect).

- Have a minimum of 5.0 x10(6) CD34 plus cells per kg body weight (collected and cryopreserved, prior to enrollment) available for transduction.

- Weight greater or equal to 20 kg.

- Unresponsive or incurable infection as defined by either/or:

- Continued (stable or progressive) infection despite standard antimicrobial therapy

- Stable and/or does not completely resolve despite a minimum of 2 months of treatment

OR

- Progressive as shown by increase in size or new sites of infection despite therapy for a minimum of two weeks.

- Multidrug resistant organism as determined by tissue analysis

- Not have a suitable sibling who is HLA-matched for stem cell or bone marrow donation.

- Males aged 3-55 years.

- Must use two approved methods of contraception, such as barrier method (condom) with a spermicidal if sexually active

- Willingness to remain hospitalized for several weeks

- Have a primary care physician at home

- Consent to permit storage of blood and/or other tissues samples

- Patients with a Grade 3 toxicity due to active infection may enter this trial.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

- Weigh less than 20 kg.

- Be hemodynamically unstable or requiring pressor support.

- Require ventilatory assistance with high levels of oxygen.

- Have an HLA-matched suitable sibling for stem cell or bone marrow donation.

- Intolerance to busulfan.

- Failure to use two approved methods of contraception, such as barrier method (such as a condom with a spermicidal).

- Participation in another Gene Therapy clinical trial

- If pre-conditioning and pre-infusion evaluations are found to match a criterion for Grade 4 toxicity as defined in Toxicity Table for grading severity of AEs

- Presence of an anti-GP91 antibody.

When the condition or parameter has returned to the criterion for Grade 3 or less for that condition or parameter twice over an interval of at least 4 weeks prior to the infusion, eligibility may be resumed.<TAB><TAB>

Study Design


Intervention

Drug:
Phagocyte Oxidase Subunit Transduced CD34 Hematopoietic Stem Cells


Locations

Country Name City State
United States National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda Maryland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (3)

A controlled trial of interferon gamma to prevent infection in chronic granulomatous disease. The International Chronic Granulomatous Disease Cooperative Study Group. N Engl J Med. 1991 Feb 21;324(8):509-16. — View Citation

Aiuti A, Slavin S, Aker M, Ficara F, Deola S, Mortellaro A, Morecki S, Andolfi G, Tabucchi A, Carlucci F, Marinello E, Cattaneo F, Vai S, Servida P, Miniero R, Roncarolo MG, Bordignon C. Correction of ADA-SCID by stem cell gene therapy combined with nonmyeloablative conditioning. Science. 2002 Jun 28;296(5577):2410-3. — View Citation

Cavazzana-Calvo M, Hacein-Bey S, de Saint Basile G, Gross F, Yvon E, Nusbaum P, Selz F, Hue C, Certain S, Casanova JL, Bousso P, Deist FL, Fischer A. Gene therapy of human severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)-X1 disease. Science. 2000 Apr 28;288(5466):669-72. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Can conditioning with busulfan improve gene therapy outcomes
Secondary 1) To evaluate further the safety of gene therapy2) To monitor long-term results of gene therapy with conditioning
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