Patients’ Characteristics and Cell Yields
Patient No. . | Age (yr) . | Weight (kg) . | Plasma HIV (copies/mL) . | Bone Marrow . | Post-Isolex . | Posttransduction . | ||||||
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BM vol (mL) . | %CD34+* . | %CD34+ . | % Transduced CFU-C† (G418-R/PCR+) . | |||||||||
1 | 14 | 42 | 259 | 24,503 | 500 | 12.0 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 70.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 12/25.5 |
2 | 16 | 38 | 6 | 30,762 | 425 | 11.0 | 5.4 | 0.65 | 75.6 | 0.76 | 0.35 | 7/13 |
3 | 8 | 32 | 428 | 15,585 | 430 | 13.3 | 4.8 | 1.5 | 83.7 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 26/21.5 |
4 | 17 | 53 | 2 | 96,528 | 226 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 1.3 | 69.7 | 0.28 | 0.05 | 22/16 |
Patient No. . | Age (yr) . | Weight (kg) . | Plasma HIV (copies/mL) . | Bone Marrow . | Post-Isolex . | Posttransduction . | ||||||
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BM vol (mL) . | %CD34+* . | %CD34+ . | % Transduced CFU-C† (G418-R/PCR+) . | |||||||||
1 | 14 | 42 | 259 | 24,503 | 500 | 12.0 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 70.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 12/25.5 |
2 | 16 | 38 | 6 | 30,762 | 425 | 11.0 | 5.4 | 0.65 | 75.6 | 0.76 | 0.35 | 7/13 |
3 | 8 | 32 | 428 | 15,585 | 430 | 13.3 | 4.8 | 1.5 | 83.7 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 26/21.5 |
4 | 17 | 53 | 2 | 96,528 | 226 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 1.3 | 69.7 | 0.28 | 0.05 | 22/16 |
Post-Ficoll.
Aliquots of the CD34+ cells after transduction were plated in a methylcellulose-based colony assay in quadruplicate plates, with and without G418.23 After 14 days of culture, the numbers of hematopoietic colonies (CFU-C) were determined under phase-contrast microscopy. Individual colonies were collected from the methylcellulose and assayed for the presence of vector provirus by DNA-PCR. The percentages of CFU-C that were G418-resistant were determined by dividing the total number of colonies grown in the presence of G418 by the total number of colonies grown in the absence of G418 × 100%. The percentage of PCR+ colonies was determined by dividing the number of PCR+ colonies by the total number of colonies evaluated. All colonies grown from each patient (from L-RRE-neo transduced, LN transduced) were summated.