Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale

Jean Mosser

Patrick Aubourg

Jean-Louis Mandel

Claude Sarde

The present invention relates to adrenoleukodystrophy proteins and uses thereof. More particularly, the invention relates to human adrenoleukodystrophy proteins. Mutations of the adrenoleukodystrophy protein cause adrenoleukodystrophy or adrenomyelopathy.

X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy gene and corresponding protein

A method for the treatment of adrenoleukodystrophy or adrenomyeloneuropathy, in which there is administered to a human patient in need of the same an effective amount of hematopoietic cells modified ex vivo by infection with a retroviral vector containing a nucleic acid fragment comprising a sequence as represented on FIG. 2 (SEQ. ID No: 1) or FIG. 6 (SEQ. ID. No: 4-17) or FIG. 7 (SEQ. ID No: 18-23). Also, human hematopoietic cells can be treated ex vivo to correct the content of very long chain fatty acids in them, by providing human hematopoietic cells of a patient affected by adrenoleukodystrophy or adrenomyeloneuropathy, and infecting them ex vivo with a retroviral vector containing, operably linked to a promoter, a nucleic acid fragment as above. The expression of the nucleic acid in the hematopoietic cells corrects the content of very long chain fatty acids in the hematopoietic cells.

The cDNA and genomic DNA sequences encoding the human adrenoleukodystrophy protein are provided. Mutations of the adrenoleukodystrophy protein cause adrenoleukodystrophy or adrenomyelopathy.

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