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Supplementary Materials and Methods.

Packaging of retroviral vector

The simplified retroviral vector SF71gp91phox 1 was harvested from culture supernatants of transiently transfected Eco-Phoenix packaging cells using the Stratagene (San Diego, CA) V-pack system. Virus titer was estimated at ≈1 x 106 infectious particles per ml supernatant, based on gp91phox expression in transduced bone marrow (BM) cultures from X-CGD mice, which carry a null allele for gp91phox 2.

Retroviral transduction and sex-mismatched transplantation of X-CGD murine BM

Isolation and transduction of murine X-CGD BM was essentially as described3-5, except using vector supernatant and transduction on 2-4 µg/cm2. fibronectin fragment CH-296 (Takara Shuzo, Otsu, Japan) rather than on packaging cells4,5. During pre-stimulation and transduction, BM cells were cultured in Alpha Minimum Essential Medium (a MEM, GIBCO) 30% FBS (Hyclone), 100 u/mL of Human IL-6 (Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA) and 100 ng/mL of murine SCF (Amgen). SF71gp91phox-transduced BM was injected intravenously into two groups of recipients. One group was conditioned with 300 cGy and transplanted with 8 Í 106 or 5 Í 106 cells per recipient in the first and second experiments, respectively. The second group was transplanted with 2 Í 106 cells per recipient following lethal irradiation using a split dose of 1100 cGy in the first experiment or single dose of 950 cGy in the second experiment.

Analysis of neutrophil NADPH oxidase activity and flavocytochrome b558 expression

NADPH oxidase activity in phorbol 12-myristate 13- acetate (PMA)-stimulated peripheral blood neutrophils was assayed using dihydrorhodamine 123 (DHR 123) (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR) and flow cytometry using FACSCalibur with CELLQuest software.6 Superoxide production was assayed by cytochrome c reduction in BM enriched for neutrophils by depletion of adherent cells.2,4,5 Immunoblots of human neutrophil and murine BM neutrophil lysates 5,7 were probed with the CL5 mouse monoclonal antibody to human gp91phox (kind gift of A. Jesaitis, Montana State University) and a rabbit polyclonal antibody that recognizes both human and murine p22phox.2,8

Ligation-mediated (LM)-PCR

The biotinylated primer for LM-PCR, performed using Tsp5091-digested DNA as described,9-11 was 5’-CTGGGGACCATCTGTTCTTGGCCTC-3’; the adapter sequence 5’- GTAATACGACTCACTATAGGGCACTATAGGGCACGCGTGGT-3’12 was attached by blunt end ligation to the 5’ end the genomic DNA. For exponential PCR the following primers were used: adapter primers SL-AP1: 5’-GTAATACGACTCACTATAGGGC or SL-AP2: 5’-ACTATAGGGCACGCGTGGT-3’12 and A2RV: 5’ GCCCTTGATCTGAACTTCTC-3’ or A3RV: 5’-CCATGCCTTGCAAAATGGC-3’10 for the SFFV LTR primer. To sequence LM-PCR products, PCR products were run on a 2.5% agarose gel and lanes were excised above the internal control band, and cloned into pCR-2.1 TOPO vector (Invitrogen, Carlsbad CA). After colony isolation, the size of the PCR products were analyzed on a 1.5-2.0% agarose gel and products with distinct insert sizes were selected for sequencing.

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