A 5-Month-Old Boy with Chronic Diarrhea and Failure to Thrive

A 5-month-old boy with chronic diarrhea and failure to thrive is found to have a low blood T-lymphocyte count and severely decreased serum immunoglobulin.  After thorough evaluation, an experimental treatment is proposed to his parents.  The therapy consists of infecting the patient's cells with a retroviral vector containing the gene for a protein that is deficient in this patient.  Which of the following proteins is most likely coded by this gene?

A) Adenosine deaminase
B) Myeloperoxidase
C) NADPH oxidase
D) Reverse transcriptase
E) Xanthine oxidase

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