Various AAV serotypes and their applications in gene therapy: an overview

SS Issa, AA Shaimardanova, VV Solovyeva… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite scientific discoveries in the field of gene and cell therapy, some diseases still have
no effective treatment. Advances in genetic engineering methods have enabled the …

Fantastic AAV gene therapy vectors and how to find them—random diversification, rational design and machine learning

J Becker, J Fakhiri, D Grimm - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Parvoviruses are a diverse family of small, non-enveloped DNA viruses that infect a wide
variety of species, tissues and cell types. For over half a century, their intriguing biology and …

Genomic investigations of unexplained acute hepatitis in children

S Morfopoulou, S Buddle, OE Torres Montaguth… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Since its first identification in Scotland, over 1,000 cases of unexplained paediatric hepatitis
in children have been reported worldwide, including 278 cases in the UK. Here we report an …

Efficient and safe therapeutic use of paired Cas9-nickases for primary hyperoxaluria type 1

L Torella, J Klermund, M Bilbao-Arribas… - EMBO Molecular …, 2024 - embopress.org
The therapeutic use of adeno-associated viral vector (AAV)-mediated gene disruption using
CRISPR-Cas9 is limited by potential off-target modifications and the risk of uncontrolled …

Sleeping Beauty mRNA-LNP enables stable rAAV transgene expression in mouse and NHP hepatocytes and improves vector potency

PM Zakas, SC Cunningham, A Doherty, EB van Dijk… - Molecular Therapy, 2024 - cell.com
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector gene delivery systems have
demonstrated great promise in clinical trials but continue to face durability and dose-related …

Adeno‐associated virus serotype 2 capsid variants for improved liver‐directed gene therapy

N Meumann, M Cabanes‐Creus, M Ertelt… - Hepatology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Conclusions: In conclusion, MLIV. K and MLIV. A are AAV peptide display variants selected
in immunocompetent mice with improved hepatocyte tropism and transduction efficiency …

Assessment of pre-clinical liver models based on their ability to predict the liver-tropism of adeno-associated virus vectors

A Westhaus, M Cabanes-Creus, KL Dilworth… - Human Gene …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
The liver is a prime target for in vivo gene therapies using recombinant adeno-associated
viral vectors. Multiple clinical trials have been undertaken for this target in the past 15 years; …

Characterization of the humanized FRG mouse model and development of an AAV-LK03 variant with improved liver lobular biodistribution

M Cabanes-Creus, RG Navarro, SHY Liao… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2023 - cell.com
Recent clinical successes have intensified interest in using adeno-associated virus (AAV)
vectors for therapeutic gene delivery. The liver is a key clinical target, given its critical …

Future directions for adrenal insufficiency: cellular transplantation and genetic therapies

LE Graves, DJ Torpy, PT Coates… - The Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) occurs in 1 in 5 to 7000 adults. Leading etiologies are
autoimmune adrenalitis in adults and congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in children. Oral …

Enhanced AAV transduction across preclinical CNS models: A comparative study in human brain organoids with cross-species evaluations

M Drouyer, J Merjane, T Nedelkoska… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2024 - cell.com
Viral vectors based on recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) have become the most
widely used system for therapeutic gene delivery in the central nervous system (CNS) …