Inherited retinal diseases: linking genes, disease-causing variants, and relevant therapeutic modalities

N Schneider, Y Sundaresan, P Gopalakrishnan… - Progress in retinal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a clinically complex and heterogenous group of visual
impairment phenotypes caused by pathogenic variants in at least 277 nuclear and …

A comprehensive review of retinal gene therapy

SE Boye, SL Boye, AS Lewin, WW Hauswirth - Molecular therapy, 2013 - cell.com
Blindness, although not life threatening, is a debilitating disorder for which few, if any
treatments exist. Ocular gene therapies have the potential to profoundly improve the quality …

In vivo base editing rescues cone photoreceptors in a mouse model of early-onset inherited retinal degeneration

EH Choi, S Suh, AT Foik, H Leinonen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is the most common cause of inherited retinal
degeneration in children. LCA patients with RPE65 mutations show accelerated cone …

Vector platforms for gene therapy of inherited retinopathies

I Trapani, A Puppo, A Auricchio - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2014 - Elsevier
Inherited retinopathies (IR) are common untreatable blinding conditions. Most of them are
inherited as monogenic disorders, due to mutations in genes expressed in retinal …

Leber congenital amaurosis due to RPE65 mutations and its treatment with gene therapy

AV Cideciyan - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2010 - Elsevier
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a rare hereditary retinal degeneration caused by
mutations in more than a dozen genes. RPE65, one of these mutated genes, is highly …

Dual-AAV split prime editor corrects the mutation and phenotype in mice with inherited retinal degeneration

K She, Y Liu, Q Zhao, X Jin, Y Yang, J Su, R Li… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
The prime editor (PE) can edit genomes with almost any intended changes, including all 12
possible types of base substitutions, small insertions and deletions, and their combinations …

Structural characterization of the dual glycan binding adeno-associated virus serotype 6

R Ng, L Govindasamy, BL Gurda, R McKenna… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
The three-dimensional structure of adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotype 6 (AAV6) was
determined using cryo-electron microscopy and image reconstruction and using X-ray …

Long-term retinal function and structure rescue using capsid mutant AAV8 vector in the rd10 mouse, a model of recessive retinitis pigmentosa

J Pang, X Dai, SE Boye, I Barone, SL Boye, S Mao… - Molecular therapy, 2011 - cell.com
The retinal degeneration 10 (rd10) mouse is a well-characterized model of autosomal
recessive retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which carries a spontaneous mutation in the β subunit of …

Clinical applications of retinal gene therapy

DM Lipinski, M Thake, RE MacLaren - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2013 - Elsevier
Many currently incurable forms of blindness affecting the retina have a genetic etiology and
several others, such as those resulting from retinal vascular disturbances, respond to …

The human rhodopsin kinase promoter in an AAV5 vector confers rod-and cone-specific expression in the primate retina

SE Boye, JJ Alexander, SL Boye… - Human gene …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has proven an effective gene delivery vehicle for the
treatment of retinal disease. Ongoing clinical trials using a serotype 2 AAV vector to express …