Primate-conserved carbonic anhydrase IV and murine-restricted LY6C1 enable blood-brain barrier crossing by engineered viral vectors

TF Shay, EE Sullivan, X Ding, X Chen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) presents a major challenge for delivering large molecules to
study and treat the central nervous system. This is due in part to the scarcity of targets known …

Natural Adeno-Associated Virus Serotypes and Engineered Adeno-Associated Virus Capsid Variants: Tropism Differences and Mechanistic Insights

E Lopez-Gordo, K Chamberlain, JM Riyad… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Today, adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based vectors are arguably the most promising in vivo
gene delivery vehicles for durable therapeutic gene expression. Advances in molecular …

Advances in Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors for Neurodegenerative Diseases

L Li, L Vasan, B Kartono, K Clifford, A Attarpour… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors are gene therapy delivery tools that
offer a promising platform for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Keeping up with …

Crosslinking of Ly6a metabolically reprograms CD8 T cells for cancer immunotherapy

A Maliah, N Santana-Magal, S Parikh, S Gordon… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
T cell inhibitory mechanisms prevent autoimmune reactions, while cancer immunotherapy
aims to remove these inhibitory signals. Chronic ultraviolet (UV) exposure attenuates …

Early and delayed STAT1-dependent responses drive local trained immunity of macrophages in the spleen

A Solomon, NB Ben-Moshe, D Hoffman, S Trzebanski… - eLife, 2025 - elifesciences.org
Trained immunity (TI) is the process wherein innate immune cells gain functional memory
upon exposure to specific ligands or pathogens, leading to augmented inflammatory …

New AAV9 engineered variants with enhanced neurotropism and reduced liver off-targeting in mice and marmosets

SG Giannelli, M Luoni, A Iannielli, J Middeldorp… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Although adeno-associated virus 9 (AAV9) has been highly exploited as delivery platform for
gene-based therapies, its efficacy is hampered by low efficiency in crossing the adult blood …

Primate-conserved Carbonic Anhydrase IV and murine-restricted Ly6c1 are new targets for crossing the blood-brain barrier

TF Shay, EE Sullivan, X Ding, X Chen, SR Kumar… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) presents a major challenge to delivering large molecules to
study and treat the central nervous system (CNS). This is due in part to the scarcity of …

Silencing LY6D Expression Inhibits Colon Cancer in Xenograft Mice and Regulates Colon Cancer Stem Cells' Proliferation, Stemness, Invasion, and Apoptosis via the …

J Duan, Y Wang, Y Chen, Y Wang, Q Li, J Liu, C Fu… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study explored the role of lymphocyte antigen 6 family member D (LY6D) in colon
cancer stem cells'(CCSCs) proliferation and invasion. LY6D was knocked down using …

Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells are required for organoid survival after genotoxic injury

J Lee, A Gleizes, NV Janto, LL Appell, S Sun… - …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Progenitors and mature cells can maintain the intestinal epithelium by dedifferentiation and
facultative intestinal stem cell (fISC) function when active ISCs (aISCs) are lost to damage …

Natural killer cell cytotoxicity shapes the clonal evolution of B cell leukaemia

MC Buri, MR Shoeb, A Bykov, P Repiscak, H Baik… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The term cancer immunoediting describes the dual role by which the immune system can
both suppress and promote tumour growth and is divided into three phases: elimination …