The menace of severe adverse events and deaths associated with viral gene therapy and its potential solution

A Kachanov, A Kostyusheva, S Brezgin… - Medicinal Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, in vivo gene replacement therapy has significantly advanced,
resulting in market approval of numerous therapeutics predominantly relying on adeno …

[HTML][HTML] Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus vectors for Gene Therapy of the Central Nervous System: delivery routes and clinical aspects

Ż Słyk, N Stachowiak, M Małecki - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Central Nervous System (CNS) is vulnerable to a range of diseases, including
neurodegenerative and oncological conditions, which present significant treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging plant-derived nanovesicles for advanced nucleic acid-based gene therapy

M Chai, B Gao, S Wang, L Zhang, X Pei, B Yue… - …, 2025 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Gene therapy has evolved into a pivotal approach for treating genetic disorders, extending
beyond traditional methods of directly repairing or replacing defective genes. Recent …

AAV2 can replicate its DNA by a rolling hairpin or rolling circle mechanism, depending on the helper virus

A Lkharrazi, K Tobler, S Marti… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) is a small, non-pathogenic, helper virus-dependent
parvovirus with a single-stranded (ss) DNA genome of approximately 4.7 kb. AAV2 DNA …

Essential role of pre-existing humoral immunity in TLR9-mediated type I IFN response to recombinant AAV vectors in human whole blood

NS Alakhras, CA Moreland, LC Wong, P Raut… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have emerged as the preferred platform
for gene therapy of rare human diseases. Despite the clinical promise, host immune …

[HTML][HTML] Dose-Dependent Progression of Chorioretinal Atrophy at the Injection Site After Subretinal Injection of rAAV2/8 in Nonhuman Primates

IP Seitz, F Wozar, GA Ochakovski, FF Reichel… - Ophthalmology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Progressive retinal atrophy has been described after subretinal gene therapy
utilizing the adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector platform. To elucidate whether this atrophy …

[HTML][HTML] Ocular Gene Therapy: An Overview of Viral Vectors, Immune Responses, and Future Directions

L Banou, S Sarrafpour, CC Teng… - The Yale Journal of …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ocular gene therapy has rapidly advanced from proof-of-concept studies to clinical trials by
exploiting the unique advantages of the eye, including its easy accessibility, relative immune …

Characterization of residual microRNAs in AAV vector batches produced in HEK293 mammalian cells and Sf9 insect cells

M Penaud-Budloo, E Lecomte, Q Lecomte… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2024 - cell.com
With more than 130 clinical trials and 8 approved gene therapy products, adeno-associated
virus (AAV) stands as one of the most popular vehicles to deliver therapeutic DNA in vivo …

Building a Bridge Between the Mechanism of EBV Reactivation and the Treatment of EBV‐Associated Cancers

J Jiang, X Zhu, S Li, Q Yan, J Ma - Journal of Medical Virology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Epstein‐Barr virus (EBV) infection is closely associated with the development of various
tumors such as lymphomas and epithelial cancers. EBV has a discrete life cycle with latency …

An autonucleolytic suspension HEK293F host cell line for high-titer serum-free AAV5 and AAV9 production with reduced levels of DNA impurity

G Howe, M Bal, M Wasmuth, G Massaro… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2024 - cell.com
We sought to engineer mammalian cells to secrete nuclease activity as a step toward
removing the need to purchase commercial nucleases as process additions in …