AAV vectors: The Rubik's cube of human gene therapy

A Pupo, A Fernández, SH Low, A François… - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Defective genes account for∼ 80% of the total of more than 7,000 diseases known to date.
Gene therapy brings the promise of a one-time treatment option that will fix the errors in …

Recombinant adeno-associated virus gene therapy in light of Luxturna (and Zolgensma and Glybera): where are we, and how did we get here?

AM Keeler, TR Flotte - Annual review of virology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The recent market approvals of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) gene therapies
in Europe and the United States are landmark achievements in the history of modern …

Gene therapy for neurological disorders: progress and prospects

BE Deverman, BM Ravina, KS Bankiewicz… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are a rapidly emerging gene therapy platform for the
treatment of neurological diseases. In preclinical studies, transgenes encoding therapeutic …

Adeno-associated virus gene therapy prevents progression of kidney disease in genetic models of nephrotic syndrome

WY Ding, V Kuzmuk, S Hunter, A Lay… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
Gene therapy for kidney diseases has proven challenging. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is
used as a vector for gene therapy targeting other organs, with particular success …

In vivo tissue-tropism of adeno-associated viral vectors

A Srivastava - Current opinion in virology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•AAV is a non-pathogenic virus, and recombinant AAV vectors have proven to be
highly efficient for gene delivery to a wide variety of cell types, tissue, and organs in small …

Capsid modifications for targeting and improving the efficacy of AAV vectors

H Büning, A Srivastava - Molecular therapy Methods & clinical development, 2019 - cell.com
In the past decade, recombinant vectors based on a non-pathogenic parvovirus, the adeno-
associated virus (AAV), have taken center stage as a gene delivery vehicle for the potential …

Selection and evaluation of clinically relevant AAV variants in a xenograft liver model

L Lisowski, AP Dane, K Chu, Y Zhang… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) vectors have shown early promise in clinical
trials,,. The therapeutic transgene cassette can be packaged in different AAV capsid …

The AAV vector toolkit: poised at the clinical crossroads

A Asokan, DV Schaffer, RJ Samulski - Molecular Therapy, 2012 - cell.com
The discovery of naturally occurring adeno-associated virus (AAV) isolates in different
animal species and the generation of engineered AAV strains using molecular genetics …

Rationale and strategies for the development of safe and effective optimized AAV vectors for human gene therapy

A Srivastava - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have been, or are currently in use, in
332 phase I/II/III clinical trials in a number of human diseases, and in some cases …

Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: the issue of transgene persistence

A Manini, E Abati, A Nuredini, S Corti… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive, infancy-onset
neuromuscular disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness and atrophy …