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 …

Current applications and future perspective of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in cancer

SW Wang, C Gao, YM Zheng, L Yi, JC Lu, XY Huang… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) system provides
adaptive immunity against plasmids and phages in prokaryotes. This system inspires the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical applications of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing system: Delivery options and challenges in precision medicine

M Khoshandam, H Soltaninejad, M Mousazadeh… - Genes & …, 2024 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas9 is an effective gene editing tool with broad applications for the prevention or
treatment of numerous diseases. It depends on CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced …

[HTML][HTML] In silico reconstruction of the viral evolutionary lineage yields a potent gene therapy vector

E Zinn, S Pacouret, V Khaychuk, HT Turunen… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have emerged as a gene-delivery platform with
demonstrated safety and efficacy in a handful of clinical trials for monogenic disorders …

In vitro and in vivo gene therapy vector evolution via multispecies interbreeding and retargeting of adeno-associated viruses

D Grimm, JS Lee, L Wang, T Desai, B Akache… - Journal of …, 2008 - journals.asm.org
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes differ broadly in transduction efficacies and tissue
tropisms and thus hold enormous potential as vectors for human gene therapy. In reality …

Directed evolution of adeno-associated virus yields enhanced gene delivery vectors

N Maheshri, JT Koerber, BK Kaspar… - Nature biotechnology, 2006 - nature.com
Adeno-associated viral vectors are highly safe and efficient gene delivery vehicles.
However, numerous challenges in vector design remain, including neutralizing antibody …

Gene therapy: twenty-first century medicine

IM Verma, MD Weitzman - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Broadly defined, the concept of gene therapy involves the transfer of genetic
material into a cell, tissue, or whole organ, with the goal of curing a disease or at least …

In vivo genome editing in animals using AAV-CRISPR system: applications to translational research of human disease

CH Lau, Y Suh - F1000Research, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has shown promising therapeutic efficacy with a good safety
profile in a wide range of animal models and human clinical trials. With the advent of …

A versatile toolkit for overcoming AAV immunity

X Li, X Wei, J Lin, L Ou - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a promising delivery vehicle for in vivo gene
therapy and has been widely used in> 200 clinical trials globally. There are already several …