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 …

Viral vector platforms within the gene therapy landscape

JT Bulcha, Y Wang, H Ma, PWL Tai… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Throughout its 40-year history, the field of gene therapy has been marked by many
transitions. It has seen great strides in combating human disease, has given hope to patients …

Adeno-associated virus vector as a platform for gene therapy delivery

D Wang, PWL Tai, G Gao - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are the leading platform for gene delivery for the
treatment of a variety of human diseases. Recent advances in developing clinically …

CRISPR-based therapeutic genome editing: strategies and in vivo delivery by AAV vectors

D Wang, F Zhang, G Gao - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The development of clustered regularly interspaced short-palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-
based biotechnologies has revolutionized the life sciences and introduced new therapeutic …

Progress and problems with the use of viral vectors for gene therapy

CE Thomas, A Ehrhardt, MA Kay - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003 - nature.com
Gene therapy has a history of controversy. Encouraging results are starting to emerge from
the clinic, but questions are still being asked about the safety of this new molecular …

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 …

Modular flexibility of dystrophin: implications for gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

SQ Harper, MA Hauser, C DelloRusso, D Duan… - Nature medicine, 2002 - nature.com
Attempts to develop gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have been
complicated by the enormous size of the dystrophin gene. We have performed a detailed …

Packaging capacity of adeno-associated virus serotypes: impact of larger genomes on infectivity and postentry steps

JC Grieger, RJ Samulski - Journal of virology, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
The limited packaging capacity of adeno-associated virus (AAV) precludes the design of
vectors for the treatment of diseases associated with larger genes. Autonomous …

Adeno-associated virus vector carrying human minidystrophin genes effectively ameliorates muscular dystrophy in mdx mouse model

B Wang, J Li, X Xiao - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common and lethal genetic muscle
disorder, caused by recessive mutations in the dystrophin gene. One of every 3,500 males …

Viral vectors for gene delivery to the central nervous system

TB Lentz, SJ Gray, RJ Samulski - Neurobiology of disease, 2012 - Elsevier
The potential benefits of gene therapy for neurological diseases such as Parkinson's,
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Epilepsy, and Alzheimer's are enormous. Even a delay …