Pharmaceutical development of AAV-based gene therapy products for the eye

GA Rodrigues, E Shalaev, TK Karami… - Pharmaceutical …, 2019 - Springer
A resurgence of interest and investment in the field of gene therapy, driven in large part by
advances in viral vector technology, has recently culminated in United States Food and Drug …

Choice of template delivery mitigates the genotoxic risk and adverse impact of editing in human hematopoietic stem cells

S Ferrari, A Jacob, D Cesana, M Laugel, S Beretta… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Long-range gene editing by homology-directed repair (HDR) in hematopoietic
stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) often relies on viral transduction with recombinant adeno …

Variants of the adeno-associated virus serotype 9 with enhanced penetration of the blood–brain barrier in rodents and primates

Y Yao, J Wang, Y Liu, Y Qu, K Wang, Y Zhang… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of gene therapies for the treatment of diseases of the central nervous
system has been hindered by the limited availability of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) that …

dCas9-VPR-mediated transcriptional activation of functionally equivalent genes for gene therapy

LM Riedmayr, KS Hinrichsmeyer, N Karguth, S Böhm… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Many disease-causing genes possess functionally equivalent counterparts, which are often
expressed in distinct cell types. An attractive gene therapy approach for inherited disorders …

Production of adeno-associated virus vectors for in vitro and in vivo applications

T Kimura, B Ferran, Y Tsukahara, Q Shang, S Desai… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Delivering and expressing a gene of interest in cells or living animals has become a pivotal
technique in biomedical research and gene therapy. Among viral delivery systems, adeno …

Human and insect cell-produced recombinant adeno-associated viruses show differences in genome heterogeneity

NT Tran, E Lecomte, S Saleun, S Namkung… - Human Gene …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
In the past two decades, adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector manufacturing has made
remarkable advancements to meet large-scale production demands for preclinical and …

Parkinson's disease motor symptoms rescue by CRISPRa‐reprogramming astrocytes into GABAergic neurons

J Giehrl‐Schwab, F Giesert, B Rauser… - EMBO molecular …, 2022 - embopress.org
Direct reprogramming based on genetic factors resembles a promising strategy to replace
lost cells in degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease. For this, we developed a …

Inducing different neuronal subtypes from astrocytes in the injured mouse cerebral cortex

N Mattugini, R Bocchi, V Scheuss, GL Russo, O Torper… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Astrocytes are particularly promising candidates for reprogramming into neurons, as they
maintain some of the original patterning information from their radial glial ancestors …

The RNA-binding protein PUM2 impairs mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy during aging

D D'Amico, A Mottis, F Potenza, V Sorrentino, H Li… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Little information is available about how post-transcriptional mechanisms regulate the aging
process. Here, we show that the RNA-binding protein Pumilio2 (PUM2), which is a …

Microglia and astrocyte activation is region‐dependent in the α‐synuclein mouse model of Parkinson's disease

L Basurco, MA Abellanas, L Ayerra, E Conde… - Glia, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Inflammation is a common feature in neurodegenerative diseases that contributes to
neuronal loss. Previously, we demonstrated that the basal inflammatory tone differed …