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 …

Base editing: advances and therapeutic opportunities

EM Porto, AC Komor, IM Slaymaker… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Base editing—the introduction of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) into DNA or RNA in
living cells—is one of the most recent advances in the field of genome editing. As around …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] AAV vectors applied to the treatment of CNS disorders: Clinical status and challenges

L Kang, S Jin, J Wang, Z Lv, C Xin, C Tan… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, adeno-associated virus (AAV) has become the most important vector for
central nervous system (CNS) gene therapy. AAV has already shown promising results in …

Fantastic AAV gene therapy vectors and how to find them—random diversification, rational design and machine learning

J Becker, J Fakhiri, D Grimm - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Parvoviruses are a diverse family of small, non-enveloped DNA viruses that infect a wide
variety of species, tissues and cell types. For over half a century, their intriguing biology and …

Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) and host immunity–a race between the hare and the hedgehog

K Rapti, D Grimm - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) have emerged as the lead vector in clinical trials and form
the basis for several approved gene therapies for human diseases, mainly owing to their …

Technological advances in the use of viral and non-viral vectors for delivering genetic and non-genetic cargos for cancer therapy

DM Dogbey, VES Torres, E Fajemisin… - Drug Delivery and …, 2023 - Springer
The burden of cancer is increasing globally. Several challenges facing its mainstream
treatment approaches have formed the basis for the development of targeted delivery …

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 …

Using genetically incorporated unnatural amino acids to control protein functions in mammalian cells

AR Nödling, LA Spear, TL Williams… - Essays in …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Genetic code expansion allows unnatural (non-canonical) amino acid incorporation into
proteins of interest by repurposing the cellular translation machinery. The development of …

Liposomal delivery of CRISPR/Cas9

S Zhen, X Li - Cancer gene therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Liposomes are one of the most widely investigated carriers for CRISPR/Cas9 delivery. The
surface properties of liposomal carriers, including the surface charge, PEGylation, and …