The spinal cord injury (SCI) is a medical and life-disrupting condition with devastating consequences for the physical, social, and professional welfare of patients, and there is no adequate treatment for it. At the same time, gene therapy has been s...
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a small ssDNA satellite virus that receives wide attention due to its popularity as a safe and effective gene therapy vector. The AAV cell entry receptor (AAVR) for most serotypes is a glycoprotein containing five poly...
Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are small, non-enveloped viruses that package a single-stranded (ss)DNA genome of 4.7 kilobases (kb) within their T = 1 icosahedral capsid. AAVs are replication-deficient viruses that require a helper virus to complete...
Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) are widely used as delivery vectors in clinical trials for in vivo gene therapy due to their unique features. Göttingen minipigs are a well-established animal model for several diseases and can be used for the effi...
The use of AAV capsid libraries coupled with various selection strategies has proven to be a remarkable approach for generating novel AAVs with enhanced and desired features. The inability to reliably sequence the complete capsid gene in a high-throu...
The level of transduction efficiency of the target retinal cells affects the choice of AAV serotype and the outcome of gene replacement therapy for inherited retinal diseases. This study focused on the tropism and transduction efficiency of AAV2.7m8-...
Mutations in the Crumbs homologue 1 (CRB1) gene cause inherited retinal dystrophies, such as early-onset retinitis pigmentosa and Leber congenital amaurosis. A Brown Norway rat strain was reported with a spontaneous insertion-deletion (indel) mutatio...
Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) have emerged as promising tools for gene therapy due to their safety and efficacy in delivering therapeutic genes or gene editing sequences to various tissues and organs. AAV serotype 9 (AAV9), among AAV serotypes, sta...
Recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) have become one of the leading gene therapies for treating a variety of diseases. One factor contributing to rAAVs’ success is the fact that a wide variety of tissue types can be transduced by differ...
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a progressive inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD) that primarily affects rod photoreceptor cells, leading to the degeneration of photoreceptors and the gradual loss of vision. While RP is one of the most studied IRDs, other...
Adeno-Associated Virus is the leading vector for gene therapy. Although it is the vector for all in vivo gene therapies approved for clinical use by the US Food and Drug Administration, its biology is still not yet fully understood. It has been shown...
Currently, the development of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy is a promising method for treating various diseases and is gaining increasing popularity. However, the use of AAV has certain drawbacks and faces limitations such as immune...
AAV integration has become an important safety consideration in gene therapy. However, accurately determining integration sites remains challenging due to biases introduced by library preparation methods, sequencing technologies, and bioinformatic pi...
Human gene therapy has advanced from twentieth-century conception to twenty-first-century reality. The recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus (rAAV) is a major gene therapy vector. Research continues to improve rAAV safety and efficacy using a variety of...
Vectors based on adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are widely used as a delivery system in gene therapy. However, preexisting immunity against AAV remains a major limitation. This study examines the prevalence of AAV genomes and anti-AAV2 immunity in a...
Today, adeno-associated virus (AAV) is an extremely popular choice for gene therapy delivery. The safety profile and simplicity of the genome organization are the decisive advantages which allow us to claim that AAV is currently among the most promis...
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is the leading vector for gene replacement therapy; however, the roles and regulation of host proteins in rAAV production remain incompletely understood. In this comparative proteomic analysis, we focused on...
Inherited retinal disorders (IRD) have become a primary focus of gene therapy research since the success of adeno-associated virus-based therapeutics (voretigene neparvovec-rzyl) for Leber congenital amaurosis type 2 (LCA2). Dozens of monogenic IRDs...
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) has emerged as a prominent vector for in vivo gene therapy, owing to its distinct advantages. Accurate determination of the rAAV genome titer is crucial for ensuring the safe and effective administration of c...
Large-scale manufacturing of rAAV is a bottleneck for the development of genetic disease treatments. The baculovirus/Sf9 cell system underpins the first rAAV treatment approved by EMA and remains one of the most advanced platforms for rAAV manufactur...
Stable cell lines have recently achieved recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) titers comparable to the standard triple transfection approach, making them a promising alternative to plasmid-based production systems. However, whether integration o...
Adeno-Associated Viruses (AAV) are widely used gene-therapy vectors for both clinical applications and laboratory investigations. The titering of different AAV preparations is important for quality control purposes, as well as in comparative studies....
A high manufacturing cost of goods (CoG) remains a critical barrier to the broad clinical adoption of gene therapies and is driven in part by limited productivity in adeno-associated virus (AAV) manufacturing. Here, we report an optimized AAV product...
Joint diseases represent a significant health burden due to their high prevalence and morbidity, yet current treatments fail to provide comprehensive and long-term relief for all patients. In this context, adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy ha...
We aimed to produce a mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) using the mouse blood–brain barrier (BBB)-penetrating adeno-associated virus (AAV)-PHP.B. Four-to-five-week-old C57BL/6 mice received injections of high-dose (2.0 ×...
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have broad application prospects in the field of gene therapy. The establishment of low-cost and large-scale manufacturing is now the general agenda for industry. The baculovirus-insect cell/larva expr...
Subretinal and intravitreal injection of retinal gene therapy is associated with serious adverse events and poor efficacy. We sought to improve retinal gene therapy delivery by developing fibrin hydrogel encapsulated adeno-associated virus (FE-AAV)....
Background/Objectives: Fabry disease is an X-linked disorder caused by lysosomal accumulation of glycosphingolipids due to the deficiency of α-Galactosidase (α-GAL), which leads to pathology in multiple organ systems. The standard of care...
Background/Objectives: Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) stands at the forefront of gene therapy development, requiring stable formulations to support the expanding therapeutic applications. The growing diversity of serotypes and engineered ca...
Decades ago, Friedmann and Roblin postulated several barriers to gene therapy, including tissue targeting, delivery across the blood–brain barrier (BBB), and host immune responses. These issues remain pertinent till today. Since then, several a...
The capsid structures of most Adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes, already assigned to an antigenic clade, have been previously determined. This study reports the remaining capsid structures of AAV7, AAV11, AAV12, and AAV13 determined by cryo-elec...
We have previously developed an rAAV2/HBoV1 vector in which a recombinant adeno-associated virus 2 (rAAV2) genome is pseudopackaged into a human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1) capsid. Recently, the production of rAAV2/HBoV1 in human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 c...
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a non-pathogenic virus that mainly infects primates with the help of adenoviruses. AAV is being widely used as a delivery vector for in vivo gene therapy, as evidenced by five currently approved drugs and more than 255...
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is the most effective viral vector technology for directly translating the genomic revolution into medicinal therapies. However, the manufacturing of rAAV viral vectors remains challenging in the upstream pro...
Gene therapy is making significant impact on a modest, yet growing, number of human diseases. Justifiably, the preferred viral vector for clinical use is that based on recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV). There is a need to scale up rAAV vector...
To analyze the methylation status of wild-type adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2), bisulfite PCR sequencing (BPS) of the packaged viral genome and its integrated form was performed and 262 of the total 266 CG dinucleotides (CpG) were mapped. In vir...
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are among the most widely used delivery vehicles for in vivo gene therapy as they mediate robust and sustained transgene expression with limited toxicity. However, a significant impediment to the broad clinical su...
Despite scientific discoveries in the field of gene and cell therapy, some diseases still have no effective treatment. Advances in genetic engineering methods have enabled the development of effective gene therapy methods for various diseases based o...
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have emerged as powerful tools for in vivo gene therapy, enabling long-term transgene expression in targeted tissues with minimal pathogenicity. This review examines the AAV serotypes used in clinical gene therapy...
Background/Objectives: α-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency is an inherited, genetic condition characterized by reduced serum levels of AAT and increased risk of developing emphysema and liver disease. AAT is normally synthesized primarily in the l...
Background: Adult neurons in the central nervous system often fail to regenerate after spinal cord injury (SCI). Regenerative gene therapies could potentially promote corticospinal axon regeneration, restoration of motor circuitry, and functional imp...
The widespread successful use of recombinant Adeno-associated virus (rAAV) in gene therapy has driven the demand for scale-up manufacturing methods of vectors with optimized yield and transduction efficiency. The Baculovirus/Sf9 system is a promising...
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a prevalent vector in viral gene therapy. Given its importance, significant efforts focus on engineering the capsid residues on the exterior surface to increase cell/tissue-specific binding to cellular receptors or to...
Background: Selecting the most efficient and specific adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids for gene delivery to the nervous system via minimally invasive routes is critical to gene therapy advancement. While AAV9, rAAV2-retro, AAV-PHP.eB, and AAV-Mac...
Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors represent one of the leading platforms for gene delivery. Nevertheless, their small packaging capacity restricts their use for diseases requiring large-gene delivery. To overcome this, dual-AAV vector systems that...
Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are a convenient tool for gene therapy delivery. According to the current classification, they are divided into the species AAV A and AAV B within the genus Dependoparvovirus. Historically AAVs were also subdivided on...
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by genetic mutations of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), leading to disrupted transport of Cl− and bicarbonate and CF lung disease featuring bacterial colonization and chronic infection in conducting a...
Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are small, non-pathogenic ssDNA viruses being used as therapeutic gene delivery vectors for the treatment of a variety of monogenic diseases. An obstacle to successful gene delivery is inefficient capsid trafficking th...
The purpose of this paper is to review human leukocyte antigen G (HLA-G) in the eye, its role in immune tolerance, and the potential therapeutic use of AAV gene transfer and expression of HLA-G in various ocular tissues. Several studies are reviewed...
Viruses are increasingly used as vectors for delivery of genetic material for gene therapy and vaccine applications. Recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) are a class of viral vector that is being investigated intensively in the development of...
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