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ReviewAnnual review of biomedical engineering2008

Molecular engineering of viral gene delivery vehicles.

David V Schaffer, James T Koerber, Kwang-il Lim

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Review in Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Molecular Engineering of Virus Tropism.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  5. Neurosurgical gene therapy for central nervous system diseases.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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  6. Optimal delivery of RNA interference by viral vectors for cancer therapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2023
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  7. Advanced Gene Therapy Strategies for the Repair of ACL Injuries.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  16. Protein-based vehicles for biomimetic RNAi delivery.Journal of biological engineering · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

David V SchafferThe Department of Chemical Engineering, the Department of Bioengineering, and The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3220, USA. schaffer@berkeley.edu
James T Koerber
Kwang-il Lim

Funding

Engineering AAV Vectors to Evade Antibody NeutralizationR01HL081527 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI SCHAFFER, DAVID V · 2007 to 2010
$1.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL 081527NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL081527
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viruses can be engineered to efficiently deliver exogenous genes, but their natural gene delivery properties often fail to meet human therapeutic needs. Therefore, engineering viral vectors with new properties, including enhanced targeting abilities and resistance to immune responses, is a growing area of research. This review discusses protein engineering approaches to generate viral vectors with novel gene delivery capabilities. Rational design of viral vectors has yielded successful advances in vitro, and to an extent in vivo. However, there is often insufficient knowledge of viral structure-function relationships to reengineer existing functions or create new capabilities, such as virus-cell interactions, whose molecular basis is distributed throughout the primary sequence of the viral proteins. Therefore, high-throughput library and directed evolution methods offer alternative approaches to engineer viral vectors with desired properties. Parallel and integrated efforts in rational and library-based design promise to aid the translation of engineered viral vectors toward the clinic.

Indexed as

Gene TargetingGenetic EngineeringGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsTransfectionViruses

Identifiers

PMID18647114
PMCPMC2683887

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