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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2012

Microvesicle-associated AAV vector as a novel gene delivery system.

Casey A Maguire, Leonora Balaj, Sarada Sivaraman, Matheus H W Crommentuijn, Maria Ericsson, Lucia Mincheva-Nilsson, Vladimir Baranov, Davide Gianni, Bakhos A Tannous, Miguel Sena-Esteves and 2 more

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 164 papers.

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164 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Current trends in gene therapy to treat inherited disorders of the brain.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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  19. In vivo selection in non-human primates identifies AAV capsids for on-target CSF delivery to spinal cord.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Casey A MaguireDepartment of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Neuroscience Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Leonora Balaj
Sarada Sivaraman
Matheus H W Crommentuijn
Maria Ericsson
Lucia Mincheva-Nilsson
Vladimir Baranov
Davide Gianni
Bakhos A Tannous
Miguel Sena-Esteves
Xandra O Breakefield
Johan Skog

Funding

The role of microvesicles in giloma virotherapyP01CA069246 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CHAREST, ALAIN · 1996 to 2021
$30.9M
StatisticsP50CA086355 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2000 to 2015
$27.8M
Interdepartmental Neuroscience CenterP30NS045776 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BREAKEFIELD, XANDRA OWENS, TANNOUS, BAKHOS A · 2003 to 2018
$11.1M
Tumor exosomes as agents of genetic changeR01CA141150 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BREAKEFIELD, XANDRA OWENS · 2009 to 2011
$873k
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA069246NCI NIH HHS P50 CA086355NCI NIH HHS P50 CA86355NCI NIH HHS R01 CA141150NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS045776NINDS NIH HHS P30NS045776NINDS NIH HHS P30NS4577
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have shown remarkable efficiency for gene delivery to cultured cells and in animal models of human disease. However, limitations to AAV vectored gene transfer exist after intravenous transfer, including off-target gene delivery (e.g., liver) and low transduction of target tissue. Here, we show that during production, a fraction of AAV vectors are associated with microvesicles/exosomes, termed vexosomes (vector-exosomes). AAV capsids associated with the surface and in the interior of microvesicles were visualized using electron microscopy. In cultured cells, vexosomes outperformed conventionally purified AAV vectors in transduction efficiency. We found that purified vexosomes were more resistant to a neutralizing anti-AAV antibody compared to conventionally purified AAV. Finally, we show that vexosomes bound to magnetic beads can be attracted to a magnetized area in cultured cells. Vexosomes represent a unique entity which offers a promising strategy to improve gene delivery.

Indexed as

Gene Transfer TechniquesCapsidCell Line, TumorCentrifugation, Density GradientDependovirusGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsHumansMicroscopy, ElectronNeoplasmsTransduction, GeneticTransfection

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PMID22314290
PMCPMC3345986

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