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ArticleCell reports2018

The Assembly-Activating Protein Promotes Stability and Interactions between AAV's Viral Proteins to Nucleate Capsid Assembly.

Anna C Maurer, Simon Pacouret, Ana Karla Cepeda Diaz, Jessica Blake, Eva Andres-Mateos, Luk H Vandenberghe

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Article in Cell reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Evolving membrane-associated accessory protein variants for improved adeno-associated virus production.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Anna C MaurerGrousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Simon PacouretGrousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; INSERM UMR 1089, University of Nantes, Nantes University Hospital, 22 Boulevard Benoni Goullin, 44200 Nantes, France.
Ana Karla Cepeda DiazGrousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Jessica BlakeGrousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Eva Andres-MateosGrousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Luk H VandenbergheGrousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Ocular Genomics Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Electronic address: luk_vandenberghe@meei.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USSmith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute · USInnovative Genomics Institute · US

Funding

VISION RESEARCHP30EY003790 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Patricia Ann D'Amore · 1985 to 2026
$25.5M
Broad Spectrum Molecular Therapy for Blinding Retina DisordersDP1EY023177 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BENNETT, JEAN · 2012 to 2015
$3.2M
Broad Spectrum Molecular Therapy for Blinding Retina DisordersDP1OD008267 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BENNETT, JEAN · 2011 to 2011
$800k
NEI NIH HHS DP1 EY023177NEI NIH HHS P30 EY003790NIH HHS DP1 OD008267
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector is a preferred delivery platform for in vivo gene therapy. Natural and engineered variations of the AAV capsid affect a plurality of phenotypes relevant to gene therapy, including vector production and host tropism. Fundamental to these aspects is the mechanism of AAV capsid assembly. Here, the role of the viral co-factor assembly-activating protein (AAP) was evaluated in 12 naturally occurring AAVs and 9 putative ancestral capsid intermediates. The results demonstrate increased capsid protein stability and VP-VP interactions in the presence of AAP. The capsid's dependence on AAP can be partly overcome by strengthening interactions between monomers within the assembly, as illustrated by the transfer of a minimal motif defined by a phenotype-to-phylogeny mapping method. These findings suggest that the emergence of AAP within the Dependovirus genus relaxes structural constraints on AAV assembly in favor of increasing the degrees of freedom for the capsid to evolve.

Indexed as

Virus AssemblyAmino Acid MotifsCapsid ProteinsDependovirusGain of Function MutationHEK293 CellsHumansModels, MolecularPhenotypePhylogenyProtein BindingProtein MultimerizationProtein StabilitySerotypingVirionCapsid ProteinsAAPAAVadeno-associated viruscapsidcapsid assemblygene therapymanufacturingstructure-functionvector engineering

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PMID29742436
PMCPMC5983388
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