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ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2019

Engineering the AAV capsid to evade immune responses.

Christopher Barnes, Olivia Scheideler, David Schaffer

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Review in Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

64 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christopher BarnesDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Olivia ScheidelerDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; The UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
David SchafferDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Electronic address: schaffer@berkeley.edu.

Funding

In Vivo Directed Evolution of Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors for Glioblastoma Multiforme Tumor-Initiating CellsR21EB021572 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI SCHAFFER, DAVID V · 2016 to 2017
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NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB021572
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene therapy is progressively emerging as a promising and powerful therapeutic modality, and adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a major delivery vehicle for such therapies. Among the most significant challenges that limit AAV's utility, however, is the immune response it elicits. Antibodies elicited by prior exposure to natural virus or vector can bind to an AAV vector, preventing it from entering the cell. Furthermore, even if AAV manages to infect a target cell, these cells can then be attenuated by lymphocytes. Improvements in our understanding of how the immune system responds to AAV have guided engineering of the capsid to reduce those responses, yielding capsid variants that are much stealthier and more effective. This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the immune response to AAV as well as highlights engineering methods that enhance AAV's potential as a gene therapy vector.

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CapsidDependovirusGenetic TherapyGenetic Vectors

Identifiers

PMID30807882
PMCPMC7117822

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