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ArticleMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2022

Novel human liver-tropic AAV variants define transferable domains that markedly enhance the human tropism of AAV7 and AAV8.

Marti Cabanes-Creus, Renina Gale Navarro, Erhua Zhu, Grober Baltazar, Sophia H Y Liao, Matthieu Drouyer, Anais K Amaya, Suzanne Scott, Loan Hanh Nguyen, Adrian Westhaus and 5 more

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Article in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Marti Cabanes-CreusTranslational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Renina Gale NavarroTranslational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Erhua ZhuGene Therapy Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute & The Children's Hospital at Westmead, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Grober BaltazarTranslational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Sophia H Y LiaoTranslational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Matthieu DrouyerTranslational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Anais K AmayaGene Therapy Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute & The Children's Hospital at Westmead, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Suzanne ScottGene Therapy Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute & The Children's Hospital at Westmead, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Loan Hanh NguyenTranslational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Adrian WesthausTranslational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Matthias HebbenLogicBio Therapeutics, 65 Hayden avenue, Lexington, 02421 MA, USA.
Laurence O W WilsonCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia.
Adrian J ThrasherGreat Ormond Institute of Child Health, University College London, WC1N 1EH London, UK.
Ian E AlexanderGene Therapy Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute & The Children's Hospital at Westmead, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
Leszek LisowskiTranslational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
The University of Sydney · AUChildren's Medical Research Institute · AUCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · AUUniversity College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent clinical successes have intensified interest in using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for therapeutic gene delivery. The liver is a key clinical target, given its critical physiological functions and involvement in a wide range of genetic diseases. Here, we report the bioengineering of a set of next-generation AAV vectors, named AAV-SYDs (where "SYD" stands for Sydney, Australia), with increased human hepato-tropism in a liver xenograft mouse model repopulated with primary human hepatocytes. We followed a two-step process that staggered directed evolution and domain-swapping approaches. Using DNA-family shuffling, we first mapped key AAV capsid regions responsible for efficient human hepatocyte transduction

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AAVadeno-associated vectorsbioengineered vectorsbioengineeringgene therapyliver-tropicpreclinical liver modelrecombinant vectorsxenograft model

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PMID34977275
PMCPMC8693155
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