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ArticleMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2023

Production of rAAV by plasmid transfection induces antiviral and inflammatory responses in suspension HEK293 cells.

Cheng-Han Chung, Christopher M Murphy, Vincent P Wingate, Jeffrey W Pavlicek, Reiko Nakashima, Wei Wei, Douglas McCarty, Joseph Rabinowitz, Erik Barton

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Article in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

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25 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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cheng-Han ChungPfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Bioprocess Research and Development, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA.
Christopher M MurphyPfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Bioprocess Research and Development, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA.
Vincent P WingatePfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Bioprocess Research and Development, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA.
Jeffrey W PavlicekPfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Bioprocess Research and Development, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA.
Reiko NakashimaPfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Simulation and Modeling Sciences, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Wei WeiPfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Bioprocess Research and Development, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA.
Douglas McCartyPfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Rare Disease Research Unit, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA.
Joseph RabinowitzPfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Rare Disease Research Unit, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA.
Erik BartonPfizer Inc., Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Bioprocess Research and Development, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA.
Pfizer (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is a clinically proven viral vector for delivery of therapeutic genes to treat rare diseases. Improving rAAV manufacturing productivity and vector quality is necessary to meet clinical and commercial demand. These goals will require an improved understanding of the cellular response to rAAV production, which is poorly defined. We interrogated the kinetic transcriptional response of HEK293 cells to rAAV production following transient plasmid transfection, under manufacturing-relevant conditions, using RNA-seq. Time-series analyses identified a robust cellular response to transfection and rAAV production, with 1,850 transcripts differentially expressed. Gene Ontology analysis determined upregulated pathways, including inflammatory and antiviral responses, with several interferon-stimulated cytokines and chemokines being upregulated at the protein level. Literature-based pathway prediction implicated multiple pathogen pattern sensors and signal transducers in up-regulation of inflammatory and antiviral responses in response to transfection and rAAV replication. Systematic analysis of the cellular transcriptional response to rAAV production indicates that host cells actively sense vector manufacture as an infectious insult. This dataset may therefore illuminate genes and pathways that influence rAAV production, thereby enabling the rational design of next-generation manufacturing platforms to support safe, effective, and affordable AAV-based gene therapies.

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AAVantiviral responseGene Ontologygene therapyhost cell responseinflammatory responseinnate immune responsetime-series analysistranscriptome analysisviral vector manufacturing

Identifiers

PMID36819978
PMCPMC9937832
OpenAlexW4316654336

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