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ArticleNature communications2023

Design of bacteriophage T4-based artificial viral vectors for human genome remodeling.

Jingen Zhu, Himanshu Batra, Neeti Ananthaswamy, Marthandan Mahalingam, Pan Tao, Xiaorong Wu, Wenzheng Guo, Andrei Fokine, Venigalla B Rao

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Article in Nature communications, 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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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Jingen ZhuBacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA.
Himanshu Batra *Bacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA.
Neeti Ananthaswamy *Bacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA.
Marthandan Mahalingam *Bacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA.
Pan Tao *Bacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA.
Xiaorong WuBacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA.
Wenzheng GuoBacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1470-4378
Andrei FokineDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Venigalla B RaoBacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA. rao@cua.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0777-6587

Funding

Single Dose, Multivalent, Anthrax Plague Vaccines using Bacteriophage T4 NanopartR01AI111538 · NIAID · CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA · PI RAO, VENIGALLA B. · 2014 to 2018
$3.6M
Engineering Bacteriophage T4 as a Targeted Gene Therapy Drug for in vivo HIV CureDP1DA060580 · NIDA · CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA · PI Venigalla B. Rao · 2024 to 2026
$3.0M
Structural Mechanisms Of Genome Flow In Bacteriophage T4 And Their Biomedical ApplicationsR01AI175340 · NIAID · CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA · PI Venigalla B. Rao · 2023 to 2026
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI111538NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI175340NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA060580
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Designing artificial viral vectors (AVVs) programmed with biomolecules that can enter human cells and carry out molecular repairs will have broad applications. Here, we describe an assembly-line approach to build AVVs by engineering the well-characterized structural components of bacteriophage T4. Starting with a 120 × 86 nm capsid shell that can accommodate 171-Kbp DNA and thousands of protein copies, various combinations of biomolecules, including DNAs, proteins, RNAs, and ribonucleoproteins, are externally and internally incorporated. The nanoparticles are then coated with cationic lipid to enable efficient entry into human cells. As proof of concept, we assemble a series of AVVs designed to deliver full-length dystrophin gene or perform various molecular operations to remodel human genome, including genome editing, gene recombination, gene replacement, gene expression, and gene silencing. These large capacity, customizable, multiplex, and all-in-one phage-based AVVs represent an additional category of nanomaterial that could potentially transform gene therapies and personalized medicine.

Indexed as

Bacteriophage T4Genome, HumanCapsidCapsid ProteinsDNA, ViralGenetic VectorsHumansCapsid ProteinsDNA, Viral

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PMID37253769
PMCPMC10229621

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