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ArticleiScience2024

New AAV9 engineered variants with enhanced neurotropism and reduced liver off-targeting in mice and marmosets.

Serena Gea Giannelli, Mirko Luoni, Angelo Iannielli, Jinte Middeldorp, Ingrid Philippens, Simone Bido, Jakob Körbelin, Vania Broccoli

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Article in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Viral vector-based gene therapies in the clinic: An update.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026
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  9. A versatile cell line for establishing potency of cell type-specific AAV transgenes.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2025
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8 authors.

Serena Gea GiannelliDivision of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Mirko LuoniDivision of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Angelo IannielliDivision of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Jinte MiddeldorpBiomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC), 2288 GJ Rijswijk, the Netherlands.
Ingrid PhilippensBiomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC), 2288 GJ Rijswijk, the Netherlands.
Simone BidoDivision of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Jakob KörbelinDepartment of Oncology, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
Vania BroccoliDivision of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although adeno-associated virus 9 (AAV9) has been highly exploited as delivery platform for gene-based therapies, its efficacy is hampered by low efficiency in crossing the adult blood-brain barrier (BBB) and pronounced targeting to the liver upon intravenous delivery. We generated a new galactose binding-deficient AAV9 peptide display library and selected two new AAV9 engineered capsids with enhanced targeting in mouse and marmoset brains after intravenous delivery. Interestingly, the loss of galactose binding greatly reduced undesired targeting to peripheral organs, particularly the liver, while not compromising transduction of the brain vasculature. However, the galactose binding was necessary to efficiently infect non-endothelial brain cells. Thus, the combinatorial actions of the galactose-binding domain and the incorporated displayed peptide are crucial to enhance BBB crossing along with brain cell transduction. This study describes two novel capsids with high brain endothelial infectivity and extremely low liver targeting based on manipulating the AAV9 galactose-binding domain.

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Molecular biologyNeuroscienceTechniques in neuroscience

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PMID38711458
PMCPMC11070337

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