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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2025

Gene regulation technologies for gene and cell therapy.

Gabriel L Butterfield, Samuel J Reisman, Nahid Iglesias, Charles A Gersbach

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gabriel L ButterfieldDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Samuel J ReismanDepartment of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Nahid IglesiasDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Charles A GersbachDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Electronic address: charles.gersbach@duke.edu.

Funding

The Duke FUNCTION Center: Pioneering the comprehensive identification of combinatorial noncoding causes of diseaseRM1HG011123 · NHGRI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GREGORY E CRAWFORD, Raluca Gordan · 2020 to 2026
$21.9M
High-Throughput Functional Annotation of Gene Regulatory Elements and Variants Critical to Complex Cellular PhenotypesUM1HG012053 · NHGRI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GREGORY E CRAWFORD, Charles A. Gersbach · 2021 to 2026
$10.7M
Beyond GWAS: High Throughput Functional Genomics & Epigenome Editing to Elucidate the Effects of Genetic Associations for SchizophreniaR01MH125236 · NIMH · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CRAWFORD, GREGORY E, GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 2021 to 2025
$8.1M
University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue EngineeringT32GM144291 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Charles A. Gersbach, Tatiana Segura · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
Epigenetic Programming of T Cells for Enhanced Cellular ImmunotherapyR01CA289574 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Charles A. Gersbach · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Epigenome Editing Technologies for Treating Diverse DiseaseU01AI146356 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA289574NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG011123NHGRI NIH HHS UM1 HG012053NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI146356NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM144291NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH125236
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene therapy stands at the forefront of medical innovation, offering unique potential to treat the underlying causes of genetic disorders and broadly enable regenerative medicine. However, unregulated production of therapeutic genes can lead to decreased clinical utility due to various complications. Thus, many technologies for controlled gene expression are under development, including regulated transgenes, modulation of endogenous genes to leverage native biological regulation, mapping and repurposing of transcriptional regulatory networks, and engineered systems that dynamically react to cell state changes. Transformative therapies enabled by advances in tissue-specific promoters, inducible systems, and targeted delivery have already entered clinical testing and demonstrated significantly improved specificity and efficacy. This review highlights next-generation technologies under development to expand the reach of gene therapies by enabling precise modulation of gene expression. These technologies, including epigenome editing, antisense oligonucleotides, RNA editing, transcription factor-mediated reprogramming, and synthetic genetic circuits, have the potential to provide powerful control over cellular functions. Despite these remarkable achievements, challenges remain in optimizing delivery, minimizing off-target effects, and addressing regulatory hurdles. However, the ongoing integration of biological insights with engineering innovations promises to expand the potential for gene therapy, offering hope for treating not only rare genetic disorders but also complex multifactorial diseases.

Indexed as

Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyGene Expression RegulationGenetic TherapyAnimalsGene EditingHumansAAVadeno-associated virusCAR-T cellscell therapyCRISPR-Cas9gene circuitsgene editinggene regulationgene therapypromoter engineeringsynthetic biology

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PMID40195118
PMCPMC12126783

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