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ArticleMolecular therapy. Oncology2025

A facile chemical strategy to synthesize precise AAV-protein conjugates for targeted gene delivery.

Quan Pham, Jake Glicksman, Boyang Han, Seyed Sadegh Shahraeini, Delilah Jewel, Conor Loynd, Soumya Jyoti Singha Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee

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Article in Molecular therapy. Oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. An Expanded Toolbox for Versatile Chemical Editing of Adeno-Associated Virus.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  6. Gene regulation technologies for gene and cell therapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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8 authors.

Quan PhamDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Jake GlicksmanDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Boyang HanDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Seyed Sadegh ShahraeiniDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Delilah JewelDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Conor LoyndDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Soumya Jyoti Singha RoyDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Abhishek ChatterjeeDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.

Funding

A genetically encoded toolset to decipher the biology of post-translational modifications in the mammalian proteomeR35GM136437 · NIGMS · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI Abhishek Chatterjee · 2020 to 2026
$4.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136437
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies are limited by a lack of tissue-specificity, leading to toxic off-target impacts and increased therapeutic costs. More target-specific AAV vectors can offer safer and less expensive therapies. Antibody-like proteins can be used to retarget AAV vectors to unique cell-surface receptors. However, fusing such proteins onto the delicate AAV capsid proteins is complicated; only small and well-folded proteins are tolerated and the architecture of such fusions are highly restricted. Here, we report a versatile chemical strategy to covalently attach recombinant proteins onto the AAV capsid, using a combination of genetic code expansion (GCE) and bioorthogonal conjugation chemistry. This method is efficient, allows excellent control over the site of attachment, and the number of proteins attached on the AAV capsid. Systematic optimization of these parameters allowed us to generate highly active AAV2-anti-HER2 nanobody conjugates that significantly outperform their counterparts generated through genetic fusion. This conjugate exhibited excellent efficiency and selectivity toward HER2+ cancer cells both

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adeno-associated virusbioorthogonal conjugationgenetic code expansionMT: Regular Issuenoncanonical amino acidtumor-targeting

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PMID41625253
PMCPMC12859403

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