Computationally guided AAV engineering for enhanced gene delivery

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Gene delivery vehicles based on adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are enabling increasing success in human clinical trials, and they offer the promise of treating a broad spectrum of both genetic and non-genetic disorders. However, delivery efficiency and targeting must be improved to enable safe and effective therapies. In recent years, considerable effort has been invested in creating AAV variants with improved delivery, and computational approaches have been increasingly harnessed for AAV engineering. In this review, we discuss how computationally designed AAV libraries are enabling directed evolution. Specifically, we highlight approaches that harness sequences outputted by next-generation sequencing (NGS) coupled with machine learning (ML) to generate new functional AAV capsids and related regulatory elements, pushing the frontier of what vector engineering and gene therapy may achieve.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Enthalten in:

Trends in biochemical sciences - (2024) vom: 25. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guo, Jingxuan [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Li F [VerfasserIn]
Oraskovich, Sydney V [VerfasserIn]
Rivera de Jesús, Julio A [VerfasserIn]
Listgarten, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Schaffer, David V [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AAV libraries
Ancestral sequence reconstruction
Directed evolution
Journal Article
Machine learning
Next-generation sequencing
Protein engineering
Review

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Date Revised 26.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1016/j.tibs.2024.03.002

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NLM370212487