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Because of AAV's specialized gene therapy advantages, researchers have created an altered version of AAV termed self-complementary adeno-associated virus (scAAV). Whereas AAV packages a single strand of DNA and must wait for its second strand to be synthesized, scAAV packages two shorter strands that are complementary to each other.
This lab-made progeny of rAAV is termed "self-complementary" because the coding region has been designed to form an intra-molecular double-stranded DNA template. A rate-limiting step for the standard AAV genome involves the second-strand synthesis since the typical AAV genome is a single-stranded DNA template.
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Following the approval of the AAV Alipogene tiparvovec in Europe in 2012, [47] in 2017, the FDA approved the first AAV-based in vivo gene therapy—voretigene neparvovec—which treated RPE65-associated Leber congenital amaurosis. [33] As of 2020, 230 clinical trials using AAV-based treatments were either underway or had been completed. [47]
[74]: 10 Libmeldy is an ex vivo stem cell treatment for metachromatic leukodystrophy which uses a lentiviral vector and was approved by the European medical agency in 2020. [76] Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a virus that is incapable of transmission between cells unless the cell is infected by another virus, a helper virus. Adenovirus and the ...
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) based genome engineering is a genome editing platform centered on the use of recombinant AAV vectors that enables insertion, deletion or substitution of DNA sequences into the genomes of live mammalian cells.
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Overexpression of miR-26a brings about negative regulation of both cell proliferation and of the cell cycle. [18] Therapeutic miR-26a delivery using adeno-associated virus (AAV) is able to inhibit cancer cell formation while also inducing tumour-specific apoptosis and providing dramatic protection from disease progression without toxicity. [17]