National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS)
R01GM103899
米国
National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS)
R01GM129357
米国
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ジャーナル: J Virol / 年: 2021 タイトル: Context-Specific Function of the Engineered Peptide Domain of PHP.B. 著者: R Alexander Martino / Edwin C Fluck / Jacqueline Murphy / Qiang Wang / Henry Hoff / Ruth A Pumroy / Claudia Y Lee / Joshua J Sims / Soumitra Roy / Vera Y Moiseenkova-Bell / James M Wilson / 要旨: One approach to improve the utility of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy is to engineer the AAV capsid to (i) overcome poor transport through tissue barriers and (ii) redirect the ...One approach to improve the utility of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy is to engineer the AAV capsid to (i) overcome poor transport through tissue barriers and (ii) redirect the broadly tropic AAV to disease-relevant cell types. Peptide- or protein-domain insertions into AAV surface loops can achieve both engineering goals by introducing a new interaction surface on the AAV capsid. However, we understand little about the impact of insertions on capsid structure and the extent to which engineered inserts depend on a specific capsid context to function. Here, we examine insert-capsid interactions for the engineered variant AAV9-PHP.B. The 7-amino-acid peptide insert in AAV9-PHP.B facilitates transport across the murine blood-brain barrier via binding to the receptor Ly6a. When transferred to AAV1, the engineered peptide does not bind Ly6a. Comparative structural analysis of AAV1-PHP.B and AAV9-PHP.B revealed that the inserted 7-amino-acid loop is highly flexible and has remarkably little impact on the surrounding capsid conformation. Our work demonstrates that Ly6a binding requires interactions with both the PHP.B peptide and specific residues from the AAV9 HVR VIII region. An AAV1-based vector that incorporates a larger region of AAV9-PHP.B-including the 7-amino-acid loop and adjacent HVR VIII amino acids-can bind to Ly6a and localize to brain tissue. However, unlike AAV9-PHP.B, this AAV1-based vector does not penetrate the blood-brain barrier. Here we discuss the implications for AAV capsid engineering and the transfer of engineered activities between serotypes. Targeting AAV vectors to specific cellular receptors is a promising strategy for enhancing expression in target cells or tissues while reducing off-target transgene expression. The AAV9-PHP.B/Ly6a interaction provides a model system with a robust biological readout that can be interrogated to better understand the biology of AAV vectors' interactions with target receptors. In this work, we analyzed the sequence and structural features required to successfully transfer the Ly6a receptor-binding epitope from AAV9-PHP.B to another capsid of clinical interest, AAV1. We found that AAV1- and AAV9-based vectors targeted to the same receptor exhibited different brain-transduction profiles. Our work suggests that, in addition to attachment-receptor binding, the capsid context in which this binding occurs is important for a vector's performance.
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A: Capsid protein B: Capsid protein C: Capsid protein D: Capsid protein E: Capsid protein F: Capsid protein G: Capsid protein H: Capsid protein I: Capsid protein J: Capsid protein K: Capsid protein L: Capsid protein M: Capsid protein N: Capsid protein O: Capsid protein P: Capsid protein Q: Capsid protein R: Capsid protein S: Capsid protein T: Capsid protein V: Capsid protein W: Capsid protein X: Capsid protein Y: Capsid protein Z: Capsid protein AA: Capsid protein BA: Capsid protein CA: Capsid protein DA: Capsid protein EA: Capsid protein FA: Capsid protein GA: Capsid protein HA: Capsid protein IA: Capsid protein JA: Capsid protein KA: Capsid protein LA: Capsid protein MA: Capsid protein NA: Capsid protein OA: Capsid protein PA: Capsid protein QA: Capsid protein RA: Capsid protein SA: Capsid protein TA: Capsid protein UA: Capsid protein VA: Capsid protein WA: Capsid protein XA: Capsid protein YA: Capsid protein ZA: Capsid protein AB: Capsid protein BB: Capsid protein CB: Capsid protein DB: Capsid protein EB: Capsid protein FB: Capsid protein GB: Capsid protein HB: Capsid protein IB: Capsid protein