Focused ultrasound widely broadens AAV-delivered Cas9 distribution and activity.

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Tác giả: Esther Alao, Xin Chen, Rajiv Chopra, Steven J Gray, Dikran R Guisso, Emrah Gumusgoz, Sahba Kasiri, Ummay Marriam, Berge A Minassian, Bhavya R Shah, Mayank Verma, Daniel Villarreal Acha, Jun Wu, Ibrahim Youssef

Ngôn ngữ: eng

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Thông tin xuất bản: England : Gene therapy , 2025

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Bộ sưu tập: NCBI

ID: 690445

Because children have little temporal exposure to environment and aging, most pediatric neurological diseases are inherent, i.e. genetic. Since postnatal neurons and astrocytes are mostly non-replicating, gene therapy and genome editing present enormous promise in child neurology. Unlike in other organs, which are highly permissive to adeno-associated viruses (AAV), the mature blood-brain barrier (BBB) greatly limits circulating AAV distribution to the brain. Intrathecal administration improves distribution but to no more than 20% of brain cells. Focused ultrasound (FUS) opens the BBB transiently and safely. In the present work we opened the hippocampal BBB and delivered a Cas9 gene via AAV9 intrathecally. This allowed brain first-pass, and subsequent vascular circulation and re-entry through the opened BBB. The mouse model used was of Lafora disease, a neuroinflammatory disease due to accumulations of misshapen overlong-branched glycogen. Cas9 was targeted to the gene of the glycogen branch-elongating enzyme glycogen synthase. We show that FUS dramatically (2000-fold) improved hippocampal Cas9 distribution and greatly reduced the pathogenic glycogen accumulations and hippocampal inflammation. FUS is in regular clinical use for other indications. Our work shows that it has the potential to vastly broaden gene delivery or editing along with clearance of corresponding pathologic basis of brain disease.
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