Qing Xie, Xiupeng Chen, Hong Ma, Yunxiang Zhu, Yijie Ma, Leila Jalinous, Gerald F Cox, Fiona Weaver, Jun Yang, Zachary Kennedy, Alisha Gruntman, Ailing Du, Qin Su, Ran He, Phillip Wl Tai, Guangping Gao, Jun Xie
Physiological regulation of transgene expression is a major challenge in gene therapy. Onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma® ) is an approved adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector gene therapy for infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), however, adverse events have been observed in both animals and patients following treatment. The construct contains a native human survival motor neuron 1 (hSMN1) transgene driven by a strong, cytomegalovirus enhancer/chicken β-actin (CMVen/CB) promoter providing high, ubiquitous tissue expression of SMN...
February 27, 2024: EMBO Molecular Medicine