Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based therapeutics have the potential to transform the lives of patients by delivering one-time treatments for a variety of diseases. However, a critical challenge to their widespread adoption and distribution is the high...
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy
Apr 1, 2025
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as a highly promising vector for human gene therapy due to its favorable safety profile, versatility, and ability to transduce a wide range of tissues. However, natural AAV serotypes have shortcomings, includi...
Realistic evolutionary fitness landscapes are notoriously difficult to construct. A recent cutting-edge model of virus assembly consists of a dodecahedral capsid with 12 corresponding packaging signals in three affinity bands. This whole genome/pheno...
A key hurdle to making adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid mediated gene therapy broadly beneficial to all patients is overcoming pre-existing and therapy-induced immune responses to these vectors. Recent advances in high-throughput DNA synthesis, mu...
Detailed analysis of secondary envelopment of the herpesvirus human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is crucial for understanding the formation of infectious virions. Here, we present a convolutional neural network (CN...
Identifying dynamical, quasi-rigid domains in proteins provides a powerful means for characterizing functionally oriented structural changes via a parsimonious set of degrees of freedom. In fact, the relative displacements of few dynamical domains us...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 26, 2025
An effective approach in the development of novel antivirals is to target the assembly of viral capsids by using capsid assembly modulators (CAMs). CAMs targeting hepatitis B virus (HBV) have two major modes of function: they can either accelerate nu...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
May 12, 2025
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) belongs to the Lentivirus genus, Retroviridae family, enveloped by a lipid bilayer within which the capsid protein encases the viral genome, reverse transcriptase, and integrase proteins, key components for viral re...
Target gene delivery is crucial to gene therapy. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as a primary gene therapy vector due to its broad host range, long-term expression, and low pathogenicity. However, AAV vectors have some limitations, such as i...
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