DUAL AAV-MYO7A VECTORS WITH IMPROVED SAFETY FOR THE TREATMENT OF USH1B

    公开(公告)号:WO2021202817A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-07

    申请号:PCT/US2021/025281

    申请日:2021-03-31

    摘要: Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating diseases of the mammalian eye, and in particular, complications of the retina associated with Usher syndrome IB (USH1B). Further disclosed are compositions and methods for treating diseases of the mammalian inner ear, and in particular, complications of ear hair cells associated with Usher syndrome IB (USH1B). The disclosure provides improved AAV -based, dual vector systems that facilitate the expression of full-length proteins whose coding sequences exceed that of the polynucleotide packaging capacity of an individual AAV vector. Described herein are modified hybrid dual vector systems that shift the coding sequence for the MY07A tail domain from the front-half vector to the back-half vector by altering the split point (e.g., from between exons 23 and 24, to between exons 21 and 22), in order to eliminate the production of truncated MY07A protein. Further described herein are improved, codon-modified hybrid and overlap vector systems in which putative stop codons and residual sequences in non-coding sequences are removed.

    RECOMBINANTLY-MODIFIED ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS (RAAV) HAVING IMPROVED PACKAGING EFFICIENCY

    公开(公告)号:WO2021011034A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-21

    申请号:PCT/US2020/022326

    申请日:2020-03-12

    发明人: WANG, Qizhao

    摘要: The present invention is directed to recombinantly-modified adeno-associated virus (rAAV) having improved packaging efficiency, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such rAAV, and methods for their production and use. The present invention is particularly directed to recombinantly-modified adeno-associated virus (rAAV) that have been further modified to comprise Cis-Elements, including replication origins, promoters and enhancers, that are capable of regulating the replication of an rAAV genome and that improve rAAV replication. Preferably, such Cis-Elements are provided within domains of the rAAV that precede and/or follow the 5' and/or 3' inverted terminal repeated sequences (ITR) of an rAAV. The invention particularly concerns the presence and the use of polynucleotide Cis-Elements that comprise actual or potential G-Quadruplex Sequences, polynucleotide Cis-Elements that comprise DNA sequences from wild-type AAV (wt AAV) and polynucleotide Cis- Elements that comprise DNA sequences from other viral genomes or from the human genome.