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Engineering and Evolution of Synthetic Adeno-Associated Virus AAV Gene Therapy Vectors via DNA Family Shuffling
Published on: April 2, 2012
Exploring the Comprehensive Kozak Sequence Landscape for AAV Production in Sf9 System
Oleksandr Kondratov1, Sergei Zolotukhin1
1Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapy, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
Abstract:
The widespread successful use of recombinant Adeno-associated virus (rAAV) in gene therapy has driven the demand for scale-up manufacturing methods of vectors with optimized yield and transduction efficiency. The Baculovirus/Sf9 system is a promising platform for high yield production; however, a major drawback to using an invertebrate cell line compared to a mammalian system is a generally altered AAV capsid stoichiometry resulting in lower biological potency. Here, we introduce a term of the structural and biological "fitness" of an AAV capsid as a function of two interdependent parameters: (1) packaging efficiency (yield), and (2) transduction efficiency (infectivity). Both parameters are critically dependent on AAV capsid structural proteins VP1/2/3 stoichiometry. To identify an optimal AAV capsid composition, we developed a novel Directed Evolution (DE) protocol for assessing the structural and biological fitness of Sf9-manufactured rAAV for any given serotype. The approach involves the packaging of a combinatorial capsid library in insect Sf9 cells, followed by a library screening for high infectivity in human Cre-recombinase-expressing C12 cells. One single DE selection round, complemented by Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and guided by in silico analysis, identifies a small subset of VP1 translation initiation sites (known as Kozak sequence) encoding "fit" AAV capsids characterized by a high production yield and superior transduction efficiencies.
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