Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs
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...shape. These AAV particles are often found with cellular exosomes, small membrane vesicles or microvesicles... - 150 nm diameter) that are secreted from the cellular membrane into the culture medium. AAV particles...inside the vesicle, which may also contain other cellular molecules such as proteins or nucleic acids. This...infect more cells (as demonstrated in different cellular environments such as retina or glioblastoma). ...to neutralizing anti-AAV antibodies. This is particularly useful for therapeutic applications in vivo ...vesicles secreted from producer cells also contain cellular macromolecules (e.g. proteins, nucleic acids) ...retina after intravitreal injection to transduce bipolar cells and photoreceptors (Wassmer et al., 2017)...