Viral Vectors 101: AAV Serotypes and Tissue Tropism
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Blog Post
Published
Jan. 16, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
...undergo retrograde transport, traveling up the axon to the cell body and driving transgene expression (Tervo....
AAV8
AAV8 has high transduction efficiency in multiple tissues, rapid transgene expression, and can ...sialic acids1
AAV receptor (AAVR)2
AAV2
Heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG)3
AAV receptor (AAVR...β3
AAV6
α2,3-/α2,6 N-linked sialic acids1
Heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG)3
AAV receptor (AAVR...good choice for targeting neurons, with high transduction frequencies in the central nervous system (CNS...Asokan, et al., 2006). AAV1 has also been found to transduce skeletal muscle, cardiac, and retinal cells (Issa... 2006). AAV6 is particularly well-suited for transduction of lung cells via airway administration (Halbert...