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Cerebral Organoids: A Human Model for AAV Capsid Selection and Therapeutic Transgene Efficacy in the Brain

  • Josse A. Depla
  • , Marina Sogorb-Gonzalez
  • , Lance A. Mulder
  • , Vivi M. Heine
  • , Pavlina Konstantinova
  • , Sander J. van Deventer
  • , Katja C. Wolthers
  • , Dasja Pajkrt
  • , Adithya Sridhar
  • , Melvin M. Evers*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cerebral organoids are an innovative human model of the brain that could improve translation of gene therapy to the clinic. Depla et al. demonstrate the application of cerebral organoids as a preclinical model for AAV capsid selection and testing efficacy of therapeutic transgenes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)167-175
Number of pages9
JournalMolecular Therapy - Methods and Clinical Development
Volume18
Early online date1 Jun 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Sept 2020

Funding

We thank Fanny Martier, Cynthia Brouwers, and Sonay Keskin for helping with the qPCR and TR-FRET experiments, and Bas Bosma, Francois Du Plessis, and Jacek Lubelski for providing the AAVs. We thank Lukas Schwarz, Sumiati Baatjes, and Valerie Sier-Ferreira for input and assisting with staining and imaging of the cerebral organoids; Ron Hoeben and Daisy Picavet for helping with the analysis of the confocal images; Ellen Broug and Sietske Gadella for critical reading of the manuscript; and all group members for helpful discussions. This research received funding by European Union's Horizon 2020 innovative training network under grant number 812673 (OrganoVIR). We thank Fanny Martier, Cynthia Brouwers, and Sonay Keskin for helping with the qPCR and TR-FRET experiments, and Bas Bosma, Francois Du Plessis, and Jacek Lubelski for providing the AAVs. We thank Lukas Schwarz, Sumiati Baatjes, and Valerie Sier-Ferreira for input and assisting with staining and imaging of the cerebral organoids; Ron Hoeben and Daisy Picavet for helping with the analysis of the confocal images; Ellen Broug and Sietske Gadella for critical reading of the manuscript; and all group members for helpful discussions. This research received funding by European Union’s Horizon 2020 innovative training network under grant number 812673 (OrganoVIR).

FundersFunder number
European Union's Horizon 2020 innovative training network
European Union’s Horizon 2020 innovative training network
Lukas Schwarz
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme812673

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    Keywords

    • AAV
    • adeno-associated virus
    • central nervous system
    • Cerebral organoids
    • CNS
    • gene therapy
    • induced pluripotent stem cells
    • iPSC
    • micro RNA
    • miRNA
    • organoids
    • SCA3
    • spinocerebellar ataxia 3
    • Transduction

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