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Identification of factors that contribute to recombinant AAV2 particle aggregation and methods to prevent its occurrence during vector purification and formulation

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Wright, J. Fraser, Le, Tannie, Prado, Joseph, Bahr-Davidson, Jennifer, Smith, Peter H., Zhen, Zhu, Sommer, Jurg M., Pierce, Glenn F. +1 more·2005·Molecular Therapy

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Aggregation of recombinant AAV2 results in reduced yield during purification and may have deleterious effects on vector transduction efficiency, biodistribution and immunogenicity following in vivo administration. Studies to elucidate the mechanism of vector aggregation and methods to prevent its occurrence are reported. In excipient screening studies, the sugars sorbitol, sucrose, mannitol, trehalose, or glycerol at concentrations of up to 5% (w/v), or surfactants Tween 80 or Pluronic F68, did not prevent aggregation. Aggregation was prevented by the use of various salts at concentrations corresponding to solution ionic strengths of >200 mM. AAV2 vectors purified by double cesium chloride gradient centrifugation, cation-exchange chromatography, or combined chromatography and gradient centrifugation each demonstrated a similar requirement for ionic strength to prevent aggregation. AAV2 vectors concentrated to 6.7 x 10(13) vector genome (vg)/mL in neutral-buffered isotonic saline resulted in 59+/-6.0% recovery of nonaggregated material compared to 96+/-4.4% recovery in an isotonic formulation with elevated ionic strength. The latter showed no aggregation following storage or after 10 freeze-thaw cycles at -20 degrees C. AAV2 vectors stored for an extended period in an elevated ionic strength formulation retained a high infectivity titer (13 vg/infectious unit) and transduction efficiency. Nuclease digestion of purified AAV2 vectors reduced aggregation, implicating trace amounts of vector surface nucleic acids in interparticle binding.

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Wright, J. F., Le, T., Prado, J., Bahr-Davidson, J., Smith, P. H., Zhen, Z., Sommer, J. M., Pierce, G. F., & Qu, G.
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Wright, J. Fraser
Venue
Molecular Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-07
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
171-178
ISSN
1525-0016 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2075785803
Cited by
158
References
24
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FWCI
2.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Molecular Therapy (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein purification and stability
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Keywords
recombinant adeno-associated virus type 2, ionic strength, vector purification, vector formulation, excipient screening, salt addition, freeze-thaw stability, nuclease digestion, transduction efficiency, gene therapy vectors
MeSH terms
Dependovirus, Deoxyribonucleases, Genetic Vectors, Humans, Osmolar Concentration, Scattering, Radiation, Temperature

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