Browsing by Author "Boye, Sanford L."

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    Systemic Vascular Transduction by Capsid Mutant Adeno-Associated Virus After Intravenous Injection
    (Mary Ann Liebert, 2015-11) Lipinski, Daniel M.; Reid, Chris A.; Boye, Sanford L.; Peterson, James J.; Qi, Xiaoping; Boye, Shannon E.; Boulton, Michael E.; Hauswirth, William W.; Department of Ophthalmology, IU School of Medicine
    The ability to effectively deliver genetic material to vascular endothelial cells remains one of the greatest unmet challenges facing the development of gene therapies to prevent diseases with underlying vascular etiology, such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and age-related macular degeneration. Herein, we assess the effectiveness of an rAAV2-based capsid mutant vector (Y272F, Y444F, Y500F, Y730F, T491V; termed QuadYF+TV) with strong endothelial cell tropism at transducing the vasculature after systemic administration. Intravenous injection of QuadYF+TV resulted in widespread transduction throughout the vasculature of several major organ systems, as assessed by in vivo bioluminescence imaging and postmortem histology. Robust transduction of lung tissue was observed in QuadYF+TV-injected mice, indicating a role for intravenous gene delivery in the treatment of chronic diseases presenting with pulmonary complications, such as α1-antitrypsin deficiency. The QuadYF+TV vector cross-reacted strongly with AAV2 neutralizing antibodies, however, indicating that a targeted delivery strategy may be required to maximize clinical translatability.
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    β-secretase 1 overexpression by AAV-mediated gene delivery prevents retina degeneration in a mouse model of age-related macular degeneration
    (Elsevier, 2023) Qi, Xiaoping; Francelin, Carolina; Mitter, Sayak; Boye, Sanford L.; Gu, Hongmei; Quigley, Judith; Grant, Maria B.; Boulton, Michael E.; Ophthalmology, School of Medicine
    We reported previously that β-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme (BACE1) is strongly expressed in the normal retina and that BACE1−/− mice develop pathological phenotypes associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). BACE1 expression is increased within the neural retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in AMD donor eyes suggesting that increased BACE1 is compensatory. We observed that AAV-mediated BACE1 overexpression in the RPE was maintained up to 6 months after AAV1-BACE1 administration. No significant changes in normal mouse visual function or retinal morphology were observed with low-dose vector while the high-dose vector demonstrated some early pathology which regressed with time. No increase in β-amyloid was observed. BACE1 overexpression in the RPE of the superoxide dismutase 2 knockdown (SOD2 KD) mouse, which exhibits an AMD-like phenotype, prevented loss of retinal function and retinal pathology, and this was sustained out to 6 months. Furthermore, BACE1 overexpression was able to inhibit oxidative stress, microglial changes, and loss of RPE tight junction integrity (all features of AMD) in SOD2 KD mice. In conclusion, BACE1 plays a key role in retina/RPE homeostasis, and BACE1 overexpression offers a novel therapeutic target in the treatment of AMD.