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Neonatal gene therapy achieves sustained disease rescue of maple syrup urine disease in mice
- Source :
- Nature Communications, Nature Communications, 2022, 13 (1), pp.3278. ⟨10.1038/s41467-022-30880-w⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022.
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Abstract
- Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is a rare recessively inherited metabolic disorder causing accumulation of branched chain amino acids leading to neonatal death, if untreated. Treatment for MSUD represents an unmet need because the current treatment with life-long low-protein diet is challenging to maintain, and despite treatment the risk of acute decompensations and neuropsychiatric symptoms remains. Here, based on significant liver contribution to the catabolism of the branched chain amino acid leucine, we develop a liver-directed adeno-associated virus (AAV8) gene therapy for MSUD. We establish and characterize the Bckdha (branched chain keto acid dehydrogenase a)−/− mouse that exhibits a lethal neonatal phenotype mimicking human MSUD. Animals were treated at P0 with intravenous human BCKDHA AAV8 vectors under the control of either a ubiquitous or a liver-specific promoter. BCKDHA gene transfer rescued the lethal phenotype. While the use of a ubiquitous promoter fully and sustainably rescued the disease (long-term survival, normal phenotype and correction of biochemical abnormalities), liver-specific expression of BCKDHA led to partial, though sustained rescue. Here we show efficacy of gene therapy for MSUD demonstrating its potential for clinical translation.
- Subjects :
- [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]
Mice
Phenotype
Multidisciplinary
Maple Syrup Urine Disease
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Animals
General Physics and Astronomy
Genetic Therapy
General Chemistry
Amino Acids, Branched-Chain
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
3-Methyl-2-Oxobutanoate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20411723
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a0aef083f4f2dd69766a18c9c114142f