Adeno-associated virus1Initial discovery196521. AAV biology3Adeno-Associated Virus- Classification : parvovirus – Dependovirus- Defective virus = Productive infection requires host cell factors and the presence of a helper virus (adenovirus, herpes virus, papillomavirus)-Non pathogenic human (highly in dogs)- Sites and sources : tonsillar, respiratory tract, normal flora - Structurally simple, non-enveloped virus, physico-chemically stable- The capsid which is 22 nm in diameter, contains a linear single-stranded DNA genome of 4.7kb- At least eleven (and may be more) AAV serotypes have been identified among human and non-human primates- AAV has a broad tropism, transduce non dividing cells4AAV Life CycleAdAAV AAV HSVRescue+ Ador HSVLatency Replicative phase- persistance of viral DNA in an episomal - synthesis of Rep and Cap proteinsor integrated form (chr.19 AAVS1) - AAV assembly in the nucleus- no viral gene expression5Second-strand synthesis is a rate limiting step for efficient transduction by rAAV6Self-complementary or double-stranded AAV-2 vectors- Conversion of single-stranded to double stranded rAAV DNA is a limiting stepgeneration of double-stranded rAAV vectors- rAAV DNA of less than half the wtAAV genome lenght can be packaged asa dimer or a diploid monomer.4.7 kb single-stranded DNA 2.3 kb dimer or diploid monomer DNA7In vivo behaviour of scAAV versus rAAVscAAVrAAVITR ITR ITR ITR2.35 kb4.7 kbscAAVrAAVMcCarty et al. ...