Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor
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Blog Post
Published
July 23, 2019, 12:46 p.m.
...complex (LY6A) as a receptor for PHP.B.
Read on to learn how the design of PHP.B may have contributed to this...receptor for PHP.B, and how the Deverman and Wilson labs determined LY6A was a receptor used by PHP.B viruses...viruses.
Creating PHP.B, a neurotropic AAV9 variant
PHP.B’s specificity for C57BL/6J mice is likely due to...the Deverman and the Gradinaru labs engineered PHP.B. PHP.B was created by first generating a diverse library...version of PHP.B, shows similar transduction efficiency, but at a log lower dose than PHP.B.
A Ly6a variant...CNS was transduced by PHP.B but absent in mice who were not transduced by PHP.B.
The Deverman Lab took... non-permissive to PHP.B CNS transduction. Two genes were associated with the PHP.B permissive phenotype...