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Progresses towards safe and efficient gene therapy vectors #MMPMID26362400
Chira S; Jackson CS; Oprea I; Ozturk F; Pepper MS; Diaconu I; Braicu C; Raduly LZ; Calin GA; Berindan-Neagoe I
Oncotarget 2015[Oct]; 6 (31): 30675-703 PMID26362400show ga
The emergence of genetic engineering at the beginning of the 1970?s opened the era of biomedical technologies, which aims to improve human health using genetic manipulation techniques in a clinical context. Gene therapy represents an innovating and appealing strategy for treatment of human diseases, which utilizes vehicles or vectors for delivering therapeutic genes into the patients' body. However, a few past unsuccessful events that negatively marked the beginning of gene therapy resulted in the need for further studies regarding the design and biology of gene therapy vectors, so that this innovating treatment approach can successfully move from bench to bedside. In this paper, we review the major gene delivery vectors and recent improvements made in their design meant to overcome the issues that commonly arise with the use of gene therapy vectors. At the end of the manuscript, we summarized the main advantages and disadvantages of common gene therapy vectors and we discuss possible future directions for potential therapeutic vectors.