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Record W4413768144 · doi:10.1101/2025.08.26.669098

A modified cyclosporine enhances lentivector transduction <i>ex vivo</i> and <i>in vivo</i> by degrading IFITM3

2025· preprint· en· W4413768144 on OpenAlexaff
Dara Annett, Kate L. Morling, Bethan J. Critchley, Valeria Pingitore, Thomas E. Whittaker, Nada Kurdi, Justin Warne, Diego León‐Rico, Nilgün Kuru, Sara Toros, Tasnim Nurullah, Matthew V. X. Whelan, Edith Chan, R Milne, Lydia S. Newton, Hesham Ali, Kate Powell, Matteo Rizzi, Adrian J. Thrasher, Giorgia Santilli, Lucy Thorne, David L. Selwood, Greg J. Towers

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicSignaling Pathways in Disease
Canadian institutionsInstitute of Infection and Immunity
FundersUCLH Biomedical Research CentreMedical Research CouncilUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchRosetrees TrustAnthony NolanWellcome Trust
KeywordsIn vivoEx vivoTransduction (biophysics)BiologyCell biologyGeneticsBiophysics

Abstract

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Abstract Intrinsic innate immune barriers have evolved to suppress viral infection and can reduce effective gene delivery in gene therapy. We have developed BG147, a novel cyclosporine A analogue, optimised via structure-guided design to prevent inhibition of HIV cofactor Cyclophilin A and to specifically inhibit interferon-induced transmembrane proteins (IFITM1-3). BG147 enhances VSV-G pseudotyped lentiviral vector transduction ex vivo in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) and in in vivo ocular gene therapy of photoreceptor cells in mice. Upon BG147 treatment, IFITM proteins are mislocalised and degraded through lysosomal acidification-dependent pathways. IFITM3 levels functionally return in cells 96 h after BG147 washout. BG147 promises to transform ex vivo and in vivo eye gene therapies by transiently inhibiting intrinsic immune barriers mediated by IFITM proteins to enhance a wide range of protocols. One Sentence Summary Modified cyclosporine, BG147, enhances lentivector gene therapy transduction, ex vivo in HSPC and in vivo in mouse photoreceptors, by degrading IFITM3.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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