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Record W4417031746 · doi:10.1038/s41587-025-02915-2

In vivo gene editing of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using envelope-engineered virus-like particles

2025· article· en· W4417031746 on OpenAlexaff
Vladimir V. Botchkarev, Sean C. Harrington, Matteo Stoppato, Alexander Justen, C.D. Kimber, Anjali Kapuria, Keylie M. Gibson, Chi-Shuen Chu, Yuanxin Xu, Kelsey A. Haugh, Ramya Ankala, Nathan H. Kipniss, Andre DeGroot, Rowena de Jesus, Funmilola Adewale, Kathy Daniels, Samantha Crocker, Anna Liang, Shannon Joyce, Nicole M. Roberto, Derek R. Smith, Athena W. Wong, N. Ortiz de Adler, Valeria Berlfein, Shirisha Amatya, Patricia Cruite, Shariq M. Usmani, Albert Ruzo, Benjamin Ferland, Sundeep Chandra, Edward J. Rebar, Jagesh V. Shah, Kyle Trudeau, Luca Biasco

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Biotechnology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicVirus-based gene therapy research
Canadian institutionsInstitute of Infection and Immunity
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHaematopoiesisProgenitor cellIn vivoGenome editingStem cellTransduction (biophysics)

Abstract

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Engineered virus-like particles (VLPs) are a promising technology for in vivo gene editing of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Here we design and test two different VLP envelopes for human HSPC editing in vitro and in vivo. The first is an optimized version of the baboon envelope BaEVTR, which efficiently transduces human HSPCs in vitro. We show that the optimized BaEVTR VLP enables in vivo editing of β2 microglobulin in long-term human HSPCs (31% at 8 weeks after dosing) and editing of two hemoglobinopathy-relevant loci, BCL11A and HBG1/2 (26% and 7.5%, respectively, at 5 days after dosing), inducing fetal hemoglobin. Our second VLP design uses a CD133-targeted envelope designed to reduce the transduction of mature blood cells and achieves higher in vivo specificity for HSPCs compared to the optimized BaEVTR VLP. As avoiding delivery in filter organs such as the liver would enhance efficiency and safety, we also demonstrate that both VLPs avoid human hepatocytes in a humanized liver model.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
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 score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.003

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.276 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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Published2025
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