University of Florida Research Foundation Inc

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dawn E Bowles

Richard Jude Samulski

Mavis Agbandje-McKenna

Chengwen Li

Joseph E Rabinowitz

Josh Grieger

The present invention is based, in part, on the discovery that parvovirus (including AAV) capsids can be engineered to incorporate small, selective regions from other parvoviruses that confer desirable properties. The inventors have discovered that in some cases as little as a single amino acid insertion or substitution from a first parvovirus (e.g., an AAV) into the capsid structure of another parvovirus (e.g., an AAV) to create a chimeric parvovirus is sufficient to confer one or more of the desirable properties of the first parvovirus to the resulting chimeric parvovirus and/or to confer a property that is not exhibited by the first parvovirus or is present to a lesser extent.

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Durham, NC, United States of America

Dawn E Bowles