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Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2023 Feb 4;193(1):30–43. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.32031

Table 1.

Platform modalities

Status Approach Shared element(s) Variable element(s) Example/Reference Consortia
Established CAR-T Cell type T cell receptor variable region Multiple myeloma - Idecabtagene (Gearin, 2021) CARnation Consortium
Cancer vaccines Peptide subunits and linkages Peptide sequence Cervical cancer - Human papillomavirus vaccine (Cheng, et al., 2020) Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium
mRNA vaccines RNA, modified nucleotide subunits Sequence COVID-19 vaccine (Thorn, et al., 2022) K-mRNA vaccine consortium
Emerging Viral vector-mediated gene replacement Viral vector particles (DNA or RNA, proteins) Sequence (promoter, coding sequence) Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Onasemnogene (Blair, 2022) PAVE-GT, BGTC
Antisense oligonucleotides Oligonucleotides, +/− lipid nanoparticles, +/− tissue-targeting conjugates Sequence Spinal Muscular Atrophy – Nusinersen (Hoy, S.M., 2017) N=1 Collaborative, 1M1M
Future mRNA gene replacement RNA, modified nucleotide subunits Sequence Propionic acidemia (Jiang, et al., 2020) N/A
Morpholinos DNA, modified nucleotide subunits Sequence Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (Le, B.T., et al., 2022) N/A
siRNAs RNA, modified nucleotide subunits Sequence Hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis - Patisiran (Adams, et al., 2018) RNAi Consortium
Genome editing Vector, nuclease / base editor proteins Guide RNA sequence, “donor” DNA Amyloidosis (Gillmore, et al., 2021) NIST Genome Editing Consortium

BGTC – Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium; NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology; PAVE-GT - Platform Vector Gene Therapy; 1M1M – 1 Mutation 1 Medicine