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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Genet Metab. 2014 Oct 7;114(2):83–93. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2014.09.011

Table III.

Enzymatic and metabolic effects of sustained SGSH activity in MPS IIIA mice

Target Vector/Dosa Age treated/tested SGSH activity at termination (%WT)
Brain pathology
Liver Serum Brain GAG or Storage vacuoles Neuroinflammation
AAV APPROACH
Unmodified mSGSH [79, 84, 96]
Liver AAV8 (LSP1) @1012VG/mouse 8wk/10mo F: 100% 150% ~4% F: No reduction n/ab
M: 400% 450% 10% M: 50% reduced

Blood AAV9(CAG) @7×1012VG/mouse 2mo/10mo F: 100% F: 100% 6-8% GAG corrected SV reduced near-resolved
M: 500% M: 500% 7-13%

CSF AAV9 (CAG) @5×1010VG/mouse 2mo/4mo F: 20%
M: 190%
20%
190%
7-39%
11-36%
corrected
corrected
except caudal part
resolved
resolved
AAV9 (CAG) @5×109VG/mouse no reduction n/a

Fusion IDSsp-hSGSH-ApoB [119]
Liver AAV2/8 (LSP2) @1011VG/mouse 1mo/7mo %WT n/a 700%c %WT n/a 200%c %WT n/ab 13%c near-corrected resolved

LV- HSC APPROACH
“Unmodified” cohSGSH [120]
Blood LV- (CD11b) @1.2-1.3VG/cell 2wk/8mo 60% n/ab 11% HS corrected resolved in cortex and amygdala reduced in most regions
a

VG, vector genomes; the murine (m) or human (h) SGSH expression cassettes have either of the following promoters: liver-specific LSP1= ApoEHCRhAAT; LSP2= thyroxine-binding globulin promoter; myeloid-specific = CD11b; co-codon-optimized hSGSH

b

n/a, data not available

c

relative to heterozygote values