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and genomes. Nonclinical species have ranged from non‐human primates (NHP), rodents, pigs, and dogs to evaluate pharmacology and toxicity of gene thera­pies [34]. Animal disease models representing gene defects have also been employed to evaluate pharmacology and efficacy of the gene therapy vectors.
The animal studies do have limited use as they are not predictive of adverse events (AEs) or immunogenicity in humans due to species‐specific differences in immune responses[35]. However, the immune response against viral vector com­ponents, especially innate immune response, can support interpretation of study observations like impact on safety and efficacy. The aspects of the study design like route and mode of administration, and manufacturing process used to gener­ate IND‐enabling studies are also relatable to a certain extent.
5.2.5  Animal Models forAssessing Innate Immunity
The innate immune response can be activated by different components of the adeno‐associated virus mediated gene therapy (AAV‐GT) product as described earlier. Animal models like murine models with gene defects for metabolic dis­ease, e.g. hemophilia, can be employed to assess impact of innate phase responses on safety and efficacy of AAV‐GT. Such mice models can also evaluate the impact of engineered capsids that could reduce the innate and subsequent adaptive immune response [12]. Other PRR‐based innate activation mechanisms due to critical quality attributes like presence of empty and partially packaged capsids in the final AAV‐GT vector product can also be evaluated using the mouse and NHP models due to homology of the innate mechanisms across species[36]. Some tox­icities observed in nonclinical species like loss of dorsal root ganglia following intrathecal delivery of high doses of rAAV‐GTs in monkeys, piglets, and mice could be indicative of complement mediate innate phase immune response that propagates to adaptive phase response[37, 38].
5.2.6  Animal Models forAssessing Adaptive Immunity
Both mice and monkeys were utilized as the nonclinical species for assessing adaptive immune response to AAV‐GT components. The pre-existing sero‐ reactivity observed in these animals and its impact on transduction of gene of interest and its expression in the target tissue could be translatable to humans and helped drive the enrollment criterion for GT trials in clinic[39]. The pre-existing immunity can also induce complement activation through immune complex for­mation. The treatment‐induced humoral response and associated adverse events could not be predicted through studies conducted in NHP species. The cell‐ mediated responses in NHP did not reduce transgene expression unlike the clini­cal experience where there was an elimination of vector transduced cells. The
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Teffector and CTL responses associated with NHPs are functionally and pheno­typically distinct from the human T cells. Nevertheless, there is value in conduct­ing immune response evaluations in preclinical animal species as it provides insight into the mechanisms behind the adverse events that may be later useful to explain similar consequences in clinic[40, 41]. Even though disease models may be preferred, healthy and immune‐competent species are also equally important to be able to understand the impact of immune‐mediated adverse events to explain immune‐toxicities and be aware of similar observations in clinic.
The preclinical administration of rAAV‐GT vectors and the subsequent out­come could be relevant for an immune‐privileged site like eye. Multiple studies have demonstrated the value of observations from intravitreal or subretinal administrations that could be kept in consideration while planning a mitigation strategy for clinical trials. Most of the animal studies have not provided any direct evidence for impact of treatment‐emergent antibodies on safety or efficacy of GT vectors. However, some studies with monkeys and mice did indicate that pre­existing neutralizing antibodies could impact transgene expression[39, 42]. This observation led to preenrollment criterion to exclude patients with pre‐existing antibodies at certain titers.
5.2.7  Impact ofImmunogenicity onAnimal Selection and  Interpretation ofStudy Results
The NHPs have been considered the most relevant toxicology species to under­stand disposition (viral vector gene expression) across tissues apart from target where the gene is intended to transduce. Even though ocular delivery should not elicit an immune response due to it being immune privileged, a strong innate and adaptive immune response was observed against the AAV both locally and sys­temically [43, 44]. The NHP study confirmed the development of an adaptive phase cellular immune response following subretinal injection. The mitigation strategy implemented in clinic was adapted from the NHP study, including immune monitoring and delay in administration between two doses.
5.3 Clinical Manifestation Associated
withImmunogenicity
The pre-existing host immunity or treatment‐emergent immune responses can induce both humoral and cellular responses to viral capsid and transgene proteins derived from AAV vectors, potentially compromising treatment efficacy and patient safety.
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5.3.1 Pre-existing Immunity Against AAV Vector May Compromise
Therapeutic Efficacy and Patient Safety
Patients who are exposed to wide‐type AAV serotypes early in childhood or during later natural infection usually develop humoral immunity directed against AAV capsid proteins[45, 46]. The pre-existing anti‐AAV capsid antibodies can result in the reduction of treatment efficacy and may be associated with patient safety.
Pre-existing neutralizing antibody can block the binding of the AAV vector to target receptor or prevent vector internalization into target cells. This would directly inhibit viral transduction and reduce transgene expression, limiting the therapeutic efficacy. In addition, pre-existing anti‐capsid antibody (both non‐ neutralizing and neutralizing) can also affect efficacy by increasing the clearance of administered AAV vector via opsonization or complement activation [42]. Theseprocesses can also trigger safety issues, e.g. inflammation. In addition, com­plement effector can also cause other complications such as thrombocytopenia, atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS, a type of thrombotic microangiopa­thy), and immune complex deposition, especially in patients treated with systemic AAV gene therapy[47].
Natural exposure to AAV can also produce pre-existing cell‐mediated immu­nity, although this may be less prevalent than pre-existing humoral immunity[47]. It has been reported that cellular responses could eliminate AAV particles or transduced cells, thus affecting the persistence of AAV vector delivered through systemic[48, 49] or intramuscular administration[50]. This can not only reduce treatment efficacy but may also trigger tissue damage, causing potential safety concern. For intramuscular administration, muscle cell damage would lead to the release of biomarkers, e.g. creatine phosphokinase. When AAV vector is adminis­tered to liver, hepatic cell damage could result in an elevated level of transami­nases in the circulation[37, 51].
5.3.2 Treatment Induced Anti-AAV Capsid Antibodies May Prevent Re-dosing
It has been observed that pre-existing anti‐AAV capsid antibodies may increase in titer after administration of AAV vectors. Most seronegative patients can also undergo seroconversion and develop treatment‐induced antibodies after adminis­tration of AAV vector[52]. Higher dose could further boost the anti‐AAV antibody titer[53]. High titers of circulating neutralizing antibodies (Nabs) to AAV2have been reported to persist up to 9 years following AAV vector administration[53]. These treatment‐induced antibodies may prevent readministration of patients using the same or even other AAV vector serotypes.
The post‐dosing boosted immunity to AAV capsid protein may be associated with certain serious adverse events (SAEs). The severity of AEs could increase with dose following intravenous administration. Immune complex formation,
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antibody‐dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), antibody‐dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP), and opsonization could be accountable for the observed cytotoxicity or inflammation[54]. For example, administration of high doses of AAV9 in children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) has resulted in acute kidney injury, complement activation, reduced platelets and red blood cells (RBCs), and thrombocytopenia[55].
5.3.3  Antibody Specific toTransgene Protein Could Lead  toToxicity or Unwanted Immunity
Patients may not produce the same endogenous protein as encoded by the AAV vector. For example, cross‐reactive immunologic material (CRIM) negative patients carrying a null mutation with infantile Pompe’s disease develop an immune response to the enzyme replacement therapy[56]. A similar outcome can occur with gene replacement therapies treating gene defects with a null mutation. In some instances, there could be a pre-existing immunity to the transgene protein if patients were previously treated with a replacement therapy. Under this circum­stance, both humoral and cellular response can be elicited against the transgene protein, blocking its activity, and compromising therapeutic efficacy.
Another instance where the transgene protein is homologous to an endogenous counterpart, there is a risk of neutralizing antibodies that can cross‐react with endogenous protein and inhibit its physiological function, potentially resulting in more severe clinical consequence, e.g. immunodeficiency syndrome.
If the transgene product is expressed on the cell surface, anti‐transgene protein antibodies could directly bind and mediate effector functions, e.g. ADCC, ADCP or CDC (complement‐dependent cytotoxicity), leading to cell lysis and tissue destruction. The transgene protein can be presented in the context of Class I MHC on the target cells and leads to activation of cytotoxic CD8+T‐cell response driv­ing immunotoxicity and loss of transduced cells and tissue damage.
The transgene product can also be secreted and taken up by antigen‐presenting cells in the tissue and presented in the context of Class II MHC which leads to activation of Teffector CD4+ T‐cell response.
5.3.4  Risk ofImmunogenicity Associated withDifferent 
Administration Routes
The route of administration would dictate the immunogenicity risk and its clini­cal consequence. While systemic administration could induce systemic immune reaction, local administration may result in a lower exposure or activation of Treg cells. Therefore, local, e.g. intravitreal, subretinal, intrathecal, intramuscular, administration may result in a lower risk of immunogenicity than systemic, e.g. intravenous, administration[33, 57, 58].
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Delivery of AAV vector to different target tissues may trigger various level of immune response due to differences in the nature and the density of antigen‐ presenting cells, the cytokine environment, and the existence of tissue/blood barriers.
5.3.4.1  Gene Delivery tothe Eye or Central Nervous System
Local administration to an immune‐privileged site, such as the eye or central nervous system (CNS) may have a lower risk to induce an immune response. For example, AAV gene therapy for the treatment of retinal diseases usually delivers viral vectors to the subretinal space or vitreous cavity. In addition to the blood– retina barrier, induction of antigen‐specific Tregs, the presence of immunosup­pressive TGFβ2 cytokine, and a tendency toward Th2 responses (induction of antibodies with no recruitment of complement) would contribute to the ocular immune privilege. The significantly reduced immune response in eyes would pro­tect the inner eye from immunogenic inflammation after administration of first or even repeated dose of AAV vector to the eye [44, 53]. However, inflammation could be detected after elevated level of ADA response was developed to viral cap­sid following high dose of AAV vector administration[59, 60].
5.3.4.2  Gene Delivery toLiver
AAV gene therapy has also targeted liver for the treatment of a range of genetic and metabolic diseases due to its central function in metabolism, heavy vasculariza­tion, and unique immune environment. It has been reported that induction of
+
antigen‐specific CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ Tregs and CD8
Tregs together with apopto­sis of reactive T cells would account for the liver‐mediated immune tolerance and help establish long‐term expression of transgene protein after administration of AAV vector[61, 62]. For example, when all subjects previously undergoing protein replacement therapy were enrolled for the AAV hemophilia B clinical trials, none of the subjects, including CRIM‐negative patients, developed immune response to transgene product and the long‐term transgene expression was observed [15]. Despite the induced immune tolerance in liver, the cellular response to AAV capsid protein has been reported that led to specific destruction of transduced hepato­cytes, transaminase elevation and loss of transgene expression[49, 63].
5.3.4.3  Gene Delivery toMuscle
Muscle is another valuable target tissue for AAV gene therapy to treat diseases related to this organ or to serve as an alternative organ other than liver to produce therapeutic protein in the long term [64]. When compared to liver, muscle pre­sents a unique immune environment that would determine the outcome of AAV gene therapy. Some neuromuscular diseases, e.g. Duchenne muscular dystrophy, are associated with muscle inflammation[65]. This may result in upregulated MHC class I expression and elevated cytotoxic T‐cell response to AAV transduced tissue cells, leading to loss of transgene expression[31]. In addition, it has been
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demonstrated that intramuscular delivery usually results in concentrated transgene expression at the site of injection and thereby could mount more promi­nent immune response when compared to intravascular delivery[58], potentially reducing the transgene protein production. Nonetheless, sustained transgene expression was documented for subjects administered intramuscularly with AAV1 vector encoding α1‐antitrpsin when CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ Tregs were present around the injected site, attenuating the immune response to viral and transgene protein derived from the administered vector[66, 67].
5.3.5 Product- and Process-related Impurity Related Immunogenicity
The product‐related impurity includes empty capsid and viral particles with partial genome. The oxidized, deamidated, and aggregated forms of viral particles are also part of the product generated from the cell culture[68]. While empty capsids may be used as a mitigation strategy to quench pre-existing antibodies, empty capsids or cap­sid protein undergoing biotransformation can also elicit anti‐AAV immune response. The anti‐capsid humoral response may result in elimination of viral particle through immune complex formation between pre‐existing antibodies and capsids. Such immune complexes can also activate complement and impact safety. Cellular response against capsid could additionally be involved in the clearance of AAV‐transduced tar­get cells[69]. Both would lead to loss of transgene expression, reduced efficacy, and cytotoxicity. In addition, the AAV genome could potentially recombine with genomic DNA from target cells leading to genotoxicity. The CpG motifs associated with AAV genome may contribute to host immune activation as well as safety risk[11, 68].
5.4  Clinical Mitigation Strategy
The impact of immunogenicity on AAV gene therapy could be mitigated using different strategies to curtail or overcome the immune responses to AAV capsid and transgene protein.
To mitigate the impact of pre-existing antibodies, one important approach is to exclude seropositive patients and enroll patients with undetectable or marginal pre­existing immunity to AAV vector, especially for clinical studies with systemic administration. Therefore, it is important to screen pre-existing anti‐AAV antibod­ies for patient stratification. Either total binding anti‐drug antibody ADA assay (TAb) or transduction inhibition assay can be used to measure anti‐AAV capsid antibody titer to determine the level of pre-existing immunity and eligibility of patients for clinical trial enrollment. TAb assays are typically immunoassays that are sensitive with adequate robustness. The cell‐based transduction inhibition assays can detect not only NAb but also non‐antibody factors in the matrix samples that can block the transduction. However, the invitro cell‐based transduction inhi­bition assay may not predict transduction inhibitors invivo and could be susceptible
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to assay variation. Either assay can be used to exclude patients with antibody titer above a predefined threshold cut‐off. The sponsors should consider developing a companion diagnostic test (CDx) for market approval to help determine patient eligibility.
It is also feasible to reduce the pre-existing immunity by engineering AAV vec­tor. Site‐directed or random mutagenesis technology can be implemented to deplete the immunogenic motif in the capsid protein or select recombinant mutants with a lower sero‐reactivity to pre-existing antibodies in patient circula­tion without reducing the vector transduction to target cells. Alternatively, AAV vector derived from nonhuman species, e.g. rhesus macaques[70, 71], may have lower seroprevalence and can be used as gene delivery vector. For example, AAVrh74 is a recombinant gene therapy vector from rhesus macaques. It has been reported that 83% of patients with DMD were seronegative for anti‐AAVrh74 antibodies[72].
Since an elevated dose of AAV vector may be associated with a higher risk of immunogenicity and potentially elevated incidence of SAEs, a decreased dose can be considered, if possible, during clinical trial planning. Alternatively, a geneti­cally engineered AAV vector could carry mutations that enable a higher transduc­tion efficiency at a lower dose[73].
Other possible solutions to reduce the impact of pre-existing immunity involve removal of anti‐capsid antibodies by plasmapheresis or degradation. It has been reported that removal of immunoglobulins in blood from seropositive NHPs via plasmapheresis resulted in a transduction efficiency like that in seronegative ani­mals[74]. To circumvent the limitation of current plasmapheresis procedure that nonspecifically removes all circulating antibodies, many clinical studies consider using AAV‐specific plasmapheresis to reduce the pre-existing immunity against AAV gene therapy [75]. Transient degradation of circulating antibodies using Imflidase/IdeS, a bacterial cysteine protease, may provide an alternative approach for efficient AAV transduction of seropositive patients and even readministration of an AAV vector[76, 77].
Immunomodulation is another effective strategy to circumvent the immune response to AAV gene therapy. Transient immunosuppression with immunomod­ulatory drugs, e.g. rituximab combined with methylprednisolone, prior to AAV vector administration has resulted in reduced immune response to capsid and transgene proteins[16, 78]. Rapamycin is a general immunosuppressant. When combined with prednisolone and coadministered with AAV vector, it can inhibit activation of B and T cells, leading to reduced anti‐AAV antibody production[78]. Corticosteroids and other immunomodulatory medications are also available to inhibit innate/adaptive immune cells or T/B‐cell production to suppress the immune response to AAV gene therapy[1].
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Strategies to mitigate immune response to AAV vector should also involve prod­uct optimization and removal of product impurity. Immune reactivity to AAV vec­tor can be reduced by blocking reverse‐strand transcription and depletion of CpG motifs. In addition, short non‐coding DNA oligonucleotides can be incorporated into the vector genome to inhibit TLR9 activation[16, 78] and lower the risk of CD8+ T‐cell response to the transgene product[12, 79]. The risk of immunogenic­ity could be further mitigated by minimizing the product‐related and process‐ related impurities through optimization of upstream (cell culture) and downstream (purification) manufacturing processes.
Selection of appropriate administration route can help to modulate immune response to AAV gene therapy. It has been known that delivery of AAV vector to liver can introduce the immunotolerance to AAV vector and transgene protein [61, 62]. Likewise, local administration of AAV vector to immune‐privileged sites, e.g. eyes or central nervous system, can reduce the risk of immunogenicity and support long‐term transgene expression as well[80, 81].
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