Myocardial Telomere Recapping Study for Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Summary

The aim of this study is to determine the safety and feasibility of giving an adeno-associated viral vector expressing a modified telomerase protein (TERT), driven by cardiac troponin T promoter (AAV9-cTnT-modTERT), to 12 dilated cardiomyopathic patients.

Timeline

Start

2023-03-30

Primary completion

2025-07-30

Completion

2025-12-30

Publications

• Background Schultheiss HP, Fairweather D, Caforio ALP, Escher F, Hershberger RE, Lipshultz SE, Liu PP, Matsumori A, Mazzanti A, McMurray J, Priori SG. Dilated cardiomyopathy. Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2019 May 9;5(1):32. doi: 10.1038/s41572-019-0084-1.
• Background Chang ACY, Chang ACH, Kirillova A, Sasagawa K, Su W, Weber G, Lin J, Termglinchan V, Karakikes I, Seeger T, Dainis AM, Hinson JT, Seidman J, Seidman CE, Day JW, Ashley E, Wu JC, Blau HM. Telomere shortening is a hallmark of genetic cardiomyopathies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Sep 11;115(37):9276-9281. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714538115. Epub 2018 Aug 27.
• Background Sahin E, Colla S, Liesa M, Moslehi J, Muller FL, Guo M, Cooper M, Kotton D, Fabian AJ, Walkey C, Maser RS, Tonon G, Foerster F, Xiong R, Wang YA, Shukla SA, Jaskelioff M, Martin ES, Heffernan TP, Protopopov A, Ivanova E, Mahoney JE, Kost-Alimova M, Perry SR, Bronson R, Liao R, Mulligan R, Shirihai OS, Chin L, DePinho RA. Telomere dysfunction induces metabolic and mitochondrial compromise. Nature. 2011 Feb 17;470(7334):359-65. doi: 10.1038/nature09787. Epub 2011 Feb 9.
• Background Wang D, Tai PWL, Gao G. Adeno-associated virus vector as a platform for gene therapy delivery. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2019 May;18(5):358-378. doi: 10.1038/s41573-019-0012-9.

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