Publications by Paola Andrea Solanes Vega

Single and Dual Vector Gene Therapy with AAV9-PHP.B Rescues Hearing in Tmc1 Mutant Mice

Paola Andrea Solanes Vega, Sofia Carmen Suzanne Spataro

AAV-mediated gene therapy is a promising approach for treating genetic hearing loss. Replacement or editing of the Tmc1 gene, encoding hair cell mechanosensory ion channels, is effective for hearing restoration in mice with some limitations. Efficient resc ...

CELL PRESS2021

Efficient viral transduction in mouse inner ear hair cells with utricle injection and AAV9-PHP.B

Bernard Schneider, Paola Andrea Solanes Vega

Viral delivery of exogenous coding sequences into the inner ear has the potential for therapeutic benefit for patients suffering genetic or acquired hearing loss. To devise improved strategies for viral delivery, we investigated two injection techniques, r ...

2020

Allele-specific gene disruption through discrimination of a single base change by S. aureus Cas9-KKH prevents progressive hearing loss after AAV-mediated gene delivery

Bernard Schneider, Paola Andrea Solanes Vega, Sofia Carmen Suzanne Spataro

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2019

Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 using AAV-PHP.B in the inner ear leads to allele-specific inactivation of the mutated Tmc1 allele and protects auditory function in Beethoven mice

Bernard Schneider, Paola Andrea Solanes Vega, Sofia Carmen Suzanne Spataro

Hearing Loss (HL) is the most prevalent sensorineural disorder, affecting 360 million people worldwide. As genetic causes lead to 50% of pre-lingual deafness, gene therapy is considered as a potential therapeutic strategy. Mutations in the TMC1 gene are li ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2019

Allele-specific gene editing prevents deafness in a model of dominant progressive hearing loss

Bernard Schneider, Paola Andrea Solanes Vega, Sofia Carmen Suzanne Spataro

Since most dominant human mutations are single nucleotide substitutions(1,2), we explored gene editing strategies to disrupt dominant mutations efficiently and selectively without affecting wild-type alleles. However, single nucleotide discrimination can b ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Compositions and methods for delivering nucleic acids to cochlear and vestibular cells

Bernard Schneider, Paola Andrea Solanes Vega

Provided herein are materials and methods for efficiently delivering nucleic acids to cochlear and vestibular cells, and methods of treating sensory transduction disorders associated with a genetic defect. ...

2019

Cas9/gRNAs Selective Targeting of the Beethoven Tmc-1 Mutant Allele for Treating Progressive Hearing Loss by AAV-Based Delivery

Patrick Aebischer, Bernard Schneider, Paola Andrea Solanes Vega

CELL PRESS2018

Cas9/gRNA selective targeting of the Beethoven tmc-1 mutant allele for treating progressive hearing loss by AAV-based delivery

Patrick Aebischer, Paola Andrea Solanes Vega

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2018