MuteFree™ AAV Backbone

Our novel MuteFree™ AAV backbone has been designed, optimized, and validated to enable the generation of AAV transfer vectors with highly stable inverted terminal repeats (ITRs), offering an industry-leading approach to prevent mutations in your vector. This results in gene therapy products with maximum stability for consistent and high-yield manufacturing.

ITR Stability Challenges

The ITRs play a critical role in AAV packaging and transgene expression. However, these GC-rich regions are highly unstable and prone to mutation, which can lead to increased heterogeneity, decreased viral titers, and lower transgene expression. In the context of clinical development, this can complicate manufacturing, necessitating higher doses to achieve the desired therapeutic effect. Although strategies to mitigate this issue have been developed, including specialized E. coli strains, altered culture conditions, and modified ITR sequences, they are not always effective and may compromise plasmid and AAV yields.

AAV ITRs are highly unstable
Figure 1. Sanger sequencing was performed on the ITRs of over 300 vectors collected from research and industry partners that had passed initial restriction enzyme digestion QC validation. Sequencing revealed previously undetected mutations in about 40% of AAV transfer vector ITRs (Nucleic Acids Res. 2025. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf697).

An Innovative Solution to Enhance ITR Stability

VectorBuilder has engineered a novel AAV transfer vector to safeguard ITR stability: MuteFree™ AAV. Our optimized vector backbone ensures your viral vectors are free of ITR mutations, increasing confidence in gene therapy identity, efficacy, and safety. Meticulously refined and validated by our team of innovators, MuteFree™ delivers the consistency your gene therapy products demand.

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MuteFree™ AAV significantly enhances ITR stability
Figure 2. Switching to MuteFree™ AAV reduces the ITR mutation rate after 10 serial passages in E. coli (>160 population doublings) from 48.1% to 0% for single-stranded AAV (ssAAV) and from 31.8% to 0% for self-complementary AAV (scAAV). ITR integrity was assayed by Sanger sequencing.

Seamless Integration into Scalable, High-Quality AAV Manufacturing

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Our optimized MuteFree™ AAV backbone can be easily incorporated into existing manufacturing workflows to enable the consistent production of high-titer, high-quality AAV vectors for cell and gene therapies.

Packaging with MuteFree™ maintains high-titer, high-quality, and high-efficacy AAV production
Figure 3. Adoption of MuteFree™ AAV, compared with a conventional transfer vector backbone, maintains (A) viral titer and full capsid ratio, (B) purity as shown by silver-stained SDS-PAGE, and (C) transduction efficiency, measured 48 h post-transduction of HEK293 cells with AAV-EGFP.
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