Iciency at lower vector doses. Each of the 17 surface-exposed threonine residues was substituted with valine (V) residues by site-directed mutagenesis, and four of these mutants, T455V, T491V, T550V, T659V, were shown to increase the transduction efficiency between ,2?-fold in human HEK293 cells. Since we have previously reported that the tyrosine triple-mutant (Y730F+500+444F) vector transduces murine hepatocytes most efficiently than WT [12,13,14,15], we subsequently combined these mutations with the best-performing single serinemutant (S662V) and single threonine-mutant (T491V) to generate the following vectors: two quadruple (Y444+500+730F+S662V; Y730+500+44F+T491V) and one quintuple (Y444+500+730F+S662V+T491V); and tested our hypothesis of whether further improvement in transduction efficiency of these multiple-mutants could be achieved. We report here the identification of the quadruple-mutant (Y444+500+730F+T491V) vector that efficiently transduces a murine hepatocyte cell line in vitro as well as primary murine hepatocytes in vivo at reduced doses, which has implications in the potential use of these Epigenetic Reader Domain vectors in human gene therapy in general, and hemophilia in particular.primers for 3 cycles. In stage two, the two reactions were mixed and a PCR 15900046 reaction was performed for an additional 15 cycles, followed by Dpn I digestion for 1 hr. Primers were designed to introduce changes from threonine (ACA) to valine (GTA) for each of the residues mutated.Recombinant AAV Vector Transduction Assays in vitroHuman HEK293 were transduced with 16103 vgs/cell, and murine hepatocytes H2.35 cells were transduced with 26103 vgs/ cell with WT and mutant scAAV2-GFP vectors, respectively, and incubated for 48 h. Transgene expression was assessed as the total area of green fluorescence (pixel2) per visual field (mean 6 SD) as described previously [12,13,14]. Analysis of variance was used to compare test results and the control, which were determined to be statistically significant.Analysis of Vector Genome Distribution in Cytoplasm and Autophagy Nuclear FractionsApproximately 16106 H2.35 cells were infected by either WT or mutant scAAV2-GFP vectors with MOI 16104 vgs/cell. Cells were collected at various time points by trypsin treatment to remove any adsorbed and un-adsorbed viral particles and then washed extensively with PBS. Nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions were separated with Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Extraction Reagents kit (Thermo Scientific) according to manufacturer instruction. Viral genome was extracted and detected by qPCR analysis with the CBA specific primers described above. The difference in amount of viral genome between cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions was determined by the following rule: CT values for each sample from cells treated with virus were normalized to corresponding CT from mock treated cells (DCT). For each pairwise set of samples, fold change in packaged genome presence was calculated as fold change = 22(DCT-cytoplasm2DCT-nucleus). Data from three independent experiments were presented as a percentage of the total amount of packaged genome in the nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions.Materials 1326631 and Methods CellsHuman embryonic kidney cell line, HEK293, and murine hepatocyte cell line, H2.35, cells were obtained from the American 
Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA), and maintained as monolayer cultures in DMEM (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10 fetal bovine serum (FBS; Sigma) and antibiotics (Lonza).Production of Recombinant VectorsRecom.Iciency at lower vector doses. Each of the 17 surface-exposed threonine residues was substituted with valine (V) residues by site-directed mutagenesis, and four of these mutants, T455V, T491V, T550V, T659V, were shown to increase the transduction efficiency between ,2?-fold in human HEK293 cells. Since we have previously reported that the tyrosine triple-mutant (Y730F+500+444F) vector transduces murine hepatocytes most efficiently than WT [12,13,14,15], we subsequently combined these mutations with the best-performing single serinemutant (S662V) and single threonine-mutant (T491V) to generate the following vectors: two quadruple (Y444+500+730F+S662V; Y730+500+44F+T491V) and one quintuple (Y444+500+730F+S662V+T491V); and 
tested our hypothesis of whether further improvement in transduction efficiency of these multiple-mutants could be achieved. We report here the identification of the quadruple-mutant (Y444+500+730F+T491V) vector that efficiently transduces a murine hepatocyte cell line in vitro as well as primary murine hepatocytes in vivo at reduced doses, which has implications in the potential use of these vectors in human gene therapy in general, and hemophilia in particular.primers for 3 cycles. In stage two, the two reactions were mixed and a PCR 15900046 reaction was performed for an additional 15 cycles, followed by Dpn I digestion for 1 hr. Primers were designed to introduce changes from threonine (ACA) to valine (GTA) for each of the residues mutated.Recombinant AAV Vector Transduction Assays in vitroHuman HEK293 were transduced with 16103 vgs/cell, and murine hepatocytes H2.35 cells were transduced with 26103 vgs/ cell with WT and mutant scAAV2-GFP vectors, respectively, and incubated for 48 h. Transgene expression was assessed as the total area of green fluorescence (pixel2) per visual field (mean 6 SD) as described previously [12,13,14]. Analysis of variance was used to compare test results and the control, which were determined to be statistically significant.Analysis of Vector Genome Distribution in Cytoplasm and Nuclear FractionsApproximately 16106 H2.35 cells were infected by either WT or mutant scAAV2-GFP vectors with MOI 16104 vgs/cell. Cells were collected at various time points by trypsin treatment to remove any adsorbed and un-adsorbed viral particles and then washed extensively with PBS. Nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions were separated with Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Extraction Reagents kit (Thermo Scientific) according to manufacturer instruction. Viral genome was extracted and detected by qPCR analysis with the CBA specific primers described above. The difference in amount of viral genome between cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions was determined by the following rule: CT values for each sample from cells treated with virus were normalized to corresponding CT from mock treated cells (DCT). For each pairwise set of samples, fold change in packaged genome presence was calculated as fold change = 22(DCT-cytoplasm2DCT-nucleus). Data from three independent experiments were presented as a percentage of the total amount of packaged genome in the nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions.Materials 1326631 and Methods CellsHuman embryonic kidney cell line, HEK293, and murine hepatocyte cell line, H2.35, cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA), and maintained as monolayer cultures in DMEM (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10 fetal bovine serum (FBS; Sigma) and antibiotics (Lonza).Production of Recombinant VectorsRecom.