Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...channelrhodopsin, fused to a fluorescent GFP marker (CatCH-GFP). The lab deposited AAV plasmids containing ...expression. Surprisingly, <1% of synthetic promoters replicated the expression specificity of the wild-type promoters...reproducibly labeled retinal cells can be found here.
Applications for synthetic promoter AAVs
Besides restricting...synthetic promoters have a few other potential applications:
Using promoter combinations for targeted expression... promoters expressed in. The lab tested this application using one promoter to drive expression of Cre-mCherry...drive expression of a Cre-dependent fluorescent CatCH-GFP reporter. Expression of GFP will only result... rates of labeling are ideal of gene therapy applications, promoters that produce sparse labeling would...