Functional enhancer elements drive subclass-selective expression from mouse to primate neocortex

Cell Reports 2021 192 cites
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2021 2026
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Mich, John K. and Graybuck, Lucas T. and Hess, Erik E. and Mahoney, Joseph T. and Kojima, Yoshiko and Ding, Yi and Somasundaram, Saroja and Miller, Jeremy A. and Kalmbach, Brian E. and Radaelli, Cristina and Gore, Bryan B. and Weed, Natalie and Omstead, Victoria and Bishaw, Yemeserach and Shapovalova, Nadiya V. and Martinez, Refugio A. and Fong, Olivia and Yao, Shenqin and Mortrud, Marty and Chong, Peter and Loftus, Luke and Bertagnolli, Darren and Goldy, Jeff and Casper, Tamara and Dee, Nick and Opitz-Araya, Ximena and Cetin, Ali and Smith, Kimberly A. and Gwinn, Ryder P. and Cobbs, Charles and Ko, Andrew L. and Ojemann, Jeffrey G. and Keene, C. Dirk and Silbergeld, Daniel L. and Sunkin, Susan M. and Gradinaru, Viviana and Horwitz, Gregory D. and Zeng, Hongkui and Tasic, Bosiljka and Lein, Ed S. and Ting, Jonathan T. and Levi, Boaz P.

Abstract

Viral genetic tools that target specific brain cell types could transform basic neuroscience and targeted gene therapy. Here, we use comparative open chromatin analysis to identify thousands of human-neocortical-subclass-specific putative enhancers from across the genome to control gene expression in adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors. The cellular specificity of reporter expression from enhancer-AAVs is established by molecular profiling after systemic AAV delivery in mouse. Over 30% of enhancer-AAVs produce specific expression in the targeted subclass, including both excitatory and inhibitory subclasses. We present a collection of Parvalbumin (PVALB) enhancer-AAVs that show highly enriched expression not only in cortical PVALB cells but also in some subcortical PVALB populations. Five vectors maintain PVALB-enriched expression in primate neocortex. These results demonstrate how genome-wide open chromatin data mining and cross-species AAV validation can be used to create the next generation of non-species-restricted viral genetic tools.

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