Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells
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... DNA that were transcriptionally active in retinal cell types in mice.
Figure 1: The four strategies...used four different design strategies:
Strategy #1 (ProA): Create promoters with sequences upstream of...highest rate of targeted expression. Surprisingly, <1% of synthetic promoters replicated the expression ...mouse cell type specific transcription factor binding sites interspaced with random sequences.
Strategy...synthetic promoters. Legend: TSS: transcription start site. TFBS: transcription factor binding site. Image from...particular cell type is important not only for translational research, such as gene therapy, but also basic... using naturally occurring promoters to drive transgene expression, the Roska lab built synthetic promoters...