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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Cis-regulatory elements driving motor neuron-selective viral payload expression within the mammalian spinal cord.

M Aurel Nagy, Spencer Price, Kristina Wang, Stanley Gill, Erika Ren, Lorna Jayne, Victoria Pajak, Sarah Deighan, Bin Liu, Xiaodong Lu and 8 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Cis-regulatory elements driving motor neuron-selective viral payload expression within the mammalian spinal cord.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

M Aurel NagyDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0003-4608-1152
Spencer PriceDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Kristina WangDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Stanley GillHarvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Erika RenDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Lorna JayneDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Victoria PajakDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Sarah DeighanDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Bin LiuBiogen, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Xiaodong LuBiogen, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Aissatou DialloBiogen, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Shih-Ching LoBiogen, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Robin KleimanBiogen, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Christopher HendersonBiogen, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Junghae SuhBiogen, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Eric C GriffithDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0003-0428-3215
Michael E GreenbergDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0003-1380-2160
Sinisa HrvatinDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.

Funding

Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM007753 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALENSKY, LOREN DAVID · 1985 to 2021
$50.0M
Biogen (Biogen Inc.) Sponsored Research AgreementFoundation for the NIH (FNIH) T32GM007753NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal motor neuron (MN) dysfunction is the cause of a number of clinically significant movement disorders. Despite the recent approval of gene therapeutics targeting these MN-related disorders, there are no viral delivery mechanisms that achieve MN-restricted transgene expression. In this study, chromatin accessibility profiling of genetically defined mouse MNs was used to identify candidate cis-regulatory elements (CREs) capable of driving MN-selective gene expression. Subsequent testing of these candidates identified two CREs that confer MN-selective gene expression in the spinal cord as well as reduced off-target expression in dorsal root ganglia. Within one of these candidate elements, we identified a compact core transcription factor (TF)-binding region that drives MN-selective gene expression. Finally, we demonstrated that selective spinal cord expression driven by this mouse CRE is preserved in non-human primates. These findings suggest that cell-type-selective viral reagents in which cell-type-selective CREs drive restricted gene expression will be valuable research tools in mice and other mammalian species, with potentially significant therapeutic value in humans.

Indexed as

Motor NeuronsSpinal CordAnimalsGanglia, SpinalGenetic VectorsHumansMiceRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidTransgenesAAVcis-regulatory elementdorsal root gangliongene therapymotor neuron

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PMID39602276
PMCPMC11626145

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