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Neuronal Activation Stimulates Cytomegalovirus Promoter-Driven Transgene Expression.

ABSTRACT: The cytomegalovirus (CMV) immediate early promoter has been extensively developed and exploited for transgene expression in vitro and in vivo, including human clinical trials. The CMV promoter has long been considered a stable, constitutive, and ubiquitous promoter for transgene expression. Using two different CMV-based promoters, we found an increase in CMV-driven transgene expression in the rodent brain and in primary neuronal cultures in response to methamphetamine, glutamate, kainic acid, and activation of G protein-coupled receptor signaling using designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs (DREADDs). In contrast, promoters derived from human synapsin 1 (hSYN1) gene or elongation factor 1? (EF1?) did not exhibit altered transgene expression in response to the same neuronal stimulations. Overall, our results suggest that the long-standing assertion that the CMV promoter confers constitutive expression in neurons should be reevaluated, and future studies should empirically determine the activity of the CMV promoter in a given application.

SUBMITTER: Back S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661544 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Neuronal Activation Stimulates Cytomegalovirus Promoter-Driven Transgene Expression.

Bäck Susanne S Dossat Amanda A Parkkinen Ilmari I Koivula Pyry P Airavaara Mikko M Richie Christopher T CT Chen Yun-Hsiang YH Wang Yun Y Harvey Brandon K BK

Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development 20190703

The cytomegalovirus (CMV) immediate early promoter has been extensively developed and exploited for transgene expression <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i>, including human clinical trials. The CMV promoter has long been considered a stable, constitutive, and ubiquitous promoter for transgene expression. Using two different CMV-based promoters, we found an increase in CMV-driven transgene expression in the rodent brain and in primary neuronal cultures in response to methamphetamine, glutamate, k ...[more]

PMID: 31380464

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Project description:Prior studies suggest that non-canonical proteolipid protein (PLP) gene expression occurs during development in non-myelinating neurons as well as myelinating oligodendroglia in mammalian brain. To assess this possibility in neostriatum, a region of uncertain PLP gene expression in neurons, morphological and electrophysiological tools were used to determine phenotypes of cells with activation of a PLP promoter transgene during the early postnatal period in mice. PLP gene expression is evident in both neuronal and oligodendroglial phenotypes in developing neostriatum, a conclusion based on three novel observations: (1) An enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reporter of PLP promoter activation was localized in two distinct populations of cells, which exhibit collective, developmental differences of morphological and electrophysiological characteristics in accord with neuronal and oligodendroglial phenotypes of neostriatal cells found during the early postnatal period in both transgenic and wild-type mice. (2) The EGFP reporter of PLP promoter activation was appropriately positioned to serve as a regulator of PLP gene expression. It colocalized with native PLP proteins in both neuronal and oligodendroglial phenotypes; however, only soma-restricted PLP protein isoforms were found in the neuronal phenotype, while classic and soma-restricted PLP protein isoforms were found in the oligodendroglial phenotype. (3) As shown by EGFP reporter, PLP promoter activation was placed to regulate PLP gene expression in only one neuronal phenotype among the several that constitute neostriatum. It was localized in medium spiny neurons, but not large aspiny neurons. These outcomes have significant implications for the non-canonical functional roles of PLP gene expression in addition to myelinogenesis in mammalian brain, and are consistent with potentially independent pathologic loci in neurons during the course of human mutational disorders of PLP gene expression.

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Neuronal Activation Stimulates Cytomegalovirus Promoter-Driven Transgene Expression.

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Neuronal Activation Stimulates Cytomegalovirus Promoter-Driven Transgene Expression.

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