Shao Wei Hu, Jun Lv, Zijing Wang, Honghai Tang, Hui Wang, Fang Wang, Daqi Wang, Juan Zhang, Longlong Zhang, Qi Cao, Yuxin Chen, Ziwen Gao, Yu Han, Wuqing Wang, Geng-Lin Li, Yilai Shu, Huawei Li
Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene therapy is widely applied to treat numerous hereditary diseases in animal models and humans. The specific expression of AAV-delivered transgenes driven by cell type-specific promoters should further increase the safety of gene therapy. However, current methods for screening cell type-specific promoters are labor-intensive and time-consuming. Herein, we designed a "multiple vectors in one AAV" strategy for promoter construction in vivo. Through this strategy, we truncated a native promoter for Myo15 expression in hair cells (HCs) in the inner ear, from 1,611 bp down to 1,157 bp, and further down to 956 bp...
2024: Research: a science partner journal