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http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9966
Authors: | Chan, Ya-Chien Kienle, Eike Oti, Martin Di Liddo, Antonella Mendez-Lago, Maria Aschauer, Dominik F. Peter, Manuel Pagani, Michaela Arnold, Cosmas Vonderheit, Andreas Schön, Christian Kreuz, Sebastian Stark, Alexander Rumpel, Simon |
Title: | An unbiased AAV-STARR-seq screen revealing the enhancer activity map of genomic regions in the mouse brain in vivo |
Online publication date: | 24-Jan-2024 |
Year of first publication: | 2023 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | Enhancers are important cis-regulatory elements controlling cell-type specific expression patterns of genes. Furthermore, combinations of enhancers and minimal promoters are utilized to construct small, artificial promoters for gene delivery vectors. Large-scale functional screening methodology to construct genomic maps of enhancer activities has been successfully established in cultured cell lines, however, not yet applied to terminally differentiated cells and tissues in a living animal. Here, we transposed the Self-Transcribing Active Regulatory Region Sequencing (STARR-seq) technique to the mouse brain using adeno-associated-viruses (AAV) for the delivery of a highly complex screening library tiling entire genomic regions and covering in total 3 Mb of the mouse genome. We identified 483 sequences with enhancer activity, including sequences that were not predicted by DNA accessibility or histone marks. Characterizing the expression patterns of fluorescent reporters controlled by nine candidate sequences, we observed differential expression patterns also in sparse cell types. Together, our study provides an entry point for the unbiased study of enhancer activities in organisms during health and disease. |
DDC: | 610 Medizin 610 Medical sciences |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 04 Medizin |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9966 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Document type specification: | Scientific article |
License: | CC BY |
Information on rights of use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Journal: | Scientific reports 13 |
Pages or article number: | 6745 |
Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature |
Publisher place: | London |
Issue date: | 2023 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-023-33448-w |
Appears in collections: | DFG-491381577-G |
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