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Article Dans Une Revue Molecular Therapy Année : 2017

A new promoter allows optogenetic vision restoration with enhanced sensitivity in macaque retina

Olivier Marre
Serge Picaud
Deniz Dalkara

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The majority of inherited retinal degenerations converge on the phenotype of photoreceptor cell death. Second- and third-order neurons are spared in these diseases, making it possible to restore retinal light responses using optogenetics. Viral expression of channelrhodopsin in the third-order neurons under ubiquitous promoters was previously shown to restore visual function, albeit at light intensities above illumination safety thresholds. Here, we report (to our knowledge, for the first time) activation of macaque retinas, up to 6 months post-injection, using channelrhodopsin-Ca2+-permeable channelrhodopsin (CatCh) at safe light intensities. High-level CatCh expression was achieved due to a new promoter based on the regulatory region of the gamma-synuclein gene (SNCG) allowing strong expression in ganglion cells across species. Our promoter, in combination with clinically proven adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV2), provides CatCh expression in peri-foveolar ganglion cells responding robustly to light under the illumination safety thresholds for the human eye. On the contrary, the threshold of activation and the proportion of unresponsive cells were much higher when a ubiquitous promoter (cytomegalovirus [CMV]) was used to express CatCh. The results of our study suggest that the inclusion of optimized promoters is key in the path to clinical translation of optogenetics.
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hal-01844782 , version 1 (19-07-2018)

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Antoine Chaffiol, Romain P Caplette, Céline Jaillard, Elena Brazhnikova, Mélissa Desrosiers, et al.. A new promoter allows optogenetic vision restoration with enhanced sensitivity in macaque retina. Molecular Therapy, 2017, 25 (11), pp.2546-2560. ⟨10.1016/j.ymthe.2017.07.011⟩. ⟨hal-01844782⟩
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