Coupling ex vivo electroporation of mouse retinas and luciferase reporter assays to assess rod-specific promoter activity.

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Title
Coupling ex vivo electroporation of mouse retinas and luciferase reporter assays to assess rod-specific promoter activity.
Journal
Experimental Eye Research
Author(s)
Boulling A., Escher P.
ISSN
1096-0007 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0014-4835
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
148
Pages
79-82
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal ArticlePublication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Ex vivo electroporation of mouse retinas is an established tool to modulate gene expression and to study cell type-specific gene expression. Here we coupled ex vivo electroporation to luciferase reporter assays to facilitate the study of rod-photoreceptor-specific gene promoters. The activity of the rod-specific proximal bovine rhodopsin promoter was significantly increased in C57BL/6J wild-type retinas at postnatal days 1 and 7 by 3.4-fold and 8.7-fold respectively. In C57BL/6J Nr2e3(rd7/rd7) retinas, where the rod photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor Nr2e3 is not expressed, a significant increase by 2.5-fold was only observed at postnatal day 7. Cone-specific S-opsin promoter activity was not modulated in C57BL/6J wild-type and Nr2e3(rd7/rd7) retinas. Taken together, we describe an easily implementable protocol to assess rod-specific promoter activity in a physiological context resembling that of the developing postnatal mouse retina.
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