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Adeno-associated virus mediated gene delivery: Implications for scalable in vitro and in vivo cardiac optogenetic models

Ambrosi, C. M.·Sadananda, G.·Klimas, A.·Entcheva, E.
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AimsAdeno-associated viruses (AAVs) provide advantages in long-term, cardiac-specific gene expression. However, AAV serotype specificity data is lacking in cardiac models relevant to optogenetics. We aimed to identify the optimal AAV serotype (1, 6, or 9) in pursuit of scalable rodent and human models for cardiac optogenetics and elucidate the mechanism of virus uptake.\n\nMethodsIn vitro syncytia of primary neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes (NRVMs) and human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) were infected with AAVs 1, 6, and 9 containing the transgene for eGFP or channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) fused to mCherry. In vivo adult rats were intravenously injected with AAV1 and 9 containing ChR2-mCherry.\n\nResultsTransgene expression profiles of rat and human cells in vitro revealed that AAV1 and 6 significantly outperformed AAV9. In contrast, systemic delivery of AAV9 in adult rat hearts yielded significantly higher levels of ChR2-mCherry expression and optogenetic responsiveness. We tracked the mechanism of virus uptake to purported receptor-mediators for AAV 1/6 (cell surface sialic acid) and AAV9(37/67kDa laminin receptor, LamR). In vitro desialylation of NRVMs and hiPSC-CMs with neuraminidase significantly decreased AAV1,6-mediated gene expression, but interestingly, desialylation of hiPSC-CMs increased AAV9-mediated expression. In fact, only very high viral doses of AAV9-ChR2-mCherry, combined with neuraminidase treatment yielded consistent optogenetic responsiveness in hiPSC-CMs. Differences between the in vitro and in vivo performance of AAV9 could be correlated to robust LamR expression in the adult and neonatal rat hearts, but no expression in vitro in cultured cells. The dynamic nature of LamR expression and its dependence on environmental factors was further corroborated in intact adult human ventricular tissue slices.\n\nConclusionThe combined transgene expression and cell surface receptor data may explain the preferential efficiency of AAV1/6 in vitro and AAV9 in vivo for cardiac delivery and mechanistic knowledge of their action can help guide cardiac optogenetic efforts.

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Ambrosi, C. M., Sadananda, G., Klimas, A., Entcheva, E.. 2017-08-31. Adeno-associated virus mediated gene delivery: Implications for scalable in vitro and in vivo cardiac optogenetic models. https://doi.org/10.1101/183319

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