Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are currently the most efficient option for intracranial gene therapies to treat neurodegenerative disease. Increased efficacy and safety will depend upon robust and specific expression of therapeutic genes into target cell-types within the human brain. In this study, we set out with two objectives: (1) to identify capsids with broader transduction of the striatum upon intracranial injection in mice and (2) to test a truncated human choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) promoter that would allow efficient and selective transduction of cholinergic neurons. We compared AAV9 and an engineered capsid, AAV-S, to mediate widespread reporter gene expression throughout the striatum. We observed that AAV-S transduced a significantly greater area of the injected hemisphere primarily in the rostral direction compared with AAV9 (CAG promoter). We tested AAV9 vectors packaging a reporter gene expression cassette driven by either the ChAT or CAG promoter. Specificity of transgene expression of ChAT neurons over other cells was 7-fold higher, and efficiency was 3-fold higher for the ChAT promoter compared with the CAG promoter. The AAV-ChAT transgene expression cassette should be a useful tool for the study of cholinergic neurons in mice, and the broader transduction area of AAV-S warrants further evaluation of this capsid.
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