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. 2023 Feb 16;29(2):412–421. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-02190-7

Extended Data Fig. 1. AAV9 vectors used to assess cardiotropic co-expression of fluorescent marker genes.

Extended Data Fig. 1

A) Schematics of AAV9 genomes containing fluorescent reporter genes (not to scale) used to assess dual transduction. ITR: AAV9 inverted terminal repeats. Tnnt2 prom: cardiomyocyte specific troponin T promoter. CMV prom: Cytomegalovirus promoter, a strong, constitutive promoter. WPRE: Woodchuck hepatitis virus post-transcriptional regulatory element, used to stabilize transcripts. pA-Term: polyadenylation signal and transcriptional terminator. B) Fluorescent micrographs of ventricular section (short axis view) and liver from a WT mouse injected with 3×1013 vg/kg AAV2/9-Tnnt2-eGFP.RBG (Tnnt2-eGFP.RBG) and AAV2/9-CMV-mScarlet.WPRE.bGH (CMV-mScarlet.WPRE.bGH) and imaged with a fluorescence microscope. Scale bar: 1 mm. Imaging revealed co-expression of green fluorescent protein (top panel) delivered by AAV9-Tnnt2-eGFP.RBG and red fluorescent protein (middle panel) delivered by AAV9-CMV-mScarlet.WPRE.bGH are co-localized (yellow signal, lower panel) in cardiac cells. Representative images are shown from two technical replicates.