Author:
Wickersham Ian R.,Sullivan Heather A.,Pao Gerald M.,Hamanaka Hiroki,Goosens Ki A.,Verma Inder M.,Seung H. Sebastian
Abstract
Lentiviral vectors pseudotyped with the rabies virus (RV) envelope glycoprotein efficiently infect via axon terminals to stably deliver transgenes to distant neurons projecting to an injection site, but the resulting expression levels are too low and variable for most neuroscientific applications. If used to deliver recombinases or transactivators, however, lentiviral vectors are excellent means of targeting projection neurons when used in reporter mice or in combination with a second virus to express “payload” transgenes at high levels. For retrograde infection of significant numbers of neurons, high virus titers are critical. Here we present reagents and a protocol for generating high-titer supernatants that can be concentrated 1000-fold for final titers in excess of 1010 infectious units per milliliter. We demonstrate the usefulness of these vectors by selectively targeting corticothalamic and corticotectal neurons for high-level expression of a fluorophore in knock-in reporter mice.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Subject
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Cited by
8 articles.
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