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Elucidating the cis-regulatory grammar of human photoreceptors

阐明人类光感受器的顺式调节语法

基本信息

批准号：
10372052
负责人：
JOSEPH CORBO
金额：
$ 52.64万
依托单位：
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-04-01 至 2024-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10372052
关键词：
ATAC-seq Address Adult Affect Affinity Bar Codes Binding Sites Bioinformatics Biological Assay Blindness CRISPR/Cas technology Code Complex Cone DNA Data Data Set Disease Engineering Enhancers Gene Expression Genes Genetic Genetic Variation Genome Genomics Goals Heritability Human Human Genome Individual Knowledge Libraries Location Maps Measures Mendelian disorder Modeling Mus Mutagenesis Mutation Nucleic Acid Regulatory Sequences Organoids Photoreceptors Play Publishing Regulatory Element Reporter Reporter Genes Retina Retinal Diseases Retinal gene therapy Rod Role Techniques Testing Therapeutic Transcript Untranslated RNA Variant Vertebrate Photoreceptors Vision base blind causal variant cell type embryonic stem cell epigenomics falls gene therapy genetic analysis genetic variant genome wide association study genome-wide human disease improved novel diagnostics novel strategies novel therapeutics promoter screening transcription factor transcriptome sequencing whole genome

项目摘要

Project Summary One of the major unsolved challenges of the genomic era is to understand how individual sequence variation contributes to disease. Coding variation is increasingly well understood, but our knowledge of the effects of non-coding variation remains rudimentary. The goal of this proposal is to develop a platform for the analysis of non-coding cis-regulatory variation in human retinal disease. We hypothesize that sequence variants in photoreceptor-specific cis-regulatory elements (CREs; e.g., enhancer/promoters) play an important role in retinal disease by altering the expression levels of disease-related genes. Currently, assessing the effects of variants that fall within non-coding DNA represents a challenging problem, in part, because our ability to assay CREs in a high-throughput fashion is limited. To address this challenge, we have developed a technique called CRE-seq (Cis-Regulatory Element analysis by sequencing). In CRE-seq, individual CREs are fused to reporter genes, each containing a unique DNA barcode. The resultant CRE-reporter library, consisting of thousands of constructs, is introduced into living retina, and reporter gene expression is quantified by counting barcoded transcripts with RNA-seq. CRE-seq promises to revolutionize our ability to measure the effects of human cis-regulatory variants. To achieve this goal, we propose three Specific Aims. In Aim 1, we will use ATAC-seq to identify candidate CREs in both developing and mature human photoreceptors. In Aim 2, we will utilize a combination of computational and experimental approaches (including CRE-seq analysis) to analyze the CREs identified in Aim 1 and thereby elucidate the cis-regulatory grammar of human photoreceptors. CRE-seq will be performed in both mouse retinas as well as ES cell-derived human retinal organoids. These studies will provide the first comprehensive view of the human photoreceptor 'cis-regulome' and will begin to decipher the cis-regulatory code of human photoreceptors. In Aim 3, we will use a ‘mutagenesis and screening’ approach to engineer a library of compact (150 bp), highly active enhancers for targeting human photoreceptors in gene therapy applications. If successful, these studies will establish a quantitative platform for the analysis of non-coding cis-regulatory variation, thereby enabling comprehensive interpretation of whole-genome sequence data in the context of retinal disease. In addition, they will engineer a suite of new enhancers for human retinal gene therapy.

项目总结