AAV with cTNT promoter driven TdTomato

This AAV expresses TdTomato driven by a cardiac cTNT promoter.

cTNT promoter is a 0.4 Kb fragment derived from the chicken troponin T gene, and drives cardiomyocyte muscle-specific gene expression.

dTomato belongs to a family of fluorescent proteins called mFruit. Two dTomato units were joined head-to-tail through a linker, yielding a tandem dimer fluorescent protein, tdTomato. The tdTomato derivative is the brightest fluorescent protein yet reported, featuring an orange-red emission maximum at 581nm and is one of the most photo-stable fluorescent proteins. Other fluorescent proteins with similar emission spectra include DsRed, DsRed2, TurboRFP, TagRFP, and TagRFP-T.