RNA sequencing of corticospinal neurons and control callosal projection neurons purified from the cerebral cortex of adult wild-type and Sod1G86R mice, a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, at four disease-relevant ages.

ABSTRACT: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is clinically defined as the combined degeneration of the corticospinal and corticobulbar neurons (CSN) along with the bulbar and spinal motor neurons (SMN). While a growing body of evidence points to the motor cortex, where CSN are located, as the potential initiation site of ALS, little is known about how CSN degenerate. To gain insights into the molecular mechanisms behind CSN selective degeneration, we first developed an approach to purify this neuronal population from the cerebral cortex of adult wild-type and Sod1G86R mice, combining retrograde labelling and Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting. In parallel, a second population of cortical neurons, the callosal projection neurons (CPN) located in the layers II/III of the cerebral cortex were also purified. CPN and CSN are both cortical excitatory projection neurons but as opposed to CSN, CPN do not degenerate in Sod1G86R mice, and served as control population. CSN and CPN were purified from same animals, at two presymptomatic ages (3 and 60 days) and two symptomatic ages, 90 and 105 days. A total of 57 samples were further processed and analysed (CSN: 30d: n=4 WT and 3 Sod1G86R; 60d: n=4 WT and 4 Sod1G86R; 90d: n=4 WT and 4 Sod1G86R; 105d: n=4 WT and 2 Sod1G86R; CPN: 30d: n=4 WT and 3 Sod1G86R; 60d: n=2 WT and 3 Sod1G86R; 90d: n=4 WT and 4 Sod1G86R; 105d: n=4 WT and 4 Sod1G86R).

INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina HiSeq 4000

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Caroline Rouaux 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-7876 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress