Project description:We performed a study of gene expression changes that occur during mouse aging in the striatum and cortex in specific neuronal populations. Using translating ribosome afifnity purificaiton, we captured cell type-specific mRNAs from Drd1a-expressing cortical neurons, Drd1a-expressing striatal neurons, Drd2-expressing cortical neurons, and Drd2-expressing striatal neurons. 31 total samples were anlayzed. We generated the followinf pairwise comparisons: Old (2 years) vs young (6 weeks) Drd1a expressing cortical cells; old (2 years) vs young (6 weeks) Drd2 expressing cortical cells; old (2 years) vs young (6 weeks) Drd1a expressing striatal cells; old (2 years) vs young (6 weeks) Drd2 expressing striatal cells. We used a restriction of Benjamini-Hochberg FDR <0.05, and a fold-change restriction of 1.2-fold.
Project description:We performed a study of gene expression changes that occur during mouse aging in the striatum and cortex in specific neuronal populations. Using translating ribosome afifnity purificaiton, we captured cell type-specific mRNAs from Drd1a-expressing cortical neurons, Drd1a-expressing striatal neurons, Drd2-expressing cortical neurons, and Drd2-expressing striatal neurons.
Project description:Goal of the experiment: Analysis of gene expression changes in the cortex, striatum, hippocampus, hypothalamus, Drd2-MSNs and Drd1-MSNs of mice with a postnatal, neuron-specific ablation of GLP or G9a as compared to control mice. For microarray analysis, hippocampus, hypothalamus, cortex and striatum of Camk2a-Cre; GLPfl/fl, Camk2a-Cre; G9afl/fl and age (10-14 week old) and sex matched littermate controls were used for total RNA purification. Four biological replicates were performed for each experiment. Polyribosome associated mRNAs from five, age (10-14 week old) and sex matched Drd1-Cre; Drd1-bacTRAP; G9afl/fl, or Drd2-Cre; Drd2-bacTRAP; G9afl/fl and Drd1-bacTRAP; G9afl/fl or Drd2-bacTRAP; G9afl/fl control mice were used. Three biological replicates were performed for each experiment.
Project description:The experiment was performed to identify autophagy targets in wildtype and autophagy-deficient forebrain inhibitory neurons. Therefore, neurons were isolated from the cortex, hippocampus and striatum of 2-3 weeks old Atg5flox/flox:Slc32a1-Cretg/wt:tdTomato+ (KO) and Atg5wt/wt:Slc332a1-Cretg/wt:tdTomato+ (WT) mice. Neurons in suspension were FACS sorted and inhibitory forebrain neurons expressing tdTomato were forwarded to global proteome analysis assessed by LC-MS/MS.
Project description:The experiment was performed to identify autophagy targets in wildtype and autophagy-deficient forebrain excitatory neurons. Therefore, neurons were isolated from the cortex, hippocampus and striatum of 2-3 weeks old Atg5flox/flox:CamKIIα-Cretg/wt:tdTomato+ (KO) and Atg5wt/wt:CamKIIα-Cretg/wt:tdTomato+ (WT) mice. Neurons in suspension were FACS sorted and excitatory forebrain neurons expressing tdTomato were forwarded to global proteome analysis assessed by LC-MS/MS.
Project description:Goal of the experiment: Analysis of gene expression changes in the cortex, striatum, hippocampus, hypothalamus, Drd2-MSNs and Drd1-MSNs of mice with a postnatal, neuron-specific ablation of GLP or G9a as compared to control mice.
Project description:Overexpression of REST has been implicated in brain tumors, ischemic insults, epilepsy, and movement disorders such as Huntington’s disease. However, owing to the lack of a conditional REST overexpression animal model, the mechanism of action of REST overexpression in these disorders has not been established in vivo. We created a REST overexpression mouse model using the human REST (hREST) gene. Our results using these mice confirm that hREST expression parallels endogenous REST expression in embryonic mouse brains. Further analyses indicate that REST represses the dopamine receptor 2 (Drd2) gene, which encodes a critical nigrostriatal receptor involved in regulating movement, in vivo. Overexpression of REST using Drd2-Cre in adult mice results in increased REST and decreased DRD2 expression in the striatum, a major site of DRD2 expression, and phenocopies the spontaneous locomotion deficits seen upon global DRD2 deletion or specific DRD2 deletion from indirect-pathway medium spiny neurons. Thus, our studies using this mouse model not only reveal a new function of REST in regulating spontaneous locomotion but also suggest that REST overexpression in DRD2-expressing cells results in spontaneous locomotion deficits.
Project description:Purpose: To assess changes in gene expression profiles from the P0 littermate Sp9Flox/Flox control striatum (including SVZ) and conditional mutant striatum of Drd2-Cre; Sp9Flox/Flox mice. Methods: total RNA was isolated and sequenced from the striatum of the P0 littermate Sp9Flox/Flox control or conditional mutant striatum of Drd2-Cre; Sp9Flox/Flox mice in triplicate using an Illumina high-seq 2500. Raw data was analyzed using TopHat. Genes were considered changed which demonstrated fold-change>=2, and p value <=0.05. Changed genes were then filtered to reveal Sp9 downstream targets which were altered in vivo due to the loss of Sp9 expression. Results: 179 genes were significantly increased and 147 genes were significantly decreased in expression level due to the loss of Sp9 expression. total RNA was isolated and sequenced from the striatum of the P0 littermate Sp9Flox/Flox control or conditional mutant striatum of Drd2-Cre; Sp9Flox/Flox mice in triplicate using an Illumina high-seq 2500. Raw data was analyzed using TopHat. Genes were considered changed which demonstrated fold-change>=2, and p value <=0.05. Changed genes were then filtered to reveal Sp9 downstream targets which were altered in vivo due to the loss of Sp9 expression.
Project description:TRAP translational profiling is a method that allows investigators to genetically characterize specific cell types in complex tissues such as mouse brain. Using this technique we obtained RNA-Seq data from actively translating transcripts present in medium spiny neurons in the whole striatum of adult Drd2-EGFP/Rpl10a (CP101) mice that were administered either saline or cocaine.