| Authors: | Cahoy JD, Emery B, Kaushal A, Foo LC, Zamanian JL, Christopherson KS, Xing Y, Lubischer JL, Krieg PA, Krupenko SA, Thompson WJ, Barres BA |
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| Title: | A transcriptome database for astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes: a new resource for understanding brain development and function. |
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| Journal: | The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Jan 2008 , Vol 28 , pp. 264-78 |
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| Abstract: | Understanding the cell-cell interactions that control CNS development and function has long been limited by the lack of methods to cleanly separate neural cell types. Here we describe methods for the prospective isolation and purification of astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes from developing and mature mouse forebrain. We used FACS (fluorescent-activated cell sorting) to isolate astrocytes from transgenic mice that express enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under the control of an S100beta promoter. Using Affymetrix GeneChip Arrays, we then created a transcriptome database of the expression levels of >20,000 genes by gene profiling these three main CNS neural cell types at various postnatal ages between postnatal day 1 (P1) and P30. This database provides a detailed global characterization and comparison of the genes expressed by acutely isolated astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes. We found that Aldh1L1 is a highly specific antigenic marker for astrocytes with a substantially broader pattern of astrocyte expression than the traditional astrocyte marker GFAP. Astrocytes were enriched in specific metabolic and lipid synthetic pathways, as well as the draper/Megf10 and Mertk/integrin alpha(v)beta5 phagocytic pathways suggesting that astrocytes are professional phagocytes. Our findings call into question the concept of a \"glial\" cell class as the gene profiles of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes are as dissimilar to each other as they are to neurons. This transcriptome database of acutely isolated purified astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes provides a resource to the neuroscience community by providing improved cell-type-specific markers and for better understanding of neural development, function, and disease.
PUBMED: 18171944
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| Ontological Annotations: |
- D032882: Comprehension (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D051379: Mice (PubMed MeSH Annotations; Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D009488: Neurosciences (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D009474: Neurons (Publication, NCBO Annotator; PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D009836: Oligodendroglia (Publication, NCBO Annotator; PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D020411: Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis (PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D012111: Residence Characteristics (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- GO:0007417: central nervous system development (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- GO:0007420: brain development (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D014158: Transcription, Genetic (PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D016548: Prosencephalon (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D005434: Flow Cytometry (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D000818: Animals (PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D001253: Astrocytes (Publication, NCBO Annotator; PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D001921: Brain (PubMed MeSH Annotations; Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D008822: Mice, Transgenic (PubMed MeSH Annotations; Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D020869: Gene Expression Profiling (PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D005904: Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D049452: Green Fluorescent Proteins (PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D002965: Classification (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D002477: Cells (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- MA:0000168: brain (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- GO:0005623: cell (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D018507: Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental (PubMed MeSH Annotations)
- D010586: Phagocytes (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- MA:0000170: forebrain (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
- D008722: Methods (Publication, NCBO Annotator)
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