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A mammalian enhancer trap resource for discovering and manipulating neuronal cell types

  1. Yasuyuki Shima
  2. Ken Sugino
  3. Chris Hempel
  4. Masami Shima
  5. Praveen Taneja
  6. James B Bullis
  7. Sonam Mehta
  8. Carlos Lois
  9. Sacha B Nelson  Is a corresponding author
  1. Brandeis University, United States
  2. Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
  3. Galenea Corporation, United States
  4. California Institute of Technology, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13503
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  1. Yasuyuki Shima
  2. Ken Sugino
  3. Chris Hempel
  4. Masami Shima
  5. Praveen Taneja
  6. James B Bullis
  7. Sonam Mehta
  8. Carlos Lois
  9. Sacha B Nelson
(2016)
A mammalian enhancer trap resource for discovering and manipulating neuronal cell types
eLife 5:e13503.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13503
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Abstract

There is a continuing need for driver strains to enable cell type-specific manipulation in the nervous system. Each cell type expresses a unique set of genes, and recapitulating expression of marker genes by BAC transgenesis or knock-in has generated useful transgenic mouse lines. However since genes are often expressed in many cell types, many of these lines have relatively broad expression patterns. We report an alternative transgenic approach capturing distal enhancers for more focused expression. We identified an enhancer trap probe often producing restricted reporter expression and developed efficient enhancer trap screening with the PiggyBac transposon. We established more than 200 lines and found many lines that label small subsets of neurons in brain substructures, including known and novel cell types. Images and other information about each line are available online (enhancertrap.bio.brandeis.edu).

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  1. Yasuyuki Shima

    Department of Biology and Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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  2. Ken Sugino

    Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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    No competing interests declared.

  3. Chris Hempel

    Galenea Corporation, Wakefield, United States
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  4. Masami Shima

    Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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  5. Praveen Taneja

    Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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  6. James B Bullis

    Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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  7. Sonam Mehta

    Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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  8. Carlos Lois

    Division of Biology and Biological Engineering Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
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  9. Sacha B Nelson

    Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
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    Sacha B Nelson, Reviewing editor, eLife.

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  1. Liqun Luo, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the animals were handled according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocols (#14004) of Brandeis University. All surgery was performed under ketamine and xylazine anesthesia, and every effort was made to minimize suffering.

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  1. Received: December 3, 2015
  2. Accepted: March 18, 2016
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: March 21, 2016 (version 1)
  4. Accepted Manuscript updated: April 6, 2016 (version 2)
  5. Version of Record published: April 21, 2016 (version 3)

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© 2016, Shima et al.

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  1. Yasuyuki Shima
  2. Ken Sugino
  3. Chris Hempel
  4. Masami Shima
  5. Praveen Taneja
  6. James B Bullis
  7. Sonam Mehta
  8. Carlos Lois
  9. Sacha B Nelson
(2016)
A mammalian enhancer trap resource for discovering and manipulating neuronal cell types
eLife 5:e13503.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13503

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