Molecular and anatomical characterization of parabrachial neurons and their axonal projections

  1. Jordan L Pauli
  2. Jane Y Chen  Is a corresponding author
  3. Marcus L Basiri
  4. Sekun Park
  5. Matthew E Carter
  6. Elisenda Sanz
  7. G Stanley McKnight
  8. Garret D Stuber
  9. Richard D Palmiter  Is a corresponding author
  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, United States
  2. University of Washington, United States

Abstract

The parabrachial nucleus (PBN) is a major hub that receives sensory information from both internal and external environments. Specific populations of PBN neurons are involved in behaviors including food and water intake, nociceptive responses, breathing regulation, as well as learning and responding appropriately to threatening stimuli. However, it is unclear how many PBN neuron populations exist and how different behaviors may be encoded by unique signaling molecules or receptors. Here we provide a repository of data on the molecular identity, spatial location, and projection patterns of dozens of PBN neuron subclusters. Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we identified 21 subclusters of neurons in the PBN and neighboring regions. Multiplexed in situ hybridization showed many of these subclusters are enriched within specific PBN subregions with scattered cells in several other regions. We also provide detailed visualization of the axonal projections from 21 Cre-driver lines of mice. These results are all publicly available for download and provide a foundation for further interrogation of PBN functions and connections.

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Raw and preprocessed data for scRNA-seq: NCBI GEO accession number GSE207708Code for analysis of scRNA-Seq data: https://github.com/stuberlab/Pauli-Chen-Basiri-et-al-2022Raw and normalized data for RiboTag: NCBI GEO accession number GSE207153Images from RNAscope and all tracing experiments: Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6707404; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6707404

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  1. Jordan L Pauli

    Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  2. Jane Y Chen

    Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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    jychen@uw.edu
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    No competing interests declared.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-3986-8785
  3. Marcus L Basiri

    Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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  4. Sekun Park

    Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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    No competing interests declared.
  5. Matthew E Carter

    Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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    No competing interests declared.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-1802-090X
  6. Elisenda Sanz

    Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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    No competing interests declared.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-7932-8556
  7. G Stanley McKnight

    Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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    No competing interests declared.
  8. Garret D Stuber

    Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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    No competing interests declared.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-1730-4855
  9. Richard D Palmiter

    Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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    palmiter@uw.edu
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    Richard D Palmiter, Reviewing editor, eLife.
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (R01-DA24908)

  • Richard D Palmiter

National Institutes of Health (R01-DA032750)

  • Garret D Stuber

National Institutes of Health (R01-DA038168)

  • Garret D Stuber

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All experiments were approved by the Institutional Animals Care and Use Committee at the University of Washington (Protocol #2183-02).

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© 2022, Pauli et al.

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

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  1. Jordan L Pauli
  2. Jane Y Chen
  3. Marcus L Basiri
  4. Sekun Park
  5. Matthew E Carter
  6. Elisenda Sanz
  7. G Stanley McKnight
  8. Garret D Stuber
  9. Richard D Palmiter
(2022)
Molecular and anatomical characterization of parabrachial neurons and their axonal projections
eLife 11:e81868.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81868

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