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ArticleCell2012

Molecular profiling of activated neurons by phosphorylated ribosome capture.

Zachary A Knight, Keith Tan, Kivanc Birsoy, Sarah Schmidt, Jennifer L Garrison, Robert W Wysocki, Ana Emiliano, Mats I Ekstrand, Jeffrey M Friedman

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Article in Cell, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 193 papers.

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193citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

193 citing papers in PubMed, 331 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zachary A KnightLaboratory of Molecular Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. zachary.knight@ucsf.edu
Keith Tan
Kivanc Birsoy
Sarah Schmidt
Jennifer L Garrison
Robert W Wysocki
Ana Emiliano
Mats I Ekstrand
Jeffrey M Friedman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USRockefeller University · US

Funding

Nanoparticle Induced Circuit ExcitationR01GM095654 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI FRIEDMAN, JEFFREY M · 2011 to 2014
$1.5M
Mechanisms of Leptin ResistanceR00DK083531 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KNIGHT, ZACHARY A. · 2012 to 2014
$713k
Mechanisms of Leptin ResistanceK99DK083531 · NIDDK · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI KNIGHT, ZACHARY A. · 2009 to 2010
$180k
NIDDK NIH HHS DK083531NIDDK NIH HHS K99 DK083531NIDDK NIH HHS R00 DK083531NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095654
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mammalian brain is composed of thousands of interacting neural cell types. Systematic approaches to establish the molecular identity of functional populations of neurons would advance our understanding of neural mechanisms controlling behavior. Here, we show that ribosomal protein S6, a structural component of the ribosome, becomes phosphorylated in neurons activated by a wide range of stimuli. We show that these phosphorylated ribosomes can be captured from mouse brain homogenates, thereby enriching directly for the mRNAs expressed in discrete subpopulations of activated cells. We use this approach to identify neurons in the hypothalamus regulated by changes in salt balance or food availability. We show that galanin neurons are activated by fasting and that prodynorphin neurons restrain food intake during scheduled feeding. These studies identify elements of the neural circuit that controls food intake and illustrate how the activity-dependent capture of cell-type-specific transcripts can elucidate the functional organization of a complex tissue.

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TranscriptomeAnimalsBrainFastingFeeding BehaviorHypothalamusMiceNeuronsPhosphorylationRibosomal Protein S6RibosomesRibosomal Protein S6

Identifiers

PMID23178128
PMCPMC3839252
OpenAlexW2012847399

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