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Fluorescence-Based Quantitative Synapse Analysis for Cell Type-Specific Connectomics.

Dika A Kuljis, Eunsol Park, Cheryl A Telmer, Jiseok Lee, Daniel S Ackerman, Marcel P Bruchez, Alison L Barth

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Article in eNeuro. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dika A KuljisDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Eunsol ParkDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Cheryl A TelmerDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Jiseok LeeDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.ORCID 0000-0002-5966-4237
Daniel S AckermanDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Marcel P BruchezDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.ORCID 0000-0002-7370-4848
Alison L BarthDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 barth@cmu.edu.
Carnegie Mellon University · US

Funding

Training in the Neurobiology of Neurological DiseaseT32NS086749 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Omar El Gharbawie, REBECCA P SEAL · 2014 to 2026
$4.8M
High Throughput Approaches for Cell-Specific Synapse CharacterizationRF1MH114103 · NIMH · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI BARTH, ALISON L, BRUCHEZ, MARCEL P · 2017 to 2018
$2.5M
Brain-scale measurements of cell-specific synaptic contactsR21NS092019 · NINDS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI BARTH, ALISON L, BRUCHEZ, MARCEL P · 2015 to 2016
$424k
NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH114103NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS092019NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS086749
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anatomical methods for determining cell type-specific connectivity are essential to inspire and constrain our understanding of neural circuit function. We developed genetically-encoded reagents for fluorescence-synapse labeling and connectivity analysis in brain tissue, using a fluorogen-activating protein (FAP)-coupled or YFP-coupled, postsynaptically-localized neuroligin-1 (NL-1) targeting sequence (FAP/YFPpost). FAPpost expression did not alter mEPSC or mIPSC properties. Sparse AAV-mediated expression of FAP/YFPpost with the cell-filling, red fluorophore dTomato (dTom) enabled high-throughput, compartment-specific detection of putative synapses across diverse neuron types in mouse somatosensory cortex. We took advantage of the bright, far-red emission of FAPpost puncta for multichannel fluorescence alignment of dendrites, FAPpost puncta, and presynaptic neurites in transgenic mice with saturated labeling of parvalbumin (PV), somatostatin (SST), or vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-expressing neurons using Cre-reporter driven expression of YFP. Subtype-specific inhibitory connectivity onto layer 2/3 (L2/3) neocortical pyramidal (Pyr) neurons was assessed using automated puncta detection and neurite apposition. Quantitative and compartment-specific comparisons show that PV inputs are the predominant source of inhibition at both the soma and the dendrites and were particularly concentrated at the primary apical dendrite. SST inputs were interleaved with PV inputs at all secondary-order and higher-order dendritic branches. These fluorescence-based synapse labeling reagents can facilitate large-scale and cell-type specific quantitation of changes in synaptic connectivity across development, learning, and disease states.

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SynapsesAnimalsConnectomeFemaleFluorescent DyesHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicOptical ImagingPyramidal CellsSomatosensory CortexFluorescent Dyesanatomybarrel cortexPVpyramidal cellSSTVIP

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PMID31548370
PMCPMC6873163
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