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ArticleeLife2021

Subcellular sequencing of single neurons reveals the dendritic transcriptome of GABAergic interneurons.

Julio D Perez, Susanne Tom Dieck, Beatriz Alvarez-Castelao, Georgi Tushev, Ivy Cw Chan, Erin M Schuman

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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52 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Julio D PerezMax Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8769-9306
Susanne Tom DieckMax Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5884-8640
Beatriz Alvarez-CastelaoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Veterinary School, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7505-1855
Georgi TushevMax Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Ivy Cw ChanDepartment of Behavior and Brain Organization, Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn, Germany.
Erin M SchumanMax Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7053-1005
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research · DECenter of Advanced European Studies and Research · DEUniversidad Complutense de Madrid · ES

Funding

Amphetamine-mediated CREB phosphorylation &gene expressK01DA014057 · NIDA · MC LEAN HOSPITAL (BELMONT, MA) · PI RAJADHYAKSHA, ANJALI M · 2000 to 2004
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although mRNAs are localized in the processes of excitatory neurons, it is still unclear whether interneurons also localize a large population of mRNAs. In addition, the variability in the localized mRNA population within and between cell types is unknown. Here we describe the unbiased transcriptomic characterization of the subcellular compartments of hundreds of single neurons. We separately profiled the dendritic and somatic transcriptomes of individual rat hippocampal neurons and investigated mRNA abundances in the soma and dendrites of single glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons. We found that, like their excitatory counterparts, interneurons contain a rich repertoire of ~4000 mRNAs. We observed more cell type-specific features among somatic transcriptomes than their associated dendritic transcriptomes. Finally, using celltype-specific metabolic labeling of isolated neurites, we demonstrated that the processes of glutamatergic and, notably, GABAergic neurons were capable of local translation, suggesting mRNA localization and local translation are general properties of neurons.

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Single-Cell AnalysisDendritesGABAergic NeuronsInterneuronsTranscriptomeGABAergiclocal translationneurosciencerattranscriptome

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PMID33404500
PMCPMC7819707
OpenAlexW3119995072

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