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      A Transcriptome Database for Astrocytes, Neurons, and Oligodendrocytes: A New Resource for Understanding Brain Development and Function

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          Understanding the cell–cell interactions that control CNS development and function has long been limited by the lack of methods to cleanly separate neural cell types. Here we describe methods for the prospective isolation and purification of astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes from developing and mature mouse forebrain. We used FACS (fluorescent-activated cell sorting) to isolate astrocytes from transgenic mice that express enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under the control of an S100β promoter. Using Affymetrix GeneChip Arrays, we then created a transcriptome database of the expression levels of >20,000 genes by gene profiling these three main CNS neural cell types at various postnatal ages between postnatal day 1 (P1) and P30. This database provides a detailed global characterization and comparison of the genes expressed by acutely isolated astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes. We found that Aldh1L1 is a highly specific antigenic marker for astrocytes with a substantially broader pattern of astrocyte expression than the traditional astrocyte marker GFAP. Astrocytes were enriched in specific metabolic and lipid synthetic pathways, as well as the draper/Megf10 and Mertk/integrin α vβ 5 phagocytic pathways suggesting that astrocytes are professional phagocytes. Our findings call into question the concept of a “glial” cell class as the gene profiles of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes are as dissimilar to each other as they are to neurons. This transcriptome database of acutely isolated purified astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes provides a resource to the neuroscience community by providing improved cell-type-specific markers and for better understanding of neural development, function, and disease.

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          Journal
          J Neurosci
          J. Neurosci
          jneuro
          jneurosci
          J. Neurosci
          The Journal of Neuroscience
          Society for Neuroscience
          0270-6474
          1529-2401
          2 January 2008
          : 28
          : 1
          : 264-278
          Affiliations
          [1]Departments of 1Neurobiology and
          [2] 2Developmental Biology,
          [3] 3Stanford Genome Technology Center, and
          [4] 4Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305,
          [5] 5Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242,
          [6] 6Department of Zoology and W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695,
          [7] 7Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona 85724,
          [8] 8Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, and
          [9] 9Section of Neurobiology, Institute for Neuroscience, and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
          Author notes
          Correspondence should be addressed to John D. Cahoy, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, D205 Fairchild Building, 299 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305. jcahoy@ 123456stanford.edu

          *J.D.C., B.E., and A.K. contributed equally to this work.

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          PMC6671143 PMC6671143 6671143 3301574
          10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4178-07.2008
          6671143
          18171944
          9deab166-b7a7-4930-b5e5-73486c23839c
          Copyright © 2008 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/08/280264-15$15.00/0
          History
          : 12 September 2007
          : 9 November 2007
          : 14 November 2007
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          Cellular/Molecular
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          transcriptome,Aldh1L1,microarray,gene profiling,culture,Mertk,Megf10,astrocyte,astroglia,phagocytosis,neuron,GeneChip,oligodendrocyte,Mfge8,Draper

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