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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 15, 1998, 18(24):10640-10651
Selective Neuronal Expression of Green Fluorescent Protein with Cytomegalovirus Promoter Reveals Entire Neuronal Arbor in Transgenic Mice
Anthony N. van den Pol and Prabhat K. Ghosh Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
In simple nervous systems, identified groups of neurons can be studied in depth. To allow the same advantage in the mammalian brain, we have generated green fluorescent protein (GFP) transgenic mice in which only a few types of neurons are strongly labeled with a fluorescent molecule, which the neurons synthesize internally, allowing the cells, their dendrites, filopodia, and axons to be identified in both living and fixed CNS, in slices and culture. The same neurons, with GFP expression controlled by part of the major immediate early promoter of human cytomegalovirus (CMV), show GFP beginning early in development, from one generation to the next, allowing cellular and physiological studies of axonal and dendritic growth, fate mapping, anatomical connections, and synapse formation in identified neurons. The human CMV promoter sequence we used was different from that used in previous work with other reporter genes and gave a dramatically different pattern of expression. Two transgenic lines with the same CMV promoter show similar anatomical patterns of expression in the present study. Strong GFP labeling was found in a subpopulation of mossy fibers that innervated parasagittal bands in the cerebellar cortex and olfactory axons that projected into the olfactory bulb, subsets of motoneurons and dorsal root ganglion cells, granule but not mitral cells of the olfactory bulb, and a group of neurons in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus. A novel type of neuron was strongly labeled in the olfactory bulb external plexiform layer. In normal brains, CMV does not constitute a threat, but in the developing brain, CMV can cause debilitating neurodegeneration and death; studies using the CMV promoter aid in understanding the affinity of CMV that has been suggested for specific brain regions.
Key words: green fluorescent protein; development; cytomegalovirus; axon growth cone; cerebellum; spinal cord; olfaction; hypothalamus
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