Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Regulation of transposons within medium spiny neurons enables molecular and behavioral responses to cocaine
doi: 10.1101/2024.08.28.610134
Figure Lengend Snippet: a) Timeline of single-nuclei RNA sequencing (snRNAseq) experiment. Male and female mice (n=15/sex/treatment) were delivered synthetic ZFP189 transcription factors (TFs) via stereotaxic surgery to the NAc. Mice then received seven sequential days of cocaine (10mg/kg I.P.) injection and underwent locomotor activity testing before tissue harvesting, NAc dissection, nuclei purification, and snRNAseq on the 10X Genomics platform. b ) Heat map of cell-specific marker genes across all identified clusters. c) Global clustering across experimental treatment groups. NAc nuclei identifies all major classes of the mouse NAc, including Drd1+ and Drd2+ MSNs. UMAP, Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection. d) ZFP189 TF variants similarly identify all major cell types of the NAc. e) Dot plot representing the average and percent expression of nuclei expressing marker genes of each identified cell-type of the NAc. f) Histogram of DEGs within all NAc cell types by ZFP189 TF treatment. DEGs were generated relative to the ZFP189 NFD control, with an absolute log 2 (fold change) > 0.25 with a P -adjusted value of < 0.05.
Article Snippet: The nuclei suspension was loaded into a Chromium Chip B with partitioning oil, reverse transcription reagents, and gel beads containing 10X Genomics barcodes.
Techniques: RNA Sequencing Assay, Injection, Activity Assay, Dissection, Purification, Marker, Expressing, Generated, Control