Journal: Frontiers in Neuroscience
Article Title: Differential retinal ganglion cell resilience to optic nerve injury across vertebrate species
doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1596464
Figure Lengend Snippet: Validation of Rbpms2 as a pan-retinal ganglion cell (RGC) marker in the teleost. (A) UMAP projection of the dataset, showing the clusters of major retinal cell types in the adult mouse retina. (B) Rbpms is a pan-RGC marker showing homogenous expression across all RGCs in the murine retina (zoom on the RGC cluster on the right). (C) Contrary to Rbpms , Pou4f1 , also known as Brn3a , does not show homogenous expression across all RGCs in mice. (D) tSNE projection of the dataset (displaying only non-injured cells) revealing the major retinal cell types in the adult zebrafish retina. (E) rbpms2 is a pan-RGC marker showing homogenous expression across all RGCs in the adult zebrafish retina (zoom on the RGC cluster on the right). (F) isl2b , the most commonly used promoter in transgenic reporter lines for RGCs in zebrafish, does not show homogenous expression across all RGCs in adult zebrafish. (G) UMAP projection of the dataset, showing the clusters of major retinal cell types in the adult killifish retina. (H) As in zebrafish, rbpms2 emerges as the most homogenous marker for RGCs in the adult killifish retina (zoom on the RGC cluster on the right). (I) isl2b , like in zebrafish, does not show homogenous expression across all RGCs in adult killifish. (J) Representative micrographs of zebrafish retinal WMs, in which the RGCs are retrogradely traced with biocytin and immunostained for Rbpms2. Contrary to biocytin, Rbpms2 staining results in more homogenous, somatic labeling and labeled cells are not occluded by axonal bundles in the nerve fiber layer (arrows). Scale bar 25 μm. (K) Representative micrographs of killifish retinal WMs, in which the RGCs are retrogradely traced with biocytin and immunostained for Rbpms2. As in zebrafish, Rbpms2 staining results in homogeneous somatic labeling, while biocytin tracing is more heterogenous and RGCs are occasionally occluded by axon bundles (arrows). Scale bar 25 μm. AC, amacrine cell; BC, bipolar cell; HC, horizontal cell; MG, Müller glia; RBC, red blood cell; RGC, retinal ganglion cell; RPE, retinal pigment epithelium; V/E, vascular/endothelial; WMs, whole-mounts.
Article Snippet: Next, murine and fish retinal WMs were immunohistochemically stained for RBPMS (rabbit anti-RBPMS, PhosphoSolutions, AB_249225, 1:250) or Rbpms2 (rabbit anti-Rbpms2, Abcam, Ab181098 , 1:200), respectively.
Techniques: Biomarker Discovery, Marker, Expressing, Transgenic Assay, Staining, Labeling