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A Suite of Transgenic Driver and Reporter Mouse Lines with Enhanced Brain-Cell-Type Targeting and Functionality

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Daigle, Tanya L., Madisen, Linda, Hage, Travis A., Valley, Matthew T., Knoblich, Ulf, Larsen, Rylan S., Takeno, Marc M., Huang, Lawrence +33 more·2018·Cell

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Modern genetic approaches are powerful in providing access to diverse cell types in the brain and facilitating the study of their function. Here, we report a large set of driver and reporter transgenic mouse lines, including 23 new driver lines targeting a variety of cortical and subcortical cell populations and 26 new reporter lines expressing an array of molecular tools. In particular, we describe the TIGRE2.0 transgenic platform and introduce Cre-dependent reporter lines that enable optical physiology, optogenetics, and sparse labeling of genetically defined cell populations. TIGRE2.0 reporters broke the barrier in transgene expression level of single-copy targeted-insertion transgenesis in a wide range of neuronal types, along with additional advantage of a simplified breeding strategy compared to our first-generation TIGRE lines. These novel transgenic lines greatly expand the repertoire of high-precision genetic tools available to effectively identify, monitor, and manipulate distinct cell types in the mouse brain.

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Daigle, T. L., Madisen, L., Hage, T. A., Valley, M. T., Knoblich, U., Larsen, R. S., Takeno, M. M., Huang, L., Gu, H., Larsen, R., Mills, M., Bosma-Moody, A., Siverts, L. A., Walker, M., Graybuck, L. T., Yao, Z., Fong, O., Nguyen, T. N., Garren, E., Lenz, G. H., Chavarha, M., Pendergraft, J., Harrington, J., Hirokawa, K. E., Harris, J. A., Nicovich, P. R., McGraw, M. J., Ollerenshaw, D. R., Smith, K. A., Baker, C. A., Ting, J. T., Sunkin, S. M., Lecoq, J., Lin, M. Z., Boyden, E. S., Murphy, G. J., da Costa, N. M., Waters, J., Li, L., Tasic, B., & Zeng, H.
Affiliations
  • Allen Institute for Brain Science (US)
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • McGovern Institute for Brain Research (US)
Corresponding author
Zeng, Hongkui
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-07
Volume
174
Issue
2
Pages
465-480.e22
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2773803332
Cited by
817
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 89 · 2025: 101 · 2024: 142 · 2023: 126 · 2022: 109 · 2021: 92 · 2020: 77 · 2019: 65 · 2018: 14
FWCI
28.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • Allen Institute for Brain Science
  • NIH (MH085500, DA028298, DA036909)
  • Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (D16PC00004)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Animal Genetics and Reproduction
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Keywords
transgenic mouse lines, reporter lines, optogenetics, sparse labeling, brain cell types
MeSH terms
Animals, Brain, Calcium, Cell Line, Light, Mice, Transgenic, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Neurons, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Genes, Reporter, Transgenes, RNA, Untranslated, Mice, Gene Knockout Techniques, Optogenetics

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