[HTML][HTML] Concurrent cell type–specific isolation and profiling of mouse brains in inflammation and Alzheimer's disease

DB Swartzlander, NE Propson, ER Roy, T Saito… - JCI insight, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DB Swartzlander, NE Propson, ER Roy, T Saito, T Saido, B Wang, H Zheng
JCI insight, 2018ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nonneuronal cell types in the CNS are increasingly implicated as critical players in brain
health and disease. While gene expression profiling of bulk brain tissue is routinely used to
examine alterations in the brain under various conditions, it does not capture changes that
occur within single cell types or allow interrogation of crosstalk among cell types. To this
end, we have developed a co ncurrent br ain cell type a cquisition (CoBrA) methodology,
enabling the isolation and profiling of microglia, astrocytes, endothelia, and …
Abstract
Nonneuronal cell types in the CNS are increasingly implicated as critical players in brain health and disease. While gene expression profiling of bulk brain tissue is routinely used to examine alterations in the brain under various conditions, it does not capture changes that occur within single cell types or allow interrogation of crosstalk among cell types. To this end, we have developed a co ncurrent br ain cell type a cquisition (CoBrA) methodology, enabling the isolation and profiling of microglia, astrocytes, endothelia, and oligodendrocytes from a single adult mouse forebrain. By identifying and validating anti-ACSA-2 and anti-CD49a antibodies as cell surface markers for astrocytes and vascular endothelial cells, respectively, and using established antibodies to isolate microglia and oligodendrocytes, we document that these 4 major cell types are isolated with high purity and RNA quality. We validated our procedure by performing acute peripheral LPS challenge, while highlighting the underappreciated changes occurring in astrocytes and vascular endothelia in addition to microglia. Furthermore, we assessed cell type–specific gene expression changes in response to amyloid pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Our CoBrA methodology can be readily implemented to interrogate multiple CNS cell types in any mouse model at any age.
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