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Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Cell. 2025 May 29;188(11):3045-3064.e23. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.002. Epub 2025 May 21.
The mammalian cortex is comprised of cells classified into types according to shared properties. Defining the contribution of each cell type to the processes guided by the cortex is essential for understanding its function in health and disease. We use transcriptomic and epigenomic cortical cell-type taxonomies from mouse and human to define marker genes and putative enhancers and create a large toolkit of transgenic lines and enhancer adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) for selective targeting of cortical cell populations. We report creation and evaluation of fifteen transgenic driver lines, two reporter lines, and >1,000 different enhancer AAV vectors covering most subclasses of cortical cells. The tools reported here have been made publicly available, and along with the scaled process of tool creation, evaluation, and modification, they will enable diverse experimental strategies toward understanding mammalian cortex and brain function.
哺乳动物的皮层由根据共同特性分类的细胞组成。确定每种细胞类型对皮层所引导的过程的贡献对于理解其在健康和疾病中的功能至关重要。我们使用来自小鼠和人类的转录组学和表观基因组学皮层细胞类型分类法来定义标记基因和假定的增强子,并创建了一个大型转基因品系和增强子腺相关病毒(AAV)工具包,用于选择性靶向皮层细胞群体。我们报告了15个转基因驱动品系、2个报告品系以及超过1000种不同的增强子AAV载体的创建和评估,这些载体覆盖了皮层细胞的大多数亚类。这里报告的工具已公开可用,并且连同工具创建、评估和修改的规模化过程,它们将使人们能够采用多种实验策略来理解哺乳动物皮层和大脑功能。