PCR-based profiling of transcription factor activity in vivo by a virus-based reporter battery

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Understanding the molecular mechanisms of gene regulation is pivotal for understanding how cells establish and modify their identities and functions. Multiple transcription factors (TFs) coordinate to alter gene expression in cells; however, a method to quantitatively analyze the activity of each TF is lacking, particularly in vivo. Here, we introduce a viral-vector-based TF reporter battery that can be used to simultaneously analyze the activity of multiple TFs, visualized as the TF activity profile (TFAP) obtained by qPCR. We show that the cells possess distinct TFAPs that dynamically change according to experimental manipulation or physiological activity. We report a practical method to obtain the TFAP of a defined cell population and their experience-dependent changes in the mouse brain in vivo. The TFAP obtained by our method will help bridge the information gap between the genome and transcriptome and aid the multi-omics view of understanding the gene regulation system.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

iScience - 25(2022), 3 vom: 18. März, Seite 103927

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Abe, Hitomi [VerfasserIn]
Abe, Kentaro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biological sciences
Biological sciences research methodologies
Biology experimental methods
Cell biology
Journal Article
Methodology in biological sciences
Neuroscience

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Date Revised 16.03.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.isci.2022.103927

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM338125094