Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

An HSV-1-H129 amplicon tracer system for rapid and efficient monosynaptic anterograde neural circuit tracing

  • Feng Xiong,
  • Hong Yang,
  • Yi-Ge Song,
  • Hai-Bin Qin,
  • Qing-Yang Zhang,
  • Xian Huang,
  • Wei Jing,
  • Manfei Deng,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Zhixiang Liu,
  • Yin Shen,
  • Yunyun Han,
  • Youming Lu,
  • Xiangmin Xu,
  • Todd C. Holmes,
  • Minmin Luo,
  • Fei Zhao,
  • Min-Hua Luo,
  • Wen-Bo Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35355-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Minimizing toxicity of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV) based tools for anterograde tracing is important for functional studies. Here the authors generate an anterograde monosynaptic tracer system based on HSV amplicon, which shows fast tracing, bright labeling, low toxicity, input-defined postsynaptic neurons’ anterograde monosynaptic tracing feature, and has potential for functional mapping.