PMID- 24260241 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140711 LR - 20211021 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 8 IP - 11 DP - 2013 TI - Comprehensive RNA-Seq expression analysis of sensory ganglia with a focus on ion channels and GPCRs in Trigeminal ganglia. PG - e79523 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0079523 [doi] LID - e79523 AB - The specific functions of sensory systems depend on the tissue-specific expression of genes that code for molecular sensor proteins that are necessary for stimulus detection and membrane signaling. Using the Next Generation Sequencing technique (RNA-Seq), we analyzed the complete transcriptome of the trigeminal ganglia (TG) and dorsal root ganglia (DRG) of adult mice. Focusing on genes with an expression level higher than 1 FPKM (fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads), we detected the expression of 12984 genes in the TG and 13195 in the DRG. To analyze the specific gene expression patterns of the peripheral neuronal tissues, we compared their gene expression profiles with that of the liver, brain, olfactory epithelium, and skeletal muscle. The transcriptome data of the TG and DRG were scanned for virtually all known G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) as well as for ion channels. The expression profile was ranked with regard to the level and specificity for the TG. In total, we detected 106 non-olfactory GPCRs and 33 ion channels that had not been previously described as expressed in the TG. To validate the RNA-Seq data, in situ hybridization experiments were performed for several of the newly detected transcripts. To identify differences in expression profiles between the sensory ganglia, the RNA-Seq data of the TG and DRG were compared. Among the differentially expressed genes (> 1 FPKM), 65 and 117 were expressed at least 10-fold higher in the TG and DRG, respectively. Our transcriptome analysis allows a comprehensive overview of all ion channels and G protein-coupled receptors that are expressed in trigeminal ganglia and provides additional approaches for the investigation of trigeminal sensing as well as for the physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms of pain. FAU - Manteniotis, Stavros AU - Manteniotis S AD - Department of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. FAU - Lehmann, Ramona AU - Lehmann R FAU - Flegel, Caroline AU - Flegel C FAU - Vogel, Felix AU - Vogel F FAU - Hofreuter, Adrian AU - Hofreuter A FAU - Schreiner, Benjamin S P AU - Schreiner BS FAU - Altmuller, Janine AU - Altmuller J FAU - Becker, Christian AU - Becker C FAU - Schobel, Nicole AU - Schobel N FAU - Hatt, Hanns AU - Hatt H FAU - Gisselmann, Gunter AU - Gisselmann G LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20131108 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 RN - 0 (Potassium Channels) RN - 0 (Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Ganglia, Sensory/*metabolism MH - Ganglia, Spinal/*metabolism MH - High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing MH - In Situ Hybridization MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Potassium Channels/genetics MH - Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled MH - Trigeminal Ganglion/*metabolism PMC - PMC3832644 COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2013/11/22 06:00 MHDA- 2014/07/12 06:00 PMCR- 2013/11/08 CRDT- 2013/11/22 06:00 PHST- 2013/08/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/10/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/11/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/11/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/07/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/11/08 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-13-33552 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0079523 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2013 Nov 8;8(11):e79523. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079523. eCollection 2013.