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Regulators of these brain regions at the molecular level are not well understood, but might elucidate underlying mechanisms of disorders with attentional deficits. To probe this, we used chemogenetic stimulation of neurons in the LC with axonal projections to the FC, and subsequent bulk RNA-sequencing from the mouse FC. We found that stimulation of this circuit caused an increase in transcription of the\n                  <jats:italic>Apoe<\/jats:italic>\n                  gene. To investigate cell type-specific expression of\n                  <jats:italic>Apoe<\/jats:italic>\n                  in the FC, we used a dual-virus approach to express either the excitatory DREADD receptor hM3Dq in LC neurons with projections to the FC, or a control virus, and found that increases in\n                  <jats:italic>Apoe<\/jats:italic>\n                  expression in the FC following depolarization of LC inputs is enriched in GABAergic neurons in a sex-dependent manner. The results of these experiments yield insights into how\n                  <jats:italic>Apoe<\/jats:italic>\n                  expression affects function in cortical microcircuits that are important for attention-guided behavior, and point to interneuron-specific expression of\n                  <jats:italic>Apoe<\/jats:italic>\n                  as a potential target for the amelioration of attention symptoms in disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), schizophrenia, and Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD).\n                <\/jats:p>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Significance Statement<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Identifying patterns of gene expression in specific brain circuits is an important first step toward developing treatments for cognitive and behavioral symptoms that rely on those circuits. In this paper, we describe a transcriptome-scale motif in one such circuit - neurons in the LC that project to the FC. This circuit has been implicated in attention, and attentional deficits are common across many neuropsychiatric disorders, suggesting that targeting this circuit could have therapeutic potential for ameliorating attentional symptoms in these disorders. 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