PUBLICATION

Mosaic eyes, genomic instability mutants, and cancer susceptibility

Authors
Moore, J.L., Gestl, E.E., and Cheng, K.C..
ID
ZDB-PUB-050128-2
Date
2004
Source
The Zebrafish: Cellular and Developmental Biology,2nd Ed. Methods Cell Biol.   76: 555-568 (Chapter)
Registered Authors
Cheng, Keith C., Gestl, Erin, Moore, Jessica L.
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • DNA/drug effects
  • DNA/genetics
  • DNA/isolation & purification
  • Ethylnitrosourea/pharmacology
  • Eye/embryology
  • Eye/metabolism*
  • Eye/pathology
  • Frameshift Mutation/genetics
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics
  • Genetic Vectors/genetics
  • Genomic Instability/genetics*
  • Histological Techniques/methods
  • Luminescent Proteins/genetics
  • Luminescent Proteins/metabolism
  • Mutagenesis
  • Mutation*
  • Neoplasms/diagnosis
  • Neoplasms/genetics*
  • Phenotype
  • Retina/embryology
  • Retina/metabolism
  • Retinal Pigments/genetics
  • Tissue Fixation/methods
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/genetics*
PubMed
15602892 Full text @ The Zebrafish: Cellular and Developmental Biology,2nd Ed. Methods Cell Biol.
Abstract
We now know that genomic instability contributes to cancer. The zebrafish mosaic eye assay developed by George Streisinger takes advantage of the organism's transparency to provide an excellent assay for detecting somatic mutation. This assay allowed us to identify zebrafish mutants with increased frequencies of somatic mutation and spontaneous cancer. Here, we have described details of mutagenesis, the basis and practical use of the mosaic eye assay, and the histological methods used to study genomic instability mutants and cancer susceptibility. These techniques should prove useful to other zebrafish researchers, as they are broadly applicable to many other biological investigations of embryos, larvae, and adult zebrafish.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping