PUBLICATION
Demonstration of site-directed recombination in transgenic zebrafish using the Cre/loxP system
- Authors
- Pan, X., Wan, H., Chia, W., Tong, Y., and Gong, Z.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-050727-3
- Date
- 2005
- Source
- Transgenic Research 14(2): 217-223 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Gong, Zhiyuan, Pan, Xiufang, Tong, Yan, Wan, Haiyan
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified*
- Base Sequence
- DNA/analysis
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genetic Markers
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics
- Integrases/genetics*
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Plasmids
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Transgenes*
- Viral Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- PubMed
- 16022392 Full text @ Transgenic. Res.
Citation
Pan, X., Wan, H., Chia, W., Tong, Y., and Gong, Z. (2005) Demonstration of site-directed recombination in transgenic zebrafish using the Cre/loxP system. Transgenic Research. 14(2):217-223.
Abstract
To test the Cre/loxP recombination system in zebrafish, a stable transgenic zebrafish line was developed by using a floxed (loxP flanked) gfp (green fluorescent protein) gene construct under the muscle-specific mylz2 promoter. Like our previous non-floxed gfp transgenic line under the same promoter, the new transgenic line expresses GFP reporter faithfully in fast skeletal muscles to the same intensity. To demonstrate the excision of floxed gfp transgene, in vitro synthesized Cre RNA was injected into embryos of floxed gfp transgenic zebrafish and we found a dramatic reduction of GFP expression. To confirm the excision, PCR was performed and a DNA fragment of correct size was amplified as predicted from the Cre/loxP mediated excision. Finally, we cloned the fragment and sequence information confirmed that the excision occurred at the precise site as predicted. Our experiments demonstrated that the Cre/loxP system can function efficiently and accurately in the zebrafish system.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping