PUBLICATION
Site-Directed Gene Integration in Transgenic Zebrafish Mediated by Cre Recombinase Using a Combination of Mutant Lox Sites
- Authors
- Liu, W.Y., Wang, Y., Qin, Y., Wang, Y.P., and Zhu, Z.Y.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-070523-11
- Date
- 2007
- Source
- Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) 9(4): 420-428 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Zhu, Zuoyan
- Keywords
- cre-lox, gene integration, site-specific recombination, transgenic zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified/genetics
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers/chemistry
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/chemistry
- Female
- Gene Order
- Gene Targeting/methods*
- Gene Transfer Techniques*
- Integrases/metabolism*
- Male
- Models, Animal
- Mutagenesis, Insertional/methods*
- Recombination, Genetic/genetics
- Transgenes/genetics
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- PubMed
- 17503154 Full text @ Mar. Biotechnol.
Citation
Liu, W.Y., Wang, Y., Qin, Y., Wang, Y.P., and Zhu, Z.Y. (2007) Site-Directed Gene Integration in Transgenic Zebrafish Mediated by Cre Recombinase Using a Combination of Mutant Lox Sites. Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.). 9(4):420-428.
Abstract
With current gene-transfer techniques in fish, insertion of DNA into the genome occurs randomly and in many instances at multiple sites. Associated position effects, copy number differences, and multiple gene interactions make gene expression experiments difficult to interpret and fish phenotype less predictable. To meet different fish engineering needs, we describe here a gene targeting model in zebrafish. At first, four target zebrafish lines, each harboring a single genomic lox71 target site, were generated by zebrafish transgenesis. The zygotes of transgenic zebrafish lines were coinjected with capped Cre mRNA and a knockin vector pZklox66RFP. Site-specific integration event happened from one target zebrafish line. In this line two integrant zebrafish were obtained from more than 80,000 targeted embryos (integrating efficiency about 10(-4) to 10(-5)) and confirmed to have a sole copy of the integrating DNA at the target genome site. Genomic polymerase chain reaction analysis and DNA sequencing verified the correct gene target events where lox71 and lox66 have accurately recombined into double mutant lox72 and wild-type loxP. Each integrant zebrafish chosen for analysis harbored the transgene rfp at the designated egfp concatenates. Although the Cre-mediated recombination is site specific, it is dependent on a randomly placed target site. That is, a genomic target cannot be preselected for integration based solely on its sequence. Conclusively, an rfp reporter gene was successfully inserted into the egfp target locus of zebrafish genome by Cre-lox-mediated recombination. This site-directed knockin system using the lox71/lox66 combination should be a promising gene-targeting platform serving various purposes in fish genetic engineering.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping