PUBLICATION
Bacterial artificial chromosome transgenesis for zebrafish
- Authors
- Yang, Z., Jiang, H., and Lin, S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-090422-27
- Date
- 2009
- Source
- Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 546: 103-116 (Chapter)
- Registered Authors
- Jiang, Hong, Lin, Shuo, Yang, Zhongan
- Keywords
- Transgenic zebrafish, Bacterial artificial chromosomes, BAC modification, Fluorescent reporter genes, GFP/RFP
- MeSH Terms
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- Genes, Reporter
- Recombination, Genetic
- Luminescent Proteins
- Gene Transfer Techniques*
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial/metabolism*
- Genetic Engineering/methods
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- DNA/genetics
- DNA/metabolism
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Animals
- Databases, Nucleic Acid
- PubMed
- 19378100 Full text @ Meth. Mol. Biol.
Citation
Yang, Z., Jiang, H., and Lin, S. (2009) Bacterial artificial chromosome transgenesis for zebrafish. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 546:103-116.
Abstract
Transgenesis using bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC) allows greater fidelity in directing desirable expression of transgenes. Application of this technology in the optically transparent zebrafish with fluorescent protein reporters enables unparalleled visual analysis of gene expression in a living organism. We have developed a streamlined procedure of directly selecting multiple BAC clones based on public sequence databases followed by rapid modification with green fluorescent protein or red fluorescent protein for transgenic analysis in zebrafish. In this chapter, experimental procedures for BAC DNA preparation and generation of transgenic zebrafish lines by microinjection are described.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping