PUBLICATION
The effect of excess expression of GFP in a novel heart-specific green fluorescence zebrafish regulated by nppa enhancer at early embryonic development
- Authors
- Huang, W., Deng, Y., Dong, W., Yuan, W., Wan, Y., Mo, X., Li, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Ocorr, K., Zhang, B., Lin, S., and Wu, X.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100420-16
- Date
- 2011
- Source
- Molecular biology reports 38(2): 793-799 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Lin, Shuo, Wu, Xiushan
- Keywords
- Zebrafish, nppa, Tol2, GFP, Heart-specific expression
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Atrial Natriuretic Factor/chemistry*
- Atrial Natriuretic Factor/genetics*
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/biosynthesis*
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/chemistry
- Heart/embryology*
- Heart/physiology
- In Situ Hybridization
- Models, Genetic
- Myocardium/metabolism*
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Transgenes
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 20383585 Full text @ Mol. Biol. Rep.
Citation
Huang, W., Deng, Y., Dong, W., Yuan, W., Wan, Y., Mo, X., Li, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Ocorr, K., Zhang, B., Lin, S., and Wu, X. (2011) The effect of excess expression of GFP in a novel heart-specific green fluorescence zebrafish regulated by nppa enhancer at early embryonic development. Molecular biology reports. 38(2):793-799.
Abstract
In order to study the impalpable effect of GFP in homozygous heart-specific GFP-positive zebrafish during the early stage, the researchers analyzed the heart function of morphology and physiology at the first 3 days after fertilization. This zebrafish line was produced by a large-scale Tol2 transposon mediated enhancer trap screen that generated a transgenic zebrafish with a heart-specific expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged under control of the nppa enhancer. In situ hybridization experiments showed that the nppa:GFP line faithfully recapitulated both the spatial and temporal expressions of the endogenous nppa. Green fluorescence was intensively and specifically expressed in the myocardial cells located both in the heart chambers and in the atrioventricular canal. The embryonic heart of nppa:GFP line developed normally compared with those in the wild type. There was no difference between the nappa:GFP and wild type lines with respect to heart rate, overall size, ejection volume, and fractional shortening. Thus the excess expression of GFP in this transgenic line seemed to exert no detrimental effects on zebrafish hearts during the early stages.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
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