PUBLICATION
A transgenic zebrafish for monitoring in vivo microtubule structures
- Authors
- Asakawa, K., and Kawakami, K.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100826-26
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 239(10): 2695-2699 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Kawakami, Koichi
- Keywords
- tubulin, hindbrain, Gal4-UAS, mitotic spindle, live imaging, vertebrate
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Blotting, Southern
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
- Histones/genetics
- Histones/metabolism
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Microtubules/metabolism*
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Rhombencephalon/metabolism
- Spindle Apparatus/metabolism
- Tubulin/metabolism
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 20737511 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Asakawa, K., and Kawakami, K. (2010) A transgenic zebrafish for monitoring in vivo microtubule structures. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 239(10):2695-2699.
Abstract
The microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton plays crucial roles in brain development by regulating the proliferation of neuronal progenitor cells, neuronal migration and axon guidance. Methods for monitoring MT in the intact brain, however, have been limited in vertebrates. Here, we report a transgenic zebrafish line for monitoring MT in vivo. This reporter line carries a transgene encoding the green fluorescent protein (GFP) -tagged tubulin gene linked to the upstream activating sequence (UAS), the recognition sequence of the yeast Gal4 transcriptional activator. By crossing this reporter line with appropriate transgenic Gal4 driver lines, we induced the GFP-tagged tubulin in various cell types from the embryonic stages to the adult stage. In larvae expressing the modified tubulin, individual MT filaments and other MT structures, including the mitotic spindles in proliferating neuronal progenitor cells, were clearly visualized. Therefore, the transgenic UAS reporter line should be useful for directly monitoring MTs in the intact brain.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping