PUBLICATION
Generation of oocyte-specifically expressed cre transgenic zebrafish for female germline excision of loxp-flanked transgene
- Authors
- Liu, X., Li, Z., Emelyanov, A., Parinov, S., and Gong, Z.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-081001-5
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 237(10): 2955-2962 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Gong, Zhiyuan, Liu, Xingjun, Li, Zhen, Parinov, Serguei
- Keywords
- Cre/loxP, zp3, maternal, oocyte, ovary, GFP, RFP, germline
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/embryology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Genes, Reporter/genetics
- Integrases/genetics
- Integrases/metabolism*
- Male
- Oocytes/metabolism*
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Substrate Specificity
- Transfection/methods*
- Transgenes/genetics*
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 18816824 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Liu, X., Li, Z., Emelyanov, A., Parinov, S., and Gong, Z. (2008) Generation of oocyte-specifically expressed cre transgenic zebrafish for female germline excision of loxp-flanked transgene. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 237(10):2955-2962.
Abstract
In this communication, we report the generation of a cre transgenic zebrafish line under an oocyte-specific promoter, zp3. The transgenic line Tg(zp3:cre; krt8:rfp) also contains a co-integrated rfp transgene under the skin epithelial promoter krt8 to allow selection of cre transgenic fish based on RFP fluorescence in the skin. We demonstrated in this transgenic line that cre mRNA was specifically expressed in growing oocytes like endogenous zp3 mRNA. When Tg(zp3:cre; krt8:rfp) was crossed with a loxP transgenic line, the floxed DNA was specifically eliminated from female, but not male, germline. Tg(zp3:cre; krt8:rfp) fish also have maternal cre mRNA in early embryos to cause Cre-mediated recombination; this feature can be used to activate other loxP transgenic lines in early embryos. Furthermore, after crossing with another loxP transgenic line, Tg(EF:loxP-mCherry-loxP-egfp), we confirmed that our cre line was capable of activating a loxP-blocked EGFP reporter gene by both maternal and oocyte-expressed Cre.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping