PUBLICATION
Ubiquitous transgene expression and Cre-based recombination driven by the ubiquitin promoter in zebrafish
- Authors
- Mosimann, C., Kaufman, C.K., Li, P., Pugach, E.K., Tamplin, O.J., and Zon, L.I.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-101209-26
- Date
- 2011
- Source
- Development (Cambridge, England) 138(1): 169-177 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Mosimann, Christian, Tamplin, Owen, Zon, Leonard I.
- Keywords
- Transgenesis, ubiquitin promoter, creER, loxP, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Enzyme Activation/drug effects
- Integrases/genetics
- Integrases/metabolism*
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics*
- Tamoxifen/analogs & derivatives
- Tamoxifen/pharmacology
- Transgenes/genetics*
- Ubiquitin/genetics*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 21138979 Full text @ Development
Citation
Mosimann, C., Kaufman, C.K., Li, P., Pugach, E.K., Tamplin, O.J., and Zon, L.I. (2011) Ubiquitous transgene expression and Cre-based recombination driven by the ubiquitin promoter in zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 138(1):169-177.
Abstract
Molecular genetics approaches in zebrafish research are hampered by the lack of a ubiquitous transgene driver element that is active at all developmental stages. Here, we report the isolation and characterization of the zebrafish ubiquitin (ubi) promoter, which drives constitutive transgene expression during all developmental stages and analyzed adult organs. Notably, ubi expresses in all blood cell lineages, and we demonstrate the application of ubi-driven fluorophore transgenics in hematopoietic transplantation experiments to assess true multilineage potential of engrafted cells. We further generated transgenic zebrafish that express ubiquitous 4-hydroxytamoxifen-controlled Cre recombinase activity from a ubi:cre(ERt2) transgene, as well as ubi:loxP-EGFP-loxP-mCherry (ubi:Switch) transgenics and show their use as a constitutive fluorescent lineage tracing reagent. The ubi promoter and the transgenic lines presented here thus provide a broad resource and important advancement for transgenic applications in zebrafish.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping