PUBLICATION

Integration and germ-line transmission of a pseudotyped retroviral vector in zebrafish

Authors
Lin, S., Gaiano, N., Culp, P., Burns, J.C., Friedmann, T., Yee, J.K., and Hopkins, N.
ID
ZDB-PUB-961014-706
Date
1994
Source
Science (New York, N.Y.)   265(5172): 666-669 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Burns, Jane C., Gaiano, Nicholas, Hopkins, Nancy, Lin, Shuo
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • Base Sequence
  • Cell Line
  • DNA, Viral/analysis
  • Genetic Vectors/genetics*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Moloney murine leukemia virus/genetics*
  • Proviruses/genetics*
  • Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus/genetics*
  • Virus Integration/genetics*
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/genetics*
PubMed
8036514 Full text @ Science
Abstract
The zebrafish is rapidly becoming a popular model system for the study of vertebrate development because it is ideal for both embryological studies and genetic analysis. To determine if a retroviral vector pseudotyped with the envelope glycoprotein of the vesicular stomatitis virus could infect zebrafish embryos, and in particular, the cells destined to become the germ line, a pseudotyped virus was injected into blastula-stage zebrafish embryos. Fifty-one embryos were allowed to develop and eight transmitted proviral DNA to their progeny. Founders were mosaic, but as expected, transgenic F1's transmitted proviral DNA in a Mendelian fashion to the F2 progeny. Transgenic F1 fish inherited a single integrated provirus, and a single founder could transmit more than one viral integration to its progeny. These results demonstrate that this pantropic pseudotyped vector, originally developed for human gene therapy, will make the use of retroviral vectors in zebrafish possible.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping