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Shi Y, Soderlund M, Xiang J, Lu Y. Function and regulation domains of a newly isolated putative β-actin promoter from pacific white shrimp. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0122262. [PMID: 25835297 PMCID: PMC4383542 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Current development of transgenic shrimp research has been hampered due to the lack of the suitable promoters and efficient transfection methods for crustaceans. A 1642 bp sequence, containing 5'-upstream sequence, exon 1, intron 1 and partial exon 2, which is responsible for transcriptional initiation of the newly reported shrimp β-actin (actinT1), has been isolated from the Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) and named as SbaP. To determine its function and potential application in marine biotechnology, the sequence and functional domains were examined by constitutive expression of the luciferase reporter gene. We have identified 5' regions that play a central role in the expression of the β-actin gene. The proximal promoter (-1642/-1325) contains two highly conserved transcriptional sites, CCAAT box and CArG motif. Two negative (-1140/-924, -222/-21) and one positive (-810/-425) regulatory elements have been identified in intron1. Transient transfection assay with a construct containing proximal promoter and enhancer (SbaPΔ-222/+1Δ-1325/-924) regions of the shrimp β-actin coupled with luciferase and EGFP (enhanced green fluorescent protein) showed that the promoter was not only functional in sf21 cells, but promoter activity was more than 8-fold higher than a viral-origin promoter (ie1, white spot syndrome virus immediate early gene promoter). Furthermore, SbaPΔ-222/+1Δ-1325/-924 drove a successful expression of luciferase injection assay in vivo injection and also showed higher promoter activity than the ie1 promoter, suggesting that the expression vectors constructed with SbaPΔ-222/+1Δ-1325/-924 have important potential in gene transfer studies for shrimp and other crustacean species.
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- Yingli Shi
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
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Genomic cloning and promoter analysis of the β-actin gene from Korean rose bitterling (Rhodeus uyekii). Genes Genomics 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s13258-014-0221-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Giel-Moloney M, Krause DS, Chen G, Van Etten RA, Leiter AB. Ubiquitous and uniform in vivo fluorescence in ROSA26-EGFP BAC transgenic mice. Genesis 2007; 45:83-9. [PMID: 17269129 PMCID: PMC2121618 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Transplantation studies and cell lineage analyses require the ability to explicitly distinguish morphologically identical cells that have an identifiable marker indicating their origin in vivo. Several reporter mouse strains have been generated for such studies, but pancellular detection of the marker in all tissues has not been achieved. In this report, we describe the generation of transgenic mice that express enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under control of a 187 kb bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) containing the murine ROSA26 locus, and show several advantages over existing EGFP reporter lines. It is demonstrated that EGFP is ubiquitously and reproducibly expressed from the murine BAC transgene in all organs and tissues analyzed, including the hematolymphoid compartment. Using this new reporter strain in hematopoietic cell transplantation studies, it is demonstrated that leukocytes in recipients maintain uniform transgene expression and are easily distinguished by flow cytometric analysis of live cells. The results suggest that the ROSA26 BAC is an efficient strategy for expressing complex transgene cassettes in vivo.
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- Maryann Giel-Moloney
- Division of Gastroenterology, GRASP Digestive Disease Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Molecular Oncology Research Institute, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Molecular Oncology Research Institute, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Gastroenterology, GRASP Digestive Disease Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Correspondence to: Andrew B. Leiter, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA. E-mail:
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Uzbekova S, Amoros C, Cauty C, Mambrini M, Perrot E, Hew CL, Chourrout D, Prunet P. Analysis of cell-specificity and variegation of transgene expression driven by salmon prolactin promoter in stable lines of transgenic rainbow trout. Transgenic Res 2003; 12:213-27. [PMID: 12739889 DOI: 10.1023/a:1022904015029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In order to identify the specificity and functionality of salmon prolactin (sPRL) promoter, transgenic rainbow trout carrying a construct comprising the 2.4 kb fragment of the 5' flanking region of Atlantic Chinook sPRL gene fused either to the reporter genes cat (sPRL-cat) or lacZ (sPRL-lacZ) were produced. sPRL-cat in transgenic F0 fish expressed strongly CAT only in the pituitary gland. Transgenic in F1-F4 lines harbouring sPRL-lacZ expressed beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) only in the follicular PRL-producing cells of the adenohypophysis. We observed heterocellular, mosaic distribution of beta-gal within PRL cell population and enormous variation of lacZ expression level between the littermates in the same transgenic line. Regardless of the transgene copy number, age or sex of transgenic fish, beta-gal expression was lactotroph-specific but variegated in all the nine F2 hemizygous lines analysed. One line harbouring a multicopy integration was followed up to F4 generation: the transgene was transmitted without modifications. Analysis of genomic DNA from pituitaries showed that lacZ sequences were highly methylated. LacZ expression was low and its transcripts, analysed by in situ hybridisation, showed a mosaic distribution within the pituitary gland. These data suggest that variegated expression of lacZ can occur at the transcription level owing to the silencing effect of lacZ gene. After proving the tissue-specific expression of reporter genes driven by the sPRL promoter, we tried to obtain the genetic ablation of PRL-producing cells,by transferring the same construct comprising diphtheria toxin DT-A gene (tox). However, the high mortality rate of sPRL-tox transformed embryos has embedded this study and no transgenic fish expressing tox were produced. The appropriateness of using transgenic strategies to analyse gene function in Salmonids is discussed, especially the implications of the multicopy integration patterns and of the variegated transgene expression.
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- Svetlana Uzbekova
- Station Commune de Recherche en Ichtyophysiologie, Biodiversité et Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.
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Rahman MA, Hwang GL, Razak SA, Sohm F, Maclean N. Copy number related transgene expression and mosaic somatic expression in hemizygous and homozygous transgenic tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Transgenic Res 2000; 9:417-27. [PMID: 11206970 DOI: 10.1023/a:1026517212807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Three lines of transgenic tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fish were generated with a construct containing a lacZ reporter gene spliced to a 4.7 kb 5' regulatory region of a carp beta actin gene. All these three lines contain different copy numbers of transgenes and the levels of lacZ expression were found to be related to transgene copy number. Mosaic patterns of somatic lacZ expression were observed in these three lines which differed between lines but were consistent within a line. We also observed that expression of the reporter gene in homozygous transgenic fish was approximately two-fold greater than in the hemizygous transgenics. Analysis of expression of the reporter gene on a tissue-to-tissue basis demonstrated that lacZ expression of the reporter gene in stably transformed fish occured with variable intensity in different organs and tissues and was also sometimes variable in different cells of the same tissue in Gland G2 generations of the transgenic lines.
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- M A Rahman
- Division of Cell Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
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Organ-specific expression of a cre recombinase transgene allows for the analysis of gene function in a particular tissue or cell type. Using a 4.6 kb promoter from the mouse glycoprotein hormone alpha-subunit (alphaGSU or Cga) gene, we have generated and characterized a line of transgenic mice that express cre recombinase in the anterior and intermediate lobes of the pituitary gland. Utilizing a cre-responsive reporter transgene, alphaGSU-cre transgene expression was detected in the pituitary primordium and in all five cell types of the adult anterior pituitary. alphaGSU-cre transgene activity was also detected in the cardiac and skeletal muscle. Little or no activity was evident in the gonads, adrenal glands, brain, ventromedial hypothalamus, or kidneys. The alphaGSU-cre transgenic mice characterized here will be a valuable tool for examining gene function in the pituitary gland.
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- L J Cushman
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Cohen-Tannoudji M, Vandormael-Pournin S, Drezen J, Mercier P, Babinet C, Morello D. lacZ sequences prevent regulated expression of housekeeping genes. Mech Dev 2000; 90:29-39. [PMID: 10585560 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00226-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In order to dissect the MHC class I H-2K gene regulatory sequences, we p reviously generated transgenic mice containing various H-2K/lacZ fusion genes. However contrary to transgenes where H-2K sequences were fused to other coding sequences, none of the lacZ fusion transgenes was widely ex pressed like H-2K gene. We now show that this silencing also occurs when lacZ is inserted into a larger H-2K genomic construct including promoter and other regulatory elements. Because the 5'H-2K region contains a CpG island, we suspected that the presence of lacZ coding sequences was inte rfering with the mechanism by which the H-2K promoter region is normally unmethylated and transcriptionally active. Indeed, we show that in high ( >10) copy number transgenic mice, insertion of lacZ sequences in the v icinity of the H-2K promoter results in partial or complete methylation of the H-2K CpG island. However, in low (1-3) copy number transgenic mic e no methylation was observed but the transgene was still silent, sugges ting that the silencing effect of lacZ does not only rely on abnormal CpG methylation. Intriguingly, when the H -2/lacZ construct was introduced via embryonic stem (ES) cells, regulate d transgene expression was observed in several chimaeric embryos derived from independent ES clones, but never in adult chimeras. Combined with t he fact that, despite much effort, it has been very difficult to generat e 'blue' mice, our results highlight the transcription-silencing effect of lacZ sequences when they are associated with regulatory sequences of ubiquitously expressed genes.
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- M Cohen-Tannoudji
- Unité de Biologie du Développement, CNRS URA 1960, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724, Paris, France.
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Yueh YG, Yaworsky PJ, Kappen C. Herpes simplex virus transcriptional activator VP16 is detrimental to preimplantation development in mice. Mol Reprod Dev 2000; 55:37-46. [PMID: 10602272 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2795(200001)55:1<37::aid-mrd6>3.0.co;2-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The herpes simplex virus transactivator protein VP16 is frequently used to regulate gene expression in several experimental systems, including transgenic mice. It has been suggested that high levels of VP16 expression in mice may be lethal. In order to systematically address this issue, we linked the VP16 gene to promoters that are active early and in a variety of tissues throughout development, such as the human beta-actin promoter or the rat nestin gene enhancer. VP16 expression was assayed using a LacZ reporter gene linked to a VP16-responsive immediate early gene promoter. We show here that expression of VP16 at high levels is detrimental to pre-implantation development. By culturing embryos in vitro, we demonstrate that this effect is exerted at the transition from the 2-cell to the 4-cell stage, reducing survival to the blastocyst stage dramatically. On the other hand, transgenic mice expressing VP16 transgenes at postimplantation stages are viable. These results suggest a differential sensitivity to VP16 expression in different cell types and stages of development. The reduction of embryo survival by VP16 implicates herpes virus infection as a potential cause of infertility.
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- Y G Yueh
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Samuel C. Johnson Medical Research Center, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona 85259, USA
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Kisseberth WC, Brettingen NT, Lohse JK, Sandgren EP. Ubiquitous expression of marker transgenes in mice and rats. Dev Biol 1999; 214:128-38. [PMID: 10491262 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The ability to unambiguously mark a cell's genotype is essential for studies in which genetically distinct cell populations must be distinguished from one another in vivo. One approach to this challenge has been the creation of transgenic mice expressing a transgene marker that is easily detectable, with no background staining. Multiple transgenic mouse strains bearing constructs with different combinations of promoter elements and coding sequences have been described, each with its own advantages and limitations. In this report we describe the use of an 800-bp promoter fragment isolated from the beta(geo) integration site in ROSA26 mice to target expression of two marker genes. We demonstrate that the ROSA26 promoter directs ubiquitous expression of human placental alkaline phosphatase and enhanced green fluorescent protein during embryonic and postnatal development in mouse and rat. We further demonstrate the general utility of these transgenes for marking donor cells in transplantation studies.
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- W C Kisseberth
- School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Shawlot W, Deng JM, Fohn LE, Behringer RR. Restricted beta-galactosidase expression of a hygromycin-lacZ gene targeted to the beta-actin locus and embryonic lethality of beta-actin mutant mice. Transgenic Res 1998; 7:95-103. [PMID: 9608737 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008816308171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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beta-actin is a cytoskeletal protein that is ubiquitously expressed. To exploit the regulation the beta-actin gene, a promoterless hygromycin-lacZ fusion gene with a splice acceptor was introduced into the first intron of the beta-actin locus by homologous recombination in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. The targeted ES cells were hygromycin resistant and expressed beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) activity. However, no beta-gal activity was detected in heterozygous embryos. In adult heterozygotes, beta-gal activity was detected only in testes. RT-PCR analysis demonstrated the presence of both beta-actin exon 1-hygromycin- and exon l-exon 2-containing transcripts in homozygous mutant embryos. LacZ-containing transcripts were detected in adult heterozygous tests and, surprisingly, in homozygous mutant embryos. These results demonstrate that the integration of the hygromycin-lacZ gene into the first intron of the beta-actin locus was not productive for the ubiquitous expression of beta-gal activity. Because this integration mimics certain types of gene trap events, it suggests that caution should be used when interpreting beta-gal expression patterns in genetic screens using gene trap strategies. In addition, mice homozygous for the beta-actin mutation developed normally up to embryonic day 8.5 (E8.5) but became growth retarded at E9.5 and subsequently died. The RT-PCR data indicate that this targeted mutation is a hypomorphic allele of beta-actin.
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- W Shawlot
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
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Agah R, Frenkel PA, French BA, Michael LH, Overbeek PA, Schneider MD. Gene recombination in postmitotic cells. Targeted expression of Cre recombinase provokes cardiac-restricted, site-specific rearrangement in adult ventricular muscle in vivo. J Clin Invest 1997; 100:169-79. [PMID: 9202069 PMCID: PMC508177 DOI: 10.1172/jci119509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 465] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Mouse models of human disease can be generated by homologous recombination for germline loss-of-function mutations. However, embryonic-lethal phenotypes and systemic, indirect dysfunction can confound the use of knock-outs to elucidate adult pathophysiology. Site-specific recombination using Cre recombinase can circumvent these pitfalls, in principle, enabling temporal and spatial control of gene recombination. However, direct evidence is lacking for the feasibility of Cre-mediated recombination in postmitotic cells. Here, we exploited transgenic mouse technology plus adenoviral gene transfer to achieve Cre-mediated recombination in cardiac muscle. In vitro, Cre driven by cardiac-specific alpha-myosin heavy chain (alphaMyHC) sequences elicited recombination selectively at loxP sites in purified cardiac myocytes, but not cardiac fibroblasts. In vivo, this alphaMyHC-Cre transgene elicited recombination in cardiac muscle, but not other organs, as ascertained by PCR analysis and localization of a recombination-dependent reporter protein. Adenoviral delivery of Cre in vivo provoked recombination in postmitotic, adult ventricular myocytes. Recombination between loxP sites was not detected in the absence of Cre. These studies demonstrate the feasibility of using Cre-mediated recombination to regulate gene expression in myocardium, with efficient induction of recombination even in terminally differentiated, postmitotic muscle cells. Moreover, delivery of Cre by viral infection provides a simple strategy to control the timing of recombination in myocardium.
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- R Agah
- Molecular Cardiology Unit, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Akagi Y, Isaka Y, Akagi A, Ikawa M, Takenaka M, Moriyama T, Yamauchi A, Horio M, Ueda N, Okabe M, Imai E. Transcriptional activation of a hybrid promoter composed of cytomegalovirus enhancer and beta-actin/beta-globin gene in glomerular epithelial cells in vivo. Kidney Int 1997; 51:1265-9. [PMID: 9083295 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1997.172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The aim of this study was to seek a promoter, transactivated selectively in renal cells in vivo by using transgenic (tg) mouse technology. We generated two kinds of tg mouse lines carrying a green fluorescence protein (GFP) cDNA driven either by cytomegalovirus enhancer and beta-actin/beta-globin promoter (CX-GFP) or by elongation factor 1alpha promoter (EF-GFP), and investigated the expression of GFP in the kidney. Microscopic examination of the renal tissues in CX-GFP-tg mice revealed that GFP was expressed only in glomeruli, mainly epithelial cells, but not in tubules, arteries and interstitium. Moreover, in situ hybridization demonstrated that GFP mRNA expression was localized in the glomerular cells. In contrast, GFP was not detectable in the kidney in any of the lines of EF-GFP-tg mouse. To exclude the possible involvement of the GFP cDNA as an enhancer, we constructed tg mice carrying the CX promoter driving a human CD4 cDNA. It was confirmed that the expression patterns of human CD4 in the kidney were quite similar to those of GFP in the kidney of CX-GFP-tg mice. These results strongly suggest that CX promoter could be transactivated in glomerular epithelial cells in vivo.
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- Y Akagi
- The First Department of Medicine, Osaka University School of Medicine, Japan
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Schorpp M, Jäger R, Schellander K, Schenkel J, Wagner EF, Weiher H, Angel P. The human ubiquitin C promoter directs high ubiquitous expression of transgenes in mice. Nucleic Acids Res 1996; 24:1787-8. [PMID: 8650001 PMCID: PMC145851 DOI: 10.1093/nar/24.9.1787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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- M Schorpp
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg, Germany
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Albanesi C, Geremia R, Giorgio M, Dolci S, Sette C, Rossi P. A cell- and developmental stage-specific promoter drives the expression of a truncated c-kit protein during mouse spermatid elongation. Development 1996; 122:1291-302. [PMID: 8620856 DOI: 10.1242/dev.122.4.1291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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In the postnatal testis, the c-kit transmembrane tyrosine-kinase receptor is expressed in type A spermatogonia, and its transcription ceases at the meiotic phase of spermatogenesis. Alternative, shorter c-kit transcripts are expressed in post-meiotic germ cells. These transcripts should encode a truncated version of the c-kit protein, lacking the extracellular, the transmembrane and part of the intracellular tyrosine-kinase domains. The 5′ end of the alternative c-kit transcripts maps within an intron of the mouse c-kit gene. We now show that this intron contains a promoter active in nuclear extracts of round spermatids, and that two discrete sequences upstream of the transcriptional start site bind spermatid-specific nuclear factors. Deletion of both these sequences abolishes activity of the promoter in vitro. We have also established that this promoter is functional in vivo, in a tissue-and cell-specific fashion, since intronic sequences drive the expression of the E. coli lacZ reporter gene in transgenic mice specifically in the testis. Transgene expression is confined to haploid germ cells of seminiferous tubules, starting from spermatids at step 9, and disappearing at step 13, indicating that cryptic promoter within the 16th intron of the mouse c-kit gene is active in a short temporal window at the end of the transcriptional phase of spermiogenesis. In agreement with these data, western blot experiments using an antibody directed against the carboxy-terminal portion of the mouse c-kit protein showed that a polypeptide, of the size predicted by the open reading frame of the spermatid-specific c-kit cDNA, accumulates in the latest stages of spermatogenesis and in epididymal spermatozoa. An immunoreactive protein of the same size can be produced in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic artificial expression systems.
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- C Albanesi
- Dipartimento di Sanita' Pubblica e Biologia Cellulare, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Kirshenbaum LA, Schneider MD. Adenovirus E1A represses cardiac gene transcription and reactivates DNA synthesis in ventricular myocytes, via alternative pocket protein- and p300-binding domains. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:7791-4. [PMID: 7713869 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.14.7791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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To examine the potential impact of disrupting "pocket" protein function on cardiac differentiation and growth, we introduced 12 S E1A genes into neonatal ventricular myocytes, by adenoviral gene transfer. In the absence of E1B, E1A was cytotoxic, with features typical of apoptosis. In the presence of E1B, E1A preferentially inhibited transcription of cardiac-restricted alpha-actin promoters, and reactivated DNA synthesis in cardiac myocytes, without cell death. Mutations that abrogate known activities of the amino terminus of E1A, versus conserved region 2, demonstrate that the "pocket" protein- and p300-binding domains each suffice, in the absence of the other, for transcriptional repression and re-entry into S phase.
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- L A Kirshenbaum
- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Tsukamoto M, Ochiya T, Yoshida S, Sugimura T, Terada M. Gene transfer and expression in progeny after intravenous DNA injection into pregnant mice. Nat Genet 1995; 9:243-8. [PMID: 7773286 DOI: 10.1038/ng0395-243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Several methods that enable foreign genes to be transferred directly into germ cells and adult animals have been developed, which have stimulated great interest in manipulating genes in vivo. However, there have been no methods available for introducing genes into fetuses. We report here that a single intravenous injection of expression plasmid: lipopolyamine complexes into pregnant mice resulted in successful gene transfer into the embryos. The transgenes thus introduced were expressed in the fetuses and newborn progeny. This simple and new method of gene transfer into embryos will facilitate rapid analysis of transgene effects in the fetuses and will be useful for studying gene-deficient animal models to gain transgene functions at desired stages of embryogenesis.
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- M Tsukamoto
- Genetics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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