Novel ROSA26 Cre-reporter Knock-in C57BL/6N Mice Exhibiting Green Emission before and Red Emission after Cre-mediated Recombination

The Cre/loxP system is a strategy for controlling temporal and/or spatial gene expression through genome alteration in mice. As successful Cre/loxP genome alteration depends on Cre-driver mice, Cre-reporter mice are essential for validation of Cre gene expression in vivo. In most Cre-reporter mouse...

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Veröffentlicht in:Experimental Animals 2013, Vol.62(4), pp.295-304
Hauptverfasser: Hasegawa, Yoshikazu, Daitoku, Yoko, Sekiguchi, Keito, Tanimoto, Yoko, Mizuno-Iijima, Saori, Mizuno, Seiya, Kajiwara, Noriko, Ema, Masatsugu, Miwa, Yoshihiro, Mekada, Kazuyuki, Yoshiki, Atsushi, Takahashi, Satoru, Sugiyama, Fumihiro, Yagami, Ken-ichi
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Zusammenfassung:The Cre/loxP system is a strategy for controlling temporal and/or spatial gene expression through genome alteration in mice. As successful Cre/loxP genome alteration depends on Cre-driver mice, Cre-reporter mice are essential for validation of Cre gene expression in vivo. In most Cre-reporter mouse strains, although the presence of reporter product indicates the expression of Cre recombinase, it has remained unclear whether a lack of reporter signal indicates either no Cre recombinase expression or insufficient reporter gene promoter activity. We produced a novel ROSA26 knock-in Cre-reporter C57BL/6N strain exhibiting green emission before and red after Cre-mediated recombination, designated as strain R26GRR. Ubiquitous green fluorescence and no red fluorescence were observed in R26GRR mice. To investigate the activation of tdsRed, EGFP-excised R26GRR, R26RR, mice were produced through the crossing of C57BL/6N mice with R26GRR/Ayu1-Cre F1 mice. R26RR mice showed extraordinarily strong red fluorescence in almost all tissues examined, suggesting ubiquitous activation of the second reporter in all tissues after Cre/loxP recombination. Moreover, endothelial cell lineage and pancreatic islet-specific expression of red fluorescence were detected in R26GRR/Tie2-Cre F1 mice and R26GRR /Ins1-Cre F1 mice, respectively. These results indicated that R26GRR mice are a useful novel Cre-reporter mouse strain. In addition, R26GRR mice with a pure C57BL/6N background represent a valuable source of green-to-red photoconvertible cells following Cre/loxP recombination for application in transplantation studies. The R26GRR mouse strain will be available from RIKEN BioResource Center (http://www.brc.riken.jp/lab/animal/en/).
ISSN:1341-1357
1881-7122
DOI:10.1538/expanim.62.295