A Conditional System to Specifically Link Disruption of Protein-Coding Function with Reporter Expression in Mice
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Chiou, Shin-Heng
Kim-Kiselak, Caroline
Risca, Viviana I.
Heimann, Megan
Chuang, Chen-Hua
Burds, Aurora A.
Greenleaf, William J.
Jacks, Tyler E.
Feldser, David M.
Winslow, Monte M.
Date Issued
June 2014
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Cell Reports
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Elsevier B.V.
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Chiou, Shin-Heng, Caroline Kim-Kiselak, Viviana I. Risca, Megan K. Heimann, Chen-Hua Chuang, Aurora A. Burds, William J. Greenleaf, Tyler E. Jacks, David M. Feldser, and Monte M. Winslow. “A Conditional System to Specifically Link Disruption of Protein-Coding Function with Reporter Expression in Mice.” Cell Reports 7, no. 6 (June 2014): 2078–2086.
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Abstract
Conditional gene deletion in mice has contributed immensely to our understanding of many biological and biomedical processes. Despite an increasing awareness of nonprotein-coding functional elements within protein-coding transcripts, current gene-targeting approaches typically involve simultaneous ablation of noncoding elements within targeted protein-coding genes. The potential for protein-coding genes to have additional noncoding functions necessitates the development of novel genetic tools capable of precisely interrogating individual functional elements. We present a strategy that couples Cre/loxP-mediated conditional gene disruption with faithful GFP reporter expression in mice in which Cre-mediated stable inversion of a splice acceptor-GFP-splice donor cassette concurrently disrupts protein production and creates a GFP fusion product. Importantly, cassette inversion maintains physiologic transcript structure, thereby ensuring proper microRNA-mediated regulation of the GFP reporter, as well as maintaining expression of nonprotein-coding elements. To test this potentially generalizable strategy, we generated and analyzed mice with this conditional knockin reporter targeted to the Hmga2 locus.
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Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2014.05.031
