By injecting the modified viruses into transgenic mice that only
express Cre recombinase in astrocytes, the researchers knew that any sequences flagged by the lox site inversion had successfully transferred their genetic cargo to the target cell type — here, astrocytes.
To facilitate the use of Cre - lox technology, transgenic mice have been constructed that
express Cre under a variety of ubiquitous and regulated promoters, and many loxP - containing alleles have also been constructed.
When bred to mice
expressing Cre recombinase, the STOP sequence is deleted and EYFP expression is observed in the cre - expressing tissue (s) of the double mutant offspring.
The NIH Neuroscience Blueprint has established three centers in the USA for the generation of genetically modified mice
expressing Cre recombinases in the nervous system on the C57BL / 6 genetic background.
For this, we co-expressed PLE and the fluorescent protein mCherry in DA neurons using a Cre - dependent recombinant adeno - associated viral vector, rAAV2 / 1 - Synapsin:: FLEX - rev - PLE - 2a - mCherry (2a: ribosomal skip sequence [Donnelly et al., 2001]-RRB- that was targeted unilaterally into the VTA of Slc6a3Cre mice, a mouse line that selectively
expresses Cre - recombinase in DA neurons (Zhuang et al., 2005).
Not exact matches
The team was using a well - known
Cre - lox genetic recombination system to get mouse neurons to
express green, yellow, orange, and red fluorescent proteins.
wt and autophagy - deficient Atg7flox / flox; Nes -
Cre primary neurons
expressing APP were stained for Aβ.
CRE are Gram - negative bacteria that frequently
express a gene that codes for carbapenemase — an enzyme that breaks down carbapenem and other antibiotics — and that is located on «mobile genetic elements» called plasmids, which can jump from one bacterium to another.
Employing a combination of cellular, biochemical and genetic experiments, we showed that (i) human and murine pericytes
express functional Tie2 receptor, (ii) Tie2 - silenced pericytes have a pro-migratory phenotype, (iii) Tie2 downstream signalling in pericytes involves Calpain, Akt and FOXO3A, (iv) Ng2 -
Cre - driven deletion of pericyte -
expressed Tie2 delays developmental angiogenesis and vessel maturation, and (v) Tie2 deletion in pericytes results in a pro-angiogenic tumour vasculature with enhanced tumour growth.
Ng2 -
Cre is known to be
expressed in the male germline, which needs to be considered in using Ng2 -
Cre mice for cell type - specific conditional mutagenesis experiments, but the germline expression of Pdgfrb -
Cre in both sexes limits the use of Pdgfrb -
Cre as deleter for pericyte - related experiments.
Without
Cre recombination, RFP is
expressed.
Another problematic scenario is the use of inducible and conditional systems involving lines with different backgrounds (e.g.,
cre -
expressing lines crossed with floxed alleles).
This feature facilitates screening of
Cre - negative Brainbow mice to determine the number and type of cells in which the construct is
expressed.
The remaining cassette can invert as long as
Cre remains
expressed; once
Cre is removed from the system, the fluorescent protein whose coding sequence is closest to the promoter will be
expressed.
Here, using an inducible
Cre, nuclear LacZ reporter allele knocked into the Prom1 locus (Prom1 (C - L)-RRB-, we show that Prom1 is
expressed in a variety of developing and adult tissues.
The lab has generated «floxed» alleles of GABAA receptor subunit genes that allow us to ablate the respective subunit in a subregion specific manner — e.g., in hippocampal subregions or the amygdala — either via a cross with
cre - transgenic mice or via stereotaxic injection of
cre -
expressing viruses into defined brain regions.
A further cross to a
Cre - recombinase -
expressing strain generates the null allele.
The DT40 cell clone used
expresses an inducible form of the
Cre recombinase (a MerCreMer fusion protein) in order to excise the floxed AID and thereby stop mutational activity if desired.
When combined with a
Cre - recombinase -
expressing strain, the neomycin cassette and Mir stem loop are removed leaving a lacZ tagged null allele (FRT - lacZ - loxP).
Binding and uptake of radiolabeled ApoC - III — depleted TRLs was significantly increased in hepatocytes isolated from Ndst1fl / fl Alb -
Cre + mice (i.e., in mice
expressing both LDLR and LRP1) when compared with ApoC - III — bearing TRLs (Figure 10).
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