Somatic recombination

Details Somatic recombination Somatic recombination

2007-10-16

2007-10-16

Bertoglio, Valarie (Department: 1632)

Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and

Nonhuman animal

Transgenic nonhuman animal

C800S025000

Reexamination Certificate

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10727399

ABSTRACT:
Recombination in mammalian somatic cell chromosomes is promoted and marked by a method called mosaic analysis with double marker (MADM). Mouse “knock-in” techniques are used to create pairs of chromosomes in which recombinase target sites are placed at homologous chromosomal locations. The knock-in constructs are engineered so that cellular markers, such as green or red fluorescent protein (GFP or RFP), are only expressed after recombinase-induced recombination. This system provides high-sensitivity detection of recombinase-induced mitotic recombination, even down to the single cell level. When this recombination is induced in a mouse heterozygous for a mutation in a gene distal to the “knock-in” locus on the same chromosome, it results in homozygosity of this mutation in the labeled cells. This allows the analysis in singly-labeled neurons of genes whose pleiotropic effects might otherwise result in early lethality.

REFERENCES:
Mao et al. (Blood 97(1):324-326, Jan. 2001).
Kawamoto et al. (FEBS 470:263-268, 2000).
Liu et al. (Nature Genetics 30:66-72, Jan. 2002).

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