論文

査読有り 国際誌
2012年

The murine stem cell virus promoter drives correlated transgene expression in the leukocytes and cerebellar Purkinje cells of transgenic mice.

PloS one
  • Miho Oue
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Handa
  • ,
  • Yasunori Matsuzaki
  • ,
  • Kazutomo Suzue
  • ,
  • Hirokazu Murakami
  • ,
  • Hirokazu Hirai

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開始ページ
e51015
終了ページ
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0051015

The murine stem cell virus (MSCV) promoter exhibits activity in mouse hematopoietic cells and embryonic stem cells. We generated transgenic mice that expressed enhanced green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the control of the MSCV promoter. We obtained 12 transgenic founder mice through 2 independent experiments and found that the bodies of 9 of the founder neonates emitted different levels of GFP fluorescence. Flow cytometric analysis of circulating leukocytes revealed that the frequency of GFP-labeled leukocytes among white blood cells ranged from 1.6% to 47.5% across the 12 transgenic mice. The bodies of 9 founder transgenic mice showed various levels of GFP expression. GFP fluorescence was consistently observed in the cerebellum, with faint or almost no fluorescence in other brain regions. In the cerebellum, 10 founders exhibited GFP expression in Purkinje cells at frequencies of 3% to 76%. Of these, 4 mice showed Purkinje cell-specific expression, while 4 and 2 mice expressed GFP in the Bergmann glia and endothelial cells, respectively. The intensity of the GFP fluorescence in the body was relative to the proportion of GFP-positive leukocytes. Moreover, the frequency of the GFP-expressing leukocytes was significantly correlated with the frequency of GFP-expressing Purkinje cells. These results suggest that the MSCV promoter is useful for preferentially expressing a transgene in Purkinje cells. In addition, the proportion of transduced leukocytes in the peripheral circulation reflects the expression level of the transgene in Purkinje cells, which can be used as a way to monitor transgene expression properties in the cerebellum without invasive techniques.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051015
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23226450
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3511439
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0051015
  • PubMed ID : 23226450
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC3511439

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