Efficient biallelic mutagenesis with Cre/loxP-mediated inter-chromosomal recombination

AUTOR(ES)

Koike, Hiroko

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

The isolation of mutant cells with phenotypes caused by random mutagenesis has been hampered in mammalian cells because there are two alleles per gene and the disruption of both alleles is extremely rare. We describe a method for the efficient biallelic mutagenesis in embryonic stem cells. loxP sites were introduced near the centromeric regions of a pair of chromosome 1s. A mutant neo gene was inserted at the distal part of one of the loxP sites so that biallelic mutants would be selected by high-dose G418. Expression of Cre induced the recombination between homologous chromosomes and led to an elevation in the number of biallelic mutants. This system will facilitate phenotype-driven gene function study in the mammalian system.

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