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IMMUNITY
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 131-144Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(03)00168-7
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A central issue in understanding the hematolymphoid system is the generation of appropriate mutant alleles in mice to reveal the function of regulatory genes. Here we describe a mouse strain, Plastic, with a point mutation in a zinc finger of Ikaros that disrupts DNA binding but preserves efficient assembly of the full-length protein into higher order complexes. Ikaros(Plastic) homozygosity is embryonically lethal with severe defects in terminal erythrocyte and granulocyte differentiation, excessive macrophage formation, and blocked lymphopoiesis, while heterozygotes display a partial block in lymphocyte differentiation. The contrast with more circumscribed effects of Ikaros alleles that ablate the full-length protein highlights the importance in mammals of generating recessive niche-filling alleles that inactivate function without creating a void in multi-molecular assemblies.
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