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MAMMALIAN GENOME
卷 24, 期 9-10, 页码 389-399出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s00335-013-9469-8
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- NIH/NIA [AG040020]
- Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
- NIH-COBRE [GM103394, GM103500]
- MSU College of Agriculture and Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease
Cre-responsive dual-fluorescent alleles allow in situ marking of cell lineages or genetically modified cells. Here we report a dual-fluorescent allele, ROSA (nT-nG) , which directs nuclear accumulation of tdTomato in Cre-na < ve lineages. Cre converts the allele to ROSA (nG) , which drives nuclear EGFP accumulation. Conditions were established for analyzing marked nuclei by flow cytometry on the basis of red-green fluorescence and ploidy, with a particular focus on liver nuclei. Hydrodynamic delivery of a Cre-expression plasmid was used to time-stamp arbitrary hepatocytes for lineage tracing. The distinct green fluorescence of nuclei from Cre-exposed lineages facilitated analyses of ploidy transitions within clones. To assess developmental transitions in liver nuclei, ROSA (nT-nG) was combined with the hepatocyte-specific AlbCre transgene, facilitating discrimination between hepatocyte and nonhepatocyte nuclei. Nuclei extracted from postnatal day 2 (P2) livers were 41 % green and 59 % red and reached a stable level of 84 % green by P22. Until P20, green nuclei were > 98 % diploid (2N); at P40 they were similar to 56 % 2N, 43 % 4N, and < 1 % 8N; and by P70 they reached a stable distribution of similar to 46 % 2N, 45 % 4N, and 9 % 8N. In conclusion, ROSA (nT-nG) will facilitate in vivo and ex vivo studies on liver and will likely be valuable for studies on tissues like muscle, kidney, or brain in which cells are refractory to whole-cell flow cytometry, or like trophectoderm derivatives or cancers in which cells undergo ploidy transitions.
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