期刊
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY
卷 41, 期 4, 页码 724-731出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2006.06.067
关键词
smooth muscle cells; type II TGF-beta receptor; Cre recombinase; smooth muscle myosin heavy chain; SM22 alpha
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [T32 HL07828, HL 069063] Funding Source: Medline
Smooth muscle cell (SMC)-specific deletion of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) signaling would help elucidate the mechanisms through which TGF-beta signaling contributes to vascular development and disease. We attempted to generate mice with SMC-specific deletion of TGF-beta signaling by mating mice with a conditional (floxed) allele for the type 11 TGF-beta receptor (tgfbr2(flox)) to mice with SMC-targeted expression of Cre recombinase. We bred male mice transgenic for smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SMMHC)-Cre with females carrying tgfbr2(flox). Surprisingly, SMMHC-Cre rnice recombined tglbr2(flox) at low levels in SMC and at high levels in the testis. Recombination of tgfbr2(flox) in testis correlated with high-level expression of SMMHC-Cre in testis and germline transmission of tgfbr2(null). In contrast, mice expressing Cre from a SM22 alpha promoter (SM22-Cre) efficiently recombined tgfbr2(flox) in vascular and visceral SMC and the heart, but not in testis. Use of the R26R reporter allele confirmed that Cre-mediated recombination in vascular SMC was inefficient for SMMHC-Cre mice and highly efficient for SM22-Cre mice. Breedings that introduced the SM22-Cre allele into tgfbr2(flox) zygotes in order to generate adult mice that are hemizygous for SM22-Cre and homozygous for tgfbr2(flox) and would have conversion of tgfbr2(flox/flox) to tgfbr2(null/null) in SMC-produced no live SM22-Cre : tgfbr2(flox/flox) pups (P < 0.001). We conclude: (1) SMC-targeted Cre lines vary significantly in specificity and efficiency of Cre expression; (2) TGF-beta signaling in the subset of cells that express SM22 alpha is required for normal development; (3) generation of adult mice with absent TGF-beta signaling in SMC remains a challenge. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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