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ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
卷 13, 期 3, 页码 153-159出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1382-6689(03)00003-6
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environmental hazard monitoring; germ-line transgenic tadpole; enhanced green fluorescent protein; metallothionein; cadmium; zinc
We generated germ line-transgenic Xenopus laevis that monitors environmental heavy metal ions. Sperm nuclei were transduced with cDNA of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) driven by murine metallothioncin-1 gene promoters and were microinjected into unfertilized eggs. The eggs developed to sexually matured adults. The transgenic tadpoles at the premetamorphic stage were reared in water containing Zn2+ and Cd2+ separately at the concentrations of 0.38-1.52 and 0.09-0.44 PM, respectively. These animals responded to Zn2+ at as low as 0.38 muM and Cd2+ at as low as 0.44 muM. The level of EGFP fluorescence emitted by tadpoles increased as the concentration increased up to 1.52 muM and the exposure time prolonged up to 120 h. The fluorescent response was much more sensitive to Cd2+ than to Zn2+. We concluded that these transgenic tadpoles are useful as an animal indicator of environmental heavy metal ions. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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