Intersectional Cre driver lines generated using split-intein mediated split-Cre reconstitution.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Tissue and cell type highly specific Cre drivers are very rare due to the fact that most genes or promoters used to direct Cre expressions are generally expressed in more than one tissues and/or in multiple cell types. We developed a split-intein based split-Cre system for highly efficient Cre-reconstitution through protein splicing. This split-intein-split-Cre system can be used to intersect the expression patterns of two genes or promoters to restrict full-length Cre reconstitution in their overlapping domains. To test this system in vivo, we selected several conserved human enhancers to drive the expression of either Cre-N-intein-N, or intein-C-Cre-C transgene in different brain regions. In all paired CreN/CreC transgenic mice, Cre-dependent reporter was efficiently induced specifically in the intersectional expression domains of two enhancers. This split-intein based method is simpler to implement compared with other strategies for generating highly-restricted intersectional Cre drivers to study complex tissues such as the nervous system.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Wang, P; Chen, T; Sakurai, K; Han, B-X; He, Z; Feng, G; Wang, F
Published Date
- 2012
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 2 /
Start / End Page
- 497 -
PubMed ID
- 22773946
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC3390602
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 2045-2322
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1038/srep00497
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England