Comparative analysis of two independent Myh6-Cre transgenic mouse lines

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Title: Comparative analysis of two independent Myh6-Cre transgenic mouse lines
Authors: Amanda Davenport, Chase W. Kessinger, Ryan D. Pfeiffer, Nikita Shah, Richard Xu, E. Dale Abel, Nathan R. Tucker, Zhiqiang Lin
Source: Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Plus, Vol 9, Iss , Pp 100081- (2024)
Publisher Information: Elsevier, 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: LCC:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Subject Terms: Cre-loxP system, Myh6-Cre, tdTomato reporter, Transgenic mouse line, Genomic position effect, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701
More Details: We have previously shown that the Myh6 promoter drives Cre expression in a subset of male germ line cells in three independent Myh6-Cre mouse lines, including two transgenic lines and one knock-in allele. In this study, we further compared the tissue-specificity of the two Myh6-Cre transgenic mouse lines, MDS Myh6-Cre and AUTR Myh6-Cre, through examining the expression of tdTomato (tdTom) red fluorescence protein in multiple internal organs, including the heart, brain, liver, lung, pancreas and brown adipose tissue. Our results show that MDS Myh6-Cre mainly activates tdTom reporter in the heart, whereas AUTR Myh6-Cre activates tdTom expression significantly in the heart, and in the cells of liver, pancreas and brain. In the heart, similar to MDS Myh6-Cre, AUTR Myh6-Cre activates tdTom in most cardiomyocytes. In the other organs, AUTR Myh6-Cre not only mosaically activates tdTom in some parenchymal cells, such as hepatocytes in the liver and neurons in the brain, but also turns on tdTom in some interstitial cells of unknown identity.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2772-9761
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772976124000217; https://doaj.org/toc/2772-9761
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmccpl.2024.100081
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/939b965e49d341b48bd2b18c3a47eca5
Accession Number: edsdoj.939b965e49d341b48bd2b18c3a47eca5
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:27729761
DOI:10.1016/j.jmccpl.2024.100081
Published in:Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Plus
Language:English