scholarly journals Pineal-specific expression of green fluorescent protein under the control of the serotonin-N-acetyltransferase gene regulatory regions in transgenic zebrafish

2002 ◽  
Vol 225 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoav Gothilf ◽  
Reiko Toyama ◽  
Steven L. Coon ◽  
Shao-Jun Du ◽  
Igor B. Dawid ◽  
...  
2001 ◽  
Vol 115 (6) ◽  
pp. 455-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xulun Zhang ◽  
Stephan L. Baader ◽  
Feng Bian ◽  
Wolfgang Müller ◽  
John Oberdick

Development ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 127 (9) ◽  
pp. 1953-1960 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Halloran ◽  
M. Sato-Maeda ◽  
J.T. Warren ◽  
F. Su ◽  
Z. Lele ◽  
...  

Over the past few years, a number of studies have described the generation of transgenic lines of zebrafish in which expression of reporters was driven by a variety of promoters. These lines opened up the real possibility that transgenics could be used to complement the genetic analysis of zebrafish development. Transgenic lines in which the expression of genes can be regulated both in space and time would be especially useful. Therefore, we have cloned the zebrafish promoter for the inducible hsp70 gene and made stable transgenic lines of zebrafish that express the reporter green fluorescent protein gene under the control of a hsp70 promoter. At normal temperatures, green fluorescent protein is not detectable in transgenic embryos with the exception of the lens, but is robustly expressed throughout the embryo following an increase in ambient temperature. Furthermore, we have taken advantage of the accessibility and optical clarity of the embryos to express green fluorescent protein in individual cells by focussing a sublethal laser microbeam onto them. The targeted cells appear to develop normally: cells migrate normally, neurons project axons that follow normal pathways, and progenitor cells divide and give rise to normal progeny cells. By generating other transgenic lines in which the hsp70 promoter regulates genes of interest, it should be possible to examine the in vivo activity of the gene products by laser-inducing specific cells to express them in zebrafish embryos. As a first test, we laser-induced single muscle cells to make zebrafish Sema3A1, a semaphorin that is repulsive for specific growth cones, in a hsp70-sema3A1 transgenic line of zebrafish and found that extension by the motor axons was retarded by the induced muscle.


2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitomi MATSUNARI ◽  
Toshihiro KOBAYASHI ◽  
Masahito WATANABE ◽  
Kazuhiro UMEYAMA ◽  
Kazuaki NAKANO ◽  
...  

Blood ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 115 (14) ◽  
pp. 2806-2809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raman Sood ◽  
Milton A. English ◽  
Christiane L. Belele ◽  
Hao Jin ◽  
Kevin Bishop ◽  
...  

Abstract Runx1 is required for the emergence of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from hemogenic endothelium during embryogenesis. However, its role in the generation and maintenance of HSCs during adult hematopoiesis remains uncertain. Here, we present analysis of a zebrafish mutant line carrying a truncation mutation, W84X, in runx1. The runx1W84X/W84X embryos showed blockage in the initiation of definitive hematopoiesis, but some embryos were able to recover from a larval “bloodless” phase and develop to fertile adults with multilineage hematopoiesis. Using cd41–green fluorescent protein transgenic zebrafish and lineage tracing, we demonstrated that the runx1W84X/W84X embryos developed cd41+ HSCs in the aorta-gonad-mesonephros region, which later migrated to the kidney, the site of adult hematopoiesis. Overall, our data suggest that in zebrafish adult HSCs can be formed without an intact runx1.


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