PUBLICATION
Efficient transgenesis mediated by pigmentation rescue in zebrafish
- Authors
- Harrold, I., Carbonneau, S., Moore, B.M., Nguyen, G., Anderson, N.M., Saini, A.S., Kanki, J.P., Jette, C.A., Feng, H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160114-10
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Biotechniques 60: 13-20 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Anderson, Nicole M., Feng, Hui, Harrold, Itrat, Jette, Cicely A., Kanki, John, Moore, Bethany
- Keywords
- pigmentation rescue, transgenesis, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Gene Transfer Techniques*
- Genotype
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics
- Microphthalmia-Associated Transcription Factor/genetics*
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Pigmentation/genetics*
- Promoter Regions, Genetic*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/physiology
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- PubMed
- 26757807 Full text @ Biotechniques
Citation
Harrold, I., Carbonneau, S., Moore, B.M., Nguyen, G., Anderson, N.M., Saini, A.S., Kanki, J.P., Jette, C.A., Feng, H. (2016) Efficient transgenesis mediated by pigmentation rescue in zebrafish. Biotechniques. 60:13-20.
Abstract
The zebrafish represents a revolutionary tool in large-scale genetic and small-molecule screens for gene and drug discovery. Transgenic zebrafish are often utilized in these screens. Many transgenic fish lines are maintained in the heterozygous state due to the lethality associated with homozygosity; thus, their progeny must be sorted to ensure a population expressing the transgene of interest for use in screens. Sorting transgenic embryos under a fluorescence microscope is very labor-intensive and demands fine-tuned motor skills. Here we report an efficient transgenic method of utilizing pigmentation rescue of nacre mutant fish for accurate naked-eye identification of both mosaic founders and stable transgenic zebrafish. This was accomplished by co-injecting two constructs with the I-SceI meganuclease enzyme into pigmentless nacre embryos: I-SceI-mitfa:mitfa-I-SceI to rescue the pigmentation and I-SceI-zpromoter:gene-of-interest-I-SceI to express the gene of interest under a zebrafish promoter (zpromoter). Pigmentation rescue reliably predicted transgene integration. Compared with other transgenic techniques, our approach significantly increases the overall percentage of founders and facilitates accurate naked-eye identification of stable transgenic fish, greatly reducing laborious fluorescence microscope sorting and PCR genotyping. Thus, this approach is ideal for generating transgenic fish for large-scale screens.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping