Enhancer trapping in zebrafish using the Sleeping Beauty transposon
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ReviewJournal
Date
2004-09-03Author
Balciunas, DDavidson, AE
Sivasubbu, S
Hermanson, SB
Welle, Z
Ekker, SC
Subject
AnimalsDNA Transposable Elements
Embryonic Development
Enhancer Elements, Genetic
Gene Transfer Techniques
Genomics
Germ Cells
Glycoside Hydrolases
Green Fluorescent Proteins
In Situ Hybridization
Motor Neurons
Pilot Projects
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Promoter Regions, Genetic
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Zebrafish
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10.1186/1471-2164-5-62Abstract
Background: Among functional elements of a metazoan gene, enhancers are particularly difficult to find and annotate. Pioneering experiments in Drosophila have demonstrated the value of enhancer "trapping" using an invertebrate to address this functional genomics problem. Results: We modulated a Sleeping Beauty transposon-based transgenesis cassette to establish an enhancer trapping technique for use in a vertebrate model system, zebrafish Danio rerio. We established 9 lines of zebrafish with distinct tissue- or organ-specific GFP expression patterns from 90 founders that produced GFP-expressing progeny. We have molecularly characterized these lines and show that in each line, a specific GFP expression pattern is due to a single transposition event. Many of the insertions are into introns of zebrafish genes predicted in the current genome assembly. We have identified both previously characterized as well as novel expression patterns from this screen. For example, the ET7 line harbors a transposon insertion near the mkp3 locus and expresses GFP in the midbrain-hindbrain boundary, forebrain and the ventricle, matching a subset of the known FGF8-dependent mkp3 expression domain. The ET2 line, in contrast, expresses GFP specifically in caudal primary motoneurons due to an insertion into the poly(ADPribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) locus. This surprising expression pattern was confirmed using in situ hybridization techniques for the endogenous PARG mRNA, indicating the enhancer trap has replicated this unexpected and highly localized PARG expression with good fidelity. Finally, we show that it is possible to excise a Sleeping Beauty transposon from a genomic location in the zebrafish germline. Conclusions: This genomics tool offers the opportunity for large-scale biological approaches combining both expression and genomic-level sequence analysis using as a template an entire vertebrate genome. © 2004 Balciunas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.Citation to related work
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