Targeted mutation of the Hprt gene in mouse embryonic stem cells.
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 85 (22), 8583-8587
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.85.22.8583
Abstract
The hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (Hprt) gene has been mutated in mouse blastocyst-derived embryonic stem cells by site-directed homologous recombination. Embryonic stem cells were electroporated in the presence of a targeting DNA fragment containing two specific features: (i) The targeting DNA contained a promoterless neomycin phosphotransferase (neo) gene that, when located within the endogenous Hprt locus, could be transcribed from the promoter of the target locus. (ii) The targeting fragment had two short regions of homology with the endogenous Hprt gene: one, 132 base pairs long and the other, 1.2 kilobase pairs long. Targeted cells in which the designed homologous recombination event occurred were isolated either by selection with G418 followed by 6-thioguanine or by selection with 6-thioguanine alone. Even though less than 2 kilobases of homology existed between the exogenous and target DNAs, an average of 2.6 embryonic stem cells were successfully targeted for every 10(5) colonies surviving electroporation. Six of the Hprt- cell lines showed homologous recombination. These six lines were further analyzed by nucleotide sequencing a fragment that spans one crossover point after amplification by the polymerase chain reaction. Four lines had the expected sequence, whereas two lines had small deletions abutting the 132-base-pair region of homology.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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