Title |
Zinc-finger nuclease mediated disruption of Rag1 in the LEW/Ztm rat
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Published in |
BMC Immunology, November 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2172-13-60 |
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Authors |
Nils-Holger Zschemisch, Silke Glage, Dirk Wedekind, Edward J Weinstein, Xiaoxia Cui, Martina Dorsch, Hans-Jürgen Hedrich |
Abstract |
Engineered zinc-finger nucleases (ZFN) represented an innovative method for the genome manipulation in vertebrates. ZFN introduced targeted DNA double strand breaks (DSB) and initiated non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) after pronuclear or cytoplasmatic microinjection into zygotes. Resulting frame shift mutations led to functional gene ablations in zebra fish, mice, pigs and also in laboratory rats. Therefore, we targeted the rat Rag1 gene essential for the V(D)J recombination within the immunoglobulin production process and for the differentiation of mature B and T lymphocytes to generate an immunodeficient rat model in the LEW/Ztm strain. |
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