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Targeted Integration of Transgenes at the Mouse Gt(ROSA)26Sor Locus

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 2631))

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The targeting of transgenic constructs at single copy into neutral genomic loci avoids the unpredictable outcomes associated with conventional random integration approaches. The Gt(ROSA)26Sor locus on chromosome 6 has been used many times for the integration of transgenic constructs and is known to be permissive for transgene expression and disruption of the gene is not associated with a known phenotype. Furthermore, the transcript made from the Gt(ROSA)26Sor locus is ubiquitously expressed and subsequently the locus can be used to drive the ubiquitous expression of transgenes.

Here we report a protocol for the generation of targeted transgenic alleles at Gt(ROSA)26Sor, taking as an example a conditional overexpression allele, by PhiC31 integrase/recombinase-mediated cassette exchange of an engineered Gt(ROSA)26Sor locus in mouse embryonic stem cells. The overexpression allele is initially silenced by the presence of a loxP flanked stop sequence but can be strongly activated through the action of Cre recombinase.

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    Daniel Biggs, Chiann-mun Chen & Benjamin Davies

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Biggs, D., Chen, Cm., Davies, B. (2023). Targeted Integration of Transgenes at the Mouse Gt(ROSA)26Sor Locus. In: Saunders, T.L. (eds) Transgenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2631. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2990-1_13

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