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The identification of cis-sequences responsible for spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression often requires the functional analysis of large genomic regions. In this study a 100-kb zebrafish Hoxa-11b-lacZ reporter gene was constructed and expressed in transgenic mice. PAC clone 10-O19, containing a portion of the zebrafish HoxA-b cluster, was captured into the yeast-bacterial shuttle vector, pPAC-ResQ, by recombinogenic targeting. A lacZ reporter gene was then inserted in-frame into exon 1 of the zfHoxa-11b locus by a second round of recombinogenic targeting. Expression of the zfHoxa-11b-lacZ reporter gene in 10.5 d.p.f. transgenic mouse embryos was observed only in the posterior portion of the A-P axis, in the paraxial mesoderm, neural tube, and somites. These findings demonstrate the utility of recombinogenic targeting for the modification and expression of large inserts captured from P1/PAC clones.
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Received: 22 June 1999 / Accepted: 1 September 1999
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Chiu, CH., Amemiya, C., Carr, J. et al. A recombinogenic targeting method to modify large-inserts for cis-regulatory analysis in transgenic mice: construction and expression of a 100-kb, zebrafish Hoxa-11b-lacZ reporter gene. Dev Gene Evol 210, 105–109 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004270050016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004270050016