Lécureuil Charlotte, Fontaine Isabelle, Crepieux Pascale, Guillou Florian
Station de Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Tours, Nouzilly, France.
Genesis. 2002 Jul;33(3):114-8. doi: 10.1002/gene.10100.
We have established transgenic mice expressing the Cre recombinase under the control of the anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) gene promoter. Cre activity and specificity were evaluated by different means. In AMH-Cre mice, expression of the Cre recombinase mRNA was confined to the testis and ovary. AMH-Cre mice were crossed with reporter transgenic lines and the offspring exhibited Cre-mediated recombination only in the testis and the ovary. In male, histochemical analysis indicated that recombination occurred in every Sertoli cells. In female, Cre-mediated recombination was restricted to granulosa cells, but the protein was not evenly active in every cells. From these results, we conclude that potentially, this transgenic line possessing AMH promoter-driven expression of the Cre recombinase is a powerful tool to delete genes in Sertoli cells only, in order to study Sertoli cell gene function during mammalian spermatogenesis.
我们构建了在抗苗勒管激素(AMH)基因启动子控制下表达Cre重组酶的转基因小鼠。通过不同方法评估了Cre活性和特异性。在AMH-Cre小鼠中,Cre重组酶mRNA的表达局限于睾丸和卵巢。将AMH-Cre小鼠与报告基因转基因品系杂交,后代仅在睾丸和卵巢中表现出Cre介导的重组。在雄性中,组织化学分析表明重组发生在每个支持细胞中。在雌性中,Cre介导的重组局限于颗粒细胞,但该蛋白在每个细胞中的活性并不均匀。从这些结果我们得出结论,潜在地,这种具有AMH启动子驱动的Cre重组酶表达的转基因品系是一种强大的工具,可仅在支持细胞中删除基因,以研究哺乳动物精子发生过程中支持细胞基因的功能。