Hayashi Toshinori, Takeuchi Takashi
School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, 86 Nishimachi, Yonago, Tottori, Japan.
Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1338:119-26. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2932-0_10.
Newts have the remarkable capability of organ/tissue regeneration, and have been used as a unique experimental model for regenerative biology. The Iberian ribbed newt (Pleurodeles waltl) is suitable as a model animal. We have established methods for artificial insemination and efficient transgenesis using P. waltl newts. In addition to the transgenic technique, development of TALENs enables targeting mutagenesis in the newts. We have reported that TALENs efficiently disrupted targeted genes in newt embryos. In this chapter, we introduce a protocol for TALEN-mediated gene targeting in Iberian ribbed newts.
蝾螈具有显著的器官/组织再生能力,已被用作再生生物学的独特实验模型。伊比利亚肋突螈(Pleurodeles waltl)适合作为模式动物。我们已经建立了使用伊比利亚肋突螈进行人工授精和高效转基因的方法。除了转基因技术,TALENs的发展使得在蝾螈中进行靶向诱变成为可能。我们已经报道TALENs能有效地破坏蝾螈胚胎中的靶向基因。在本章中,我们介绍一种在伊比利亚肋突螈中进行TALEN介导的基因靶向的方案。