Mayer T C, Green M C
Genetics. 1978 Sep;90(1):125-31. doi: 10.1093/genetics/90.1.125.
The site of action of the sex-linked tabby (Ta) locus was analyzed by the technique of dermal-epidermal recombination grafting. Skin components from normal and tabby 14-day embryos were separated, recombined and grown 21 days in testes of histocompatible mice. Grafts of the combinations normal epidermis-normal dermis and normal epidermis-tabby dermis produced predominantly zig-zag hairs. Grafts of the combination tabby epidermis-normal dermis and tabby epidermis-tabby dermis produced hairs with a morphology similar to hairs found in tabby mice. We conclude from these results that the tabby locus acts within the epidermis, and has no effect on the dermis.
采用真皮-表皮重组移植技术分析了性连锁虎斑(Ta)基因座的作用位点。将正常和虎斑14日龄胚胎的皮肤成分分离、重组,并在组织相容性小鼠的睾丸中培养21天。正常表皮-正常真皮和正常表皮-虎斑真皮组合的移植主要产生锯齿状毛发。虎斑表皮-正常真皮和虎斑表皮-虎斑真皮组合的移植产生的毛发形态与虎斑小鼠中的毛发相似。从这些结果我们得出结论,虎斑基因座在表皮内起作用,对真皮没有影响。