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Generation of rat mutants using a coat color-tagged Sleeping Beauty transposon system.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 May 2007
Lu Baisong, Geurts Aron M, Poirier Christophe, Petit Deborah C, Harrison Wilbur, Overbeek Paul A, Bishop Colin E
Abstract excerpt
A significant barrier to exploiting the full potential of the rat as a biomedical model is the lack of tools to easily modify its germline. Here we show that a tyrosinase-tagged Sleeping Beauty transposon can be used as a simple, efficient method to generate rat mutants in vivo. By making two lines of transgenic rats, one carrying the transposon and another expressing the transposase in germ cells, we are able to...
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