Article
Cre-mediated recombination can induce apoptosis in vivo by activating the p53 DNA damage-induced pathway.
Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) - 1 Feb 2012
Zhu Jianjian, Nguyen Minh-Thanh, Nakamura Eiichiro, Yang Junming, Mackem Susan
Abstract excerpt
Cre-mediated apoptosis has been observed in many contexts in mice expressing Cre-recombinase and can confound the analysis of genetically engineered conditional mutant or transgenic alleles. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. We find that the degree of apoptosis induced correlates roughly with the copy number of loxP sites present in the genome and that some level of increased...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
