PUBLICATION
Zebrafish cardiac enhancer trap lines: New tools for in vivo studies of cardiovascular development and disease
- Authors
- Poon, K.L., Liebling, M., Kondrychyn, I., Garcia-Lecea, M., and Korzh, V.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100112-31
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 239(3): 914-926 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Garcia-Lecea, Marta, Kondrychyn, Igor, Korzh, Vladimir, Liebling, Michael, Poon, Kar Lai
- Keywords
- epicardium, myocardium, endocardium, bulbus arteriosus, ventricle, atrium, valves, fast scanning confocal imaging, image rendering, fhla
- MeSH Terms
-
- Pericardium/pathology
- Heart/embryology*
- Transgenes
- Endocardium/pathology
- Genetic Techniques*
- Animals
- Cardiovascular System
- Myocardium/metabolism*
- Disease Models, Animal
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
- Zebrafish
- Microscopy, Confocal/methods
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Cardiovascular Diseases/pathology
- Heart Atria/pathology
- PubMed
- 20063419 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Poon, K.L., Liebling, M., Kondrychyn, I., Garcia-Lecea, M., and Korzh, V. (2010) Zebrafish cardiac enhancer trap lines: New tools for in vivo studies of cardiovascular development and disease. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 239(3):914-926.
Abstract
Using the transposon-mediated enhancer trap (ET), we generated 18 cardiac enhancer trap (CET) transgenic zebrafish lines. They exhibit EGFP expression in defined cell types-the endocardium, myocardium, and epicardium-or in anatomical regions of the heart-the atrium, ventricle, valves, or bulbus arteriosus. Most of these expression domains are maintained into adulthood. The genomic locations of the transposon insertions were determined by thermal asymmetric interlaced polymerase chain reaction (TAIL-PCR). The expression pattern of EGFP in some CETs is unique and recapitulates expression of genes flanking the transposon insertion site. The CETs enabled us to capture the dynamics of the embryonic heart beating in vivo using fast scanning confocal microscopy coupled with image reconstruction, producing three-dimensional movies in time (4D) illustrating region-specific features of heart contraction. This collection of CET lines represents a toolbox of markers for in vivo studies of heart development, physiology, and drug screening.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping