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Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 27, Issue 9 2059-2061, Copyright © 1999 by Oxford University Press

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Efficient bicistronic expression of cre in mammalian cells

JA Gorski and KR Jones
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

Cre recombinase-mediated DNA recombination is proving to be a powerful technique for the generation of mosaic mutant mice. To develop this technology further, we have altered the cre gene to enhance its expression in mammalian cells and have tested its efficiency of expression in a bicistronic message. Using a transient transfection assay, we found that the extension of a eukaryotic translation initiation consensus sequence, the insertion of two N-terminal amino acids, and the mutation of a cryptic splice acceptor site did not detectably alter Cre recombinase activity. The addition of either of two introns resulted in an approximately 2-fold increase in recombination frequency. We then tested the relative efficacy of Cre- mediated recombination in several bicistronic messages having the encephalomyocarditis virus internal ribosome entry site (IRES). Recombination frequencies were only reduced 2-fold relative to a comparable monocistronic cre gene. The latter results indicate that it will be possible to generate transgenic mouse strains having tissue- specific expression of the Cre recombinase through integration of an IRES-cre gene without disabling the targeted gene.
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