Hyperactive self-inactivating piggyBac for transposase-enhanced pronuclear microinjection transgenesis

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Nov 20;109(47):19184-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1216473109. Epub 2012 Oct 23.

Abstract

We have developed a unique method for mouse transgenesis. The transposase-enhanced pronuclear microinjection (PNI) technique described herein uses the hyperactive piggyBac transposase to insert a large transgene into the mouse genome. This procedure increased transgene integration efficiency by fivefold compared with conventional PNI or intracytoplasmic sperm injection-mediated transgenesis. Our data indicate that the transposase-enhanced PNI technique additionally requires fewer embryos to be microinjected than traditional methods to obtain transgenic animals. This transposase-mediated approach is also very efficient for single-cell embryo cytoplasmic injections, offering an easy-to-implement transgenesis method to the scientific community.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / immunology
  • Cell Nucleus / metabolism*
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Crosses, Genetic
  • DNA Transposable Elements / genetics*
  • Embryo, Mammalian / metabolism
  • Female
  • Gene Transfer Techniques*
  • Genome / genetics
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins / metabolism
  • HEK293 Cells
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Microinjections / methods*
  • Mutagenesis, Insertional / genetics
  • Plasmids / genetics
  • Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic
  • Time Factors
  • Transfection
  • Transgenes / genetics
  • Transposases / metabolism*

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • DNA Transposable Elements
  • enhanced green fluorescent protein
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins
  • Transposases