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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4890
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-2-23
pubmed:abstractText
Difficulties associated with in vitro manipulation and culture of the early chicken embryo have restricted generation of transgenic chickens to approaches that use replication-competent retroviruses. The need to produce transgenic chickens in the absence of replicating virus prompted development of a new method of gene transfer into the chicken. Microinjection of the replication-defective reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) vector ME111 beneath unincubated chicken embryo blastoderms results in infection of germline stem cells. This vector contains genetic information exogenous to the chicken genome, including both the herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase gene and the Tn5 neomycin phosphotransferase gene. About 8 percent of male birds hatched from injected embryos contained vector DNA in their semen. All four positive males tested passed vector sequences onto their progeny. Analysis of G1 offspring showed that gonads of G0 male birds were mosaic with respect to insertion of vector provirus. Thus, primordial germ cells present in the unincubated chicken embryo blastoderm are susceptible to infection by defective REV vectors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
243
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
533-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-3-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Animals, Genetically Modified, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Blastoderm, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Blotting, Southern, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Chick Embryo, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Chickens, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-DNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-DNA Probes, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Germ Cells, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Kanamycin Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Male, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Microinjections, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Nucleic Acid Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Phosphotransferases, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Retroviridae, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Semen, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Simplexvirus, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Thymidine Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:2536194-Transfection
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Germline transmission of exogenous genes in the chicken.
pubmed:affiliation
Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article