A zebrafish SKIV2L2-enhancer trap line provides a useful tool for the study of peripheral sensory circuit development
Highlights
► Tg(SKIV2L2:gfp)j1775 is a zebrafish enhancer trap line that labels sensory neurons. ► GFP expression starts soon after neurogenesis and is maintained into adulthood. ► There is no labeling of efferent axons in the periphery. ► The transgene is inserted in the 5′ end of the lhfpl4 gene. ► The expression pattern is novel and does not arise solely from the trapped gene nor the basal promoter in the construct.
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Results and discussion
The sensory peripheral nervous system carries information from the internal organs and the external environment to the CNS. In vertebrates, the nerves that carry such signals originate in ganglia lying outside the CNS (Butler and Hodos, 2005). Although the anatomy of these nerves has been known for over a century, the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the establishment of their connections are poorly understood. The zebrafish is an ideal vertebrate model for studying the
Zebrafish
Zebrafish and embryos were maintained as previously described (Kucenas et al., 2006). Embryos were treated with 0.003% phenylthiourea (PTU) to prevent pigmentation. The described line was constructed by a Tol2 transposon-mediated enhancer trap method (Fisher et al., 2006), using a fragment containing the eGFP gene and a 243 bp fragment of promoter and 5′-untranslated region from the human SKIV2L2 gene (superkiller viralicidic activity 2-like protein 2). Tg(SKIV2L2:gfp) was identified from a pool
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Rachael Sheridan for help with fish husbandry, and Linda Cox and Dr. J. Chrivia for help with the qPCR experiments. This work was supported by grants from the NIH to A. S. McC. (GM71648), S.L.J. (GM56988) and M.M.V. (NS060074) and from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine to M.M.V.
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