摘要
The integration pattern and adjacent host sequences of the inserted pMThGH-transgene in the F4 hGH-transgeniccommon carp were extensively studied. Here we show that each F4 transgenic fish contained about 200 copies of thepMThGH-transgene and the transgenes were integrated into the host genome generally with concatemers in a head-to-tail arrangement at 4-5 insertion sites. By using a method of plasmid rescue, four hundred copies of transgenes fromtwo individuals of F4 transgenic fish, A and B, were recovered and clarified into 6 classes. All classes of recoveredtransgenes contained either complete or partial pMThGH sequences. The class I, which comprised 83% and 84.5%respectively of the recovered transgene copies from fish A and B, had maintained the original configuration, indicatingthat most transgenes were faithfully inherited during the four generations of reproduction. The other five classes weredifferent from the original configuration in both molecular weight and restriction map, indicating that a few transgeneshad undergone mutation, rearrangement or deletion during integration and germline transmission. In the five types ofaberrant transgenes, three flanking sequences of the host genome were analyzed. These sequences were common carpβ-actin gene, common carp DNA sequences homologous to mouse phosphoglycerate kinase-1 and human epidermalkeratin 14, respectively.
基金
supported bythe Major State Basic Research Development Program ofChina (No. 2004CB117406 and G2000016109)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.90208024 and 39823003).
