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Myelin deficient transgenic mice. Minoru KIMURA 1 1Department of DNA Biology, School of Medicine, Tokai University pp.53-64
Published Date 1991/2/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431900110
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Myelin is a lamellar structure which surrounds axons in the nervous systems and it aids in conduc-tion of nerve impulses. Myelin basic proteins (MBPs) are one of the major components of the myelin sheath in the central nervous system (CNS) and coded by the single gene. It is thought that they are necessary for myelin formation in the CNS. The hypomyelinating mouse, the shiverer, has a deletion in the MBP gene, lacks all four types MBP in its myelin, and shows abnormal behavior such as vigo-rous tremors.

Two minigenes containing mouse cDNAs, each of which is coding for the smallest or the second smallest type of MBP, were constructed. Each of them includes the native mouse MBP promoter, a portion of the rabbit β-globin exons and introns, and poly(A) addition signals of the rabbit β-globin gene and the SV40 early gene. They were used to produce transgenic shiverer mice. Both transgcnic shiverer mice produced after injection each type of the minigene, showed recovered MBP synthesis, com-pact myelin formation, and normal behavior. These results suggest that a single type of MBP restores myelin formation and returns the shivering phenotype to normal in the transgenic shiverer mice.


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