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ArticleEMBO reports2003

Efficient transgenesis in farm animals by lentiviral vectors.

Andreas Hofmann, Barbara Kessler, Sonja Ewerling, Myriam Weppert, Barbara Vogg, Harald Ludwig, Miodrag Stojkovic, Marc Boelhauve, Gottfried Brem, Eckhard Wolf and 1 more

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Article in EMBO reports, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers.

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88citing papers in PubMed
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

88 citing papers in PubMed, 275 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Improvements in pig agriculture through gene editing.CABI agriculture and bioscience · 2022
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  13. Current Approaches and Applications in Avian Genome Editing.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andreas HofmannDepartment of Pharmacy, Institute for Pharmacology, Center for Drug Research, Butenandtstrasse 5 (C), Ludwig-Maximilians University, 81377 Munich, Germany.
Barbara Kessler
Sonja Ewerling
Myriam Weppert
Barbara Vogg
Harald Ludwig
Miodrag Stojkovic
Marc Boelhauve
Gottfried Brem
Eckhard Wolf
Alexander Pfeifer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microinjection of DNA is now the most widespread method for generating transgenic animals, but transgenesis rates achieved this way in higher mammals are extremely low. To address this longstanding problem, we used lentiviral vectors carrying a ubiquitously active promoter (phosphoglycerate kinase, LV-PGK) to deliver transgenes to porcine embryos. Of the 46 piglets born, 32 (70%) carried the transgene DNA and 30 (94%) of these pigs expressed the transgene (green fluorescent protein, GFP). Direct fluorescence imaging and immunohistochemistry showed that GFP was expressed in all tissues of LV-PGK transgenic pigs, including germ cells. Importantly, the transgene was transmitted through the germ-line. Tissue-specific transgene expression was achieved by infecting porcine embryos with lentiviral vectors containing the human keratin K14 promoter (LV-K14). LV-K14 transgenic animals expressed GFP specifically in basal keratinocytes of the skin. Finally, infection of bovine oocytes after and before in vitro fertilization with LV-PGK resulted in transgene expression in 45% and 92% of the infected embryos, respectively.

Indexed as

Animals, Genetically ModifiedGenetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesLentivirusAnimalsCattleEmbryo, MammalianGenes, ReporterImmunohistochemistryMicroscopy, FluorescenceOocytesSwine

Identifiers

PMID14566324
PMCPMC1326377
OpenAlexW2064826992

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