In vivo protein trapping produces a functional expression codex of the vertebrate proteome

KJ Clark, D Balciunas, HM Pogoda, Y Ding… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
KJ Clark, D Balciunas, HM Pogoda, Y Ding, SE Westcot, VM Bedell, TM Greenwood…
Nature methods, 2011nature.com
We describe a conditional in vivo protein-trap mutagenesis system that reveals
spatiotemporal protein expression dynamics and can be used to assess gene function in the
vertebrate Danio rerio. Integration of pGBT-RP2. 1 (RP2), a gene-breaking transposon
containing a protein trap, efficiently disrupts gene expression with> 97% knockdown of
normal transcript amounts and simultaneously reports protein expression for each locus.
The mutant alleles are revertible in somatic tissues via Cre recombinase or splice-site …
Abstract
We describe a conditional in vivo protein-trap mutagenesis system that reveals spatiotemporal protein expression dynamics and can be used to assess gene function in the vertebrate Danio rerio. Integration of pGBT-RP2.1 (RP2), a gene-breaking transposon containing a protein trap, efficiently disrupts gene expression with >97% knockdown of normal transcript amounts and simultaneously reports protein expression for each locus. The mutant alleles are revertible in somatic tissues via Cre recombinase or splice-site-blocking morpholinos and are thus to our knowledge the first systematic conditional mutant alleles outside the mouse model. We report a collection of 350 zebrafish lines that include diverse molecular loci. RP2 integrations reveal the complexity of genomic architecture and gene function in a living organism and can provide information on protein subcellular localization. The RP2 mutagenesis system is a step toward a unified 'codex' of protein expression and direct functional annotation of the vertebrate genome.
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