Cre Driver Mice Targeting Macrophages.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

JAX Location

Reprint Collection

JAX Source

Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1784:263-275

Volume

1784

First Page

263

Last Page

275

ISSN

1940-6029

PMID

29761406

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7837-3_24

Abstract

The Cre/loxP system is a widely applied technology for site-specific genetic manipulation in mice. This system allows for deletion of the genes of interest in specific cells, tissues, and whole organism to generate a diversity of conditional knockout mouse strains. Additionally, the Cre/loxP system is useful for development of cell- and tissue-specific reporter mice for lineage tracing, and cell-specific conditional depletion models in mice. Recently, the Cre/loxP technique was extensively adopted to characterize the monocyte/macrophage biology in mouse models. Compared to other relatively homogenous immune cell types such as neutrophils, mast cells, and basophils, monocytes/macrophages represent a highly heterogeneous population which lack specific markers or transcriptional factors. Though great efforts have been made toward establishing macrophage-specific Cre driver mice in the past decade, all of the current available strains are not perfect with regard to their depletion efficiency and targeting specificity for endogenous macrophages. Here we overview the commonly used Cre driver mouse strains targeting macrophages and discuss their major applications and limitations. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1784:263-275

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