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Nature Biotechnology | 2002

Cloned zebrafish by nuclear transfer from long-term-cultured cells

Ki-Young Lee; Haigen Huang; Bensheng Ju; Zhongan Yang; Shuo Lin

Although mammals have been cloned from genetically manipulated cultured cells, a comparable achievement has not been realized in lower vertebrates. Here we report that fertile transgenic zebrafish can be obtained by nuclear transfer using embryonic fibroblast cells from long-term cultures. The donor nuclei, modified by retroviral insertions expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP), were transplanted into manually enucleated eggs. Overall, a 2% success rate was achieved, resulting in 11 adult transgenic zebrafish expressing GFP. These nuclear transplants produced fertile, diploid offspring, and their F1/F2 progeny continued to express GFP in a pattern identical to that of the founder fish. This finding demonstrates that slowly dividing nuclei from cultured cells can be reprogrammed to support rapid embryonic development and sets up a foundation for targeted genetic manipulation in zebrafish.


Cell | 2010

TIF1γ Controls Erythroid Cell Fate by Regulating Transcription Elongation

Xiaoying Bai; Jonghwan Kim; Zhongan Yang; Michael J. Jurynec; Thomas E. Akie; Joseph Lee; Jocelyn LeBlanc; Anna Sessa; Hong Jiang; Anthony DiBiase; Yi Zhou; David Grunwald; Shuo Lin; Alan Cantor; Stuart H. Orkin; Leonard I. Zon

Recent genome-wide studies have demonstrated that pausing of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) occurred on many vertebrate genes. By genetic studies in the zebrafish tif1gamma mutant moonshine we found that loss of function of Pol II-associated factors PAF or DSIF rescued erythroid gene transcription in tif1gamma-deficient animals. Biochemical analysis established physical interactions among TIF1gamma, the blood-specific SCL transcription complex, and the positive elongation factors p-TEFb and FACT. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays in human CD34(+) cells supported a TIF1gamma-dependent recruitment of positive elongation factors to erythroid genes to promote transcription elongation by counteracting Pol II pausing. Our study establishes a mechanism for regulating tissue cell fate and differentiation through transcription elongation.


Genome Research | 2013

A Large-Scale Zebrafish Gene Knockout Resource for the Genome-Wide Study of Gene Function

Gaurav K. Varshney; Jing Lu; Derek Gildea; Haigen Huang; Wuhong Pei; Zhongan Yang; Sunny C. Huang; David Schoenfeld; Nam Pho; David Casero; Takashi Hirase; Deborah Mosbrook-Davis; Suiyaun Zhang; Li En Jao; Bo Zhang; Ian G. Woods; Steven Zimmerman; Alexander F. Schier; Tyra G. Wolfsberg; Matteo Pellegrini; Shawn M. Burgess; Shuo Lin

With the completion of the zebrafish genome sequencing project, it becomes possible to analyze the function of zebrafish genes in a systematic way. The first step in such an analysis is to inactivate each protein-coding gene by targeted or random mutation. Here we describe a streamlined pipeline using proviral insertions coupled with high-throughput sequencing and mapping technologies to widely mutagenize genes in the zebrafish genome. We also report the first 6144 mutagenized and archived F1s predicted to carry up to 3776 mutations in annotated genes. Using in vitro fertilization, we have rescued and characterized ~0.5% of the predicted mutations, showing mutation efficacy and a variety of phenotypes relevant to both developmental processes and human genetic diseases. Mutagenized fish lines are being made freely available to the public through the Zebrafish International Resource Center. These fish lines establish an important milestone for zebrafish genetics research and should greatly facilitate systematic functional studies of the vertebrate genome.


Nucleic Acids Research | 2012

The Zebrafish Insertion Collection (ZInC): a web based, searchable collection of zebrafish mutations generated by DNA insertion

Gaurav K. Varshney; Haigen Huang; Suiyuan Zhang; Jing Lu; Derek Gildea; Zhongan Yang; Tyra G. Wolfsberg; Shuo Lin; Shawn M. Burgess

ZInC (Zebrafish Insertional Collection, http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/ZInC/) is a web-searchable interface of insertional mutants in zebrafish. Over the last two decades, the zebrafish has become a popular model organism for studying vertebrate development as well as for modeling human diseases. To facilitate such studies, we are generating a genome-wide knockout resource that targets every zebrafish protein-coding gene. All mutant fish are freely available to the scientific community through the Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC). To assist researchers in finding mutant and insertion information, we developed a comprehensive database with a web front-end, the ZInC. It can be queried using multiple types of input such as ZFIN (Zebrafish Information Network) IDs, UniGene accession numbers and gene symbols from zebrafish, human and mouse. In the future, ZInC may include data from other insertional mutation projects as well. ZInC cross-references all integration data with the ZFIN (http://zfin.org/).


BMC Developmental Biology | 2007

A highly conserved regulatory element controls hematopoietic expression of GATA-2 in zebrafish

Zhongan Yang; Hong Jiang; Fang Zhao; Deepa B. Shankar; Kathleen M. Sakamoto; Michael Q. Zhang; Shuo Lin

BackgroundGATA-2 is a transcription factor required for hematopoietic stem cell survival as well as for neuronal development in vertebrates. It has been shown that specific expression of GATA-2 in blood progenitor cells requires distal cis-acting regulatory elements. Identification and characterization of these elements should help elucidating transcription regulatory mechanisms of GATA-2 expression in hematopoietic lineage.ResultsBy pair-wise alignments of the zebrafish genomic sequences flanking GATA-2 to orthologous regions of fugu, mouse, rat and human genomes, we identified three highly conserved non-coding sequences in the genomic region flanking GATA-2, two upstream of GATA-2 and another downstream. Using both transposon and bacterial artificial chromosome mediated germline transgenic zebrafish analyses, one of the sequences was established as necessary and sufficient to direct hematopoietic GFP expression in a manner that recapitulates that of GATA-2. In addition, we demonstrated that this element has enhancer activity in mammalian myeloid leukemia cell lines, thus validating its functional conservation among vertebrate species. Further analysis of potential transcription factor binding sites suggested that integrity of the putative HOXA3 and LMO2 sites is required for regulating GATA-2/GFP hematopoietic expression.ConclusionRegulation of GATA-2 expression in hematopoietic cells is likely conserved among vertebrate animals. The integrated approach described here, drawing on embryological, transgenesis and computational methods, should be generally applicable to analyze tissue-specific gene regulation involving distal DNA cis-acting elements.


Methods of Molecular Biology | 2009

Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Transgenesis for Zebrafish

Zhongan Yang; Hong Jiang; Shuo Lin

Transgenesis using bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC) allows greater fidelity in directing desirable expression of transgenes. Application of this technology in the optically transparent zebrafish with fluorescent protein reporters enables unparalleled visual analysis of gene expression in a living organism. We have developed a streamlined procedure of directly selecting multiple BAC clones based on public sequence databases followed by rapid modification with green fluorescent protein or red fluorescent protein for transgenic analysis in zebrafish. In this chapter, experimental procedures for BAC DNA preparation and generation of transgenic zebrafish lines by microinjection are described.


Methods in Cell Biology | 2011

Genetic suppressor screens in haploids.

Xiaoying Bai; Zhongan Yang; Hong Jiang; Shuo Lin; Leonard I. Zon

As a vertebrate genetic model, the zebrafish has been well recognized for its strength in studying a variety of biological processes and human diseases. Traditional forward genetic screens in zebrafish have generated a large pool of mutants with interesting phenotypes resembling human diseases but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. A powerful approach to elucidate the mechanisms of these mutants is the modifier screen, which identifies 2(nd)-site mutations that specifically enhance or block the phenotype of a given mutant. Here we described the first genetic suppressor screen in zebrafish, which identifies a novel transcriptional mechanism regulating erythropoiesis. In combination with the haploid genetics in zebrafish, we have shown the feasibility and strength of a modifier screen in zebrafish. This strategy will greatly broaden the utility of the zebrafish as a model for making original discoveries and establishing novel paradigms for understanding vertebrate biology.


Molecular Endocrinology | 2003

Pituitary Corticotroph Ontogeny and Regulation in Transgenic Zebrafish

Ning-Ai Liu; Haigen Huang; Zhongan Yang; Wiebke Herzog; Matthias Hammerschmidt; Shuo Lin; Shlomo Melmed


Methods | 2006

Modified bacterial artificial chromosomes for zebrafish transgenesis.

Zhongan Yang; Hong Jiang; Thawinee Chachainasakul; Shiaoching Gong; Xiangdong W. Yang; Nathaniel Heintz; Shuo Lin


Developmental Biology | 2001

A Zebrafish Forebrain-Specific Zinc Finger Gene Can Induce Ectopic dlx2 and dlx6 Expression

Zhongan Yang; Ningai Liu; Shuo Lin

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Shuo Lin

University of California

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Hong Jiang

University of California

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Haigen Huang

University of California

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Leonard I. Zon

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Xiaoying Bai

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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Anna Sessa

Boston Children's Hospital

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Derek Gildea

National Institutes of Health

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Gaurav K. Varshney

National Institutes of Health

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Jing Lu

University of California

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Jocelyn LeBlanc

Boston Children's Hospital

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