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1 October 2004 Transgenic Mice Produced by Retroviral Transduction of Male Germ Line Stem Cells In Vivo
Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara, Shinya Toyokuni, Takashi Shinohara
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Abstract

Spermatogonial stem cells are the only stem cells in the postnatal body that can transmit parental genetic information to the offspring, making them an attractive target cell population for animal transgenesis. Although transgenic mice and rats were recently produced by retrovirus transduction of these cells in vitro, with transplantation of the transduced cells into infertile recipients, the difficulty of restoring fertility and preparing recipients using spermatogonial transplantation limits practical application of the technique. In this article, we describe a novel approach for producing transgenic animals by transducing spermatogonial stem cells in vivo using a retrovirus vector. Microinjection of retrovirus into immature seminiferous tubules resulted in the direct transduction of spermatogonial stem cells in situ, and the animals produced transgenic offspring after mating with females. Transgenic mice were produced in C57BL/6, BALB/C, A, and C3H backgrounds, with an average efficiency of 2.8%. The transgene was transmitted stably and expressed in the next generation. The technique overcomes the drawback of the in vitro-transduction approach, and will be useful as a novel method for producing transgenic animals as well as providing a means for analyzing the self-renewal and differentiation processes of spermatogonial stem cells in vivo.

Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara, Shinya Toyokuni, and Takashi Shinohara "Transgenic Mice Produced by Retroviral Transduction of Male Germ Line Stem Cells In Vivo," Biology of Reproduction 71(4), 1202-1207, (1 October 2004). https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.104.031294
Received: 26 April 2004; Accepted: 1 June 2004; Published: 1 October 2004
KEYWORDS
developmental biology
gametogenesis
Sertoli cells
spermatogenesis
testis
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