Nature Communications (May 2019)

iSuRe-Cre is a genetic tool to reliably induce and report Cre-dependent genetic modifications

  • Macarena Fernández-Chacón,
  • Verónica Casquero-García,
  • Wen Luo,
  • Federica Francesca Lunella,
  • Susana Ferreira Rocha,
  • Sergio Del Olmo-Cabrera,
  • Rui Benedito

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10239-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The Cre-Lox system allows high spatiotemporal control of genetic modifications. Here the authors present iSuRe-Cre that significantly increases Cre activity in reporter expressing cells, which ultimately increases the efficiency and reliability of Cre-dependent reporter and gene function analysis.