Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Cre-Controlled CRISPR mutagenesis provides fast and easy conditional gene inactivation in zebrafish

  • Stefan Hans,
  • Daniela Zöller,
  • Juliane Hammer,
  • Johanna Stucke,
  • Sandra Spieß,
  • Gokul Kesavan,
  • Volker Kroehne,
  • Juan Sebastian Eguiguren,
  • Diana Ezhkova,
  • Andreas Petzold,
  • Andreas Dahl,
  • Michael Brand

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21427-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Targeting a gene with two loxP sites is both time and labour intensive. Here the authors present Cre-Controlled CRISPR allowing conditional mutagenesis of a gene of interest and simultaneously labelling the putative mutant cells fluorescently.