title: Generation of a conditional CREB Ser133Ala knockin mouse.
abstract: Phosphorylation of Ser133 in the transcription factor CREB is an important mechanism for regulating its transcriptional activity, however recent work has suggested significant roles for other regulatory inputs into CREB. To allow study of this in vivo, we have generated a Ser133 to alanine knockin mutation in the mouse CREB locus. As CREB knockout is perinatal lethal, a minigene strategy was used to allow conditional knockin of the Ser133Ala mutation in adult mice using Cre recombinase. While some expression of the mutated protein was observed prior to Cre expression, following Cre expression in either T cells or neurons only the mutated CREB protein was detected.
authors.affiliation: MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Andrew D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Wingate
authors.forename: Kirsty J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hunter
authors.forename: Julia M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clacher
authors.forename: J Simon C
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Arthur
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017362:Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D055879:Gene Knock-In Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D019426:Integrases / Q000235:genetics; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009154:Mutation
chemical_list: C492004:Creb1 protein, mouse; D017362:Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein; C045073:Cre recombinase; D019426:Integrases