title: Knock-in Luciferase Reporter Mice for In Vivo Monitoring of CREB Activity.
abstract: The cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) is induced during fasting in the liver, where it stimulates transcription of rate-limiting gluconeogenic genes to maintain metabolic homeostasis. Adenoviral and transgenic CREB reporters have been used to monitor hepatic CREB activity non-invasively using bioluminescence reporter imaging. However, adenoviral vectors and randomly inserted transgenes have several limitations. To overcome disadvantages of the currently used strategies, we created a ROSA26 knock-in CREB reporter mouse line (ROSA26-CRE-luc). cAMP-inducing ligands stimulate the reporter in primary hepatocytes and myocytes from ROSA26-CRE-luc animals. In vivo, these animals exhibit little hepatic CREB activity in the ad libitum fed state but robust induction after fasting. Strikingly, CREB was markedly stimulated in liver, but not in skeletal muscle, after overnight voluntary wheel-running exercise, uncovering differential regulation of CREB in these tissues under catabolic states. The ROSA26-CRE-luc mouse line is a useful resource to study dynamics of CREB activity longitudinally in vivo and can be used as a source of primary cells for analysis of CREB regulatory pathways ex vivo.
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Dmitry
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Akhmedov
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Kavitha
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rajendran
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Maria G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Mendoza-Rodriguez
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, United States of America.|Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, United States of America.|Cell and Regulatory Biology Program, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9929-1711
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Berdeaux