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(American Journal of Pathology. 2004;164:487-499.)
© 2004 American Society for Investigative Pathology

Chicken Collagen X Regulatory Sequences Restrict Transgene Expression to Hypertrophic Cartilage in Mice

Michelle R. Campbell, Catherine J. Gress, Elizabeth H. Appleman and Olena Jacenko

From the Department of Animal Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Collagen X is produced by hypertrophic cartilage undergoing endochondral ossification. Transgenic mice expressing defective collagen X under the control of 4.7- or 1.6-kb chicken collagen X regulatory sequences yielded skeleto-hematopoietic defects (Jacenko O, LuValle P, Olsen BR: Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia in mice carrying a dominant-negative mutation in a matrix protein specific for cartilage-to-bone transition. Nature 1993, 365:56–61; Jacenko O, Chan D, Franklin A, Ito S, Underhill CB, Bateman JF, Campbell MR: A dominant interference collagen X mutation disrupts hypertrophic chondrocyte pericellular matrix and glycosaminoglycan and proteoglycan distribution in transgenic mice. Am J Pathol 2001, 159:2257–2269; Jacenko O, Roberts DW, Campbell MR, McManus PM, Gress CJ, Tao Z: Linking hematopoiesis to endochondral ossification through analysis of mice transgenic for collagen X. Am J Pathol 2002, 160:2019–2034). Current data indicate that the hematopoietic abnormalities do not result from extraskeletal expression of endogenous collagen X or the transgene. Organs from mice carrying either promoter were screened by immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and Northern blot; transgene and mouse collagen X proteins and messages were detected only in hypertrophic cartilage. Likewise, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction revealed both transgene and mouse collagen X amplicons only in the endochondral skeleton of mice with the 4.7-kb promoter; however, in mice with the 1.6-kb promoter, multiple organs were transgene-positive. Collagen X and transgene amplicons were also detected in marrow, but likely resulted from contaminating trabecular bone; this was supported by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis of rat tibial zones free of trabeculae. Our data demonstrate that in mice, the 4.7-kb chicken collagen X promoter restricts transcription temporo-spatially to that of endogenous collagen X, and imply that murine skeleto-hematopoietic defects result from transgene co-expression with collagen X. Moreover, the 4.7-kb hypertrophic cartilage-specific promoter could be used for targeting transgenes to this tissue site in mice.




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