Immune Compromised Zebrafish

 

Utility of immune compromised animals for efficient transplant engraftment:

Cell transplantation of human and mouse cells into immune compromised mice has greatly impacted our understanding of stem cell function, regeneration following injury, and cancer.  However, these transplantation experiments routinely utilize small cohorts of mice due to high husbandry costs and engraftment of cells is difficult to visualize especially at single cell resolution. Capitalizing on transparent zebrafish and genome engineering approaches, we are developing mutant zebrafish lines that have impaired immune cell function resulting from similar mutations as observed in commonly utilized immunocompromised mouse strains and mimic mutations found in human severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).  These immune compromised zebrafish lines will be useful for adoptive transfer of zebrafish, mouse, and human cells.  This work is supported by an R24 Resource Grant from the Office of the Director at NIH (R24OD016761).

 

Lines in development:

Lines Developed	Zfin ID	Phenotype	Engraftment	Status
rag2E450fs (AB-strain)	fb101	Absent T cells, reduced B cells	Tumors and Normal Stem Cells	Available
rag2E450fs (casper-strain)	fb101	Absent T cells, reduced B cells	Tumors and Normal Stem Cells	Available
jak3P369fs (casper-strain)	fb102	Absent T and NK cells	Tumors and Normal Stem Cells	Available
prkdcD3612fs (casper-strain)	fb103	Absent T and B cells	Tumors and Normal Stem Cells	Available
Zap70 (AB-strain)	y442	Absent T cells	Tumors and Normal Stem Cells	Available

 

 

 

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