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. 1997 Jul;17(7):4080-6.
doi: 10.1128/MCB.17.7.4080.

Proviral inactivation of the Npat gene of Mpv 20 mice results in early embryonic arrest

M Di Fruscio  1 , H Weiher, B C Vanderhyden, T Imai, T Shiomi, T A Hori, R Jaenisch, D A Gray
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Proviral inactivation of the Npat gene of Mpv 20 mice results in early embryonic arrest

M Di Fruscio et al. Mol Cell Biol. 1997 Jul.

Abstract

The Mpv 20 transgenic mouse strain was created by infection of embryos with a defective retrovirus. When Mpv 20 heterozygous animals were crossed, no homozygous neonatal mice or midgestation embryos were identified. When embryos from heterozygous crosses were cultured in vitro, approximately one quarter arrested as uncompacted eight-cell embryos, indicating that proviral insertion resulted in a recessive lethal defect whose phenotype was manifest very early in development. Molecular cloning of the Mpv 20 insertion site revealed that the provirus had disrupted the Npat gene, a gene of unknown function, resulting in the production of a truncated Npat mRNA. Expression of the closely linked Atm gene was found to be unaffected by the provirus.

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