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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 1, 1998, 18(1):227-236
Tissue and Zonal-Specific Expression of an Olfactory Receptor
Transgene
Pankaj
Qasba and
Randall R.
Reed
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Molecular
Biology and Genetics and Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
Discrimination of odorants is thought to arise from the selective
expression of one of a small number of individual receptors in any
single olfactory neuron. Receptor genes are expressed in a small subset
of neurons throughout a zonally restricted region of the sensory
epithelium. We demonstrate that a 6.7 kb region upstream of the
M4 olfactory receptor coding region was sufficient to
direct expression in olfactory epithelium. Moreover, reporter expression recapitulated the zonal restriction and distributed neuronal
expression observed for endogenous olfactory receptors. Transgenic
lines were obtained that directed expression in two different receptor
zones, one of which was identical to the endogenous M4
receptor. When the reporter was expressed in the same zone as the
endogenous M4 receptor, the two expression patterns
were, in large part, nonoverlapping. These results suggest a model in which important regulatory elements are located in close proximity to
transcription initiation sites of the olfactory receptor genes and
receive information defining zonal patterning via long-range processes.
Key words:
transgene; receptors; zones; M4; sensory
neurons; olfactory epithelium
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/181227-10$05.00/0
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