Kinetics of alpha-synuclein depletion in three brain regions following conditional pan-neuronal inactivation of the encoding gene (Snca) by tamoxifen-induced Cre-recombination in adult mice

Chaprov, Kirill D., Lysikova, Ekaterina A., Teterina, Ekaterina V. and Buchman, Vladimir L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7631-8352 2021. Kinetics of alpha-synuclein depletion in three brain regions following conditional pan-neuronal inactivation of the encoding gene (Snca) by tamoxifen-induced Cre-recombination in adult mice. Transgenic Research 30 , pp. 867-873. 10.1007/s11248-021-00286-3

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Abstract

Conditional pan-neuronal inactivation of the Snca gene in 2-month old male and female mice causes dramatic decrease in the level of the encoded protein, alpha-synuclein, in three studied brain regions, namely cerebral cortex, midbrain and striatum, 12 weeks after the last injection of tamoxifen. Kinetics of alpha-synuclein depletion is different in these brain regions with a longer lag period in the cerebral cortex where this protein is normally most abundant. Our results suggest that efficient post-developmental pan-neuronal knockout of alpha-synuclein in adult, i.e. 5- to 6-month old, animals, could be achieved by tamoxifen treatment of 2-month old mice carrying loxP-flanked Snca gene and expressing inducible Cre-ERT2 recombinase under control of the promoter of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) gene.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Additional Information:	This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0962-8819
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 September 2021
Date of Acceptance:	14 September 2021
Last Modified:	18 May 2023 05:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144381

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