Knock-in mouse models can be constructed by Targeted Gene Editing-Pro or embryonic stem (ES) cell-mediated gene targeting technology. With our proprietary TurboKnockout® Gene Targeting services, Cyagen can generate large fragment knockin (LFKI) mice with fragment sizes up to 300 kb.
Gene knockin mice are indispensable for Bebas Jitu biomedical research, such as the discovery of new drug targets and preclinical pharmacodynamic evaluation.
- Imitating human genetic mechanisms
- Exploring human pathogenic mechanisms
- Humanized mouse generation, to accelerate drug research and development
- Tracing gene expression
- Lineage tracing to trace the origin of cells
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Types of knock in mouse designs:
- Reporter – Track gene expression or the lineage specification and differentiation of desired cell types.
- Point mutation – Study functional gain/loss of a protein with a subtle mutation by altering one or more nucleotides.
- Humanization – Study antibody or small molecule drugs in mice expressing the human drug target.
- Targeted transgenics at a ‘safe harbor’ locus – Study novel transgenes in the absence of random insertion effects.
Non-conditional (constitutive) knock-in mutations are generated by knocking in a foreign sequence into a targeted locus which expresses the inserted sequence throughout the development and life of the model with no options or conditionality. Some of the common designs for non-conditional models are reporter-tagged mice and recombinase mice.
