Browsing by Author "Miano, Joseph M."

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    CRISPR-Cas9 Mediated Epitope Tagging Provides Accurate and Versatile Assessment of Myocardin
    (American Heart Association, 2018-09) Lyu, Qing; Dhagia, Vidhi; Han, Yu; Guo, Bing; Wines-Samuelson, Mary E.; Christie, Christine K.; Yin, Qiangzong; Slivano, Orazio J.; Herring, Paul; Long, Xiaochun; Gupte, Sachin A.; Miano, Joseph M.; Cellular and Integrative Physiology, School of Medicine
    Objective- Unreliable antibodies often hinder the accurate detection of an endogenous protein, and this is particularly true for the cardiac and smooth muscle cofactor, MYOCD (myocardin). Accordingly, the mouse Myocd locus was targeted with 2 independent epitope tags for the unambiguous expression, localization, and activity of MYOCD protein. Approach and Results- 3cCRISPR (3-component clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat) was used to engineer a carboxyl-terminal 3×FLAG or 3×HA epitope tag in mouse embryos. Western blotting with antibodies to each tag revealed a MYOCD protein product of ≈150 kDa, a size considerably larger than that reported in virtually all publications. MYOCD protein was most abundant in some adult smooth muscle-containing tissues with surprisingly low-level expression in the heart. Both alleles of Myocd are active in aorta because a 2-fold increase in protein was seen in mice homozygous versus heterozygous for FLAG-tagged Myocd. ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation)-quantitative polymerase chain reaction studies provide proof-of-principle data demonstrating the utility of this mouse line in conducting genome-wide ChIP-seq studies to ascertain the full complement of MYOCD-dependent target genes in vivo. Although FLAG-tagged MYOCD protein was undetectable in sections of adult mouse tissues, low-passaged vascular smooth muscle cells exhibited expected nuclear localization. Conclusions- This report validates new mouse models for analyzing MYOCD protein expression, localization, and binding activity in vivo and highlights the need for rigorous authentication of antibodies in biomedical research.
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    Response to correspondence on “Reproducibility of CRISPR-Cas9 methods for generation of conditional mouse alleles: a multi-center evaluation”
    (BMC, 2021-04-07) Gurumurthy, Channabasavaiah B.; O’Brien, Aidan R.; Quadros, Rolen M.; Adams, John, Jr.; Alcaide, Pilar; Ayabe, Shinya; Ballard, Johnathan; Batra, Surinder K.; Beauchamp, Marie-Claude; Becker, Kathleen A.; Bernas, Guillaume; Brough, David; Carrillo-Salinas, Francisco; Chan, Wesley; Chen, Hanying; Dawson, Ruby; DeMambro, Victoria; D’Hont, Jinke; Dibb, Katharine; Eudy, James D.; Gan, Lin; Gao, Jing; Gonzales, Amy; Guntur, Anyonya; Guo, Huiping; Harms, Donald W.; Harrington, Anne; Hentges, Kathryn E.; Humphreys, Neil; Imai, Shiho; Ishii, Hideshi; Iwama, Mizuho; Jonasch, Eric; Karolak, Michelle; Keavney, Bernard; Khin, Nay-Chi; Konno, Masamitsu; Kotani, Yuko; Kunihiro, Yayoi; Lakshmanan, Imayavaramban; Larochelle, Catherine; Lawrence, Catherine B.; Li, Lin; Lindner, Volkhard; Liu, Xian-De; Lopez-Castejon, Gloria; Loudon, Andrew; Lowe, Jenna; Jerome-Majeweska, Loydie; Matsusaka, Taiji; Miura, Hiromi; Miyasaka, Yoshiki; Morpurgo, Benjamin; Moty, Katherine; Nabeshima, Yo-ichi; Nakade, Koji; Nakashiba, Toshiaki; Nakashima, Kenichi; Obata, Yuichi; Ogiwara, Sanae; Ouellet, Mariette; Oxburgh, Leif; Piltz, Sandra; Pinz, Ilka; Ponnusamy, Moorthy P.; Ray, David; Redder, Ronald J.; Rosen, Clifford J.; Ross, Nikki; Ruhe, Mark T.; Ryzhova, Larisa; Salvador, Ane M.; Shameen Alam, Sabrina; Sedlacek, Radislav; Sharma, Karan; Smith, Chad; Staes, Katrien; Starrs, Lora; Sugiyama, Fumihiro; Takahashi, Satoru; Tanaka, Tomohiro; Trafford, Andrew; Uno, Yoshihiro; Vanhoutte, Leen; Vanrockeghem, Frederique; Willis, Brandon J.; Wright, Christian S.; Yamauchi, Yuko; Yi, Xin; Yoshimi, Kazuto; Zhang, Xuesong; Zhang, Yu; Ohtsuka, Masato; Das, Satyabrata; Garry, Daniel J.; Hochepied, Tino; Thomas, Paul; Parker-Thornburg, Jan; Adamson, Antony D.; Yoshiki, Atsushi; Schmouth, Jean-Francois; Golovko, Andrei; Thompson, William R.; Lloyd, K.C. Kent; Wood, Joshua A.; Cowan, Mitra; Mashimo, Tomoji; Mizuno, Seiya; Zhu, Hao; Kasparek, Petr; Liaw, Lucy; Miano, Joseph M.; Burgio, Gaetan; Medicine, School of Medicine