Strain Name:
CB6-Tg(Rbp3-SV40)IT-2Jjw/Mmjax
Stock Number:
032030-JAX
Citation ID:
RRID:MMRRC_032030-JAX

Strain Information

SV40gp6
Name: Simian vacuolating virus 40
Type: Gene
Species: Virus
Chromosome:
Rbp3
Name: retinol binding protein 3, interstitial
Synonyms: Rbp-3, Irbp
Type: Gene
Species: Mouse
Chromosome: 14
NCBI: 19661
VEGA: 14
HGNC: HGNC:9921
Homologene: 9261
Tg(Rbp3-SV40)IT-2Jjw
Name: transgene insertion IT-2, Jolene J Windle
Synonyms: IRBP-Tag
Type: Transgene
Species: Mus musculus (mouse)
Chromosome: unknown
Alteration at locus: Transgenic
Genotype Determination
Phenotype
Homozygous: Undetermined.

Hemizygous: Mice hemizygous for the IRBP-Tag allele are viable, fertile, normal in size and do not display any gross physical or behavioral abnormalities. Expression of Tag is regulated by a murine interstitial retinol binding protein (IRBP) promoter (rbp3), which leads to expression of Tag in photoreceptor cells of the developing retina before their terminal differentiation. This expression results in hereditary retinoblastomas and pineal tumors arising from photoreceptor cells and pinealocytes, which may share a common evolutionary ancestor with retinal cells. IRBP-Tag mice develop narrowed ocular fissures by 3 to 4 weeks of age, and exophthalmia by 8 weeks of age. The pineal gland is enlarged by 5 to 6 weeks of age, and is no longer intact by 8 to 10 weeks of age when the tumor covers and invades the cerebral and cerebellar hemispheres. These mice may be useful for studying heritable ocular tumors of photoreceptor cell origin and pineal tumors associated with retinoblastoma.
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/genetics
  • Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/metabolism
  • Blotting, Northern
  • Brain Neoplasms/metabolism
  • Brain Neoplasms/pathology
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Eye Neoplasms/genetics
  • Eye Neoplasms/metabolism
  • Eye Neoplasms/pathology
  • Eye Proteins
  • Female
  • Gene Expression
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Photoreceptor Cells/metabolism
  • Photoreceptor Cells/pathology
  • Pineal Gland/metabolism
  • Pineal Gland/pathology
  • Retinoblastoma/genetics
  • Retinoblastoma/metabolism
  • Retinoblastoma/pathology
  • Retinol-Binding Proteins/genetics
  • Retinol-Binding Proteins/metabolism
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • Brain/pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms/genetics
  • Crystallins/genetics
  • Eye Proteins/genetics
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Retina/pathology
Strain Development
The IRBP-Tag transgene contains the simian virus 40 (SV40) early region encoding both large T-antigen (Tag) and small t-antigen under the control of murine interstitial retinol binding protein (IRBP) promoter (rbp3). The construct was microinjected into fertilized oocytes obtained from matings of CB6F1/Hsd (BALB/cAnNHsd inbred female bred to C57BL/6NHsd inbred male), and offspring from founder line 2 were bred to CB6F1/Hsd nontransgenic mice to establish a colony. Upon arrival at The Jackson Laboratory, mice were bred to CB6F1/J hybrid mice for at least one generation to establish the colony.
Suggested Control Mice
Wild-type littermates
MMRRC Genetic QC Summary
The MMRRC Centers have developed a genetic QC pipeline using MiniMUGA array genotyping to provide additional information on strain backgrounds for MMRRC congenic and inbred strains. For more information on when data may be available, or to request genotyping for a strain of interest, please contact csmmrrc@jax.org. Older strains may not have this information.
Donor
Daniel M. Albert, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Madison
Primary Reference
  • Howes KA; Lasudry JG; Albert DM; Windle JJ, Photoreceptor cell tumors in transgenic mice., Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1994 Feb;35(2):342-51 (Medline PMID: 8112979)
  • Marcus DM, Lasudry JG, Carpenter JL, Windle J, Howes KA, al-Ubaidi MR, Baehr W, Overbeek PA, Font RL, Albert DM. Trilateral tumors in four different lines of transgenic mice expressing SV40 T-antigen. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1996 Feb;37(2):392-6. (Medline PMID: 8603844)

Colony and Husbandry Information

When maintaining a live colony, hemizygous mice may be bred to CB6F1/J hybrid mice. The donating investigator reports always breeding hemizygous mice to CB6F1 mice.

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Units Notes
032030-JAX-SPERM Cryo-preserved spermatozoa $437.00 / Non-Profit Aliquot Approximate quantity3
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