Nomenclature: C57BL/6-Slc39a8^{tm1.1 mrl}

• The targeting vector has been generated using C57BL/6J DNA and transfected into TaconicArtemis C57BL/6NTac ES cell line.
• Exon 1 contains the translation initiation codon.
• Exon 3 has been flanked by loxP sites (size of loxP-flanked region: 1.4 kb).
• The conditional KO allele has been generated after Flp-mediated recombination by crossing chimeras to a Flp-Deleter on a C57BL/6 background.
• The conditional KO line has been derived using C57BL/6NTac animals and the Flp-transgene was removed by segregation.
• The constitutive KO allele can be generated by Cre-mediated recombination. Deletion of exon 3 should result in loss of function of the Slc39a8 gene by deleting the N-terminal part of the ZIP domain and the first 2 transmembrane domains, and by generating a frameshift from exon 3 to downstream exons (premature Stop codon in exon 4).
• The remaining recombination sites are located in non-conserved regions of the genome.
• The corresponding constitutive KO allele is available as line 10718.
• Datamining and Design performed in 2009.

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