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Highly selective in vivo labeling of subcutaneous white adipocyte precursors with Prx1-Cre

Sanchez-Gurmaches, Joan
Hsiao, Wen-Yu
Guertin, David A.
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The origins of individual fat depots are not well understood, and thus, the availability of tools useful for studying depot-specific adipose tissue development and function is limited. Cre drivers that selectively target only brown adipocyte, subcutaneous white adipocyte, or visceral white adipocyte precursors would have significant value because they could be used to selectively study individual depots without impacting the adipocyte precursors or intrinsic metabolic properties of the other depots. Here, we show that the majority of the precursor and mature subcutaneous white adipocytes in adult C57Bl/6 mice are labeled by Prx1-Cre. In sharp contrast, few to no brown adipocytes or visceral white adipocytes are marked by Prx1-Cre. This suggests that Prx1-Cre-mediated recombination may be useful for making depot-restricted genetic manipulations in subcutaneous white adipocyte precursor cells, particularly when targeting genes with fat-specific functions.

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Stem Cell Reports. 2015 Apr 14;4(4):541-50. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2015.02.008. Epub 2015 Mar 19. Link to article on publisher's site

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10.1016/j.stemcr.2015.02.008
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Copyright © 2015 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).