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C57BL/6J-Pitx2egl1/Boc
Stock No: 004240 | early-onset glaucoma 1
  • Chemically Induced Mutation
  • Coisogenic
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Overview

Also Known As:early-onset glaucoma 1

This R115L point substitution provides a fully penetrant model for early-onset glaucoma, with elevated intraocular pressure by five weeks of age.

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Genetic overview

Genetic Background Generation
N1F36
(2020-05-07 00:00:00)

Pitx2egl1

Allele Type Gene Symbol Gene Name
Chemically induced (ENU) (Not Specified) Pitx2 paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 2
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  • Sensorineural Research
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Detailed Description

Mice homozygous for the Pitx2egl1 R115L point substitution on this C57BL/6J background provide a fully penetrant model for early-onset glaucoma, developing elevated intraocular pressure by five weeks of age, which subsequently becomes more severe. The size of the eye is similar to that of controls until 13 weeks of age when the eyes are larger. Image guided optical coherence tomography at three months of age shows enlargement of the anterior chamber and optic cupping, which presents as a ring-like feature around the optic nerve head by indirect ophthalmoscopy. Histology at 3 months of age shows optic head cupping, anterior synechia and a complete loss of the inner retinal layers. Functionally, at three months of age the rod a-wave is normal but there is a loss of rod b-waves and lower cone electroretinogram response. This ENU-induced mutation was mapped between D3Mit106 and D3Mit291 and found to be a single G to T transversion in Pitx2 exon 2 that changes amino acid 115 from arginine to leucine.

Development

C57BL/6J males were treated with N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea and bred to C57BL/6J females and their male offspring were backcrossed to C57BL/6J females and their offspring were then backcrossed to their father to generate a population of mutants segregating for the recessive mutations of that N1 male. In that population a mouse was identified that had a shortened face and enlarged eyes. This mutant was backcrossed again to C57BL/6J and the shortened face phenotype bred away from the ocular phenotype, which was then maintained by sibling intercrossing to homozygosity. This strain reached sibling generation F32 in 2018.

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  • 000664 C57BL/6J

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Selected References

  • Chang B; Wang J; Fitzmaurice B; Nishima P. 2017. A new mouse model of early-onset glaucoma Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 58(8):2125MGI: J:269565
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Genetics

Pitx2egl1

Allele Symbol: Pitx2egl1

Allele Name early-onset glaucoma 1
Allele Type Chemically induced (ENU) (Not Specified)
Allele Synonym(s)
Gene Symbol and Name Pitx2, paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 2
Gene Synonym(s)
Strain of Origin C57BL/6J
Chromosome 3
Molecular Note This ENU-induced G to T transversion at position 344 in exon 2 is predicted to cause the arginine at amino acid 115 to become a leucine.

Disease/Phenotype

Disease Terms

Models with phenotypic similarity to human diseases where etiology is unknown or involving genes where ortholog is unknown.

  • glaucoma

Research Areas By Phenotype

This mouse can be used to support research in many areas including:

  • Sensorineural Research
    • Eye Defects
      • hereditary glaucoma
    • Retinal Degeneration

Mammalian Phenotype Terms by Genotype

The following phenotype relates to a compound genotype created using this strain

Genotype: Pitx2egl1/Pitx2egl1
C57BL/6J-Pitx2/Boc

nervous system phenotype

  • optic nerve cupping
    • By 3 months of age this is evident histologically and by indirect ophthalmoscopy this presents as a ring-like feature around the optic nerve head
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)

vision/eye phenotype

  • ocular hypertension
      (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
    • progressive elevated intraocular pressure found in all homozygotes by 5 weeks of age
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • anterior iris synechia
    • by 3 months of age
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • enlarged eye anterior chamber
    • evident by 3 months of age by histology and image guided optical coherence tomography
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)(MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • abnormal cone electrophysiology
      (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • abnormal eye electrophysiology
    • at 3 months of age ERG recordings show a normal rod a-wave but decreased rod b-waves and lower cone ERG response
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • abnormal iris pigmentation
    • iris pigment loss by 3 months of age
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • corneal opacity
      (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • macrophthalmia
      (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
    • by 13 weeks of age
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • abnormal retinal layer morphology
      (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • decreased total retina thickness
    • complete loss of the inner retinal layers and thinning of the retina evident at 3 months of age
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • optic nerve cupping
    • By 3 months of age this is evident histologically and by indirect ophthalmoscopy this presents as a ring-like feature around the optic nerve head
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • abnormal rod electrophysiology
      (MGI Ref ID J:269565)
  • decreased b-wave amplitude
      (MGI Ref ID J:269565)

pigmentation phenotype

  • abnormal iris pigmentation
    • iris pigment loss by 3 months of age
    • (MGI Ref ID J:269565)

References

  • Chang B; Wang J; Fitzmaurice B; Nishima P. 2017. A new mouse model of early-onset glaucoma Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 58(8):2125MGI: J:269565

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    When using the early-onset glaucoma 1 mouse strain in a publication, please cite the originating article(s) and include JAX stock #004240 in your Materials and Methods section.

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