Those cells that result that are targeted but lack neo are used to make animals. Genes that are highly enriched with CRISPRa are likely to “drop out” of a CRISPRi or knockout screen and vice versa. This second-generation gene knockout employs Cre/loxP-mediated recombination system to restrict deletion of any gene of interest to specific cells, tissues, or organs in mice. Conditional gene knockout is mainly achieved by site-specific recombinase systems such as Cre-LoxP, FLP-Frt and Dre-Rox. Figure 20.1. From 1990 to 1993, I was testing the long-held idea, first postulated by Agranoff,27 that long-term memory requires new protein synthesis and gene expression. With greater access to human patient-derived tissues, these gene-editing techniques are now routinely used to create isogenic cell lines in which specific disease-related mutations are induced or corrected to enable holistic interrogations of cellular alterations in normal vs disease state.20. Conditional gene knockouts can be accomplished using Cre-loxP technology [18]. In comparison, NR2C and NR2D, which exhibit greatly reduced Mg2+ dependency (and are thereby less suitable for coincidence function), are mainly expressed in the cerebellar granule cells and interneurons in the midbrain regions, respectively (Monyer et al., 1994). We were the first to pull out a set of genes that included a tissue-plasminogen activator, a mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase phosphatase, and a brain-specific immediate early gene BAD1 (published under my former name, Qian et al.61,62 BAD1 was later also isolated by Paul Worley and named Arc.28 While isolating these novel genes was exciting, the next logical step for me was to examine their functions in memory. For example, the knockout of the NMDA receptor 1 subunit (NR1), a key subunit essential for the channel activity, led to the mice dying within 12 h of birth. Therefore, a series of stringent genetic experiments have unequivocally demonstrated that NMDA receptor-mediated coincidence-detection plays an essential role in memory formation. (a) Targeting strategy to flank the second coding exon of Jak1 with loxP sites. Now, we know that the Cre-lox recombination in T29-1 retained the CA1 specificity only in an age-dependent manner; as Cre expression accumulated over time (starting in the 6–8th postnatal weeks), it would gradually achieve the forebrain-specific recombination (as expected from the CaMKII promoter). These mice have been crossed with FLP mice to generate Aldh2 floxed conditional knockout (Aldh2 f/f) mice, which can be further crossed with specific CRE mouse lines to generate cell-specific Aldh2 knockout mice. (A) Strategy to detect the Cre-loxP recombination in the brain. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. 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