The HLA-A24 model was generated by Pharmexa-Epimmune. The model was created by microinjecting a chimeric transgene combining a fragment of the genomic clone of the human HLA-A*2402 gene that included leader sequence, α1 and α2 domains ligated to a fragment of the murine H2-Kb gene containing the α3, transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains, all under the control of the murine H2-Kb promoter. This transgene was microinjected into C57BL/6 zygotes. The resultant mice from Founder Line A24.01 were on an inbred C57BL/6 background. The line was maintained by breeding hemizygotes to wild type C57BL/6NTac mice for 15 generations. Taconic received stock from Pharmexa-Epimmune in 2008. The line was embryo transfer derived by breeding C57BL/6NTac wild type females to hemizygous males, and the colony is maintained through breeding of hemizygous males to wild type C57BL/6NTac females. The strain is considered fully congenic on C57BL/6NTac background. In the production colony, wild type C57BL/6NTac animals are bred to hemizygous males on the C57BL/6NTac background to produce hemizygous pups. In addition, another production colony is breeding BALB/cAnNTac females with hemizygous males on the C57BL/6NTac background to produce hemizygous CB6F1 pups, which are sold under model #9663.
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