The OT-I microinjected model was developed by Dr. Francis Carbone of Monash Medical School and Dr. Michael Bevan of the University of Washington. The model was generated by injecting the rearranged T cell receptor Vα2-Jα26 (under the control of the alpha chain promoter and enhancer) and Vβ5-Dβ2-Jβ2.6 (under the control of the MHC class I promoter and the Ig heavy chain enhancer) into B6 x B6.C-H2bm1 blastocysts. Founders were subsequently bred to C57BL/6J mice for 9 generations. The line was later transferred to NIAID from Dr. Kristin Hogquist of the University of Minnesota and rederived by mating OT-I source males to C57BL/6NAi females. The transgenic mice were crossed twice to a homozygous C57BL/6J-Rag1tm1Mom knockout mouse which had been backcrossed 10 generations to B6/J (Mombaerts P, Cell 1992;68:869-877), and Rag1-/- offspring were selected. These mice were then intercrossed and OT-I TCR positive mice homozygous for the transgene were identified by test mating them to wild type partners and selecting animals that only gave rise to transgene positive offspring.
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Li M, Davey GM, Sutherland RM, Kurts C, Lew AM, Hirst C, Carbone FR, Heath WR.; Cell-associated ovalbumin is cross-presented much more efficiently than soluble ovalbumin in vivo. J Immunol 2001 166 :6099-6103.
Mombaerts P, Iacomini J, Johnson RS, Herrup K, Tonegawa S and Papaioannou VF: RAG-I deficient mice have no mature B and T cells. Cell 1992 68(5):869
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