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Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Methods. 2014 Aug 26;0:125–147. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.08.017

Table 4.

Mouse lines for targeting Oligodendroglia

Line Construct Cell Type References
Cx47-EGFP Knock-in Mature Oligodendrocytes *(Odermatt et al., 2003)
CNP-lacZ Mouse 4.0 kb OPCs and myelinating OLs *(Gravel et al., 1998) *(Chandross et al., 1999)
CNP-lacZ neo
CNP-EGFP Mouse 4.0 kb OPCs, myelinating OLs, Multipotent SVZ cells, Schwann cells, and neuronal precursors *(Yuan et al., 2002) (Belachew et al., 2003) (Aguirre and Gallo, 2004; Belachew et al., 2001)
CNP-Cre Knock-in OPCs, myelinating OLs, PNS Neurons, and Schwann Cell Precursors *(Lappe-Seifke et al., 2003) (Genoud et al., 2002)
MBP-lacZ Mouse 1.3 kb
Mouse 1.34 kb

Mouse 1.9 kb
Mouse 3.1 kb
Mouse 9 kb
Mature Oligodendrocytes; Schwann cells (in 9 kb) *(Turnley et al., 1991) *(Asipu et al., 2001) *(Gow et al., 1992) *(Foran and Peterson, 1992)
MBP-lacZ Mouse 1.34–1.9 kb
Mouse 6 kb
Mature oligodendrocytes, non- neural epithelial cells, astrocytic shaped oligodendrocytes, compact perivascular oligodendrocyte lineage cells; Schwann cells (in 6 kb) *(Asipu et al., 2001) (Schiff et al., 2002)
*(Forghani et al., 2001)
MBP-Cre Mouse 1.3 kb
Mouse 5.0 kb
Mature Oligodendrocytes *(Niwa-Kawakita et al., 2000) *(Hisahara S et al., 2000)
MBP-CreERT2 Mouse 1.9 kb Mature Myelinating Oligodendrocytes *(Gow, 2011)
MOBP-EGFP BAC Mature oligodendrocytes * GENSAT, 2008
Prism 2.0:
Snap25-DsRedMax/MOBP-YFP/Aldh1L1-Cerulean
BAC Neurons, Oligodendrocytes, and Astrocytes *(Dougherty et al., 2012)
MOG-iCre Knock-in Mature Oligodendrocytes *(Hovelmeyer et al., 2005)
PLP-lacZ Mouse 2.4 kb –exon 2 OPCs, myelinating OLs, and Schwann Cells *(Wight et al., 1993)
PLP-sh ble-lacZ Mouse 2.4 kb –exon 2 OPCs, myelinating OLs, and Schwann Cells *(Spassky et al., 1998)
PLP-sh ble EGFP Mouse 2.4 kb –exon 2 OPCs, myelinating OLs, and Schwann Cells *(Sobottka et al., 2011)
PLP-EGFP Mouse 2.4 kb –exon 2 OPCs, myelinating OLs, and Schwann Cells; OLs, spinal cord stem cells, neuronal progenitors, and non-myelinating satellite cells in sympathetic glia *(Mallon et al., 2002)
(Harlow et al., 2014)
PLP-GFP- S65T Mouse 2.4 kb-intron 1 OPCs, myelinating OLs, and Schwann Cells *(Fuss et al., 2000b)
PLP-dsRed Mouse 2.4 kb-intron 1 OPCs, myelinating OLs, and Schwann Cells *(Hirrlinger et al., 2005)
PLP-mtTA Mouse 2.4 kb-intron 1 Myelinating OLs, Bergmann glia, Schwann cells in adult sciatic nerve *(Inamura et al., 2012)
PLP-Cre Mouse 3.7 kb
Mouse 2.4 kb
OPCs, myelinating OLs, and Schwann Cells Embryonic Progenitors (neuroblasts and glioblasts) neuroepithelial and radial glial cells *(Delaunay et al., 2008) *(Michalski et al., 2011) (Delaunay et al., 2009)
PLP-Cre ERT Mouse 2.4 kb OPCs, myelinating OLs, Schwann Cells, Bergmann glia; Neurons and immature astrocytes in ventral forebrain, dorsal cerebral cortex, and hippocampus *(Doerflinger et al., 2003) (Guo et al., 2009) (Chung et al., 2013) (Guo et al., 2010)
PLP-Cre ERT2 Mouse 2.4 kb OPCs, myelinating OLs and Schwann Cells *(Leone et al., 2003)
Ascl1/Mash1-Cre ERTM BAC OPCs, and Embryonic neuronal and oligodendrocyte-restricted precursors *(Battiste et al., 2007)
Ascl1/Mash1-Cre ERT2 Knock-in OPCs, adult neural precursors; Hippocampal and olfactory bulb stem and progenitor cells *(Kim et al., 2011)
NG2-dsRed BAC OPCs, pericytes, and microglia *(Ziskin et al., 2007) *(Zhu et al., 2008) (Hall et al., 2014)
NG2-EYFP Knock-in OPCs, astrocytes *(Karram et al., 2008)
NG2-Cre BAC OPCs, Astrocytes; neurons *(Zhu et al., 2008) (Nishiyama et al., 2014)
NG2-Cre ERTM BAC OPCs, pericytes, astrocytes *(Zhu et al., 2011)
NG2-CreER T2 Knock-in OPCs, gray matter astrocytes, and neurons *(Huang et al., 2014)
Olig1-lacZ Knock-in OPCs *(Zhou and Anderson, 2002)
Olig1-Cre Knock-in Motoneurons and OPCs *(Lu et al., 2002)
Olig2-GFP Knock-in OPCs *(Zhou and Anderson, 2002)
Olig2-Cre ERTM Knock-in Motoneuron, OPCs and astrocytes *(Takebayashi et al., 2002) (Dimou et al., 2008)
Olig2-tva-Cre Knock-in OPCs *(Schuller et al., 2008)
PDGFRα-GFP Knock-in OPCs *(Hamilton et al., 2003)
PDGFRα-CreER T2 PAC OPCs, neurons, and astrocytes *(Rivers et al., 2008) (Tripathi et al., 2010)
PDGFRα–CreERTM BAC OPCs and some ventral neurons *(Kang et al., 2010)
Sox10-Venus BAC OPCs, Schwann cells, and neural crest cells *(Shibata et al., 2010)
Sox10-Cre PAC OPCs, Oligodendrocytes, Neural Crest Cells, Enteric Glia *(Matsuoka et al., 2005) (Laranjeira et al., 2011; Potzner et al., 2007; Stolt et al., 2006)
Sox10-fos-Cre (S4F:Cre) Transgenic OPCs, myelinating OLs, and neural crest cells *(Stine et al., 2009)
Sox10-rtTA Knock-in OPCs, myelinating OLs, and neural crest cells *(Ludwig et al., 2004) (Kanaykina et al., 2010; Wahlbuhl et al., 2012)
Sox10-iCreER T2 BAC OPCs, myelinating OLs, neural crest cells, and ependymal NG2 cells *(Simon et al., 2012) (Ortega et al., 2013)

Note:

*

denotes originator of the line. OPCs, oligodendrocyte progenitor cells; OLs, oligodendrocytes. mtTA, mammalian-optimized tetracycline-controlled transcriptional activator. Findings in some cells are the result of fate-mapping analyses.