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. 2020 May 29;3:273. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-0979-0

Fig. 1. Generation and validation of the Tol mouse model.

Fig. 1

a Top left: cartoon depicting the strategy for reporter gene fragmentation, applied for each RP/MP gene included in the Tol ORF. Top right: reporter proteins included in the Tol ORF. Bottom: schematic overview of gene fragment placement in the Tol ORF. Note that the Tol ORF encodes the HPV E749–57 epitope in the COOH-terminal region of the chimeric Tol protein. b Cartoon depicting the targeting strategy of the Tol ORF into the Col1a1 locus through recombinase-mediated cassette exchange. c Differential gene expression analysis of indicated organs of Tol mice relative to WT mice. Scatterplots indicate average log2 fold changes and average counts per million. Genes with a statistically significant change in expression in Tol mice are indicated in gray, and the Tol transcript is indicated in blue. d Expression levels of the Tol transcript in thymi of Tol and WT mice. Data shown (c, d) is aggregated from n = 4 (Tol) and n = 4 (WT) mice. RP reporter protein, MP modifier protein, RMCE recombinase-mediated cassette exchange, PURO-R puromycin resistance gene, TK thymidine kinase gene, CPM counts per million.