Tamoxifen-Inducible Cre-Mediated Calreticulin Excision to Study Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Embryonic stem cells are useful to study the functional aspects of lineage commitment. In this study, we report that using the Cre/loxP system provides a useful tool for studying multifunctional proteins that are involved in stem cell differentiation, such as calreticulin. Calreticulin is a chaperone and a major calcium buffer of the endoplasmic reticulum and it functions during both adipogenesis and cardiomyogenesis. We used both a tamoxifen-inducible and cardiomyocyte-specific alpha-myosin heavy chain promoter-driven Cre/loxP system to study cardiomyogenesis, and a tamoxifen-inducible ubiquitously expressed cytomegalovirus promoter-driven Cre/loxP system to study adipogenesis. Both Cre/loxP systems mimicked the results previously observed using the calreticulin-null stem cell systems. Our results indicate that the tamoxifen-inducible Cre/loxP system is an effective and reliable tool to use for gene ablation in studies on functional aspects of stem cell biology.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".