Model Description: These mice carry loxP sites flanking exon 5 of Braf gene. When crossed with a Cre recombinase-expressing strain, this strain is useful in eliminating tissue-specific conditional expression of Braf gene.
Official Symbol: Braf
NCBI ID: 109880
MGI ID: 88190
Ensembl ID: ENSMUSG00000002413
Pubmed: Braf
Human Ortholog: BRAF
Nomenclature
C57BL/6JSmoc-Brafem1(flox)Smoc
Exon
Exon 5
Application
Study On The Correlation Between Meiosis And Ret Signal Transduction In Oocytes
Disease
Melanoma
Disease
Rare Disease, Spontaneous Tumor
KI/KO Gene
Braf
Notes
Note: The expected phenotype(s) may be observed in the above-mentioned mice that bred with Tyr-cre/ERT2 mice.
Dhomen N, Reis-Filho JS, da Rocha Dias S, Hayward R, Savage K, Delmas V, Larue L, Pritchard C, Marais R, Oncogenic Braf induces melanocyte senescence and melanoma in mice. Cancer Cell. 2009 Apr 7;15(4):294-303