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GoldenFish: a rapid and efficient system to customize constructs for zebrafish transgenesis
Zhanmei Jiang1 , Lirong Huang1 , Jieqiong Zhao1 , Yanfeng Li1 , Jianlong Ma1 , Rui Ni1 , Qifen Yang1 , Lingfei Luo1 , Yun Yang1,* , Jingying Chen1,2,*
1Institute of Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chongqing), Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China
*Correspondence to:Yun Yang , Email:yunyang@swu.edu.cn Jingying Chen , Email:jingyingchen@cigit.ac.cn
J Mol Cell Biol, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2022, mjac075,  https://doi.org/10.1093/jmcb/mjac075

Transgenesis, which inserts exogenous DNA into animal genomes, is a widely used technique. Traditionally, the constructs for transgenesis are generated by step-by-step subcloning of DNA fragments, which requires multiple steps depending on the construct complexity. To overcome the limitation, advanced tools such as Gateway cloning (Hartley et al., 2000Kwan et al., 2007), In-Fusion cloning (Sleight et al., 2010), and Gibson assembly (Gibson et al., 2009) have been developed. However, due to their ligation characteristics, no systematic method for transgenesis has been developed. ‘Golden Gate’ cloning first appeared in 2008, which is a widely used DNA assembly method (Engler et al., 20082009). Here, we take zebrafish transgenesis as an example and develop a standardized system called GoldenFish, which is based on Golden Gate cloning. It can customize transgenic constructs in one step and can be applied to multiple types of transgenesis such as one gene driven by one promoter, multiple genes driven by one promoter, and multiple genes respectively driven by multiple promoters, significantly reducing working time.