The present invention provides an RNA polymerase III promoter
characterized in that a part of its sequence is substituted with a
sequence capable of undergoing specific DNA recombination by Cre
recombinase in such a manner functions of PSE and a TATA box are not
impaired. This RNA polymerase III promoter can be used in a RNAi
induction method with the condition that RNAi molecules to be used in
analyzing gene function can be induced at an arbitrary point of time or
only in a specific tissue (organ).