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Vector and parameters for targeted transgenic RNA interference in Drosophila melanogaster
Nature Methods (2007)
  • Jian Quan Ni
  • Michele Markstein, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Richard Binari
  • Barret Pfeiffer
  • Lu Ping Liu
  • Christians Villalta
  • Matthew Booker
  • Lizabeth Perkins
  • Norbert Perrimon
Abstract

The conditional expression of hairpin constructs in Drosophila melanogaster has emerged in recent years as a method of choice in functional genomic studies. To date, upstream activating site–driven RNA interference constructs have been inserted into the genome randomly using P-element–mediated transformation, which can result in false negatives due to variable expression. To avoid this problem, we have developed a transgenic RNA interference vector based on the phiC31 site-specific integration method.

Keywords
  • AttP sites,
  • UAS-Luciferase,
  • Gypsy Insulator,
  • Notch RNAi
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Publication Date
December 16, 2007
Publisher Statement
doi:10.1038/nmeth1146
Citation Information
Jian Quan Ni, Michele Markstein, Richard Binari, Barret Pfeiffer, et al.. "Vector and parameters for targeted transgenic RNA interference in Drosophila melanogaster" Nature Methods Vol. 5 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michele_markstein/3/