Vector and parameters for targeted transgenic RNA interference in Drosophila melanogaster.

Ni, Jian-Quan; Markstein, Michele; Binari, Richard; Pfeiffer, Barret; Liu, Lu-Ping; Villalta, Christians; Booker, Matthew; Perkins, Lizabeth et al. · Nat Methods · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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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.

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