Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping
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Gene traps
Gene traps are promotor-less constructs that contain splice acceptors. They...below), but fundamentally the reporter construct monitors the expression of a nearby gene. The reporter ...high/low) and patterns (tissue/timing) can be monitored under various conditions without necessarily modifying...stage you could infer that the gene which GFP was monitoring was being expressed in the same pattern. These...throughout an organism’s genome. These reporters have historically been used extensively in fly, mouse, and yeast...result but will still allow for expression pattern monitoring.
Enhancer traps
Like promoter traps, enhancer...traps, it will still likely disrupt the gene it monitors due to transcriptional fusion.
Examples...