Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools
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Blog Post
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Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
...switch to be expressed. In this case, the gene encodes the LacZ𝛼 protein. Once expressed, LacZ𝛼 complexes... RNAi.
Recently the Vellai lab has created an improved RNAi vector that leads to significantly stronger... RNAi is commonly achieved by feeding E. coli expressing dsRNA to C. elegans. These dsRNAs target specific...for mutant genetic backgrounds. The standard RNAi vector, L4440, places a target gene between two inverted...mutant animals that are genetically altered to overexpress endogenous RNAi pathways. These mutations however...non-specific nucleotides into the dsRNA leading to increased RNAi efficiency.
Find the T444T plasmid here... used yeast display-based directed evolution to create APEX2. They have now applied the same directed ...