Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools
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Blog Post
Published
Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
... allowing for the gene on the toehold switch to be expressed. In this case, the gene encodes the LacZ𝛼...interfere with other genetic pathways making it difficult to link a phenotype to the gene being targeted via...need for mutant genetic backgrounds. The standard RNAi vector, L4440, places a target gene between two inverted..., highly efficient RNAi construct for C. elegans gene knockdown
Article contributed by Alyssa Cecchetelli...extensively used in C. elegans research to study gene function. RNAi is commonly achieved by feeding E... from each promoter progresses past the specific gene producing long unspecific RNA fragments that are... most scientists use mutant animals that are genetically altered to overexpress endogenous RNAi pathways...