Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 2: Controlling Gene Expression in Flies with Gal4/UAS
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Blog Post
Published
July 21, 2017, 12:48 p.m.
...level, the Gal4/UAS system is a transcription activation system co-opted from yeast (1). It is a Drosophila...turn genes on or off. Gal4 is a transcriptional activator that binds to UAS enhancer sequences found in ...this mutant fly to one lacking the mutation in the same genetic background. In other cases, YFG or one of...