Cre-ating New Methods for Site-specific Recombination in Drosophila
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 12, 2015, 1:32 p.m.
... using multiple recombinases. To make multiple, precise genome edits, the recombinases used must have ...excision of the stop sequence. In contrast, Dre recombinase, the close relative of Cre, displayed an excision...determine the cross-reactivity of these recombinases, each recombinase and reporter construct pair were tested...however, the other recombinase/reporter pairs were inactive, even at very high recombinase levels. These data...toxicity of these recombinases by crossing flies homozygous for a UAS-driven recombinase with flies heterozygous...tubulin-GAL4. For Dre, Flp, KD, R, B2 and B3, approximately 50% of offspring carried both the recombinase and GAL4...recombination in Drosophila, read on to learn about new recombinases suitable for this system.
Gerald Rubin’s lab...