A modular toolset for recombination transgenesis and neurogenetic analysis of Drosophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Ji Wu ^a   Beck, Erin S ^a   McCabe, Brian D ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RNA ISOFORM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84864326647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042102     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Rubin GM, Spradling AC, (1982) Genetic transformation of Drosophila with transposable element vectors. Science 218: 348-353.
2. Brand AH, Perrimon N, (1993) Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes. Development 118: 401-415.
3. Bellen HJ, Tong C, Tsuda H, (2010) 100 years of Drosophila research and its impact on vertebrate neuroscience: a history lesson for the future. Nature reviews Neuroscience 11: 514-522.
4. Groth AC, Fish M, Nusse R, Calos MP, (2004) Construction of transgenic Drosophila by using the site-specific integrase from phage phiC31. Genetics 166: 1775-1782.
5. Thorpe HM, Smith MC, (1998) In vitro site-specific integration of bacteriophage DNA catalyzed by a recombinase of the resolvase/invertase family. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95: 5505-5510.
6. Bischof J, Maeda RK, Hediger M, Karch F, Basler K, (2007) An optimized transgenesis system for Drosophila using germ-line-specific phiC31 integrases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 3312-3317.
7. Venken KJ, Bellen HJ, (2007) Transgenesis upgrades for Drosophila melanogaster. Development 134: 3571-3584.
8. Venken KJ, He Y, Hoskins RA, Bellen HJ, (2006) P[acman]: a BAC transgenic platform for targeted insertion of large DNA fragments in D. melanogaster. Science 314: 1747-1751.
9. Markstein M, Pitsouli C, Villalta C, Celniker SE, Perrimon N, (2008) Exploiting position effects and the gypsy retrovirus insulator to engineer precisely expressed transgenes. Nature genetics 40: 476-483.
10. Pfeiffer BD, Ngo TT, Hibbard KL, Murphy C, Jenett A, et al. (2010) Refinement of tools for targeted gene expression in Drosophila. Genetics 186: 735-755.
11. West AG, Gaszner M, Felsenfeld G, (2002) Insulators: many functions, many mechanisms. Genes & development 16: 271-288.
12. Barolo S, Carver LA, Posakony JW, (2000) GFP and beta-galactosidase transformation vectors for promoter/enhancer analysis in Drosophila. BioTechniques 29: 726, 728, 730, 732.
13. Barolo S, Castro B, Posakony JW, (2004) New Drosophila transgenic reporters: insulated P-element vectors expressing fast-maturing RFP. BioTechniques 36: 436-440, 442.
14. Zhu Q, Halfon MS, (2007) Vector-dependent gene expression driven by insulated P-element reporter vectors. Fly 1: 55-56.
15. Geyer PK, Corces VG, (1992) DNA position-specific repression of transcription by a Drosophila zinc finger protein. Genes & development 6: 1865-1873.
16. Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA, (2000) DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination. Genome research 10: 1788-1795.
17. Pfeiffer BD, Jenett A, Hammonds AS, Ngo TT, Misra S, et al. (2008) Tools for neuroanatomy and neurogenetics in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 9715-9720.
18. Dietzl G, Chen D, Schnorrer F, Su KC, Barinova Y, et al. (2007) A genome-wide transgenic RNAi library for conditional gene inactivation in Drosophila. Nature 448: 151-156.
19. Ni JQ, Liu LP, Binari R, Hardy R, Shim HS, et al. (2009) A Drosophila resource of transgenic RNAi lines for neurogenetics. Genetics 182: 1089-1100.
20. Roseman RR, Pirrotta V, Geyer PK, (1993) The su(Hw) protein insulates expression of the Drosophila melanogaster white gene from chromosomal position-effects. The EMBO journal 12: 435-442.
21. Kuhn EJ, Viering MM, Rhodes KM, Geyer PK, (2003) A test of insulator interactions in Drosophila. The EMBO journal 22: 2463-2471.
22. Wang JW, Brent JR, Tomlinson A, Shneider NA, McCabe BD, (2011) The ALS-associated proteins FUS and TDP-43 function together to affect Drosophila locomotion and life span. The Journal of clinical investigation 121: 4118-4126.
23. Kwiatkowski TJ Jr, Bosco DA, Leclerc AL, Tamrazian E, Vanderburg CR, et al. (2009) Mutations in the FUS/TLS gene on chromosome 16 cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Science 323: 1205-1208.
24. Li X, Zhao X, Fang Y, Jiang X, Duong T, et al. (1998) Generation of destabilized green fluorescent protein as a transcription reporter. The Journal of biological chemistry 273: 34970-34975.
25. Mochida S, Poulain B, Eisel U, Binz T, Kurazono H, et al. (1990) Exogenous mRNA encoding tetanus or botulinum neurotoxins expressed in Aplysia neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 87: 7844-7848.
26. Sweeney ST, Broadie K, Keane J, Niemann H, O'Kane CJ, (1995) Targeted expression of tetanus toxin light chain in Drosophila specifically eliminates synaptic transmission and causes behavioral defects. Neuron 14: 341-351.
27. Nagai T, Ibata K, Park ES, Kubota M, Mikoshiba K, et al. (2002) A variant of yellow fluorescent protein with fast and efficient maturation for cell-biological applications. Nature biotechnology 20: 87-90.
28. Aberle H, Haghighi AP, Fetter RD, McCabe BD, Magalhaes TR, et al. (2002) wishful thinking encodes a BMP type II receptor that regulates synaptic growth in Drosophila. Neuron 33: 545-558.
29. Shaner NC, Lin MZ, McKeown MR, Steinbach PA, Hazelwood KL, et al. (2008) Improving the photostability of bright monomeric orange and red fluorescent proteins. Nature methods 5: 545-551.
30. Merzlyak EM, Goedhart J, Shcherbo D, Bulina ME, Shcheglov AS, et al. (2007) Bright monomeric red fluorescent protein with an extended fluorescence lifetime. Nature methods 4: 555-557.
31. Gloor S, Pongs O, Schmalzing G, (1995) A vector for the synthesis of cRNAs encoding Myc epitope-tagged proteins in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Gene 160: 213-217.
32. Brizzard BL, Chubet RG, Vizard DL, (1994) Immunoaffinity purification of FLAG epitope-tagged bacterial alkaline phosphatase using a novel monoclonal antibody and peptide elution. BioTechniques 16: 730-735.
33. Phelps CB, Brand AH, (1998) Ectopic gene expression in Drosophila using GAL4 system. Methods 14: 367-379.
34. Ni JQ, Zhou R, Czech B, Liu LP, Holderbaum L, et al. (2011) A genome-scale shRNA resource for transgenic RNAi in Drosophila. Nature methods 8: 405-407.
35. Graveley BR, Brooks AN, Carlson JW, Duff MO, Landolin JM, et al. (2011) The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 471: 473-479.
36. Kondo T, Inagaki S, Yasuda K, Kageyama Y, (2006) Rapid construction of Drosophila RNAi transgenes using pRISE, a P-element-mediated transformation vector exploiting an in vitro recombination system. Genes & genetic systems 81: 129-134.
37. Kristiansen LV, Hortsch M, (2010) Fasciclin II: the NCAM ortholog in Drosophila melanogaster. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 663: 387-401.
38. Grenningloh G, Rehm EJ, Goodman CS, (1991) Genetic analysis of growth cone guidance in Drosophila: fasciclin II functions as a neuronal recognition molecule. Cell 67: 45-57.
39. Lin DM, Goodman CS, (1994) Ectopic and increased expression of Fasciclin II alters motoneuron growth cone guidance. Neuron 13: 507-523.
40. Van Vactor D, Sink H, Fambrough D, Tsoo R, Goodman CS, (1993) Genes that control neuromuscular specificity in Drosophila. Cell 73: 1137-1153.
41. Lin DM, Fetter RD, Kopczynski C, Grenningloh G, Goodman CS, (1994) Genetic analysis of Fasciclin II in Drosophila: defasciculation, refasciculation, and altered fasciculation. Neuron 13: 1055-1069.
42. Schuster CM, Davis GW, Fetter RD, Goodman CS, (1996) Genetic dissection of structural and functional components of synaptic plasticity. I. Fasciclin II controls synaptic stabilization and growth. Neuron 17: 641-654.
43. Beck ES, Gasque G, Imlach WL, Jiao W, Jiwon Choi B, et al. (2012) Regulation of Fasciclin II and Synaptic Terminal Development by the Splicing Factor Beag. The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 32: 7058-7073.
44. Venken KJ, Carlson JW, Schulze KL, Pan H, He Y, et al. (2009) Versatile P[acman] BAC libraries for transgenesis studies in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature methods 6: 431-434.
45. Huang J, Zhou W, Dong W, Hong Y, (2009) Targeted engineering of the Drosophila genome. Fly 3: 274-277.
46. Venken KJ, Schulze KL, Haelterman NA, Pan H, He Y, et al. (2011) MiMIC: a highly versatile transposon insertion resource for engineering Drosophila melanogaster genes. Nature methods 8: 737-743.
47. Fire A, Harrison SW, Dixon D, (1990) A modular set of lacZ fusion vectors for studying gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans. Gene 93: 189-198.
48. Rubin GM, Spradling AC, (1983) Vectors for P element-mediated gene transfer in Drosophila. Nucleic acids research 11: 6341-6351.
49. Pirrotta V, Steller H, Bozzetti MP, (1985) Multiple upstream regulatory elements control the expression of the Drosophila white gene. The EMBO journal 4: 3501-3508.
50. Klemenz R, Weber U, Gehring WJ, (1987) The white gene as a marker in a new P-element vector for gene transfer in Drosophila. Nucleic acids research 15: 3947-3959.
51. Zhang SD, Odenwald WF, (1995) Misexpression of the white (w) gene triggers male-male courtship in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 92: 5525-5529.
52. An X, Armstrong JD, Kaiser K, O'Dell KM, (2000) The effects of ectopic white and transformer expression on Drosophila courtship behavior. Journal of neurogenetics 14: 227-243,271.
53. Perrimon N, Ni JQ, Perkins L, (2010) In vivo RNAi: today and tomorrow. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 2: a003640.
54. Pfeiffer BD, Truman JW, Rubin GM, (2012) Using translational enhancers to increase transgene expression in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109: 6626-6631.
55. Ohtsuka M, Kimura M, Tanaka M, Inoko H, (2009) Recombinant DNA technologies for construction of precisely designed transgene constructs. Current pharmaceutical biotechnology 10: 244-251.
56. Esposito D, Garvey LA, Chakiath CS, (2009) Gateway cloning for protein expression. Methods in molecular biology 498: 31-54.
57. Fu C, Wehr DR, Edwards J, Hauge B, (2008) Rapid one-step recombinational cloning. Nucleic acids research 36: e54.
58. Harms KJ, Tovar KR, Craig AM, (2005) Synapse-specific regulation of AMPA receptor subunit composition by activity. The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 25: 6379-6388.
59. Asakawa K, Suster ML, Mizusawa K, Nagayoshi S, Kotani T, et al. (2008) Genetic dissection of neural circuits by Tol2 transposon-mediated Gal4 gene and enhancer trapping in zebrafish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 1255-1260.
60. Gontijo AM, Miguela V, Whiting MF, Woodruff RC, Dominguez M, (2011) Intron retention in the Drosophila melanogaster Rieske Iron Sulphur Protein gene generated a new protein. Nature communications 2: 323.
61. Mehta S, Zhang J, (2011) Reporting from the field: genetically encoded fluorescent reporters uncover signaling dynamics in living biological systems. Annual review of biochemistry 80: 375-401.
62. Feiguin F, Godena VK, Romano G, D'Ambrogio A, Klima R, et al. (2009) Depletion of TDP-43 affects Drosophila motoneurons terminal synapsis and locomotive behavior. FEBS Lett 583: 1586-1592.
63. Lai ZC, Rubin GM, (1992) Negative control of photoreceptor development in Drosophila by the product of the yan gene, an ETS domain protein. Cell 70: 609-620.
64. Wodarz A, Hinz U, Engelbert M, Knust E, (1995) Expression of crumbs confers apical character on plasma membrane domains of ectodermal epithelia of Drosophila. Cell 82: 67-76.
65. Brent JR, Werner KM, McCabe BD, (2009) Drosophila larval NMJ dissection. J Vis Exp. 25, 1108.
66. Brent J, Werner K, McCabe BD, (2009) Drosophila larval NMJ immunohistochemistry. J Vis Exp. 24, 1107.