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Using Caenorhabditis elegans to Screen for Tissue-Specific Chaperone Interactions
Published on: June 7, 2020
Uncover genetic interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans by RNA interference
Angelo Fortunato1, Andrew G Fraser
1The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, CB10 1SA, Cambridge, Hinxton, UK. af4@sanger.ac.uk
Abstract:
RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) has emerged recently as one of the most powerful functional genomics tools. RNAi has been particularly effective in the nematode worm C. elegans where RNAi has been used to analyse the loss-of-function phenotypes of almost all predicted genes. In this review, we illustrate how RNAi has been used to analyse gene function in C. elegans as well as pointing to some future directions for using RNAi to examine genetic interactions in a systematic manner.
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