Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Engineering rules that minimize germline silencing of transgenes in simple extrachromosomal arrays in C. elegans

  • Mohammed D. Aljohani,
  • Sonia El Mouridi,
  • Monika Priyadarshini,
  • Amhed M. Vargas-Velazquez,
  • Christian Frøkjær-Jensen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19898-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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C. elegans has strong repressive mechanisms that silence transgenes in the germline. Here the authors elucidate the design rules for efficient germline expression.