Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Rapid generation of hypomorphic mutations

  • Laura L. Arthur,
  • Joyce J. Chung,
  • Preetam Janakirama,
  • Kathryn M. Keefer,
  • Igor Kolotilin,
  • Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic,
  • Douglas L. Chalker,
  • Vojislava Grbic,
  • Rachel Green,
  • Rima Menassa,
  • Heather L. True,
  • James B. Skeath,
  • Sergej Djuranovic

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14112
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Hypomorphic mutations are a valuable tool for analysing gene function, but current methods have difficult to predict effects on gene expression and are organism specific. Here the authors present a pan-species approach using variable polyA tracks to modulate expression of a target protein.