Automated screening for mutants affecting dopaminergic-neuron specification in C-elegans

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作者
Doitsidou, Maria [1 ]
Flames, Nuria [1 ]
Lee, Albert C. [1 ]
Boyanov, Alexander [1 ]
Hobert, Oliver [1 ]
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[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Biochem & Mol Biophys, Med Ctr, New York, NY 10032 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1038/NMETH.1250
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Q5 [生物化学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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We describe an automated method to isolate mutant Caenorhabditis elegans that do not appropriately execute cellular differentiation programs. We used a fluorescence-activated sorting mechanism implemented in the COPAS Biosort machine to isolate mutants with subtle alterations in the cellular specificity of GFP expression. This methodology is considerably more efficient than comparable manual screens and enabled us to isolate mutants in which dopamine neurons do not differentiate appropriately.
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