Dynamic visualization of nervous system in live Drosophila
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These transgenic Drosophila melanogaster lines that express green fluorescent protein (GFP) exclusively in the nervous system provide an unprecedented view of the nervousSystem in living animals and will be valuable tools for investigating a number of developmental, physiological, and genetic neurobiological problems.Abstract:
We have constructed transgenic Drosophila melanogaster lines that express green fluorescent protein (GFP) exclusively in the nervous system. Expression is controlled with transcriptional regulatory elements present in the 5′ flanking DNA of the Drosophila Na+,K+-ATPase β-subunit gene Nervana2 (Nrv2). This regulatory DNA is fused to the yeast transcriptional activator GAL4, which binds specifically to a sequence motif termed the UAS (upstream activating sequence). Drosophila lines carrying Nrv2-GAL4 transgenes have been genetically recombined with UAS–GFP (S65T) transgenes (Nrv2-GAL4+UAS–GFP) inserted on the same chromosomes. We observe strong nervous system-specific fluorescence in embryos, larvae, pupae, and adults. The GFP fluorescence is sufficiently bright to allow dynamic imaging of the nervous system at all of these developmental stages directly through the cuticle of live Drosophila. These lines provide an unprecedented view of the nervous system in living animals and will be valuable tools for investigating a number of developmental, physiological, and genetic neurobiological problems.read more
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