Integrating non-mammalian model organisms in the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in humans

S Yamamoto, O Kanca, MF Wangler… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing technology has rapidly accelerated the discovery of genetic
variants of interest in individuals with rare diseases. However, showing that these variants …

Molecular breeding and drought tolerance in chickpea

R Asati, MK Tripathi, S Tiwari, RK Yadav, N Tripathi - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cicer arietinum L. is the third greatest widely planted imperative pulse crop worldwide, and it
belongs to the Leguminosae family. Drought is the utmost common abiotic factor on plants …

A gene-specific T2A-GAL4 library for Drosophila

PT Lee, J Zirin, O Kanca, WW Lin, KL Schulze… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
We generated a library of~ 1000 Drosophila stocks in which we inserted a construct in the
intron of genes allowing expression of GAL4 under control of endogenous promoters while …

The Caenorhabditis elegans Transgenic Toolbox

J Nance, C Frøkjær-Jensen - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The power of any genetic model organism is derived, in part, from the ease with which gene
expression can be manipulated. The short generation time and invariant developmental …

An efficient CRISPR-based strategy to insert small and large fragments of DNA using short homology arms

O Kanca, J Zirin, J Garcia-Marques, SM Knight… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
We previously reported a CRISPR-mediated knock-in strategy into introns of Drosophila
genes, generating an attP-FRT-SA-T2A-GAL4-polyA-3XP3-EGFP-FRT-attP transgenic …

Model organisms contribute to diagnosis and discovery in the undiagnosed diseases network: current state and a future vision

D Baldridge, MF Wangler, AN Bowman… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Decreased sequencing costs have led to an explosion of genetic and genomic data. These
data have revealed thousands of candidate human disease variants. Establishing which …

Drosophila as a Model for Infectious Diseases

JM Harnish, N Link, S Yamamoto - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been used to understand fundamental principles
of genetics and biology for over a century. Drosophila is now also considered an essential …

Imaging flies by fluorescence microscopy: principles, technologies, and applications

S Dunst, P Tomancak - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The development of fluorescent labels and powerful imaging technologies in the last two
decades has revolutionized the field of fluorescence microscopy, which is now widely used …

Using Drosophila to drive the diagnosis and understand the mechanisms of rare human diseases

N Link, HJ Bellen - Development, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Next-generation sequencing has greatly accelerated the discovery of rare human genetic
diseases. Nearly 45% of patients have variants associated with known diseases but the …

A comprehensive Drosophila resource to identify key functional interactions between SARS-CoV-2 factors and host proteins

A Guichard, S Lu, O Kanca, D Bressan, Y Huang, M Ma… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Development of effective therapies against SARS-CoV-2 infections relies on mechanistic
knowledge of virus-host interface. Abundant physical interactions between viral and host …