RNAi Plating for C. elegans Feeding: En teknik til at fremkalde Target dsRNA-udtryk i E. coli

Published: April 30, 2023

Abstract

Kilde: Kolundzic, E., et al. Anvendelse af RNAi og Heat-shock-induceret Transskription Factor Expression at omprogrammere kimceller til neuroner i C. elegansJ. Vis. Exp. (2018).

Denne video beskriver principperne bag RNAi behandling i C. elegans og viser en protokol til knockdown lin-35 i en transgen orm stamme.

Protocol

Denne protokol er uddrag fra Kolundzic, et al, Anvendelse af RNAi og Heat-shock-induceret Transskribering Factor Expression at omprogrammere kimceller til neuroner i C. elegans, J. Vis. Exp. (2018). Løsningsforberedelse NGM-Agar plader (1 L) Der tilsættes 3 g NaCl, 2,5 g peptonmedier (f.eks. Bacto-Peptone) og 2…

Representative Results

Figur 1: Pvul phenotype forårsaget af RNAi mod lin-53. (Øverst) DIC billede af L4/unge voksne fase F1 afkom orme stammer fra kontrol eller lin-53 RNAi behandlede mødre. Skalastænger = 20 μm. (Nederst) Dyr behandlet med lin-53 RNAi udviser den fremspringende vulva (pvul) fænotype (sorte pilehoveder). Den pvul phenotype bekræfter, at RNAi mod lin-53 var en…

Materials

Chemicals 
Agar-Agar, Kobe I Roth 5210.1
Bactopeptone  A. Hartenstein GmbH 211 677 Peptone Media 
Yeast extract  AppliChem A1552,0100
Amphotericin B USBiological A2220
CaCl2 Merck Biosciences 208290
Cholesterol Roth 8866.2
Gelatine Roth 4275.3
IPTG Sigma 15502-10G
K2PO4 Roth T875.2
KH2PO4 Roth  3904.2
MgSO4 VWR 25,163,364
Na2HPO4 Roth P030.1
NaCl Roth 9265.1
NaClO Roth 9062.3
NaOH (5 N) Roth  KK71.1
Tris Roth AE15.2
Carbenicillin Roth 634412
Tetracycline Roth 2371.2
Incubators
Incubator  Sanyo MIR-5 5534210 for maintenance of worm strains at 15 °C or 25 °C
Microscopes
Stereomicroscope SMZ745 Nikon
Bacterial strains
Escherichia coli HT115 F-, mcrA, mcrB, IN(rrnD-rrnE)1, rnc14::Tn10(DE3 lysogen: lavUV5promoter -T7 polymerase) (IPTG-inducible T7 polymerase) (RNAseIII minus).
Escherichia coli OP50  Uracil auxotroph E. coli strain
Worm strains
BAT28: otIs305 (hsp16.2prom::che-1::3xHA) ntIs1 (gcy-5prom::gfp) V. derived from OH9846 by 4x times more back crossing with N2
RNAi Clones
lin-53 SourceBioscience ID I-4D14 Ahringer library 16B07 ChromI, K07A1.12
empty vetor: L4440 Addgene  #1654

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Cite This Article
RNAi Plating for C. elegans Feeding: A Technique to Induce Target dsRNA Expression in E. coli. J. Vis. Exp. (Pending Publication), e20138, doi: (2023).

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