Light-inducible Shine-GAL4

di Pietro et al. (2021) reported a transgenic light-inducible GAL4/UAS system based on Magnet photoswitches. It allows efficient, rapid, and robust activation of UAS-driven transgenes in different tissues and at various developmental stages in Drosophila.

 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34879263/

di Pietro, F., Herszterg, S., Huang, A., Bosveld, F., Alexandre, C., Sancéré, L., Pelletier, S., Joudat, A., Kapoor, V., Vincent, J.P., Bellaïche, Y. (2021). Rapid and robust optogenetic control of gene expression in Drosophila. Dev. Cell 56(24): 3393--3404.e7.

We have the following stocks carrying the split GAL4(DBD)/p65(AD) components:


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