vectors

pBI series of Drosophila vectors

Ji-Wu Wang and Brian McCabe, manuscript in preparation

pBI (AttB, Insulated) Drosophila Transgenic Vectors are based on a PhiC31 compatible backbone with miniwhite marker and ampicillin resistance (Groth et al. 2004, Dietzl et al. 2007). Inserts are flanked by gypsy insulator elements to increase expression levels and reduce insertion site-to-site expression variability (Markstein et al. 2008). GAL4 versions of these vectors combine 10 copies of the Gal4 Upstream Activating Sequence (UAS) to improve expression levels (Dietzl et al. 2007) with a Drosophila synthetic core promoter (DSCP) to reduce non-specific tissue expression (Pfeiffer et al. 2008), which together we call UASC. Most vectors also utilize gateway technology to facilitate cloning.

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Vectors
NAME
PURPOSE
NOTES
pBI
Transgenic DNA fragments, e.g. Genomic fragments
Similar restrictions sites to pUAST
pBI-G
Transgenic DNA fragments, e.g. Genomic fragments
Gateway compatible
pBI-UASC
Gal4 dependent gene expression
Similar restrictions sites to pUAST.
pBI-UASC-G
Gal4 dependent gene expression
Gateway compatible
pBI-UASC-VG
Gal4 dependent gene expression, mVenus (YFP) fusion
Gateway compatible, Venus fused to the N-terminus of the inserted gene
pBI-UASC-GV
Gal4 dependent gene expression, mVenus (YFP) fusion
Gateway compatible, Venus fused to the C-terminus of the inserted gene
pBI-UASC-GGi.
Gal4 dependent gene expression, transgenic RNA inhibition (RNAi)
Gateway compatible, 2 inverted gateway cassettes separated by ftz intron