Publications
2001
Jung Alain C, Criqui M C, Rutschmann Sophie, Hoffmann Jules A, Ferrandon Dominique
A microfluorometer assay to measure the expression of beta-galactosidase and green fluorescent protein reporter genes in single Drosophila flies Article de journal
Dans: BioTechniques, vol. 30, no. 3, p. 594–598, 600–601, 2001, ISSN: 0736-6205.
Résumé | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Animals, beta-Galactosidase, Cytophotometry, ferrandon, Genes, Green Fluorescent Proteins, hoffmann, Luminescent Proteins, M3i, Reporter
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title = {A microfluorometer assay to measure the expression of beta-galactosidase and green fluorescent protein reporter genes in single Drosophila flies},
author = {Alain C Jung and M C Criqui and Sophie Rutschmann and Jules A Hoffmann and Dominique Ferrandon},
issn = {0736-6205},
year = {2001},
date = {2001-03-01},
journal = {BioTechniques},
volume = {30},
number = {3},
pages = {594--598, 600--601},
abstract = {beta-galactosidase and green fluorescent protein (GFP) are among the most commonly used reporter genes to monitor gene expression in various organisms including Drosophila melanogaster. Their expression is usually detected in a qualitative way by direct microscopic observations of cells, tissues, or whole animals. To measure in vivo the inducibility of two antimicrobial peptide genes expressed during the Drosophila innate immune response, we have adapted two reporter gene systems based on the beta-galactosidase enzymatic activity and GFP. We have designed a 96-well microplate fluorometric assay sensitive enough to quantify the expression of both reporter genes in single flies. The assay has enabled us to process efficiently and rapidly a large number of individual mutant flies generated during an ethylmethane sulfonate saturation mutagenesis of the Drosophila genome. This method may be used in any screen that requires the quantification of reporter gene activity in individual insects.},
keywords = {Animals, beta-Galactosidase, Cytophotometry, ferrandon, Genes, Green Fluorescent Proteins, hoffmann, Luminescent Proteins, M3i, Reporter},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1994
Meister Marie, Braun A, Kappler Christine, Reichhart Jean-Marc, Hoffmann Jules A
Insect immunity. A transgenic analysis in Drosophila defines several functional domains in the diptericin promoter Article de journal
Dans: EMBO J., vol. 13, no. 24, p. 5958–5966, 1994, ISSN: 0261-4189.
Résumé | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Animals, Anti-Infective Agents, Base Sequence, beta-Galactosidase, DNA Mutational Analysis, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Genetic, Genetically Modified, Germ Cells, hoffmann, Insect Hormones, Insect Proteins, M3i, Male, Models, Nucleic Acid, Promoter Regions, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, reichhart, Repetitive Sequences, Transformation
@article{meister_insect_1994,
title = {Insect immunity. A transgenic analysis in Drosophila defines several functional domains in the diptericin promoter},
author = {Marie Meister and A Braun and Christine Kappler and Jean-Marc Reichhart and Jules A Hoffmann},
issn = {0261-4189},
year = {1994},
date = {1994-12-01},
journal = {EMBO J.},
volume = {13},
number = {24},
pages = {5958--5966},
abstract = {Diptericins are antibacterial polypeptides which are strongly induced in the fat body and blood cells of dipteran insects in response to septic injury. The promoter of the single-copy, intronless diptericin gene of Drosophila contains several nucleotide sequences homologous to mammalian cis-regulatory motifs involved in the control of acute phase response genes. Extending our previous studies on the expression of the diptericin gene, we now report a quantitative analysis of the contribution of various putative regulatory elements to the bacterial inducibility of this gene, based on the generation of 60 transgenic fly lines carrying different elements fused to a reporter gene. Our data definitively identify two Kappa B-related motifs in the proximal promoter as the sites conferring inducibility and tissue-specific expression to the diptericin gene. These motifs alone, however, mediate only minimal levels of expression. Additional proximal regulatory elements are necessary to attain some 20% of the full response and we suspect a role for sequences homologous to mammalian IL6 response elements and interferon-gamma responsive sites in this up-regulation. The transgenic experiments also reveal the existence of a distal regulatory element located upstream of -0.6 kb which increases the level of expression by a factor of five.},
keywords = {Animals, Anti-Infective Agents, Base Sequence, beta-Galactosidase, DNA Mutational Analysis, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Genetic, Genetically Modified, Germ Cells, hoffmann, Insect Hormones, Insect Proteins, M3i, Male, Models, Nucleic Acid, Promoter Regions, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, reichhart, Repetitive Sequences, Transformation},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1992
Reichhart Jean-Marc, Meister Marie, Dimarcq Jean-Luc, Zachary Daniel, Hoffmann Danièle, Ruiz C, Richards G, Hoffmann Jules A
Insect immunity: developmental and inducible activity of the Drosophila diptericin promoter Article de journal
Dans: EMBO J., vol. 11, no. 4, p. 1469–1477, 1992, ISSN: 0261-4189.
Résumé | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Acute-Phase Proteins, Adipose Tissue, Animals, Base Sequence, beta-Galactosidase, Embryo, Gene Expression Regulation, Genetic, hoffmann, Insect Hormones, Insect Proteins, M3i, Mammals, Nonmammalian, Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, Promoter Regions, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, reichhart, Restriction Mapping
@article{reichhart_insect_1992,
title = {Insect immunity: developmental and inducible activity of the Drosophila diptericin promoter},
author = {Jean-Marc Reichhart and Marie Meister and Jean-Luc Dimarcq and Daniel Zachary and Danièle Hoffmann and C Ruiz and G Richards and Jules A Hoffmann},
issn = {0261-4189},
year = {1992},
date = {1992-01-01},
journal = {EMBO J.},
volume = {11},
number = {4},
pages = {1469--1477},
abstract = {Diptericins are 9 kDa inducible antibacterial peptides initially isolated from immune haemolymph of Phormia (Diptera). Following the isolation of a Drosophila cDNA encoding a diptericin homologue, we have now cloned a genomic fragment containing the Drosophila diptericin gene. To dissect the regulation of this gene, we have transformed flies with a fusion gene in which the reporter beta-galactosidase gene is under the control of 2.2 kb upstream sequences of the diptericin gene. We show that such a fusion gene is inducible by injection of live bacteria or complete Freund's adjuvant and respects the tissue specific expression pattern of the resident diptericin gene. Our analysis reveals at least four distinct phases in the regulation of this gene: young larvae, late third instar larvae, pupae and adults. This complexity may be related to the presence in the upstream sequences of multiple copies of response elements previously characterized in genes encoding acute phase response proteins in mammals (e.g. NK-kappa B, NF-kappa B related, NF-IL6 response elements).},
keywords = {Acute-Phase Proteins, Adipose Tissue, Animals, Base Sequence, beta-Galactosidase, Embryo, Gene Expression Regulation, Genetic, hoffmann, Insect Hormones, Insect Proteins, M3i, Mammals, Nonmammalian, Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, Promoter Regions, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, reichhart, Restriction Mapping},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}