Several classes of heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) core proteins and all HS biosynthetic/modifying enzymes are evolutionarily conserved from human to Drosophila melanogaster. This genetically tractable model offers highly sophisticated techniques… Click to show full abstract
Several classes of heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) core proteins and all HS biosynthetic/modifying enzymes are evolutionarily conserved from human to Drosophila melanogaster. This genetically tractable model offers highly sophisticated techniques to manipulate gene function in a spatially and temporally controlled manner. Thus, Drosophila genetics has been a powerful system to explore functions of HSPGs in vivo. In this chapter, we will introduce three genetic techniques available in Drosophila: TARGET (temporal and regional gene expression targeting), MARCM (mosaic analysis with a repressible cell marker), and FLP-Out.
               
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