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Expression and targeting of Syrian hamster prion protein induced by heat shock in transgenic Drosophila melanogaster.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Jun 1995
Raeber A J, Muramoto T, Kornberg T B, Prusiner S B
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate the fruit fly as a model for studying neurodegenerative diseases caused by prions, transgenic flies were generated by introducing the Syrian hamster prion protein (SHaPrP) gene into the Drosophila melanogaster germ line by P element-mediated transformation. Nine transgenic lines were isolated; induction of transgenes that had been placed under the control of the Drosophila heat shock promoter, hsp 70,...
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