Cell-based RNAi (DRSC)

Quick link to Gene Lookup (search screen data)
Quick link to UP-TORR (view cell & in vivo reagents)

Drosophila cell-based RNAi screens have been supported by our facility since 2003. We provide reagents targeting individual genes, focused libraries, genome-scale libraries, and other resources for on-site screening at our facility or off-site screening at your institution.

See links below to relevant online tools, reagents, protocols, publications, and more.

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Online tools

UP-TORR

Description UP-TORR provides accurate and up-to-date annotation of cell-based and in vivo RNAi reagents targeting Drosophila genes, including reagents from all major public collections: DRSC, DKFZ, NIG-Japan, VDRC and TRiP. UP-TORR can also provide up-to...

FlyPrimerBank

FlyPrimerBank provides a resource of pre-computed primers appropriate for qPCR. The primer designs were based on the original PrimerBank algorithms as well as our own internal algorithms. Key information such as spanning of intron-exon boundaries and...

Reagents

Cell RNAi libraries

We have an extensive collection of DNA templates for production of double stranded RNA (dsRNA) via in vitro transcription, as well as many assay-ready libraries for RNAi screening of Drosophila cells using dsRNAs. Cell RNAi reagents and libraries are now...

RNAi rescue reagents

RNAi rescue provides a test for on-target specificity of an RNAi reagent. With RNAi rescue, activity of the presumed target gene is provided via a transgene that provides wildtype function but is not recognized by the RNAi reagent (mutant or different in...

Protocols

Cell RNAi (6-well)

This protocol is for RNAi screening of Drosophila cells in 6-well plates using the “bathing” method of delivery (no transfection reagent). We also provide a protocol for RNAi screening in 384-well plates using the bathing method or a transfection method...

Cell RNAi (384-well)

This protocol is for RNAi screening with Drosophila cells in 384-well micro-well plates, with additional information on transfection-based RNAi in 96-well format. 384-well format is the format used for RNAi reagents in the DRSC 2.0 genome-wide and other...

dsRNA synthesis

Protocol for dsRNA Synthesis We routinely produce dsRNA by in vitro transcription of a PCR generated DNA template containing the T7 promoter sequence on both ends. It is also possible to produce dsRNA using PCR generated DNA templates containing either...

News

Read the DRSC/TRiP Report to the Fly Board 2022

Below we share with the community at large the report we provided to the Fly Board in advance of the 2022 Fly Meeting. As always, your feedback on our technologies and services is welcome. We are here to help. DRSC/TRiP Functional Genomics Resources at...
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DRSC/TRiP and DRSC-BTRR Office Hours

New this fall: Online office hours! Do you have questions about modifying Drosophila cell lines with CRISPR or performing large-scale cell screens? Questions about in vivo RNAi with TRiP fly stocks or CRISPR knockout or activation with our sgRNA fly...
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Contact Us

Please contact us for any questions.

Publications

2022

Shue Chen, Leah Rosin, Gianluca Pegoraro, Nellie Moshkovich, Patrick Murphy, Guoyun Yu, and Elissa Lei. 2022. “NURF301 Contributes to Gypsy Chromatin Insulator-Mediated Nuclear Organization”. Nucleic Acids Res, 50, 14, Pp. 7906-24. doi:10.1093/nar/gkac600
Shue Chen, Leah Rosin, Gianluca Pegoraro, Nellie Moshkovich, Patrick Murphy, Guoyun Yu, and Elissa Lei. 2022. “NURF301 Contributes to Gypsy Chromatin Insulator-Mediated Nuclear Organization”. Nucleic Acids Res, 50, 14, Pp. 7906-24. doi:10.1093/nar/gkac600
Jiunn Song, Arda Mizrak, Chia-Wei Lee, Marcelo Cicconet, Zon Weng Lai, Wei-Chun Tang, Chieh-Han Lu, Stephanie E. Mohr, Robert V. Farese, and Tobias C. Walther. 2022. “Identification of Two Pathways Mediating Protein Targeting from ER to Lipid Droplets”. Nature Cell Biol
Jiunn Song, Arda Mizrak, Chia-Wei Lee, Marcelo Cicconet, Zon Weng Lai, Wei-Chun Tang, Chieh-Han Lu, Stephanie E. Mohr, Robert V. Farese, and Tobias C. Walther. 2022. “Identification of Two Pathways Mediating Protein Targeting from ER to Lipid Droplets”. Nature Cell Biol

2021

Xiangzhao Yue, Yongkang Liang, Zhishuang Wei, Jun Lv, Yongjin Cai, Xiaobin Fan, Wenqing Zhang, and Jie Chen. 2021. “Genome-Wide in Vitro and in Vivo RNAi Screens Reveal Fer3 to Be an Important Regulator of Kkv Transcription in Drosophila”. Insect Sci. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12954
Xiangzhao Yue, Yongkang Liang, Zhishuang Wei, Jun Lv, Yongjin Cai, Xiaobin Fan, Wenqing Zhang, and Jie Chen. 2021. “Genome-Wide in Vitro and in Vivo RNAi Screens Reveal Fer3 to Be an Important Regulator of Kkv Transcription in Drosophila”. Insect Sci. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12954
Jiunn Song, Arda Mizrak, Chia-Wei Lee, Marcelo Cicconet, Zon Weng Lai, Chieh-Han Lu, Stephanie E. Mohr, Jr Robert V. Farese, and Tobias C. Walther. 2021. “Identification of Two Pathways Mediating Protein Targeting from ER to Lipid Droplets [NOTE: A Modified Final Version Was Published in Nat Cell Biol and Is Now Available]
Jiunn Song, Arda Mizrak, Chia-Wei Lee, Marcelo Cicconet, Zon Weng Lai, Chieh-Han Lu, Stephanie E. Mohr, Jr Robert V. Farese, and Tobias C. Walther. 2021. “Identification of Two Pathways Mediating Protein Targeting from ER to Lipid Droplets [NOTE: A Modified Final Version Was Published in Nat Cell Biol and Is Now Available]

2020

Yanhui Hu, Aram Comjean, Jonathan Rodiger, Yifang Liu, Yue Gao, Verena Chung, Jonathan Zirin, Norbert Perrimon, and Stephanie Mohr. 2020. “FlyRNAi.Org-the Database of the Drosophila RNAi Screening Center and Transgenic RNAi Project: 2021 Update”. Nucleic Acids Res. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa936
Yanhui Hu, Aram Comjean, Jonathan Rodiger, Yifang Liu, Yue Gao, Verena Chung, Jonathan Zirin, Norbert Perrimon, and Stephanie Mohr. 2020. “FlyRNAi.Org-the Database of the Drosophila RNAi Screening Center and Transgenic RNAi Project: 2021 Update”. Nucleic Acids Res. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa936

2019

Hilary Nicholson, Zeshan Tariq, Benjamin Housden, Rebecca Jennings, Laura Stransky, Norbert Perrimon, Sabina Signoretti, and William Kaelin. 2019. “HIF-Independent Synthetic Lethality Between CDK4 6 Inhibition and VHL Loss across Species”. Sci Signal, 12, 601. doi:10.1126/scisignal.aay0482
Hilary Nicholson, Zeshan Tariq, Benjamin Housden, Rebecca Jennings, Laura Stransky, Norbert Perrimon, Sabina Signoretti, and William Kaelin. 2019. “HIF-Independent Synthetic Lethality Between CDK4 6 Inhibition and VHL Loss across Species”. Sci Signal, 12, 601. doi:10.1126/scisignal.aay0482