Immunofluorescence analysis of indicated, clonal parasites after 48 h incubation with or without 50 nM rapamycin. green, IMC1; red, DrpC-HA; blue, DAPI. Scale bar represents 100 μM.
posted on 2015-06-19, 02:57authored byManuela S. Pieperhoff, Gurman S. Pall, Elena Jiménez-Ruiz, Sujaan Das, Carmen Melatti, Matthew Gow, Eleanor H. Wong, Joanne Heng, Sylke Müller, Michael J. Blackman, Markus Meissner
A dotted staining pattern for DrpC-HA was observed in all three recipient strains. DiCreΔku80 and DiCre ku80::KRedflox-YFP parasites show efficient rapamycin dependent drpC silencing. In contrast, in ku80::diCre parasites only in a few drpC silenced vacuoles (encirceled in yellow) were observed.