Quantifying the Poly(A) Length of Genes from the Drosophila Nervous System

January 12, 2024

Author Spotlight: Exploring the Frontier of mRNA Research with Poly A Tail Analysis Techniques

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Isolation of Brain from Drosophila Larvae and Harvest of S2 Schneider Cells

01:43 min

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Total RNA Extraction from Drosophila Larvae Brain and S2 Schneider Cells

01:51 min

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Poly A Tail Length Measurement of Genes from Drosophila Brain

03:19 min

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Monika Singh, Jung Hwan Kim

¹Department of Biology,University of Nevada, Reno

Summary

The protocol describes an efficient and reliable method for quantifying the poly(A) length of the gene of interest from the Drosophila nervous system, which can be easily adapted to tissues or cell types from other species.