Isolating genes involved with genotoxic drug response in the nematode caenorhabditis elegans using genome-wide RNAi screening

Lone Vedel Scholer, Tine Horning Moller, Steffen Norgaard, Lotte Vestergaard, Anders Olsen*

*Corresponding author for this work
2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has become a popular genetic model organism used to study a broad range of complex biological processes, including development, aging, apoptosis, and DNA damage responses. Many genetic tools and tricks have been developed in C. elegans including knock down of gene expression via RNA interference (RNAi). In C. elegans RNAi can effectively be administrated via feeding the nematodes bacteria expressing double-stranded RNA targeting the gene of interest. Several commercial C. elegans RNAi libraries are available and hence gene inactivation using RNAi can relatively easily be performed in a genome-wide fashion. In this chapter we give a protocol for using genome-wide RNAi screening to identify genes involved with the response to genotoxic stress.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDNA Repair Protocols
Number of pages12
Volume920
Publication date12 Nov 2012
Pages27-38
ISBN (Print)9781617799976
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Nov 2012
Externally publishedYes
SeriesMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume920
ISSN1064-3745

Keywords

  • C. elegans
  • DNA damage
  • Genotoxic compounds
  • Whole genome RNAi screening

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