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SPARC: a method to genetically manipulate precise proportions of cells.

Isaacman-Beck, J.; Paik, K. C.; Wienecke, C. F. R.; Yang, H. H.; Fisher, Y. E.; Wang, I. E.; Ishida, I. G.; Maimon, G.; Wilson, R. I.; Clandinin, T. R.

2019-09-30 neuroscience
10.1101/788679 bioRxiv
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Many experimental approaches rely on controlling gene expression in select subsets of cells within an individual animal. However, reproducibly targeting transgene expression to specific fractions of a genetically-defined cell-type is challenging. We developed Sparse Predictive Activity through Recombinase Competition (SPARC), a generalizable toolkit that can express any effector in precise proportions of post-mitotic cells in Drosophila. Using this approach, we demonstrate targeted expression of many effectors and apply these tools to calcium imaging of individual neurons and optogenetic manipulation of sparse cell populations in vivo.

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