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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Gene. 2007 Aug 3;400(1-2):166–173. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.06.020

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Strategy of tissue-specific RNAi using the rde-1 mutant

A: Yellow colour shows RNAi resistant cells. Red colour shows RNAi sensitive cells. Expression of rde-1 in tissue A should result in RNAi sensitivity in tissue A, but not tissue B.

B: Plasmids used in this study. The lin-26 promoter (3.7 kb 5′ sequence) was placed upstream of NLS-GFP or rde-1, resulting in hypodermis-specific NLS-GFP or rde-1 expression. The myo-3 promoter (2.4 kb 5′ sequence) was fused to NLS-GFP, resulting in a muscle-specific NLS-GFP expressing plasmid (pPD93.97). The hlh-1 promoter (3.0 kb 5′ sequence) was fused to rde-1, resulting in a muscle-specific rde-1 expressing plasmid.