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ReviewGenetics2017

Gene Tagging Strategies To Assess Protein Expression, Localization, and Function in

Oguz Kanca, Hugo J Bellen, Frank Schnorrer

Erratum issuedOpen access · greenAbstract readReview
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Review in Genetics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 45 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. TAG-IN, a swappable strategy for endogenous gene tagging inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. WormTagDB: A Systematic Survey of Endogenously Tagged Proteins inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  7. Loss-of-function in RBBP5 results in a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder associated with microcephaly.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2024
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  20. Tagging Drosophila Proteins with Genetically Encoded Fluorophores.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Oguz KancaDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 Oguz.Kanca@bcm.edu frank.schnorrer@univ-amu.fr.ORCID 0000-0001-5438-0879
Hugo J BellenDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.ORCID 0000-0001-5992-5989
Frank SchnorrerDevelopmental Biology Institute of Marseille (IBDM), UMR 7288, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, 13288, France Oguz.Kanca@bcm.edu frank.schnorrer@univ-amu.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-9518-7263
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USNeurological Research Institute · US

Funding

Transposon induced disruption of most Drosophila genesR01GM067858 · NIGMS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BELLEN, HUGO J · 2003 to 2020
$15.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067858
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Analysis of gene function in complex organisms relies extensively on tools to detect the cellular and subcellular localization of gene products, especially proteins. Typically, immunostaining with antibodies provides these data. However, due to cost, time, and labor limitations, generating specific antibodies against all proteins of a complex organism is not feasible. Furthermore, antibodies do not enable live imaging studies of protein dynamics. Hence, tagging genes with standardized immunoepitopes or fluorescent tags that permit live imaging has become popular. Importantly, tagging genes present in large genomic clones or at their endogenous locus often reports proper expression, subcellular localization, and dynamics of the encoded protein. Moreover, these tagging approaches allow the generation of elegant protein removal strategies, standardization of visualization protocols, and permit protein interaction studies using mass spectrometry. Here, we summarize available genomic resources and techniques to tag genes and discuss relevant applications that are rarely, if at all, possible with antibodies.

Indexed as

Gene Transfer TechniquesAnimalsDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsEpitopesMicroscopy, FluorescenceProtein EngineeringProtein TransportRecombinant Fusion ProteinsDrosophila ProteinsEpitopesRecombinant Fusion ProteinsDrosophilaFlybookgene tagginggenome engineeringtechniques and resourcestransgenesis

Identifiers

PMID28978772
PMCPMC5629313
OpenAlexW2766004818

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