Specific cell ablation in Drosophila using the toxic viral protein M2(H37A)
2010
Lam, Victoria K. | Tokusumi, Tsuyoshi | Cerabona, Donna | Schulz, Robert A.
The expression of toxic viral proteins for the purpose of eliminating distinct populations of cells, while leaving the rest of an organism unaffected, is a valuable method for analyzing development. Using the Gal4-UAS system, we employed the M2(H37A) toxic ion channel of the influenza-A virus to selectively ablate the Drosophila eye-antennal imaginal discs, hemocytes, dorsal vessel and nervous tissue, and comparatively monitored the effects of expressing the apoptosis-promoting protein Reaper in identical cell populations. In this report, we demonstrate the effectiveness of M2(H37A)-mediated ablation as a new means to selectively eliminate cells of interest during Drosophila development.
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