An in vivo systematic genetic analysis of tumour progression in Drosophila - RNAi line: 7716

Metastasis is the leading cause of death for cancer patients. Consequently it is imperative that we improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underlie progression of tumour growth towards malignancy. Advances in genome characterisation technologies have been very successful in identifying commonly mutated or misregulated genes in a variety of human cancers. A major challenge however is the translation of these findings to new biological insight due to the difficulty in evaluating whether these candidate genes drive tumour progression. Using the genetic amenability of Drosophila melanogaster we generated tumours with specific genotypes in the living animal and carried out a detailed systematic loss-of-function analysis to identify numerous conserved genes that enhance or suppress epithelial tumour progression. This enabled the discovery of functional cooperative regulators of invasion and the establishment of a network of conserved ‘invasion suppressors’.

RNAi line: 7716 (III)
Source: VDRC

Name: Hsp83
Full name: Heat shock protein 83
Also known as: Hsp90, hsp82, l(3)j5C2, E(sev)3A, E(sina)2
Annotation symbol: CG1242
FlyBase ID: FBgn0001233

File naming convention: File names typically contain representations of date (DDMMYY), RNAi Line, Animal Number and, in some cases, window (to accommodate larger samples that require multiple image stacks)

Included files: 100315_Lgl_7716_An6_combined.tif 100315_Lgl_7716_An7_combined.tif 120315_An7_7716_w_combined.tif An13 7716 Lgl4 130515.tif An4 7716 w.tif