An in vivo systematic genetic analysis of tumour progression in Drosophila - RNAi line: 23886

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: 23886 (III)
Source: VDRC

Name: Pp2A-29B (1)
Full name: Protein phosphatase 2A at 29B
Also known as: PP2A, PP2A-A, PP2A 29B
Annotation symbol: CG17291
FlyBase ID: FBgn0260439

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: 061114.lei - Lgl25586 An18.tif 121114_Lgl23886An2_combined.tif 121114_Lgl23886An3_combined.tif 141114_lgl_23886_An13_combined.tif 260215_lgl_23886_An1_combined.tif