Novel strategy of immunizing a phosphorylated peptide or a synthetic phosphopeptide, which corresponds to the protein phosphorylated at a targeted residue. Method has been applied to the production of antibodies that can specifically recognize the other types of site-specific protein modification, such as acetylation, methylation, and proteolysis. - [Read Functional Analyses for Site-Specific Phosphorylation of a Target Protein in Cells]
Protocol describes how to prepare double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) for RNA interference in Drosophila by synthesis of individual RNA strands from linearized plasmid templates, followed by annealing of the strands. DsRNA molecules with a length of 500-800 bp seem to be most active. The dsRNA can be made from cDNA or genomic DNA templates, as long as most of the dsRNA corresponds to presumptive exon sequence. - [Read Synthesis of dsRNA for RNAi in Drosophila: Plasmid Template Method Protocol]