Although polar auxin transport in the meristem is largely inhibited, this mutant can generate bulges and sometimes ill-shaped flowers suggesting that compensatory mechanisms can be induced.
Therefore, the loss of anti-Bax function in PrP mutants can occur through two mechanisms: low levels of CyPrP through decreased retrotranslocation or pre-emptive quality control and loss in anti-Bax activity for those mutants that can generate CyPrP.
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Finding that knock-in mutant mice can generate giant osteoclasts is an important result, since this cellular phenotype resembles the human Pagetic osteoclast phenotype.
In contrast to Keio mutants, transposon insertion can generate mutations that inactivate more than one gene (e.g., a full operon) and, more importantly, mutations that affect genes at different levels (e.g., mutants that modulate gene expression by insertions in promoter regions [ 26], or mutants with partial gene activity by insertions near the C-terminus of a gene).
Such a mutant Cas9 endonuclease can generate only a single-stranded DNA lesion and is thus named a Cas9 'nickase' (Jinek et al., 2012).
Note that while all L mutants in the 1-step neighborhood of the ancestral clone have higher fitness (1 + s i > 1), the 1-step neighborhood of a newly created clone with fitness 1 + s i can generate mutants that have higher or lower fitness, depending on the randomly chosen values of s i for these mutants.
The laboratory maintains breeding colonies of many mutant mice strains and can generate rarer strains from a library of frozen embryos.
The application of Cas9 nickase almost avoids off-target effects, and Cas9 nickases with paired offset sgRNAs can generate heritable mutants in D. melanogaster.
This strategy is advantageous over rational engineering approaches in that it requires minimal knowledge of the metabolic pathway, and because selective pressure is being used, a large library of mutants can be generated to cover a much more significant portion of sequence space to generate the desired phenotype.
