Heterologous reporter expression in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea through somatic mRNA transfection
R. N. Hall, U. Weill, L. Drees, S. Leal-Ortiz, H. Li, C. Chai, A. Sanchez Alvarado, N. A. Melosh, A. Fire, J. C. Rink, B. Wang
This paper demonstrates heterologous protein expression in planarians using mRNA transfection, improving reporter expression through UTR optimization and codon bias.
bioRxiv · Apr 20, 2021Bioengineering