Mutations in new cell cycle genes that fail to complement a multiply mutant third chromosome of Drosophila.
We have simultaneously screened for new alleles and second site mutations that fail to complement five cell cycle mutations of Drosphila carried on a single third chromosome (gnu, polo, mgr, asp, stg). Females that are either transheterozygous for scott of the antartic (scant) and polo, or homozygous for scant produce embryos that show mitotic defects. A maternal effect upon embryonic mitoses is also seen in embryos derived from females transheterozygous with helter skelter (hsk) and either mgr or asp. cleopatra (cleo), fails to complement asp but is not uncovered by a deficiency for asp. The mitotic phenotype of larvae heterozygous for cleo and the multiple mutant chromosome is similar to weak alleles of asp, but there are no defects in male meiosis. Mutations that failed to complement stg fell into two complementation groups corresponding to stg and a new gene noose. Three of the new stg alleles are early zygotic lethals, whereas the fourth is a pharate adult lethal allele that affects both mitosis and meiosis. Mutations in noose fully complement a small deficiency that removes stg, but when placed in trans to certain stg alleles, result in late lethality and mitotic abnormalities in larval brains.
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Dundee, Scotland.
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D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D002453:Cell Cycle; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D002875:Chromosomes; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D005260:Female; D017344:Genes, Insect; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D006579:Heterozygote; D008297:Male; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000235:genetics; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000235:genetics; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; C072004:polo protein, Drosophila; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; C059217:stg protein, Drosophila