title: Isolation and characterisation of smallminded, a Drosophila gene encoding a new member of the Cdc48p/VCP subfamily of AAA proteins.
abstract: Smallminded (smid) encodes a new member of the cdc48p/VCP subfamily of AAA proteins in Drosophila. The gene was isolated by plasmid rescue from a GAL4 enhancer trap line which shows reporter gene expression in neuroblasts, imaginal disks and a subset of sensory neurons. Larvae homozygous for the insert arrest development as second instar larvae and die without pupating. The most obvious defect in these larvae is a significantly reduced CNS, hence the naming of the gene as smallminded. The deduced amino acid sequence of smid contains a tandem duplication of the AAA nucleotide binding domain characteristic of the cdc48p/VCP subfamily. Overall, smid shares 33% identical residues with its closest relative, yeast L0919-chrXII and 26-29% with other members of the cdc48p/VCP subfamily. The most highly conserved regions of the predicted protein structure are found in and around the nucleotide binding domains. The gene is expressed at all developmental stages.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Division of Cell Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shepherd
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D017344:Genes, Insect; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D006579:Heterozygote; D006720:Homozygote; D007814:Larva; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000378:metabolism; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; C111665:smid protein, Drosophila