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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-11-23
pubmed:abstractText
The function of the frizzled (fz) gene is essential for the development of the normal pattern of hairs on the Drosophila wing. In the absence of fz function hairs develop, but they display an abnormal polarity. Mutations in fz result in an altered subcellular location for the assembly of the F-actin filled prehair that becomes the adult cuticular hair. This observation led to the suggestion that fz and other tissue polarity genes form a regulatory pathway that controls the initiation of prehairs. We have isolated a cold-sensitive fz allele and found that the cold-sensitive period for fz in the pupal wing starts in the early pupae and ends prior to the first sign of prehair morphogenesis. This cold-sensitive mutation is due to a missense mutation in a putative transmembrane domain. Western blot analysis shows that the accumulation of the mutant protein is not cold sensitive, consistent with the supposition that it is the activity of the mutant protein that is cold sensitive. Our data argue that fz has a regulatory function in specifying where the prehair forms, but no role in the actual morphogenesis of the prehair.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0925-4773
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
46
pubmed:geneSymbol
fz
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
101-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Actins, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Arginine, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Drosophila, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Frizzled Receptors, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Genes, Insect, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Genes, Regulator, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Glycine, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Hair, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Insect Hormones, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Morphogenesis, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Point Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Pupa, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:7918095-Wing
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
The cold-sensitive period for frizzled in the development of wing hair polarity ends prior to the start of hair morphogenesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Biology Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22903-2477.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.