Mutation in the lethal and neural common exons. Amino acid replacement: W262@. Nucleotide substitution: TGG to TGA. Residue lies in the membrane-spanning domain.
G20773259A
G?A
W273term | shakB-PA; W262term | shakB-PC; W433term | shakB-PD; W217term | shakB-PE; W193term | shakB-PF; W278term | shakB-PG; W278term | shakB-PH; W278term | shakB-PI
W262term
TGG to TGA
Carboxyfluorescein injected into abdominal muscle VL3 fails to spread into muscles VO4 and VO5, in contrast to wild type, indicating a loss of gap-junctional connections between these muscles. Muscles VO4 and VO5 have significantly smaller IA and IK currents than wild type.
The DLMs do not respond to brain shocks and the TTMs respond only occasionally and then with a longer than normal latency.
Reduction in anterior-posterior extent of the medial branch of the tergotrochantral muscle motorneuron. Posterior branch, and position of the motorneuron cell body are unaffected.
Abnormal electrophysiological phenotype. Homozygous flies exhibit uncoordinated leg movements under ether anaesthesia and do not jump to a light off stimulus. Heterozygotes are fully viable but exhibit some neuronal defects.
Fails to complement shakB3.
Lifschytz.
shakB alleles exhibit a complex pattern of complementation.