The predicted product terminates immediately N-terminal to the conserved cysteine cluster in the extracellular domain.
Amino acid replacement: C144term.
C5221353A
C144term | tkv-PA; C112term | tkv-PB; C156term | tkv-PC; C90term | tkv-PD
C144term
Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
adult head & cuticle | somatic clone
visceral mesoderm & parasegment 7
tkv8 clones generated from intestinal stem cell clones have significantly more cells than controls clones.
tkv8 mutant neuroepithelial cells in optic lobe clones form small ectopic clusters close to the proximal inner proliferation center (p-IPC).
Maternal effect tkv8 embryos (tkv8 mutant mothers crossed with wild-type fathers) appear to develop normally, as the primordial germ cells migrate to and coalesce properly with the somatic germ cell precursors to form an embryonic gonad. The spectrosomes in approximately half of these flies resemble wild-type, with a characteristic spherical shape. The remaining primordial germ cells display spectrosomes that are either bifurcated or have an irregular morphology.
Eight days after induction of intestinal stem cell (ISC) clones, the number of cells in tkv8 mutant clones is significantly higher than in wild-type clones. After injury by feeding bleomycin, mutant clones have more cells than both wild-type clones and mutant clones before injury.
Wild-type clones contain one stem cell, whereas approximately tkv8 mutant clones show a gradual increase in ISC number over time.
One-stem-cell tkv8 mutant clones contain more stem cells than wild-type clones, indicating that mutant ISCs divide more often than wild-type ones.
Clones of tkv8-mutant cells cause premature differentiation of the adult midgut precursor cells into large, polyploid, enterocyte-like cells compared with wild-type cells.
Clones of tkv8 homozygous cells in the pupal retina have defects in the apical profiles and packing of secondary pigment cells relative to tertiary pigment cells. Single, isolated tkv4 homozygous secondary pigment cells in the pupal retina have a restricted apical profile compared to neighbouring wild-type inter-ommatidial cells which expand apically to fill the unoccuppied space.
tkv8 mutant embryos show a delay in dorsal closure and rapture of the dorsal epidermis-peripheral amnioserosa interface, along with discontinuation of F-actin accumulation in the leading edge. The mutants also exhibit rupture of the amino serosa-dorsal epidermis interface.
In tkv8 mutants the F-actin cable is absent in the peripheral amnioserosa, suggesting that specification is incomplete. Time-lapse recording reveals that the progression and removal of the peripheral amnioserosa is delayed.
Somatic clones of tkv8 homozygous cells in the late third instar eye disc are much smaller than wild-type twin spots. However, many of the cells in these clones go on to express neuronal differentiation markers. Mutant cells enter the S phase in the second mitotic wave, but the G2/M transition of this mitosis is disrupted.
When neutral marked clones are induced in the ovary, the proportion of germaria carrying marked somatic stem cells 3 weeks after clone induction is around 70% of that seen one week after clone induction. For tkv8 homozygous clones, the equivalent figure is around 25%. However, the number of resulting clones in the ovarian follicle cells is only slightly reduced compared to controls and these clones have no fewer cells than their twin-spots.
Clones of male tkv8 homozygous germline stem cells are still present in only 1.3X% of testes one week after clone induction and none are present two weeks after clone induction. This is in contrast to wild-type control clones, which are present in 82% of testes one week after clone induction and 64% two weeks after clone induction.
tkv1/tkv8 animals show a significant reduction in neuromuscular junction (NMJ) size compared to wild type; the number of synaptic boutons/muscle surface area at muscle 6/7 is 71.6 +/- 1.9% of wild type. The evoked excitatory junctional potential (EJP) (measured at muscle 6 of segment A3) shows a decrease in amplitude in tkv1/tkv8 animals compared to wild type. Quantal content is reduced compared to wild type.
R8 photoreceptor differentiation is normal in somatic clones of tkv8 mutant cells.
Homozygous clones in the adult abdomen do not show any effect on polarity.
Mutant embryos have a "dorsal open" cuticle phenotype.
Wing discs are lost completely and the number of proximal leg disc cells is reduced in mutant embryos. The leg phenotype is sometimes variable.
The dorsal branches of the tracheal system do not develop in homozygous embryos, and the more ventral branches are absent or severely affected. Some tracheal cells invaginate in stage 12 embryos but others remain in an intermediate position between the epidermis and the branches that are formed.
Homozygous embryos show a dorsal-open phenotype, with severe head defects and large holes in the dorsal cuticle.
Clonal analysis in the germarium reveals that mutant stem cells are lost more rapidly than wild type, though there is no effect on the formation of 16 cell cysts or their subsequent development. Stem cell half life is 0.69 weeks (wild type being 4.6 weeks). Stem cell division rate relative to control is 0.29.
Tracheal tree defects consisting mainly of a failure to develop some particular branches in the dorsoventral axis. Other tracheal branches form in the anteroposterior axis, though they display an occasional gap.
Embryos exhibit a partial dorsal closure phenotype, leading edge cells are extremely elongated but adjacent more ventral epithelial cells fail to stretch. Most dorsal cuticle is turned inwards and the mouth hooks are retained inside the embryo.
Dorsal branches of the tracheal system are lacking and ganglion branches and the lateral trunk are severely affected.
Mutant embryos show absence of the dorsal branch and lateral trunks. The visceral branch forms normally.
Small homozygous clones are observed in the adult eye; photoreceptor differentiation occurs relatively normally, 25% ommatidia are missing one or more photoreceptor cell and the normal precise hexagonal array of the ommatidia is disrupted in the clone and surrounding wild type tissue. Eye is significantly reduced in size or completely missing and the surrounding head cuticle is missing (loss of head cuticle is not caused by put clones).
Dorsal clones induced in second instar larvae in the tarsus convert dorsal cells to ventral or ventrolateral cell fates. Clones often produce outgrowths that include normal neighbours, some of which have been respecified to ventral fates. Ventral clones induced in second instar larvae in the tarsus produce excessive ventral-most structures (peg-like bristles). Tarsal clones cause polarity disruptions in neighbouring normal cells.
Thickened vein mutant.
Embryos show a dorsal hole. Parts of the dorsal hypoderm in the trunk region are missing. Cephalopharyngeal skeleton is severely disrupted or absent and its remains are forced out of the body cavity. Embryos fail to form the second midgut constriction, and later the gastric caeca are missing. Visceral mesoderm of parasegment 7 is absent. Tracheal system shows a complete absence of dorsally directed trachea, ganglionic branches and lateral trunk. The remaining tracheal lumen is only established in a rudimentary fashion.
Homozygotes display dorsally open cuticle, severe defective head and contracted epidermis giving the cuticle a rounded appearance. Lethal when heterozygous with tkv6. Female transheterozygotes with tkv1 are viable and display a wing phenotype, wing veins are very thick and short along the proximal distal axis, transheterozygotes with Df(2L)tkv3 display extremely thickened wing veins. Adult Df(2L)tkv3/tkv8 females are very weak, possess atrophic ovaries and do not lay eggs in the few days they survive beyond eclosion.
Nondefective in gonad assembly.
homozygous lethal
tkv8 has lethal | recessive phenotype, non-enhanceable by lilliunspecified
tkv8/tkvk16713 has abnormal neuroanatomy | third instar larval stage phenotype, non-suppressible by Ube3a35/Ube3a35
tkv8/tkv[+] is an enhancer of increased cell number | pupal stage phenotype of Scer\GAL4GMR.PF, pydRNAi.3.UAS
tkv8 is a suppressor | partially of increased size | larval stage phenotype of Scer\GAL4hh-Gal4, hhUAS.cIa
tkv8/tkvk16713 is a suppressor of abnormal neuroanatomy | third instar larval stage phenotype of Ube3a35
tkv8/tkv[+] is a suppressor of abnormal neuroanatomy | third instar larval stage phenotype of Ube3a35
tkv8/tkv[+] is a suppressor of abnormal neurophysiology | third instar larval stage phenotype of Ube3a35
tkv8/tkv[+] is a suppressor of visible phenotype of Scer\GAL4A9, gbbUAS.cKa
tkv8/tkv[+] is a suppressor of visible phenotype of Scer\GAL4A9, dppUAS.cHa
myd[+]/myd3PM71, tkv8 has abnormal flight phenotype
smo3, tkv8 has abnormal mitotic cell cycle | somatic clone phenotype
smo3, tkv8 has decreased occurrence of cell division | somatic clone | larval stage phenotype
tkv8, witHA3/wit[+] has abnormal neuroanatomy | dominant phenotype
tkv8/tkv[+], witHA3 has abnormal neuroanatomy phenotype
tkv8 has interommatidial cell | pupal stage P7 | ectopic phenotype, enhanceable by shg[+]/shgR69
tkv8/tkvk16713 has NMJ bouton | third instar larval stage phenotype, non-suppressible by Ube3a35/Ube3a35
tkv8/tkv[+] is an enhancer of posterior crossvein | ectopic phenotype of nordΔ1728
tkv8/tkv[+] is an enhancer of interommatidial precursor cell | pupal stage | increased number phenotype of Scer\GAL4GMR.PF, pydRNAi.3.UAS
tkv8/tkv[+] is an enhancer of interommatidial cell | pupal stage P7 | ectopic phenotype of shgR69
tkv1/tkv8 is an enhancer of wing vein | ectopic phenotype of Ras64BAct5C.PC
tkv8 is a suppressor | partially of wing disc anterior compartment | larval stage phenotype of Scer\GAL4hh-Gal4, hhUAS.cIa
tkv8/tkvk16713 is a suppressor of NMJ bouton | increased number | third instar larval stage phenotype of Ube3a35
tkv8/tkv[+] is a suppressor of NMJ bouton | increased number | third instar larval stage phenotype of Ube3a35
tkv8/tkv[+] is a suppressor of wing vein L5 phenotype of magu2
tkv8/tkv[+] is a suppressor of wing vein phenotype of Scer\GAL4A9, gbbUAS.cKa
tkv8/tkv[+] is a suppressor of wing phenotype of Scer\GAL4A9, dppUAS.cHa
tkv8 is a suppressor of ventral ectoderm phenotype of brkXH
smo3, tkv8 has eye disc | somatic clone phenotype
tkv8, witHA3/wit[+] has neuromuscular junction phenotype
tkv8, witHA3 has neuromuscular junction phenotype
brkXH, tkv8 has filzkorper phenotype
Scer\GAL4btl.PS, tkv8, wgUAS.cLa has larval tracheal system phenotype
Scer\GAL4btl.PS, tkv8, wgUAS.cLa has embryonic/larval tracheal dorsal trunk phenotype
arm2, tkv8 has larval tracheal system phenotype
smo3, tkv8 has photoreceptor neuron phenotype
put135, tkv8 has tracheal pit phenotype
tkv8/tkvk16713;Ube3a35/Ube3a35 third instar larvae have a significant decrease in total boutons (and satellite boutons) at the neuromuscular junction, compared to wild type (similar to tkv8/tkvk16713, suppressing the increase seen in Ube3a35/Ube3a35 mutants). tkv8/+ suppresses the increase in total boutons (and satellite boutons) at the neuromuscular junction in Ube3a35/Ube3a35 third instar larvae. tkv8/+ suppresses reduced EJP amplitudes under intense stimulation and endocytosis defects in Ube3a35/Ube3a35 mutants.
One copy of tkv8 strongly enhances the increase in inter-ommatidial precursor cell number seen when pyd3.dsRNA.Scer\UAS is expressed under the control of Scer\GAL4GMR.PF.
tkv8/+ almost completely suppresses the abberant arrangement of inter-ommatidial cells seen in the pupal and adult retinas of In(1)rst3/Y animals.
The retinas of tkv8/+ or shgR69/+ animals at 42 hours APF have only very occasional inter-ommatidial patterning defects (the occasional extra or misplaced cell). This phenotype is dramatically enhanced in tkv8/shgR69 transheterozygotes.
When wgScer\UAS.cLa is expressed under the control of Scer\GAL4btl.PS in a tkv8 background a huge dorsal trunk is formed and no other tracheal branches are usually formed. The formation of all tracheal branches except the transverse connective and visceral branch is impaired in arm2 ; tkv8 double mutants.
The dpp shortvein phenotype is strongly enhanced, and the tkv phenotype is suppressed, in dpps4 tkv1/dpps8 tkv8 double mutant flies. rhove-1 suppresses the differentiation of thicker veins seen in tkv1/tkv8 flies. The differentiation of thicker veins seen in rhohs.PSt flies is strongly increased in combination with tkv1/tkv8. The ectopic vein phenotype of Ras64BAct5C.PC flies is increased in combination with tkv1/tkv8. tkv1/tkv8 NAx-1 double mutant flies show pronounced wing vein loss. The thickening of veins seen in tkv1/tkv8 flies is strongly enhanced in combination with Nnd-3 and is suppressed in combination with NAx-1.
tkv8/tkv5 is rescued by tkvUAS.YFP/Scer\GAL4arm.PS
tkv8 is rescued by tkvTIPF.Ubi-p63E
tkv1/tkv8 is rescued by Scer\GAL4elav.PLu/tkvUAS.Tag:HA
tkv8/tkv7 is rescued by tkvUbi-p63E.PB
tkvUbi-p63E.PB rescues the inviable mutant phenotype of tkv7/tkv8.
Allelism with tkv indicated by location, failure to complement lethal and viable tkv alleles and thick vein and abnormal thorax phenotype over Tp(2;3)tkv (Szidonya and Reuter, 1988).
Nusslein-Volhard.