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FB2013_03, released May 7th, 2013
 

Allele Dmel\chico1

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SymbolDmel\chico1SpeciesD. melanogaster
NameFlyBase IDFBal0031303
Feature typealleleAssociated geneDmel\chico
Also Known Aschico1, fs(2)41
Allele classamorphic allele - molecular evidence, loss of function allele
MutagenP-element activity
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P{ry11} is inserted 80bp downstream of the putative translation initiation site in the PH domain.
P{ry11} is inserted into, and in the same orientation as, the chico transcription unit.
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Homozygous and chico[1]/chico[flp147E] adults show normal odour and electric shock reactivity. Homozygous and chico[1]/chico[flp147E] adults show significant impairment in 3 minute, 1 hour and 3 hour memory after olfactory aversive conditioning. Analysis using a short-duration training protocol indicates that the defect appears to be in the initial learning, since after normalising 3 minute memory in chico[1] and wild-type flies, subsequent memory decay is indistinguishable in the two genotypes. The brains of homozygous flies are significantly smaller than normal, with a significant reduction in the number of Kenyon cells and in the size of the mushroom bodies.
Heterozygous females show an extension of median lifespan compared to wild-type controls. These females show accelerated accumulation of cytosolic hydrogen peroxide in the gut compared to wild-type controls. Heterozygous males do not show an extension of median lifespan compared to wild-type controls. These males show a delayed accumulation of cytosolic hydrogen peroxide in the gut compared to wild-type controls.
The frequency of proliferating cells in the intestine of aging chico[1] homozygotes is significantly lower than that of age-matched controls.
Heterozygous flies show increased resistance to dry starvation compared to control flies.
The length of the dorsal hemisegments along the antero-posterior axis in chico[1] mutant larvae is only 10% of that of wild-types.
In a fed state, chico[1] flies are anoxia tolerant (heterozygotes are not).
chico[1]/chico[flp147E] flies have elevated levels of lipids compared to control flies.
Heterozygous ovaries transplanted into homozygous females usually show a robust vitellogenic response, with vitellogenic oocytes spanning the entire range of stage 8 to mature stage 14 eggs being seen in the transplanted ovaries. In all cases, the oocytes of the homozygous host female terminate development at the previtellogenic stage 7. Homozygous ovaries transplanted into heterozygous or wild-type females fail to develop oocytes beyond stage 7, even though the host ovaries become fully vitellogenic in each recipient female. Methoprene does not stimulate vitellogenesis or egg production in homozygous females. On day 1 post-eclosion, homozygous females contain an average of 11.2 nurse cells per egg chamber, and on day 4 they have an average of 14.8 nurse cells per egg chamber (a statistically significant difference).
chico1 mutants show a reduction in wing size compared to wild-type controls. However, this phenotype is not temperature sensitive as chico1 flies raised at 25oC show a similar decrease in wing area compared to chico1 flies raised at 18oC to the decrease in wing area observed for control flies at these two temperatures. Males that carry chico1 Minute clones throughout one side of the genitals and are heterozygous for chico1 on the other side show smaller genital arches on the homozygous clone side than on the heterozygous side. The difference in size is 16%. Maxillary palps consisting of chico1 homozygous clones are 45% smaller than paired palps on the same male.
chico1 homozygous adults are abnormally small and have reduced numbers of ommatidia per eye.
chico1 homozygous mutants are small, weighing on average 44% of the mass of wild-types. Mean oxygen consumption is not significantly higher than in wild-type flies. Mass-specific resting heat production is the same in chico1 mutants as wild-type flies. Dietary-restriction of chico1 mutants has no effect on resting heat production. While the body mass of wild-type flies fed on an energy restricted medium is reduced, chico1 mutants show no decrease in body mass.
chico1 flies are small and live ~50% longer than wild-type flies. These flies have low rates of pacing-induced heart failure and arrest, and their heart beat frequency does not increase with age, compared to wild-type flies. chico1/+ flies have lifespans that are longer than wild-type flies, but shorter than chico1 homozygotes. Like wild-type flies, these chico1/+ flies experience stress-induced heart failure and their heart beat frequency decreases with age. There is no difference between male or female flies for any of the heart functions tested in homozygous or heterozygous chico1 flies.
chico1/chicoflp147E flies show lower body weight, fewer ommatidia, smaller wings, fewer cells per wing and smaller wing cell area than wild type.
Photoreceptor cell projection patterns are indistinguishable from wild type in homozygous larvae and in mosaic larvae in which homozygous clones have been induced in the eye. The pattern of R7 and R8 projections in the medulla is similar to wild type in mosaic adults in which homozygous clones have been induced in the eye. Heterozygotes have normal photoreceptor cell projections in the medulla.
The relation between life-span and food concentration is right-shifted in chico1 females compared to controls. Control and chico1 females show similar peak life-spans under dietary restriction, but chico1 females show a peak in mean lifespan at a food concentration 0.8 times that of normal, while control females show a peak in mean lifespan at a food concentration 0.65 times that of normal.
chico1 adults are resistant to starvation conditions compared to wild type.
Homozygous adults are dwarf in size. Homozygous females show an increase of median and maximum life-span of up to 48 and 41% respectively compared to controls. Homozygous males are slightly short-lived. Heterozygous females and males show an increase in median life-span of up to 36 and 13% respectively. Heterozygous females have reduced fecundity and homozygotes are almost sterile. Mutant flies show no resistance to heat stress at 37oC. Slight resistance to oxidative stress (methyl viologen) is seen in heterozygotes but not in homozygotes. Heterozygotes and homozygotes show some resistance to starvation.
The chico1 mutation partially impaired the ability of follicle cells to proliferate faster in the presence of abundant nutrients. Egg chambers do not develop beyond vitellogenic stages in homozygotes, even in the presence of abundant food.
chico1 flies do not show unexpanded wings, are not dark and do not show male sterility.
Homozygous clones are not visible in the adult eye because they are out-competed by heterozygous cells.
Homozygosity for chico1 causes semilethality and an overall delay in development. Flies eclose 2-3 days after their heterozygous siblings. In non-crowded culture conditions, homozygous mutant mothers can produce few viable progeny lacking both maternal and zygotic chico function. Homozygotes have a drastic weight reduction (65% in females, 55% in males) compared to wild-type. Body size reduction is observed at all developmental stages but does not alter the overall proportions of the flies. Homozygous clones in the eye produce morphologically normal ommatidia, except that they are more than 50% smaller than wild-type. Otherwise normal ommatidia with both smaller mutant and larger wild-type photoreceptors are observed at the edges of clones, indicating that chico acts cell autonomously. Autonomy of cell size control is also observed in mutant clones in the wing. Selective removal of chico1 function in the eye imaginal disc cells generates flies with a strongly reduced head capsule and reduced eyes, whereas the proboscis and the rest of the body are of wild type size. Homozygous mutant clones in the adult eye are rarer, more variable in size and on average smaller than their wild-type sister clones. Clones are more frequently observed in the anterior half of the eye around the equator. In the eye disc, clones are also more variable in size and on average smaller than their wild-type sister clones. TUNEL analysis shows no increase in apoptotic cells in homozygous clones. Clones produced in a Minute background do not reveal enhanced apoptosis compared to wild type clones, or any increase in morphological signs of programmed cell death, in either the imaginal discs or the adult eye. No significant difference is seen in the apoptotic sub-G1 fraction of homozygous mutant cells compared to heterozygous cells.
Mutant flies develop slower than sibling controls and have a reduced body size. chico mutant cells differentiate normally but are significantly reduced in size.
male fertility poor female-sterile
 
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chicoflp147E/chico1 has decreased cell number phenotype, suppressible by foxo21/foxo[+]
chicoflp147E/chico1 has visible phenotype, suppressible by foxo21/foxo[+]
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chicoflp147E/chico1 has decreased cell size phenotype, non-suppressible by foxo21/foxo[+]
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chico1/chico[+] is a non-enhancer of size defective | adult stage phenotype of sl2
chico1 is a non-enhancer of visible phenotype of osGMR.PB
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chico1/chico[+] is a non-suppressor of large body phenotype of Scer\GAL429BD, dallysec.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC
chico1 is a non-suppressor of lethal | pupal stage phenotype of Cskj1D8/CskS030003
chico1 is a non-suppressor of visible phenotype of osGMR.PB
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chico1 has ommatidium phenotype, suppressible by B405337
chico1 has ommatidium phenotype, suppressible by B4susi-1
chicoflp147E/chico1 has ommatidium phenotype, suppressible by foxo21/foxo[+]
chicoflp147E/chico1 has wing phenotype, suppressible by foxo21/foxo[+]
chicoflp147E/chico1 has wing phenotype, suppressible by foxo25/foxo21
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chicoflp147E/chico1 has ommatidium phenotype, non-suppressible by foxo21/foxo[+]
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chico1/chico[+] is an enhancer of eye disc phenotype of PtenScer\UAS.cHa, Scer\GAL4ey.PH
chico1/chico[+] is an enhancer of eye phenotype of PtenScer\UAS.cHa, Scer\GAL4ey.PH
chico1/chico[+] is an enhancer of ommatidium phenotype of PtenScer\UAS.cHa, Scer\GAL4ey.PH
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chico1/chico[+] is a non-enhancer of wing blade phenotype of sl2
chico1/chico[+] is a non-enhancer of wing vein | ectopic phenotype of sl2
chico1 is a non-enhancer of eye phenotype of osGMR.PB
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chico1/chico[+] is a non-suppressor of pupa phenotype of Scer\GAL429BD, dallysec.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC
chico1/chico[+] is a non-suppressor of wing phenotype of Scer\GAL429BD, dallysec.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC
chico1 is a non-suppressor of eye phenotype of osGMR.PB
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One copy of chico[1] does not enhance the reduction in wing blade area seen in homozygous sl[2] males. One copy of chico[1] does not enhance the ectopic wing vein phenotype seen in sl[2] homozygotes. One copy of chico[1] partially suppresses the percentage of sl[2] mutant ommatidia that contain extra R7 photoreceptors.
Expression of NLaz[Scer\UAS.cHTa] under the control of Scer\GAL4[ppl.PP] can not further increase the starvation resistance of chico[1]/+ flies.
Dg[323]/chico[1] double heterozygous mutant third instar larval eye discs do not show disrupted axon targeting from photoreceptor neurons to the brain optic lobes.
chico1/+; dallysec.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC/Scer\GAL429BD pupae show the same large pupae and disordered wing patterning phenotype as wild-type animals expressing dallysec.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC under the control of Scer\GAL429BD.
The small body size and reduced numbers of ommatidia seen in chico1 homozygous adults are partially suppressed by B4susi-1/B4susi-1. The eye phenotype is also partially suppressed by B405337/B405337
Homozygous chico;foxo double mutants have more, and even slightly smaller, cells than homozygous chico single mutants.
No obvious defects in photoreceptor axon projections in the medulla are seen in chico1/+ ; InRex15/+ double heterozygous adults.
ovoD1 chico1 double heterozygotes live as long as chico1/+ single heterozygotes and significantly longer than ovoD1/+ single heterozygotes.
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Expression of chico[Scer\UAS.cNa] under the control of Scer\GAL4[elav.PLu] rescues the defects in 1 hour memory seen after olfactory aversive conditioning in chico[1] adults. Expression of chico[Scer\UAS.cNa] limited to the adult stage (driven by Scer\GAL4[elav.Switch.PO] in the presence of RU486) does not rescue the defects in 1 hour memory seen after olfactory aversive conditioning in chico[1] adults. Expression of chico[Scer\UAS.cNa] under the control of Scer\GAL4[ey-OK107] rescues the number of Kenyon cells and partially rescues reduced mushroom body size in chico[1] adults. Olfactory learning is rescued in these flies. Expression of chico[Scer\UAS.cNa] under the control of Scer\GAL4[c309], but not under the control of Scer\GAL4[GH146], rescues olfactory learning in chico[1] adults.
chico+t8 significantly reduces the extended life-span seen in chico1 heterozygous males and females.
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Bloomington
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A. Spradling.
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Designation as "flpry4" was a symbol misassignment.
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chic1
 
fs(2)ry4
 
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  • FBal0034657
  • FBal0086688
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Chakrabarti et al., 2012, Cell Host Microbe 12(1): 60--70
Infection-induced host translational blockage inhibits immune responses and epithelial renewal in the Drosophila gut. [FBrf0218984]
Naganos et al., 2012, Neurosci. Res. 73(1): 49--55
Mutations in the Drosophila insulin receptor substrate, CHICO, impair olfactory associative learning. [FBrf0217997]
Albrecht et al., 2011, Cell Metab. 14(6): 819--829
In Vivo Mapping of Hydrogen Peroxide and Oxidized Glutathione Reveals Chemical and Regional Specificity of Redox Homeostasis. [FBrf0216929]
Murillo-Maldonado et al., 2011, PLoS ONE 6(11): e28067
Insulin Receptor-Mediated Signaling via Phospholipase C-γ Regulates Growth and Differentiation in Drosophila. [FBrf0216849]
Slack et al., 2011, Aging Cell 10(5): 735--748
dFOXO-independent effects of reduced insulin-like signaling in Drosophila. [FBrf0215229]
Wang et al., 2011, Cell 145(4): 596--606
A hormone-dependent module regulating energy balance. [FBrf0213699]
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