FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
Allele: Dmel\bamhs.PO
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Dmel\bamhs.PO
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D. melanogaster
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heat shock construct of Ohlstein
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FBal0065895
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hs-bam, P{HS-Bam}
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A genomic fragment containing most of the bam transcription unit (including the entire open reading frame) and approximately 200bp 3' flanking sequences is expressed under the control of a heat shock promoter.

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Heat-shock induced expression of bamhs.PO prevents the accumulation of cystoblast-like cells in adult female germaria following X-ray irradiation (to introduce DNA damage).

Expression of bamhs.PO via heat shock treatment in adults leads to male germline stem cells differentiating and moving away from the niche, depleting germline stem cells. When heat shocks are ceased, germline stem cell number partially recovers due to spermatogonial dedifferentiation.

Expression of bamhs.PO induced via heat shock results in increased germline stem cell differentiation, as evidenced by a lack of germline stem cells 1 day after heat shock, and germaria exhibiting only fusome-containing cysts within the niche, in contrast to controls. At 7 days after heat shock, a subset of germaria exhibit restoration of germline stem cells.

Expression of bamhs.PO induced via heat shock in a bamΔ86/bamΔ86 background results in increased germline stem cell differentiation, as evidenced by a lack of germline stem cells 24 h after heat shock, and germaria exhibiting only fusome-containing cysts within the niche, and very few spectrosome-containing cells; however at 48 h after heat shock, a majority of germaria show some single spectrosome-containing cells.

One day after expressing bamhs.PO in females using heat shock, germ cells in the ovary contain fusomes, consistent with germline stem cell differentiation.

bamhs.PO males treated with heat-shock show premature differentiation of germline cysts at the 8-cell stage in 18% of cysts. bamhs.PO and wild-type flies raised without heat-shock produce no 8-cell cysts.

Testes from bamhs.PO flies progressively lose germline stem cells (GSCs) with increasing numbers of heat-shocks. There is no increase in cell death under these conditions, suggesting these GSCs differentiate rather than die. After 5 heat shocks, 53% of testes have no GSCs but spermatogonial cysts are retained - additional heat shocks impair adult viability and yield testes with few spermatogonia.

Ectopic bamhs.PO expression does not alter the number of cyst progenitor cells (CPCs) or trigger their premature differentiation; nor is the number or appearance of hub cells affected. The nuclei of hub and early somatic cells also appear similar to controls. However, the fine extensions that CPCs normally extend toward the hub are replaced by broad areas of contact in bamhs.PO testes - CPCs move in to fill the area surrounding the hub upon GSC loss.

After 1 day of recovery after a 5x heat shock regime, the average number of GSCs decreases in bamhs.PO testes and only 10% of testes contain any GSCs. However, after 4 days of recovery, most testes contain both GSCs and spermatogonial cysts adjacent to the hub, and by 6 days, most testes are indistinguishable from wild type.

Administering 10 heat shocks to bamhs.PO animals reduces the number of testes containing spermatogonia to 48%, and only 36% regain GSCs upon withdrawal of heat shock. Administering 15 heat shocks depletes spermatogonia from all testes - none regain GSCs upon withdrawal of heat shock.

In contrast to controls, heat-shocked bamhs.PO testes that are depleted of GSCs and then allowed to recover show multiple ring canal remnants in germ cells near, but not necessarily adjacent to, the hub (beginning at 2 days of recovery). These remnants must be products of spermatogonial breakdown.

Whereas control testes contain germ cells located within 3μm of the hub, induction of bamhs.PO results in only 60% of testes containing germ cells within 3μm of the hub - the remaining 40% contain hubs entirely surrounded by somatic cells. Upon withdrawal of heat shock, germ cells return to the hub and all testes contain germ cells by 7 days of recovery.

51% of bamhs.PO testes undergoing dedifferentiation (i.e. after heat shock) contain 4-cell spermatogonial cysts with fine actin-rich protrusions compared to only 8.3% in controls.

In bamhs.PO females 10 days after two 2 hr heat shock treatments, no germ-line stem cells or their descendant are present in germaria. Somatic stem cell fill the stem cell niche, producing a bag of follicle cells.

75% of larval ovaries in which bamhs.PO is expressed using heat shock at the end of the first larval instar have many cysts, indicating premature differentiation of the primordial germ cells. Ovaries in which bamhs.PO is expressed at the end of the second larval instar show differentiation of all primordial germ cells into cysts. Ovaries in which bamhs.PO is expressed at the end of embryogenesis do not contain cysts.

When heat-shock is administered at the start of the second larval instar, 20 hours later, no single germ cells or cell pairs remain. Instead only 4 and 8-cell cysts are found in numbers that correspond closely to the starting number of single and transiently interconnected germ cell pairs, respectively. It seems that the differentiating germ cells revert to stem cells. The characteristic shape of the fusomes and appearance of ring canals in these larval cysts are indistinguishable from adult cysts. Over the next 20-30 hours of larval development, however, the cysts become unstable and begin to break down. By 50 hours after heat shock, only single cells are found in mutant ovaries. Apoptosis does not seem to be the cause of these phenotypes. The cysts appear to break into single cells by ring canal closure and fusome fragmentation. 50 hours after heat shock, ring canal remnants can be seen in the single germ cells. Adult females who have received heat treatment have normal numbers of wild type germ cell cysts. The environment surrounding the stem cells is indistinguishable from controls and constituted a normal niche. Five day old treated and control females lay normal eggs at about the same rate as controls. the reconstituted stem cells appear to have a normal half life.

Two days after heat shock, the average number of germline stem cells per testis is reduced to 3.9 (compared to 9.3 in controls). A week after heat shock about 70% of the testes have no germline stem cells, with an average of 2 per testis, compared to 7.6 in controls.

When animals are heatshocked at 37oC for an hour, followed by an hour at 25oC, and then another hour at 37oC, the germ-line stem cells (GSCs) differentiate and exit the GSC niche within 24 hours. After 4 days, the youngest germ cells are in region 2b cysts, whereas after 7 days, the only germ cells remaining in the germarium are in a single stage-1 follicle. The terminal filament cells and cap cells (CpCs), remain stable for an extended period after the GSCs depart. Terminal filament cells change little for at least three weeks. Moreover CpCs appear normal even when all germ cells are gone 8-10 days after heat shock. However by 18 days after GSC loss, CpCs could no longer be detected. Inner-germarium sheath cells (IGSs) are much less stable, no IGSs are detected 8-9 days after ablation. The departure of germ cells and the death IGSs brings somatic stem cells (SSCs) increasingly closer to the GSC niche. Ectopic follicle cell progenitors divide within the vacated niche but IGSs do not.

Over the course of several days after heat shock, bamhs.PO germ cell stem cells (GSCs) are lost and all germ line cysts complete development and leave the germarium. Such germaria lose all inner germarium sheath cells (ISCs). In contrast terminal filament and cape cells do not change in the absence of germ cells. Somatic cells continue in their vicinity as in germaria that form in the presence of germ cells. Despite their presence near the GSC niche, these dividing somatic cells do not become GSCs.

Overexpression of bam with P{hs-bam.O} causes germ cell loss.

Females carrying bamhs.PO that are heat-shocked daily for 6 days have dramatically smaller ovaries than heat-shocked wild-type females. The ovarioles contain maturing egg chambers, but none are younger than stage 3 or 4. The germaria are shrunken. The germaria of females carrying bamhs.PO that are 7 or more days post-heat shock appear to be completely devoid of germ cells, and are filled with a small number of squamous cells. Somatic stem cell populations are not affected by ectopic expression of bamhs.PO. Ectopic expression of bamhs.PO has no deleterious effects for male germline cells; heat-shocked males carrying bamhs.PO are fertile and spermatogenesis appears normal.

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bamhs.PO is an enhancer of germ cell & germarium phenotype of zpgunspecified

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bamhs.PO is a non-enhancer of egg chamber phenotype of bru1QB

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bamhs.PO is a non-suppressor of egg chamber phenotype of bru1QB

bamhs.PO is a non-suppressor of germline cell phenotype of bgcn1

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Simultaneous expression of both PscGD4481 and Su(z)2GD16388 under the control of Scer\GAL4C587 (together with tub-Gal80[ts] to limit the time of expression to adulthood) results in tumorigenic accumulation of spectrosome containing germline stem cell-like (GSC-like) cells (which increase in number with the time of expression) in female germaria. Expression of bamhs.PO (induced by 1hr heat-shock once a day for 5 consecutive days) induces differentiation of the tumor cells.

sdaiso7.8/Df(3R)ED6235 mutants fail to undergo spermatogonial dedifferentiation and germline stem cell number recovery in the testicular niche after expression of bamhs.PO via heat shock treatment.

Expression of sdaScer\UAS.P\T.T:Ivir\HA1, but not sdaΔCAT.Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Ivir\HA1 or sdaE-A.Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Ivir\HA1, under the control of Scer\GAL4upd1.PU, restores the ability of sdaiso7.8/Df(3R)ED6235 mutants to undergo spermatogonial dedifferentiation and recover germline stem cell number in the testicular niche after expression of bamhs.PO via heat shock treatment.

Expression of dppJF01371 under the control of Scer\GAL4C587 in flies expressing bamhs.PO induced via heat shock results in germaria exhibiting complete loss of germline stem cells 1 day after heat shock, similar to those expressing bamhs.PO alone; however, at 7 days after heat shock, the proportion of germaria that show restoration of germline stem cells is substantially lower than that of flies expressing bamhs.PO alone.

Expression of dppJF01371 or ptcJF03223, but not ciGD1403, under the control of Scer\GAL4C587 in flies expressing bamhs.PO induced via heat shock in a bamΔ86/bamΔ86 background suppresses the recovery of spectrosome-containing cells at 48 h after heat shock seen in flies expressing bamhs.PO alone in a bamΔ86/bamΔ86 background.

Expression of bamhs.PO does not fully suppress the apoptosis of mutant germline cells which is seen in ball2 larval ovaries.

Expression of CSN4Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Ivir\HA1 in the germline under the control of Scer\GAL4nos.PU partially suppresses the germline stem cell (GSC) loss seen upon expression of bamhs.PO. 65% of germaria retain GSCs, compared to 83-95% when bamhs.PO is expressed alone.

Germ cells with fusomes are found in ovaries one day after heat shock in OteB279/OteB279 or OtePK/OteB279 females carrying bamhs.PO. Three days after heat shock the mutant germaria are largely devoid of germ cells and the ovaries contain a very low number of egg chambers.

Expression of bamhs.PO in Su(var)3-3ΔN mutants results in the formation of multicellular cysts that contain branched fusomes indicating that Su(var)3-3ΔN mutant germline cells can undergo differentiation and formation of multicellular cysts.

The differentiation defects seen in the testes of maelM391/Df(3L)79E-F males are rescued by expression of bamhs.PO.

The increase in the number of spermatogonial cysts per testis that is seen in males expressing mir-7Scer\UAS.cLb under the control of Scer\GAL4nos.PG is suppressed if they are also expressing bamhs.PO.

bamhs.PO testes recovering after heat shock that also express Socs36EScer\UAS.P\T.cCa via Scer\GAL4Act5C.PP show a marked decrease in their ability to regain new germ line stem cells compared to recovering testes not expressing Socs36EScer\UAS.P\T.cCa.

bamhs.PO animals cultured at 18oC and heat shocked as late stage pupae (37oC, 4 times for 2 hours each with an 8-12 hour interval) produce adult females with agametic germaria. If these animals also carry the temperature sensitive allelic combination gbb4/gbbD4 and are shifted to 29oC (the non-permissive temperature) for 10 days, the majority of germaria disintegrate. Among remaining germaria, less than half contain follicle cells but all contain terminal filament cells. In identical experiments using gbb4/gbbD20, no follicle cells remain, although the resulting germaria do contain terminal filament cells. In identical experiments using dpphr56/dppe90, the agametic germaria contain only slightly less follicle cells than controls (bamhs.PO only).

The egg chamber defects seen in twinry3 hemizygotes at 25oC are partly suppressed by expression of bamhs.PO.

When bamhs.PO is driven by heat shock in dppScer\UAS.cNa, Scer\GAL4C587 adults, cysts break down by a process of ring canal closure and fusome scission, de-differentiating. The multiple germ-line stem cells in each ovariole immediately and synchronously begin to differentiate after heat shock and soon generate 4-cell and 8-cell cysts. There are no single cells or cell pairs remaining at 20 h after heat shock. however by 30 h after heat shock (AHS) the cysts stop growing and start to beak down. By 40 h AHS closed ring canals and ring cell remnants are common. By 50 h AHS almost all germ cells are single.

When bamhs.PO, dpphr4/dpphr56, are heatshocked at 37oC for an hour, followed by an hour at 25oC, and then another hour at 37oC then kept at the permissive temperature for 5 days and then shifted to 29oC, follicle cell progenitors divide at the same rate as those cells without mutant dpp. When bamhs.PO, hhts2, are heatshocked at 37oC for an hour, followed by an hour at 25oC, and then another hour at 37oC then kept at the permissive temperature for 5 days and then shifted to 29oC, follicle cell progenitors fail to divide. When bamhs.PO, hhhs.PI, are heatshocked at 37oC for an hour, followed by an hour at 25oC, and then another hour at 37oC the follicle cell progenitors divide much more than those without hhhs.PI.

bamΔ86 ovarian tumor cells transplanted into the dorsal mesoderm of stage 11-12 embryos from oskunspecified mothers can repopulate the ovaries of the resulting adults, forming tumorous ovaries. The fertility of these flies can be rescued by heat shock if the transplanted cells carry bamhs.PO.

Overexpression of bam with P{hs-bam.O} in a homozygous bgcn1 mutant causes tumorous germ cells to develop, in which fusomes do not mature as normal (as for the bgcn1 mutant alone). Germ line stem cells are not lost in the adults of these heat shocked P{hs-bam.O} homozygous bgcn1 mutants, though they are eliminated in their bgcn1/+ siblings.

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Heat-shock induced pulse expression of bamhs.PO restores the production of functional sperm in bam1/bamΔ86 mutants.

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bamhs.PO
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heat shock construct of Ohlstein
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