A 3683 base pair fragment from the flanking non-coding or intronic region of Lgr3 is fused upstream of a Drosophila core synthetic promoter (DSCP) followed by sequence encoding a lexA::p65 driver. The driver sequence has been optimized for Drosophila codon usage. An Hsp70 transcriptional terminator is present.
Ecol\lexAGMR19B09 colocalizes with Scer\GAL4VP16.Lgr3 in the median bundle of females, and has lower expression in males.
GFP reconstitution across synaptic partners (GRASP) shows synaptic connections between Scer\GAL4Ptth.cMa-positive prothoracic gland innervating neurons and Ecol\lexAGMR19B09-positive dorsomedial neurosecretory cells.
Ecol\lexAGMR19B09 drives expression in around 12 neurons per hemisphere in the central larval brain as well as some neurons in the ventral nerve cord. GFP reconstitution across synaptic partners (GRASP) shows extensive connections to Scer\GAL4Ilp3.PC positive neurons.
Ecol\lexAGMR19B09 co-expresses with Scer\GAL4Mz699 in a bilateral pair of neurons in the larval pars intercerebralis.
Although alleles from the Janelia Farm lexA driver collection incorporate the same enhancer fragments used to create the Janelia Farm GAL4 driver alleles (GMR_Brain_exp_1), significant differences are frequently observed in the expression pattern of a given enhancer fragment inserted in the P{CaryP}attP40 or other docking site compared to the same fragment inserted in the P{CaryP}attP2 docking site. Generally the Ecol\lexA patterns are subsets of the Scer\GAL4 patterns.