N-2G
novel protein that physically interacts with Suppressor of Hairless and the intracellular domain of Notch that is produced upon receptor activation - functions as a transcriptional coactivator for Notch signaling
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Low-frequency RNA-Seq exon junction(s) not annotated.
Gene model reviewed during 5.50
1596 (aa); 167 (kD predicted)
The protein has many AA homopolymeric domains: 21 poly-Gln runs (from 5 to 16 AA in length), 4 poly-Gly (6 to 10 AA), 3 poly-Asn (3 X 5 AA), 1 poly-Ala (10 AA) and 1 poly-Thr (5 AA) runs.
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Comment: reference states 0-2 hr AEL
Comment: reference states 8-16 hr AEL
Comment: reference states 2-16 hr AEL
Comment: reference states 16 hr AEL
Comment: reference states 16 hr AEL
Comment: early stage 17
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The nuclear localization of mam protein is consistent with its proposed role in gene regulation. Early in embryogenesis, mam protein shows nuclear, punctate localization. Immunohistochemical studies show that mam protein binds to more than 100 locations on polytene chromosomes, some of which colocalize with a subset of RNA polymerase and gro protein binding sites.
The pattern of mam protein localization is comparable to that of mam transcript. During gastrulation, the highest levels of mam protein are found in the ventral furrow, although expression is also seen in the cephalic furrow. Late in gastrulation, mam protein accumulates in the mesoderm and in the midgut primordia. At the completion of gastrulation, there are high levels of mam protein in the mesectoderm, the neurectoderm, as well as in the midgut primordia and the cephalic furrow.
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Determined by deletion mapping.
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monoclonal, polyclonal
polyclonal
The N signaling pathway is important for the formation and maintenance of the germline stem cell niche in the ovary.
RNAi generated by PCR using primers directed to this gene causes a cell growth and viability phenotype when assayed in Kc167 and S2R+ cells.
2 alleles of mam have been isolated in a genetic screen for autosomal mutations that produce blisters in somatic wing clones.
mam protein is widely expressed during embryonic and postembryonic development. Within salivary glands mam protein binds to over 100 polytene chromosome sites. Comparison of mams basic domain sequence to known proteins suggest that it may be distantly related to a subset of the leucine zipper class of transcription factors.
mam transcription is highly conserved in D.melanogaster and D.virilis. Results also identify an unusual perinuclear distribution of RNA.
Mutations (unspecified) enhance the rough eye phenotype of SerTM.sev.T:VSV\G and DlTM.sev flies.
Variation of a microsatellite within the mam locus has been studied in North American populations of D.melanogaster.
Mutations can act as dominant modifiers of the activated N eye phenotype (FBrf0064452).
The embryonic phenotype of neurogenic mutations was examined in most tissues using Ecol\lacZ enhancer trap lines. All alleles examined show defects in many organs from all three germ layers. At least for ectodermally and endodermally derived tissues, neurogenic gene function is primarily involved in interactions among cells that need to acquire or maintain an epithelial phenotype.
The expression of mam RNA and protein during embryogenesis (up to the completion of gastrulation) has been studied.
mam is needed for proper mesoderm differentiation prior to the onset of nau expression: mutant alleles cause hypertrophy in nau expressing cells.
The genomic organisation of Dvir\mam and D.melanogaster mam is similar.
mam alleles act as enhancers of spl alleles of N.
mam has been sequenced and its expression pattern analysed.
An extra wild type copy of mam, in combination with dxENU, causes some pupal lethality, escapers have small eyes.
Analysis of N and mam mutant combinations reveals that reduction of the wild type number of mam was capable of interferring with the mechanism underlying negative complementation in a manner that was not restricted to specific Abruptex combinations.
Neural hyperplasia, caused by mutations in mam, can be prevented by the presence of another neurogenic mutation.
Regions of mam cross-hybridize to the opa sequence.
mam has been molecularly cloned.
Homozygous embryonic lethal; embryos display neural hyperplasia with compensatory epidermal hypoplasia; caused by failure of most ventral ectodermal cells to differentiate as epidermal cells rather than neuroblasts, as seen in N, amx, bib, neu, Dl, and E(spl); mam tends to have less extreme neural hyperplasia than mutants at the other neurogenic loci. A similar diversion of cells from epidermigenic into neurogenic pathways seen to generate supernumerary peripheral nerve cells (Hartenstein and Campos-Ortega, 1986). When mam expressed in female germ cells and the ensuing embryos, neural hyperplasia is enhanced, but mam+ embryos from oocytes are normal (Jimenez and Campos Ortega, 1982). Homozygous clones in the eye display irregular ommatidial pattern characterized by lack of interommatidial bristles, enlarged facets with supernumerary retinular cells and reduced numbers of pigment cells; in the cuticle, clones homozygous for mam2 are devoid of bristles (Dietrich and Campos-Ortega, 1984). mam1 (formerly N-2G) heterozygotes occasionally exhibit apical wing nicking; not recorded for other alleles. Phenotype of homozygotes for null allele reduced by duplications for normal alleles of other neurogenic loci, N, neu, Dl, E(spl) and H, but not amx or bib (de la Concha et al., 1988).
