dSmo, smooth
seven-pass transmembrane protein - the reception and transduction of the HH signal is mediated by its receptor Patched and by Smoothened - PTC and HH control SMO by regulating its stability, trafficking, and phosphorylation - SMO in turn interacts directly with Fused and Costal2, which interact with each other and with Cubitus interruptus in an intracellular Hedgehog transducing complex
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Gene model reviewed during 5.44
Gene model reviewed during 5.52
4.2 (northern blot)
4.1 (northern blot)
There is only one protein coding transcript and one polypeptide associated with this gene
1036 (aa)
Interacts with cos.
Phosphorylation by CkIalpha and PKA regulates smo accumulation at the cell surface and its signaling activity in response to hh.
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Comment: maternally deposited
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalon primordium
Comment: reported as procephalon primordium
Comment: reported as procephalon primordium
Comment: reported as procephalon primordium
Comment: reported as procephalon primordium
Comment: reported as procephalon primordium
smo is present in both the posterior optic lobe and adjacent anterior optic lobe cells in mid stage 11 embryos.
smo transcript is expressed throughout the wing disc.
smo transcripts are expressed at all developmental stages.
smo transcripts are detected in embryos, larvae, and pupae on northern blots. They are most abundant in early embryos and adult females.
GBrowse - Visual display of RNA-Seq signals
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For each fully sequenced cDNA the DGRC maintains various forms of the cDNA (e.g tagged or untagged) in several different host vectors for subsequent cloning and expression in Drosophila and Drosophila cell lines.
Phosphorylation activates smo protein by inducing a conformational switch. This occurs by antagonising multiple Arg clusters in the smo cytoplasmic tail. The Arg clusters inhibit smo protein by blocking its cell surface expression and keeping it in an inactive conformation that is maintained by electrostatic interactions. Phosphorylation disrupts the interactions and induces a conformational switch and dimerisation of smo protein cytoplasmic tails, which is essential for pathway activation.
dsRNA made from templates generated with primers directed against this gene tested in RNAi screen for effects on Kc167 and S2R+ cell morphology.
The last 301 amino acids of the cos COOH terminus are sufficient to provide full association with smo.
Epistatic analysis places cos function downstream of ptc and smo.
dsRNA corresponding to smo used in S2 cultured cell assay.
ptc protein normally binds hh gene product without any help of the smo gene product, though smo is also a part of the receptor complex that binds hh and transduces the hh signal. The mechanism of signal transduction may involve hh binding specifically to ptc and inducing a conformational change leading to the release of latent smo activity.
Anterior cells in the wing that lack smo function no longer obey a lineage restriction in the normal position of the anterior-posterior boundary.
smo encodes a serpentine protein highly conserved in evolution.
Morphogenetic furrow progression is significantly delayed, but not prevented, in smo clones.
smo encodes a seven-pass membrane protein. In direction of increasing cytology: anon-21Ca+ anon-21Cb- smo+ anon-21Cc-
All alleles are zygotic lethal, cold sensitive, at the lower temperature the phenotype of all alleles is quite variable suggesting that the gene may be maternally expressed.
Mutations in zygotic polarity gene smo do not interact with RpII140wimp.