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Gene Dmel\Su(Ste)

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SymbolDmel\Su(Ste)SpeciesD. melanogaster
NameSuppressor of StellateAnnotation symbol
Feature typeFlyBase IDFBgn0003582
Gene Model StatusUnannotated Stock availability None publicly available
Also Known Ascry, SuSte
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The gene Suppressor of Stellate is referred to in FlyBase by the symbol Dmel\Su(Ste) (FBgn0003582). An electronic pipeline based on InterPro domains suggests that it has the molecular function: protein kinase regulator activity. There is experimental evidence that it is involved in the biological process: male meiosis chromosome segregation. 3 alleles are reported. No phenotypic data is available. It has no annotated transcripts. Protein features are: Casein kinase II, regulatory subunit; Casein kinase II, regulatory subunit, alpha-helical; Casein kinase II, regulatory subunit, beta-sheet. Gene has not been localized to the genome sequence.

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Su(Ste): Suppressor of Stellate
Designates the region of the Y chromosome whose presence decreases both abundance and splicing of the X-linked Ste transcripts. Ste males deficient for Su(Ste) display abundant star-shaped aggregates of needle-shaped crystals in the nuclei and cytoplasm of their primary spermatocytes; their spermatids contain micronuclei and nebenkerne of nonuniform size; and they are sterile. Ste+ males deficient for Su(Ste) have one or more long needle-shaped crystals in their primary spermatocytes and micronuclei and irregular nebenkerne in their spermatids; these males are fertile and display irregular disjunction as follows: (1) both the sex chromosomes and the large autosomes undergo nondisjunction, (2) the fourth chromosomes disjoin regularly, (3) sex chromosome nondisjunction is more frequent in cells in which the second or third chromosomes nondisjoin than in cells in which autosomal disjunction is regular, (4) in doubly exceptional cells, the sex chromosomes tend to segregate to the opposite pole from the autosomes, and (5) there is meiotic drive; i.e., reciprocal meiotic products are not recovered with equal frequencies, complements with fewer chromosomes being recovered more frequently than those with more chromosomes. Two smaller component deficiencies of the Su(Ste) deficiency display a normal meiotic phenotype in Ste+ males and low levels of meiotic non-disjunction in Ste males.
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Allele of Su(Ste)ClassMutagenStocksKnown lesion
Su(Ste)cGa0 Yes
Su(Ste)dsRNA.cAa0 Yes
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Repeat-associated small interfering RNAs (rasiRNAs) are produced from the Su(Ste) locus.
Extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) is present throughout the fly's life cycle. The eccDNA population contains circular multimers of tandemly repeated genes, including Su(Ste).
"Stellate-like" sequences (Ste, Su(Ste), SteXh and Ste12DOR) contain a common region of sequence, defined as the "Stellate-specific central core". Specific regions at either the 5' or 3' end of this core sequence distinguish different Stellate-like sequences from each other.
Ste-/Su(Ste)- males have exactly the same meiotic drive phenotype as Ste+/Su(Ste)- males.
Alternative ways of Su(Ste) transcript processing caused by the divergence of the Su(Ste) repeats have been detected.
The high extent of homology between Ste and Su(Ste) repeats suggested a possibility of Ste suppression by antisense transcription of Su(Ste) elements: however the detection of only "sense" Su(Ste) cDNAs in testis cDNA library argues against this proposal.
Su(Ste) genes are transcribed and can encode a variant of the β-subunit of casein kinase 2.
The Su(Ste) locus consists of short subarrays of tandem repeats separated by members of other moderately repeated families. Molecular analysis indicates that recombination among tandem Su(Ste) repeats occurs at much higher frequencies between close neighbors than distant ones, and that gene conversion rather than sister chromatid exchange may be the primary recombinational mechanism for spreading variation among the repeats.
The relationship of Ste copy number and organisation to meiotic behaviour in Su(Ste)- males has been examined genetically and cytologically. Heterochromatic and euchromatic Ste repeats are functional, the abnormalities in chromosome condensation and frequency of nondisjunction is related to the Ste copy number. Meiosis is disrupted after synapsis and Su(Ste) induced meiotic drive is probably not mediated by Ste.
The Su(Ste) tandemly arranged repeat unit consists of a Ste-homologous region, a Y-specific region and an inserted 1360 mobile element. The location of 1360 suggests that the Ste-region and the Y-specific region were joined first, followed by the insertion of the 1360 element and subsequent amplification of the entire structure.
Designates the region of the Y chromosome whose presence decreases both abundance and splicing of the X-linked Ste transcripts. Ste males deficient for Su(Ste) display abundant star-shaped aggregates of needle-shaped crystals in the nuclei and cytoplasm of their primary spermatocytes; their spermatids contain micronuclei and nebenkerne of nonuniform size; and they are sterile. Ste+ males deficient for Su(Ste) have one or more long needle-shaped crystals in their primary spermatocytes and micronuclei and irregular nebenkerne in their spermatids; these males are fertile and display irregular disjunction as follows: (1) both the sex chromosomes and the large autosomes undergo nondisjunction, (2) the fourth chromosomes disjoin regularly, (3) sex chromosome nondisjunction is more frequent in cells in which the second or third chromosomes nondisjoin than in cells in which autosomal disjunction is regular, (4) in doubly exceptional cells, the sex chromosomes tend to segregate to the opposite pole from the autosomes and (5) there is meiotic drive; i.e., reciprocal meiotic products are not recovered with equal frequencies, complements with fewer chromosomes being recovered more frequently than those with more chromosomes. Two smaller component deficiencies of the Su(Ste) deficiency display a normal meiotic phenotype in Ste+ males and low levels of meiotic nondisjunction in Ste males.
Analysis using segmental Y deficiencies shows that Su(Ste) represses both the high levels and efficient splicing of Ste RNA.
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anon-EST:fe1B7
 
HMR-element
 
Ste
 
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anon-fast-evolving-1B7
 
Heterochromatic Moderately Repetitive element
 
heterochromatic moderate repeat
Stellate suppressor
suppressor of ste
Suppressors of Stellate
Secondary FlyBase IDs
  • FBgn0005668
  • FBgn0025265
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Kibanov et al., 2011, Mol. Biol. Cell 22(18): 3410--3419
A novel organelle, the piNG-body, in the nuage of Drosophila male germ cells is associated with piRNA-mediated gene silencing. [FBrf0215572]
Nagao et al., 2010, RNA 16(12): 2503--2515
Biogenesis pathways of piRNAs loaded onto AGO3 in the Drosophila testis. [FBrf0212366]
Patil and Kai, 2010, Curr. Biol. 20(8): 724--730
Repression of Retroelements in Drosophila Germline via piRNA Pathway by the Tudor Domain Protein Tejas. [FBrf0211166]
Specchia et al., 2010, Nature 463(7281): 662--665
Hsp90 prevents phenotypic variation by suppressing the mutagenic activity of transposons. [FBrf0209921]
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