stbm, strabismus, stb, Van Gogh/Strabismus, Vang/Stbm
a four-pass transmembrane protein that localizes to cell junctions - part of the Frizzled-dependent planar polarity pathway that establishes planar polarity in epithelia - implicated in nervous system patterning - mutants show a disrupted orientation of ommatidia - Frizzled-induced Van Gogh phosphorylation by CK1epsilon promotes asymmetric localization of core PCP factors
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Stop-codon suppression (UGA) postulated; FBrf0216884
Gene model reviewed during 5.44
Gene model reviewed during 5.49
3.4 (longest cDNA)
None of the polypeptides share 100% sequence identity.
584 (aa)
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Comment: maternally deposited
Vang protein is expressed in cells immediately dorsal to and ventral to the dorsal/ventral compartment boundary of the wing disc. No expression is observed in the haltere disc.
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2-60
2-58.1
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polyclonal
Source for merge of: Vang stbm
Flies homozygous for Vang alleles show a tissue polarity bristle phenotype on the wing, thorax, legs and abdomen. On the abdomen, bristles point almost orthogonally to the midline instead of posteriorly. Tarsal joints are often duplicated. Flies have rough eyes. Phenotypic data suggest that genetics of Vang and its interactions with pk are complex. Several, but not all, Vang alleles act as enhancers of the pk haploinsufficient tissue polarity phenotype, and the pkTBJ21 antimorphic phenotype. Mutations in pk can also act as suppressors of Vang dominant phenotypes.
Vang is required to establish polarity in the eye, legs and bristles.
The definition of strabismus is: a disorder in vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes (the medical term for cross-eyed).
"Vang" was named after the artist, van Gogh, because the swirling wing hair patterns in the mutants bring to mind the swirling brush strokes van Gogh used in some of his paintings.