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Gene Dmel\Tl

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SymbolDmel\TlSpeciesD. melanogaster
NameTollAnnotation symbolCG5490
Feature typeprotein_coding_geneFlyBase IDFBgn0262473
Gene Model StatusCurrent Stock availability 22 publicly available
Also Known AsToll, Toll-1, T1, dToll
Genomic Location
Chromosome (arm)3RRecombination map3-91
Cytogenetic map97D2-97D2Sequence location3R:22,624,765..22,668,125 [+]

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The gene Toll is referred to in FlyBase by the symbol Dmel\Tl (CG5490, FBgn0262473). It is a protein_coding_gene from Drosophila melanogaster. There is experimental evidence that it has the molecular function: protein binding; TIR domain binding. There is experimental evidence for 12 unique biological process terms, many of which group under: immune system process; immune response; biological regulation; system development; positive regulation of cellular biosynthetic process; cellular process; positive regulation of cellular metabolic process; cellular component organization or biogenesis; cardiovascular system development; neuron differentiation; dorsal/ventral axis specification. 169 alleles are reported. The phenotypes of these alleles are annotated with: organ system; multicellular structure; embryonic/larval hemocoel; portion of tissue; organ system subdivision; anatomical structure; extended germ band embryo; non-connected developing system; peripheral nervous system; embryonic dorsal vessel; embryonic/larval neuron; spiracle; late extended germ band embryo. It has 2 annotated transcripts and 2 annotated polypeptides. Protein features are: Cysteine-rich flanking region, C-terminal; Interleukin-1 receptor, type I/Toll precursor; Leucine-rich repeat; Leucine-rich repeat, typical subtype; Leucine-rich repeat-containing N-terminal; Toll/interleukin-1 receptor homology (TIR) domain. Gene sequence location is 3R:22624765..22668125.

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Tl: Toll
Maternal expression of the Toll gene is required for the normal production and distribution of positional information in the embryo (Anderson et al., 1985); zygotic expression is required to maintain viability in early larvae (Gerttula et al., 1988). Toll mutants and deficiencies occurring in the mother result in lethal abnormalities in the pattern of gastrulation and the differentiation of cuticular structures in the offspring. When null alleles and deficiencies are homozygous in the zygote, delayed development and early lethality result. Females heterozygous for dominant Toll alleles are sterile, their lethal embryos being partially ventralized regardless of their genotype. Dorsoventral polarity is present; a furrow is formed in the midventral region, but the lateral cephalic fold is shifted to the dorsal side and the normal dorsal folds are missing. The cuticle lacks dorsal hairs, filzkorper, spiracles, head sensory organs, and a head skeleton; there are patches of denticles extending around the entire dorsoventral circumference of the embryo (Anderson et al., 1985a). The ventral nervous system is also expanded (Campos-Ortega, 1983). Embryos produced by females hemizygous for some dominant alleles (Tl1/Df; Tl3/Df) are ventralized, but the embryos of other hemizygotes (Tl2/Df; Tl4/Df) are dorsalized, all cells behaving at gastrulation and in differentiation like wild-type dorsal cells. In embryos derived from Tl/+ females, virtually the entire ectoderm capable of neurogenesis in response to absence of Dl function (Campos-Ortega, 1983, Wilhelm Roux's Arch. Dev. Biol. 192: 317-26). Whereas females heterozygous for recessive alleles of Tl are fertile, homozygous Tl-recessive females are viable but sterile, their lethal embryos lacking dorsoventral polarity and forming no ventral furrow at gastrulation. In most recessive alleles (Tlr5, Tlr6, Tlr7), the embryos are partially dorsalized with laterally derived structures (Anderson et al., 1985a); for example, Tlr6 embryos differentiate dorsal hairs, filzkorper, and ventral denticle bands of nearly normal width, but lack mesoderm (Anderson and Nusslein-Volhard, 1986). In one allele (Tlr4), however, embryos have no dorsal hairs and show rings of denticles as in TlD embryos (Anderson et al., 1985a). Hemizygotes for the Toll-recessives resemble the corresponding homozygotes in phenotype. A number of Toll alleles were obtained as reversions of the Toll-dominant phenotype (see table). When crossed to wildtype males, females heterozygous for a null-type reversion are fully fertile; however, when crossed to males who are also heterozygous for a Toll null, these females produce Tl-homozygotes who are zygotic lethals, dying as early larvae and producing no Toll transcript. Heteroallelic combinations of reversions such as Tlrv1/Tlrv2 produce sterile females with lethal dorsalized embryos. Females carrying combinations of certain reversions and Toll-dominant (or Toll-recessive) alleles produce embryos with phenotypes like those of Toll-dominant (or Toll-recessive) hemizygotes. Most of the reversions, when in trans to deficiencies, result in females with dorsalized embryos, but a few hemizygous reversion females (Tlrv21, Tlrv22, Tlrv23) produce ventralized embryos (Hashimoto et al., 1988). The lethal embryos of Df(3R)Tl-X/Df(3R)ro-XB3 (null) females (Hashimoto et al., 1988), are completely dorsalized, never making ventral furrows, filzkorper, or denticles; their germ bands fail to extend; no Toll transcript is produced in these embryos except when contributed by wild-type fathers (Gerttula et al., 1988). The 97D1-2 breakpoint of the Toll deficiency Df(3R)Tl-X maps within the 6.0 kb EcoRI fragment of a Toll clone (Hashimoto et al., 1988). Injection of wild-type cytoplasm into embryos of Toll-deficient females restores the wild-type dorsoventral pattern, the site of the injection determining the midventral part of the pattern (Anderson et al., 1985b); (also see molecular biology section).
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FB2012_01
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FlyBase Computed Cytological Location
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Evidence for location
97D2-97D2  
Limits computationally determined from genome sequence between P{lacW}scribj7B3 and P{lacW}His2AvL1602  
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97D1-97D2  
Location based on the breakpoints of several Tl revertant alleles.  
97D1-97D2  
(determined by in situ hybridisation)  
97D-97D  
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Notes
Tl7 and Tl8 map between e and ca, Tl9 maps between sr and e and Tl10 maps between sr and ca.
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detailed view FBtr0085060 FBtr0085059 FBtr0114336 FBtr0085097 FBtr0300939 FBtr0085099 FBpp0084431 FBpp0084432 FBpp0099603 FBpp0084467 FBpp0290161 FBti0143150 FBti0100820 FBti0033789 FBti0007898 FBti0072708 FBti0029894 FBti0034749 FBti0074774 FBti0037100 FBti0114385 FBti0029398 FBti0011564 FBti0028927 FBti0018846 FBti0048113 FBti0143149 FBti0009958 FBti0033902 FBti0129229 FBti0078318
Comments on Gene Model
DGC clone appears problematic (GH03720): incomplete CDS; DGC:RE46574 okay.
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FBtr0085060
  5517
  1097
FBtr0085059
  5127
  1097
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5.3 (northern blot)
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Tl-PA  
FBpp0084432  
124.7  
1097  
7.00  
Tl-PB  
FBpp0084431  
124.7  
1097  
7.00  
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Additional Descriptive Data
Dvir\Tl is expressed at high levels in embryos and pupae. Tl expression is noticably (2- to 5-fold) up-regulated in immune-challenged larvae and adults.
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immunolocalization
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Protein, which is maternally provide is observed in the area between the somatic bud on the plasma membrane prior to embryonic cycle 13. At cellularization during cycle 14 the protein becomes concentrated at the basal membrane.
Tl protein is absent in the earliest stages of embryonic development, begins to accumulate prior to nuclear migration and peaks in late syncytial blastoderm embryos.
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abdominal posterior fascicle & growth cone
filopodium & abdominal ventral longitudinal muscle 3
RP3 neuron & growth cone
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Allele of TlClassMutagenStocksKnown lesion
Tl3gain of function allele2 Yes
Tlr3hypomorphic allele - genetic evidence2 --
Tlr4loss of function allele, hypomorphic allele - genetic evidence2 Yes
Tlrv18loss of function allele, amorphic allele - genetic evidence1 Yes
Tl8gain of function allele1 Yes
Tle031331 --
TlKG036091 --
TlMI00181
1 --
TlMI01254
1 --
TlNP0756
1 --
TlrK3441 --
Tl2amorphic allele - genetic evidence, gain of function allele0 Yes
TlreQamorphic allele - genetic evidence
0 --
Tlrv13loss of function allele, amorphic allele - genetic evidence0 --
Tlrv16loss of function allele, amorphic allele - genetic evidence0 --
Tlrv19loss of function allele, amorphic allele - genetic evidence0 --
Tlrv1loss of function allele, amorphic allele - genetic evidence0 --
Tlrv24amorphic allele - genetic evidence
0 --
Tlrv25amorphic allele - genetic evidence
0 --
Tlrv2amorphic allele - genetic evidence0 --
Tlrv4amorphic allele - genetic evidence, loss of function allele0 --
Tl100 --
Tl1gain of function allele0 Yes
Tl3p0 Yes
Tl3R-209-210 --
Tl3R-267-380 --
Tl3R-39-380 --
Tl3R-50-330 --
Tl3t0 Yes
Tl4gain of function allele0 Yes
Tl50 --
Tl6gain of function allele0 Yes
Tl70 --
Tl90 --
Tl9BREQ
0 --
Tl9QRE1
0 --
Tl9QURE
0 --
TlAK800 --
TlDB1gain of function allele
0 Yes
TlDB2gain of function allele
0 Yes
TlDB3gain of function allele
0 Yes
TlEP10510 --
TlF3360 Yes
Tlr1loss of function allele, hypomorphic allele - genetic evidence0 Yes
Tlr2loss of function allele, hypomorphic allele - genetic evidence0 Yes
Tlr5antimorphic allele - genetic evidence0 --
Tlr6loss of function allele0 Yes
Tlr7loss of function allele0 Yes
Tlrv10loss of function allele0 --
Tlrv11loss of function allele0 --
Tlrv12loss of function allele0 --
Tlrv14loss of function allele0 --
Tlrv15loss of function allele0 --
Tlrv17loss of function allele0 --
Tlrv200 --
Tlrv21loss of function allele
0 --
Tlrv22loss of function allele0 Yes
Tlrv23loss of function allele
0 --
Tlrv30 --
Tlrv50 --
Tlrv60 --
Tlrv7loss of function allele0 --
Tlrv8loss of function allele0 --
Tlrv9loss of function allele0 --
Tlunspecified
0 --
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Allele of TlClassMutagenStocksKnown lesion
TlScer\UAS.P\T.T.T:Avic\GFP-PA2 Yes
TlScer\UAS.P\T.T:Avic\GFP-YFP.Venus2 Yes
TlGL004741 Yes
TlJF012761 Yes
TlJF014911 Yes
TlKK1035051 Yes
Tl1.40 Yes
Tl1.cSa0 Yes
Tl10b-3559.Scer\UAS0 Yes
Tl10b-Nae.Scer\UAS0 Yes
Tl10b-Nar.Scer\UAS0 Yes
Tl10b-Stu.Scer\UAS0 Yes
Tl10b-ΔPEST.Scer\UAS0 Yes
Tl10b.Act5C0 Yes
Tl10B.hs0 Yes
Tl10B.MtnA.T:SV5\V50 Yes
Tl10b.Scer\UAS.cYa
0 Yes
Tl10b.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC0 Yes
Tl10b.Scer\UAS.T:Zzzz\FLAG0 Yes
Tl10b.Scer\UAS0 Yes
Tl10b.ΔC1.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC0 Yes
Tl10b.ΔC2.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC0 Yes
Tl520.Act5C0 Yes
Tl6.50 Yes
Tl8.bcd.3'UTR.bcd0 Yes
Tl8.bcd.3'UTR.Hsp830 Yes
Tl8.cSa0 Yes
TlAct5C.PN0 Yes
TlBstXI.Act5C0 Yes
TlC755Y.C757Y.C781Y.C799Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC755Y.C757Y.C781Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC755Y.C757Y.C799Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC755Y.C757Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC755Y.C781Y.C799Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC755Y.C781Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC755Y.C799Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC755Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC757Y.C781Y.C799Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC757Y.C781Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC757Y.C799Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC757Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781D.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781E.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781G.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781H.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781L.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781P.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781R.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781S.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781stop.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781T.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781W.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781Y.C799Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC781Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlC799Y.Scer\UAS0 Yes
TlDK.BB40 Yes
TldsRNA.3289-38660 Yes
TldsRNA.cWa0 Yes
TldsRNA.cZa0 Yes
Tlfl.cSa0 Yes
TlGD3050 Yes
TlGV.BB80 Yes
Tlhs.F90 Yes
TlIC-NaeI.Act5C.T:Ivir\HA10 Yes
TlIC-StuI.Act5C.T:Ivir\HA10 Yes
TlIC.Act5C.T:Ivir\HA10 Yes
TlMhc.PR0 Yes
TlNaeI.Act5C0 Yes
TlNarI.Act5C0 Yes
TlRV.Act5C0 Yes
TlScer\UAS.cHa0 Yes
TlScer\UAS.cMa0 Yes
TlScer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC0 Yes
TlScer\UAS.T:Zzzz\FLAG0 Yes
TlStuI.Act5C0 Yes
Tltrunc10 Yes
TlVE.BB70 Yes
TlVH.BB70 Yes
TlVP.BB70 Yes
TlVR.BB70 Yes
TlΔIC0 Yes
TlΔLRR.MtnA0 Yes
TlΔLRR.Sfu-Sty0 Yes
TlΔLRR.Sfu0 Yes
TlΔLRR.Sty0 Yes
TlΔLRR.T:Zzzz\FLAG0 Yes
TlΔLRR.Xba.A2000 Yes
TlΔLRR.Xba.A500 Yes
TlΔLRR.Xba0 Yes
TlΔLRR0 Yes
TlΔN2.Act5C0 Yes
TlΔN3.Act5C0 Yes
TlΔN4.Act5C.T:SV5\V50 Yes
TlΔN4.Act5C0 Yes
TlΔN4.Scer\UAS.T:SV5\V50 Yes
TlΔN5.Act5C0 Yes
TlΔN6.Act5C0 Yes
TlΔN6.C34.892A.Scer\UAS.T:SV5\V50 Yes
TlΔN6.C34A.Scer\UAS.T:SV5\V50 Yes
TlΔN6.C892A.Scer\UAS.T:SV5\V50 Yes
TlΔN6.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC0 Yes
TlΔN6.Scer\UAS.T:SV5\V50 Yes
TlΔN6.SS.Scer\UAS.T:SV5\V50 Yes
TlΔN6.SSC892A.Scer\UAS.T:SV5\V50 Yes
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insertion of mobile activating element
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insertion of enhancer trap
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inferred from genetic interaction with imd
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inferred from mutant phenotype
inferred from mutant phenotype
inferred from mutant phenotype
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plasma membrane
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Wieschaus and Nusslein-Volhard.
 
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Additional comments
A dorsalising activity for the heterologous ea, spz and Tl proteins in UV-ventralised Xenopus embryos is demonstrated: Tl dorsalises UV-treated X.laevis embryos. The activity is inhibited by co-injection of a dominant cact variant.
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Embryonic extracts derived from a cross between Tl mutant mothers and Oregon R males have increased amounts of the 80 kD ea-Spn27A protein complex compared to wild type embryonic extracts.
RNAi screen using dsRNA made from templates generated with primers directed against this gene causes a phenotype when assayed in Kc167 and S2R+ cells: binucleate cells.
dsRNA made from templates generated with primers directed against this gene tested in RNAi screen for effects on Kc167 and S2R+ cell morphology.
Tl requires only an endogenous protein ligand - the spz gene product - for activation and signalling. The mature, processed, form of the spz gene product binds to the Tl ectodomain with high affinity and with a stoichiometry of one spz dimer to two Tl receptors.
Tl regulates Drs expression through Dif.
nec negatively regulates the Tl signalling pathway.
Tl does not function as a pattern recognition receptor in the Drosophila host defence.
Tl acts in a cell autonomous manner in the fat body.
A linear activation cascade spz-Tl-cact-dl/Dif leads to the induction of the Drs gene in larval fat body cells.
Expression of Tl in a subset of epidermal cells, including the epidermal muscle attachment cells, but not in the musculature is necessary for proper muscle development in the embryo.
Tl mRNA is translationally activated by regulated cytoplasmic polyadenylation.
Targeting of either tub or pll product to the plasma membrane by myristylation is sufficient to activate the signal transduction pathway that leads to translocation of the dl product. Activated Tl induces a localized recruitment of tub and pll proteins to the plasma membrane.
Tl pathway is required for the nuclear import of dl in the immune response, but not required for the nuclear import of Dif. Cytoplasmic retention of both dl and Dif depends on cact protein. The two signalling pathways that target cact for degradation must discriminate between cact-dl and cact-Dif complexes.
Results from the expression of a constitutively activated form of the Tl receptor suggest that Tl signalling components diffuse in the plasma membrane or syncytial cytoplasm of the early embryo.
A combination of genetic manipulation and single-cell visualisation demonstrates the timing and cell specificity of muscular Tl expression can affect synaptogenesis of RP3 and other motoneuron growth cones.
The embryonic regulatory pathway, comprising the gene products between spz and cact (Tl, tub and pll) but not the genes acting upstream or downstream (ea and dl), is involved in the induction of the Drs gene in adults. Mutations that affect the synthesis of antimicrobial peptides dramatically lower the resistance of flies to infection.
Tl and pll can functionally interact to enhance dl activity synergistically.
An activated processed form of spz can activate Tl when injected into the extracellular space of early embryos (FBrf0074384). cact is rapidly degraded in response to spz injection.
Tl is one of several genes required for proper motoneuron and muscle specification. Loss of one or both copies of Tl leads to widespread defects in motoneuron number and muscle patterning.
Nurse cell-specific genes are functional in the pseudonurse cells of otu mutants, but the transport of pum, otu, ovo and bcd RNAs to the cytoplasm is affected.
dl is not involved in the formation of melanotic tumours of Tl mutations.
tub is capable of acting as both a chaperon or escort for dl as it moves to the nucleus and then as a transcriptional coactivator. The intracytoplasmic domain of Tl is sufficient for activating the signalling pathway that leads to dl-tub nuclear translocation in Schneider cells.
Studies on a truncated Tl receptor indicate that the Tl receptor extracellular domain regulates the intrinsic signaling activity of its cytoplasmic domain.
dl is an embryonic phosphoprotein and its phosphorylation state is regulated by an intracellular signaling pathway initiated by the transmembrane receptor Tl. Using a combined genetic and biochemical approach it is demonstrated that activation of Tl stimulates an increase in the extent of dl phosphorylation.
Dorsal-ventral patterning is regulated by a signalling pathway that includes Tl and transcription factors, dl, that interact with related enhancers, rho. The κ enhancer from mouse is capable of generating lateral stripes of Ecol\lacZ gene expression in transgenic embryos in a pattern similar to that directed by rho enhancer. Results suggest that enhancers can couple conserved signalling pathways to divergent gene functions, dorso-ventral patterning and mammalian haematopoiesis.
The spz product acts immediately upstream of Tl in dorso-ventral pattern formation in the embryo, and may encode the ligand that activates Tl. The secreted spz product must be activated by proteolytic cleavage, and localized proteolytic processing of the spz protein determines where the receptor, Tl, is active.
Comparisons of early development to that in other insects have revealed conservation of some aspects of development, as well as differences that may explain variations in early patterning events.
The Tl signalling pathway generates a dl nuclear gradient which initiates the differentiation of the mesoderm, neuroectoderm and dorsal ectoderm by activating and repressing gene expression in the early embryo. A second signalling pathway controlled by the tor receptor kinase also modulates dl activity.
Sequence analysis of sim Tl and sli revealed a conserved sequence ACGTG that resembles the mammalian xenobiotic response element. This motif forms the core of an element required for CNS midline transcription.
Increased cytoplasmic calcium concentration and the expression of constitutively active Tl receptors can induce the relocalisation of dl in culture cells. Activation of endogenous Pka-C1, expression of wild type Tl receptors or treatment of cells with activators of Pkc53E and radical oxygen intermediates have only a marginal effects on the cellular distribution of dl protein.
Cytoplasmic injection studies indicate that the spatial information for the embryonic dorsal-ventral axis is largely derived from spatial cues in the extraembryonic compartment (most likely generated during oogenesis), which restrict the release of the putative Toll ligand. This ligand appears to originate from a ventrally restricted zone extending along the anterior-posterior axis, and its diffusion or graded release are required to determine the slope of the nuclear dorsal protein gradient. Both the Toll receptor and its ligand are in excess in wild type embryos.
Double mutant analysis indicates that ve acts upstream of Toll in dorsal-ventral axis formation, and the action of ve requires the grk-Egfr signaling pathway.
Analysis of Tl-Ecol\lacZ deletion constructs has identified a 750bp central nervous system midline enhancer in the Tl upstream region (between -21.kb and -1.4kb).
Double mutant combinations of Tl with ea alleles demonstrate that spatial regulation of ea activity by localized zymogen activation is a key initial event in defining the polarity of the dorsal-ventral embryonic pattern.
Toll enhances transport of dl protein into nucleus in cotransfected Schneider cells, perhaps via activated protein kinase A that phosphorylates dl gene product.
In addition to the Tl ligand, perivitelline fluid also contains three separate activities capable of rescuing ea, snk and spz. Serine proteolytic activity in the perivitelline fluid is required for the formation of the Tl ligand.
The properties of a peptide corresponding to residues 166-188 of the Tl protein have been studied in vitro.
The cytoplasmic domain of the Tl protein is related to that of the human interleukin-1 receptor.
The Tl protein is a glycoprotein which is tightly associated with embryonic membranes.
Recessive dorsalizing mutants of the dorsal group gene Tl have significantly reduced axial ratios in pupae.
Mutations in maternal dorsal class gene Tl do not interact with RpII140wimp.
Local activation of Tl by a Tl ligand initiates the formation of the dl nuclear concentration gradient, thereby determining the dorsoventral pattern.
The effects of an altered nucleocytoplasmic ratio on transcripts that normally undergo changes in transcript pattern in cell cycle 14 is studied. A delay in the maternal-to-zygotic transition of the dorsal-ventral polarity gene Tl is correlated with a decrease in nuclear density and a change in the cell cycle program.
sim gene product is required for the normal expression of Tl.
Involved in the regulatory hierarchy responsible for the asymmetric distribution and function of zygotic regulatory gene products along the DV axis of early embryos. Dominant cact mutants have a similar cuticle phenotype to that of zen- embryos.
Genetic and molecular analysis demonstrates that Tl is expressed and is functional zygotically as well as maternally.
Epistatic relationships exist between dorsalizing maternal effect mutations and "dppHin" alleles.
The expression of genes controlling neurogenesis is dependent on the previous activity of the genes controlling the development of the embryonic dorsal-ventral pattern. Double mutants N55e11 and Dl9P with Tl had neuralization of the entire ectoderm, a huge CNS and no epidermis as it had been substituted for by neural tissue.
Females carrying the dominant allele Tl3, when combined with the mutants gd, ndl, pip, snk, or ea, produce embryos that are lateralized like embryos derived from Tlrv8 females; these embryos lack dorsalmost and ventralmost pattern elements and have rings of denticles (Anderson, Jurgens and Nusslein-Volhard, 1985). Some alleles of ea increase the probability that the temperature-sensitive alleles Tlr5, Tlr6 and Tlr7 will survive. An interaction has been reported between the recessive allele Tlr7 and dpp (Irish and Gelbart, 1987). Double mutants of Tl3 and dl produce embryos that are completely dorsalized and indistinguishable from the embryos of dl homozygotes. Females carrying Tl2 or Tl4 in combination with gd, ndl, or dl also produce dorsalized embryos.
 
Maternal expression of the Toll gene is required for the normal production and distribution of positional information in the embryo (Anderson, Jurgens and Nusslein-Volhard, 1985; Anderson, Bokla and Nusslein-Volhard, 1985); zygotic expression is required to maintain viability in early larvae (Gerttula, Jin and Anderson, 1988). Toll mutants and deficiencies occurring in the mother result in lethal abnormalities in the pattern of gastrulation and the differentiation of cuticular structures in the offspring. When null alleles and deficiencies are homozygous in the zygote, delayed development and early lethality result. Females heterozygous for dominant Toll alleles are sterile, their lethal embryos being partially ventralized regardless of their genotype. Dorsoventral polarity is present; a furrow is formed in the midventral region, but the lateral cephalic fold is shifted to the dorsal side and the normal dorsal folds are missing. The cuticle lacks dorsal hairs, filzkorper, spiracles, head sensory organs and a head skeleton; there are patches of denticles extending around the entire dorsoventral circumference of the embryo (Anderson, Jurgens and Nusslein-Volhard, 1985). The ventral nervous system is also expanded (Campos-Ortega, 1983). Embryos produced by females hemizygous for some dominant alleles (Tl1/Df; Tl3/Df) are ventralized, but the embryos of other hemizygotes (Tl2/Df; Tl4/Df) are dorsalized, all cells behaving at gastrulation and in differentiation like wild-type dorsal cells. In embryos derived from Tl/+ females, virtually the entire ectoderm capable of neurogenesis in response to absence of Dl function (Campos-Ortega, 1983). Whereas females heterozygous for recessive alleles of Tl are fertile, homozygous Tl-recessive females are viable but sterile, their lethal embryos lacking dorsoventral polarity and forming no ventral furrow at gastrulation. In most recessive alleles (Tlr5, Tlr6, Tlr7), the embryos are partially dorsalized with laterally derived structures (Anderson, Jurgens and Nusslein-Volhard, 1985); for example, Tlr6 embryos differentiate dorsal hairs, filzkorper and ventral denticle bands of nearly normal width, but lack mesoderm (Anderson and Nusslein-Volhard, 1986). In one allele (Tlr4), however, embryos have no dorsal hairs and show rings of denticles as in TlD embryos (Anderson, Jurgens and Nusslein-Volhard, 1985). Hemizygotes for the Toll-recessives resemble the corresponding homozygotes in phenotype. A number of Toll alleles were obtained as reversions of the Toll-dominant phenotype. When crossed to wild-type males, females heterozygous for a null-type reversion are fully fertile; however, when crossed to males who are also heterozygous for a Toll null, these females produce Tl-homozygotes who are zygotic lethals, dying as early larvae and producing no Toll transcript. Heteroallelic combinations of reversions such as Tlrv1/Tlrv2 produce sterile females with lethal dorsalized embryos. Females carrying combinations of certain reversions and Toll-dominant (or Toll-recessive) alleles produce embryos with phenotypes like those of Toll-dominant (or Toll-recessive) hemizygotes. Most of the reversions, when in trans to deficiencies, result in females with dorsalized embryos, but a few hemizygous reversion females (Tlrv21, Tlrv22, Tlrv23) produce ventralized embryos (Hashimoto et al., 1988). The lethal embryos of Df(3R)Tl-X/Df(3R)ro-XB3 (null) females (Hashimoto, Hudson and Anderson, 1988), are completely dorsalized, never making ventral furrows, filzkorper, or denticles; their germ bands fail to extend; no Toll transcript is produced in these embryos except when contributed by wild-type fathers (Gerttula, Jin and Anderson, 1988). The 97D1-2 breakpoint of the Toll deficiency Df(3R)Tl-X maps within the 6.0 kb EcoRI fragment of a Toll clone (Hashimoto, Hudson and Anderson, 1988). Injection of wild-type cytoplasm into embryos of Toll-deficient females restores the wild-type dorsoventral pattern, the site of the injection determining the midventral part of the pattern (Anderson, Bokla and Nusslein-Volhard, 1985).
 
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Symbol Synonym
Fs(3)Tl
 
mat(3)9
 
mel(3)9
 
mel(3)10
 
Name Synonym
EP1051
 
Protein toll precursor
Toll
(Chen et al., 2010, Clark et al., 2011, Galac and Lazzaro, 2011, Cao et al., 2008, Cui et al., 2008, Furlong et al., 2001, Meng et al., 1999, Braun et al., 1998, Uttenweiler-Joseph et al., 1998, Govind et al., 1998, Ntwasa et al., 1997, Ferrandon et al., 1997, Schisa and Strickland, 1996, Rosetto et al., 1995, Wharton and Crews, 1993, Leptin et al., 1992, Schupbach and Wieschaus, 1986, Kambris et al., 2006, Mace et al., 2005, Pal et al., 2007, Zhou et al., 2005, Pal and Wu, 2005, Minakhina and Steward, 2006, Kuttenkeuler and Boutros, 2007, Tao et al., 2007, Pham et al., 2007, Araujo et al., 2006, Scherfer et al., 2006, Araujo and Bier, 2000, Akira et al., 2006, Chen et al., 2006, Chen, 2006, Biemar et al., 2006, LeMosy, 2006, Sambandan et al., 2006, Mulinari et al., 2006, Fenckova and Dolezal, 2007, Scherfer et al., 2007, Zeitlinger et al., 2007, Zaffran et al., 2006, Ulvila et al., 2006, Jang et al., 2006, Brun et al., 2006, Kleino et al., 2008, Tao et al., 2007, Waterhouse et al., 2007, Rutschmann et al., 2000, Guan et al., 2006, Park et al., 2003, Kuranaga and Miura, 2007, Araujo et al., 2008, DiAngelo et al., 2008, Tanda et al., 2008, Taylor and Kimbrell, 2007, Christophides et al., 2002, Davidson and Erwin, 2006, Goto et al., 2008, Cowden and Levine, 2003, Ritzenthaler and Chiba, 2003, Stein et al., 2008, Staudt et al., 2005, Wang et al., 2005, Tanji et al., 2007, Xing et al., 2007, Tao et al., 2007, Zeitouni et al., 2007, Busse et al., 2007, Qi et al., 2008, Inaki et al., 2007, Tan et al., 2008, Wu and Sato, 2008, Zhu et al., 2008, Liu et al., 2009, Mavrakis et al., 2009, Wu et al., 2007, Jin et al., 2009, Buchon et al., 2009, Witzberger et al., 2008, Ooi et al., 2002, Leulier et al., 2003, Roxstrom-Lindquist et al., 2004, Gesellchen et al., 2005, Stramer et al., 2008, Luo et al., 2001, Chamilos et al., 2009, Ahmad et al., 2009, Cronin et al., 2009, Zeitlinger et al., 2007, Shi et al., 2006, Zeitlinger et al., 2007, Buchon et al., 2009, Tauszig-Delamasure et al., 2002, Keranen et al., 2006, Morozova et al., 2007, Zimmermann et al., 2006, Coll et al., 2010, Huang et al., 2010, Vonkavaara et al., 2008, Tanji et al., 2010, Inaki et al., 2010, Junell et al., 2010, Arnot et al., 2010, Valanne et al., 2010, Yagi and Ip, 2005, Zsindely et al., 2009, Wang et al., 2011, Stein et al., 2010, Fulkerson and Estes, 2011, Gordon et al., 2008, Vazquez-Pianzola et al., 2011, Kim et al., 2010)
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  • FBgn0062707
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Clark et al., 2011, Curr. Biol. 21(19): 1672--1677
Multiple TGF-β Superfamily Signals Modulate the Adult Drosophila Immune Response. [FBrf0216429]
Fulkerson and Estes, 2011, J. Exp. Zool. B Mol. Dev. Evol. 316B(1): 61--75
Common motifs shared by conserved enhancers of Drosophila midline glial genes. [FBrf0212527]
Galac and Lazzaro, 2011, Microbes Infect. 13(7): 673--683
Comparative pathology of bacteria in the genus Providencia to a natural host, Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0214338]
Herren and Lemaitre, 2011, Cell. Microbiol. 13(9): 1385--1396
Spiroplasma and host immunity: activation of humoral immune responses increases endosymbiont load and susceptibility to certain Gram-negative bacterial pathogens in Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0214693]
Morozova et al., 2011, Genetics 187(4): 1193--1205
Transcriptional networks for alcohol sensitivity in Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0214377]
Narbonne-Reveau et al., 2011, PLoS ONE 6(2): e17470
Lack of an antibacterial response defect in Drosophila toll-9 mutant. [FBrf0213211]
Vazquez-Pianzola et al., 2011, Dev. Biol. 357(2): 404--418
Pabp binds to the osk 3'UTR and specifically contributes to osk mRNA stability and oocyte accumulation. [FBrf0214798]
Wang et al., 2011, Infect. Immun. 79(2): 606--616
Host and Pathogen Glycosaminoglycan-Binding Proteins Modulate Antimicrobial Peptide Responses in Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0212806]
Arnot et al., 2010, J. Biol. Chem. 285(25): 19502--19509
Molecular mechanism that induces activation of spatzle, the ligand for the Drosophila toll receptor. [FBrf0211038]
Chen et al., 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107(48): 20774--20779
Participation of the p38 pathway in Drosophila host defense against pathogenic bacteria and fungi. [FBrf0212390]
Coll et al., 2010, Genes Dev. 24(2): 129--134
A novel, noncanonical mechanism of cytoplasmic polyadenylation operates in Drosophila embryogenesis. [FBrf0209762]
Goto et al., 2010, J. Biol. Chem. 285(21): 15731--15738
Cooperative regulation of the induction of the novel antibacterial Listericin by peptidoglycan recognition protein LE and the JAK-STAT pathway. [FBrf0210770]
Huang et al., 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107(18): 8322--8327
Endocytic pathway is required for Drosophila Toll innate immune signaling. [FBrf0210737]
Inaki et al., 2010, Development 137(13): 2139--2146
Drosophila Tey represses transcription of the repulsive cue Toll and generates neuromuscular target specificity. [FBrf0210991]
Junell et al., 2010, Mol. Cell. Biol. 30(14): 3672--3684
The POU transcription factor Drifter/Ventral veinless regulates expression of Drosophila immune defense genes. [FBrf0211117]
Kim et al., 2010, Exp. Gerontol. 45(12): 984--987
Enhancement of stress resistances and downregulation of Imd pathway by lower developmental temperature in Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0212401]
Kong et al., 2010, Alcoholism, Clin. Exp. Res. 34(2): 302--316
Ethanol-regulated genes that contribute to ethanol sensitivity and rapid tolerance in Drosophila. [FBrf0209720]
Stein et al., 2010, Curr. Biol. 20(21): 1953--1958
Localization and Activation of the Drosophila Protease Easter Require the ER-Resident Saposin-like Protein Seele. [FBrf0212238]
Tanji et al., 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107(33): 14715--14720
Heterodimers of NF-{kappa}B transcription factors DIF and Relish regulate antimicrobial peptide genes in Drosophila. [FBrf0211616]
Valanne et al., 2010, J. Immunol. 184(11): 6188--6198
Genome-wide RNA interference in Drosophila cells identifies G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 as a conserved regulator of NF-kappaB signaling. [FBrf0210846]
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