FlyBase error report for CG4551 on Fri Mar 14 08:24:47 2003. - Levis, R. (2003)
Gene or accession: CG4551 Release: 3 cDNA or EST error Comments: There is an annotation note that 'EST data suggest additional 5' exon(s) (that may lie as far as 24kb upstream). ' I assume that the curator was referring to LD02884-5prime. The BDGP report on DGC LD02884 indicates that LD02884-3prime gives a BLAST hit to CG4551. It seems likely to me that LD02884-5prime is an EST for a 5' exon for CG4551. There are two P-element insertions near the 5' end of LD02884, which is further evidence that this is the 5' end of a gene. I haven't checked Apollo to look at all of the EST data. I'm writing to bring your attention to this with the hope that one of the curators will reexamine the evidence.