Polytene chromosomes normal.
Amino acid replacement: C603Y. Nucleotide substitution: G1191A. Mutation lies within the Cys-rich region which spans amino acids 538-603.
Point mutation.
G10635181A
G1191A
C603Y | E(z)-PA; C603Y | E(z)-PB; C608Y | E(z)-PC
C603Y
testis | heat sensitive (with E(z)731)
Homozygous wing and haltere discs are generally smaller than wild type in larvae that have been allowed to complete embryogenesis at the permissive temperature of 18oC and have then been reared at the restrictive temperature of 30oC for 96 hours.
E(z)61 animals derived from eggs laid at 18oC, incubated for an additional 24 hours at 18oC and then transferred to 29oC reach puparium formation and some of them pass through pupal moulting before dying.
Does not cause a small disc phenotype.
Embryos at 29oC display strong posteriorly directed homeotic transformations in which virtually all segments bear eighth abdominal segment-like denticles. Zygotic reduction or loss of trx+ fails to suppress the maternal effect to viability, total loss of zygotic trx+ activity dramatically suppresses maternal effect homeotic transformations.
Homozygous embryos collected over 48 hours at 23oC and then raised at 29oC to the third larval instar show larger, thicker, puffier, less contrasty salivary chromosomes, as if they are decondensed. Chromosome bands are less easy to read because fainter and many characteristic constrictions are absent. Binding of Psc, z and Su(z)2 proteins is dramatically reduced, with remaining binding sites tending to be those that are shared by all three proteins, the z and the polyhomeotic gene products. Psc and Su(z)2 proteins are not lost at the restrictive temperature, just dissociated from the chromatin.
Heterozygous embryos are extremely transformed but there is some phenotypic rescue by abd-A and Abd-B primarily in the head, Abd-B accumulation becomes patchy.
Dominant suppressor of z mutants.
E(z)32/E(z)61 has visible | homeotic phenotype, enhanceable by Sir2[+]/Sirt105327a
E(z)32/E(z)61 has visible | homeotic phenotype, enhanceable by Sirt1EP2300/Sir2[+]
E(z)731/E(z)61 has increased cell number | male | heat sensitive phenotype, suppressible by Egfrf2
E(z)[+]/E(z)61 is a suppressor of visible | adult stage phenotype of Marcal1UAS.cBa, Scer\GAL4Tub.PU
E(z)[+]/E(z)61 is a suppressor of visible | adult stage phenotype of Hsap\SMARCAL1UAS.cBa, Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096
E(z)60/E(z)61 is a suppressor of abnormal eye color phenotype of z1
E(z)61 is a suppressor of abnormal eye color phenotype of z1
E(z)731/E(z)61 has cyst progenitor cell | increased number | heat sensitive phenotype, suppressible by Egfrf2
E(z)[+]/E(z)61 is a suppressor of wing vein | adult stage phenotype of Marcal1UAS.cBa, Scer\GAL4Tub.PU
E(z)[+]/E(z)61 is a suppressor of wing vein | adult stage phenotype of Hsap\SMARCAL1UAS.cBa, Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096
E(z)61 is a suppressor of phenotype of nanosunspecified
The formation of ectopic wing veins observed in adult flies expressing Marcal1Scer\UAS.cBa under the control of Scer\GAL4tub.PU is ameliorated by combination with a single copy of E(z)61.
Temperature sensitive recessive suppressor of the z1 eye colour.
The formation of ectopic wing veins observed in adult flies expressing Hsap\SMARCAL1Scer\UAS.cBa under the control of Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096 is ameliorated by combination with a single copy of E(z)61.
One maternal copy of P{FLAG-E(z).W} completely rescues the maternal effect embryonic lethality of E(z)61.
E(z)+t8.8 fully rescues hemizygous lethality and the maternal effect embryonic lethality of E(z)61/Df(3L)lxd6 reared at 29oC.
Mutation is null in regard to homeotic function at the restictive temperature 29oC (Jones, Genetics 126: 185--199). By 9 hours abd-A is expressed throughout the A-P axis including the head, Abd-B is expressed throughout the axis in nearly all epidermal cells.
Silencing of Scer\GAL4-BXD genes is dependent on Pc group gene function, in mutant embryos silencing is lost.