Amino acid replacement: E482K. E482K results in a charge change encoded by alternative exon 9a.
G16775250A
E482K | Mhc-PK; E482K | Mhc-PL
E482K
Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
Lack of thick filaments in the indirect flight muscles and a greatly reduce number in the small cells of the jump muscles. Lack of thick filaments is not due to aberrant interactions with thin filaments nor poisoning of wild type thick filaments.
Indirect flight muscles accumulate little or no MHC, have no thick filaments, and show no organized myofibrils. The four smaller cells of the TDT display reduction in thick filament number and myofibril size; large TDT cells unaffected. Flies jump 59% as well as wild type. Leg muscle MHC found in normal amounts (O'Donnell, Collier, Mogami and Bernstein, 1989). homozygous viable
Mogami.
Exons 15a and 15b have been sequenced and are wild-type.