FB2026_01 , released March 12, 2026
FB2026_01 , released March 12, 2026
Allele: Dmel\Sh9
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General Information
Symbol
Dmel\Sh9
Species
D. melanogaster
Name
FlyBase ID
FBal0015549
Feature type
allele
Associated gene
Associated Insertion(s)
Carried in Construct
Also Known As
ShE62
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Nature of the Allele
Progenitor genotype
Cytology

Polytene chromosomes normal.

Description

Point mutation preventing splicing of the intron between exons 19 and 20. This disrupts function in all class 1 transcripts.

Mutation in the V region of the Sh locus.

Nucleotide substitution G to A at the intron/exon 20 border, that changes the AG acceptor site to AA. The intron between exons 19 and 20 is not spliced out resulting in a predicted protein which lacks the last 103 amino acids of the wild-type protein and has an aberrant C-terminus of 5 amino acids encoded by part of the unspliced intron sequence.

sequenced by Lichtinghagen et al., 1990 splicing defect at gly480; relative to the deduced H37 protein (Kamb, Tseng-Crank and Tanouye, 1988).

Mutations Mapped to the Genome
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Nucleotide change:

G17930438A

Reported nucleotide change:

G?A

Comment:

G to A mutation in the splice acceptor site at the intron/exon 20 border.

Variant Molecular Consequences
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Expression Data
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Phenotypic Data
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Homozygous Sh9 females exhibit a marked increase in sensitivity to halothane in an electrophysiologically monitored escape response. Specifically, halothane EC[[50]] is increased in Sh9 stocks by 70% over that in wild-type control females. Heterozygous Sh9 females exhibit a halothane potency that is intermediate between the homozygous mutant and controls. Male Sh9 mutants produce a very large increase in EC[[50]] (128% compared to Canton-S flies).

Application of serotonin failed to alter modulation of the potassium channel in a semi-intact preparation of the retina.

Photoreceptor A channels have abnormal inactivation kinetics; the rate of inactivation is slower than wild-type.

Flies manifest chronic vibration of their appendages as well as abnormal action potentials.

IA is reduced to about 28% of normal in homozygous third larval instar muscles. IA is much lower than predicted by simple gene-dosage dependence in Sh9/Sh14 or Sh9/Sh7 flies.

A-type current is altered but not abolished.

Ether-dependent leg shaking and wing scissoring. Chloroform, ethyl acetate and carbon dioxide etherization does not elicit shaking behavior, though nitrogen and triethylkamine etherization does. Unetherized, older flies show uncoordinated walking behavior, and stand quivering on the bottom of the culture bottle.

abnormal leg shaking under ether anesthesia; abnormal A-type potassium currents in larval muscle and/or pupal flight muscle; abnormal action potentials in the adult cervical giant fiber; abnormal synaptic transmission at the larval neuromuscular junction and multiple firing of larval motoneurons.

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Phenotypic Class
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Sh9 has phenotype, suppressible by paralk5

Additional Comments
Genetic Interactions
Statement
Reference

The leg shaking phenotype is suppressed by paralk5.

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Notes on Origin
Discoverer

Ferrus/Ganetzky.

Comments
Comments

Phenotype suppressed by mlenap-ts1, even at permissive temperatures. Shaking and suppressed phenotypes are evident in severed legs as well as in the whole organism.

Mutation site is distally adjacent to that of Sh5, Sh7 and Sh14.

Allelic series of Sh defects: Sh7 > Sh14 > Sh16 > Sh5 > Sh9.

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