Deletion of the entire Csp transcription unit from map position -970 to +7800.
CspR1 mutants exhibit a reduced number of boutons at neuromuscular junctions (approximately 62% of control).
Evoked EJP amplitudes in CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions are approximately 52% of wild-type control amplitudes at 22[o]C.
Scer\GAL4elav-C155-driven expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS fails to suppress the temperature-sensitive lethality of CspR1 mutants at 25[o]C. Indeed, expression actually enhances the temperature-sensitive lethality of CspR1 mutants. Whereas CspR1 mutants are fully viable at 18[o]C, only 11% of CspR1 mutants expressing CspΔJ.Scer\UAS survive till adulthood.
Scer\GAL4elav-C155-driven expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS fails to suppress the temperature-sensitive lethality of CspR1 mutants at 25[o]C. Indeed, expression actually enhances the temperature-sensitive lethality of CspR1 mutants. Whereas CspR1 mutants are fully viable at 18[o]C, only 6% of CspR1 mutants expressing CspΔL.Scer\UAS survive till adulthood.
Presynaptic expression of CspScer\UAS.cBa, under the control of Scer\GAL4elav-C155 in CspR1 mutants rescues the loss of synaptic boutons and indeed dramatically increases the number to above wild-type levels (to approximately 186% of wild-type levels).
Expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS in motor neurons under the control of Scer\GAL4D42 increases EJP amplitudes at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions to 74% of control amplitudes at 22[o]C. However, normal function is not restored as the amplitudes of EJPs resulting from CspΔJ.Scer\UAS expression are significantly different to wild-type controls.
CspR1 mutants exhibit thermo-intolerance of evoked release above 30[o]C, which causes an almost complete loss of evoked release compared with the ~50% reduction of evoked release at 22[o]C.
Increasing the temperature from 22[o]C to 32[o]C in CspR1 mutants reduces the average EJP amplitude by approximately 94% (compared to approximately 7% in wild-type controls). No difference is observed in spontaneous quantal release compared to controls. Neither mEJP frequency nor mEJP amplitude are significantly different between 22[o]C and 32[o]C in CspR1 mutants.
CspR1 mutant boutons exhibit an average resting '[Ca[2+]'] that is significantly increased from 39.9nM at 20[o]C to 145.7nM at 30[o]C, whereas in wild-type controls the average resting '[Ca[2+]'] is unchanged.
Statistically, Ca[2+] concentration levels in CspR1 mutant 1[[b]] boutons are not significantly increased from wild-type controls at 20[o]C during and after stimulation. At 30[o]C, however, intraterminal Ca[2+] concentration levels are significantly increased during stimulation in CspR1 mutant boutons compared to wild-type.
The mean evoked excitatory junction potential amplitude at the neuromuscular junction is reduced by about 50% compared to wild type in homozygous larvae. The crumpled wing and eye phenotypes of adult escapers carrying Csp3.Scer\UAS expressed under the control of Scer\GAL4elav-C155 are suppressed if the flies are carrying CspR1.
Excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) recorded at 16-18oC the amplitude is reduced and the time constant of the exponential fit of the current delay is increased. The number of quanta released per pulse does not differ from wild type but the time course of release is distributed differently.
At room temperature mutant larvae have sluggish movement. Nerve evoked excitatory junction potentials (EJPs) of larvae are reduced to half the level of wild type. Mutation does not affect the number of calcium binding sites needed to release a single quantum so there must have been a change in the number or properties of the calcium channel/transmitter release assemblies that led to a reduction of quantal output in response to nerve stimulation. Action potential propagation and postsynaptic events in receptor function are unaffected at high temperatures, so cannot explain the temperature- dependent loss of EJPs. Evoked neuromuscular transmission is blocked at high temperatures (30oC), the block is reversible when the temperature is reduced from 30oC to 22oC.
At 29oC flies become paralysed and die. Semilethal embryonic phenotype, adult escapers die within 4-5 days, there are no adult escapers at 29oC.
CspR1 is an enhancer of abnormal neurophysiology | adult stage phenotype of Hsap\MAPTP301L.QUAS.0N4R, Ncra\QFQF2w.nSyb
CspR1 is an enhancer of retina | adult stage phenotype of Hsap\MAPTP301L.QUAS.0N4R, Ncra\QFQF2w.nSyb
CspR1 is rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/CspH45Q.UAS
CspR1 is rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/CspΔJ.UAS
CspR1 is rescued by CspΔJ.UAS/Scer\GAL4Toll-6-D42
CspR1 is rescued by Scer\GAL4Toll-6-D42/CspΔL.UAS
CspR1 is rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/CspΔL.UAS
CspR1 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/CspUAS.cBa
CspR1 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4Toll-6-D42/CspH45Q.UAS
CspR1 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/Csp2.UAS
CspR1 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/Csp1.UAS
CspR1 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/Csp3.UAS
CspR1 is not rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/CspΔJ.UAS
CspR1 is not rescued by CspΔJ.UAS/Scer\GAL4Toll-6-D42
CspR1 is not rescued by Scer\GAL4Toll-6-D42/CspΔL.UAS
CspR1 is not rescued by Scer\GAL4elav-C155/CspΔL.UAS
Scer\GAL4elav-C155-driven expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS fails to suppress the temperature-sensitive lethality of CspR1 mutants at 25[o]C. Indeed, expression actually enhances the temperature-sensitive lethality of CspR1 mutants. Whereas CspR1 mutants are fully viable at 18[o]C, only 11% of CspR1 mutants expressing CspΔJ.Scer\UAS survive till adulthood.
Expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) restores the thermo-tolerance of evoked release at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions. No difference is observed in spontaneous quantal release compared to controls. Neither mEJP frequency nor mEJP amplitude are significantly different between 22[o]C and 32[o]C in CspR1 mutants expressing CspΔJ.Scer\UAS (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42).
Expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) has little effect on the abnormally increased frequency of asynchronous release shortly after the evoked EJP.
Motor neuron expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) has no significant effect on the elevated intraterminal '[Ca[2+]'] of CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions.
Expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS in motor neurons (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) has no significant effect on Ca[2+] levels in CspR1 mutant motor terminals before, during, and after stimulation at 20 and 30[o]C.
Presynaptic expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS, under the control of Scer\GAL4elav-C155 in CspR1 mutants rescues the loss of synaptic boutons, increasing their number to approximately 74% of wild-type levels.
Expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS in CspR1 mutant motor terminals (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) has no significant effect on '[Ca[2+]'] levels before, during, and after stimulation at 20 and 30[o]C.
Expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42), restores the thermo-tolerance of release: at 32[o]C, the average EJP amplitude is slight reduced by 9% but is not significantly different to wild-type controls. Neither mEJP frequency nor mEJP amplitude is significantly different between the groups at 22 or 32[o]C.
Expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS in motor neurons under the control of Scer\GAL4D42 increases EJP amplitudes at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions to 74% of control amplitudes at 22[o]C. However, normal function is not restored as the amplitudes of EJPs resulting from CspΔJ.Scer\UAS expression are significantly different to wild-type controls.
Scer\GAL4elav-C155-driven expression of CspΔJ.Scer\UAS fails to suppress the temperature-sensitive lethality of CspR1 mutants at 25[o]C.
Expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS in motor neurons (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) has no significant effect on Ca[2+] levels in CspR1 mutant motor terminals before, during, and after stimulation at 20 and 30[o]C.
Expression of CspH45Q.Scer\UAS in motor neurons under the control of Scer\GAL4D42 increases EJP amplitudes at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions. The mean EJP amplitude in larvae expressing CspH45Q.Scer\UAS is not significantly different to wild-type controls. Although CspH45Q.Scer\UAS expression restores ELP amplitudes to control levels, the CspH45Q.Scer\UAS-mediated effect is not very robust. The coefficient of variation of EJP amplitudes is 0.08 for controls, whereas for CspH45Q.Scer\UAS it's 0.24, indicating expression of CspH45Q.Scer\UAS does not fully restore synaptic transmission.
Presynaptic expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS, under the control of Scer\GAL4elav-C155 in CspR1 mutants rescues the loss of synaptic boutons, increasing their number to approximately 80% of wild-type levels.
Presynaptic expression of CspH45Q.Scer\UAS, under the control of Scer\GAL4elav-C155 in CspR1 mutants rescues the loss of synaptic boutons, increasing their number to approximately 140% of wild-type levels.
Expression of CspH45Q.Scer\UAS in motor neurons under the control of Scer\GAL4D42 increases EJP amplitudes at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions. The mean EJP amplitude in larvae expressing CspH45Q.Scer\UAS is not significantly different to wild-type controls. Although CspH45Q.Scer\UAS expression restores ELP amplitudes to control levels, the CspH45Q.Scer\UAS-mediated effect is not very robust. The coefficient of variation of EJP amplitudes is 0.08 for controls, whereas for CspH45Q.Scer\UAS it's 0.24, indicating expression of CspH45Q.Scer\UAS does not fully restore synaptic transmission.
Scer\GAL4elav-C155-driven expression of CspScer\UAS.cBa partially suppresses (62%) the temperature-sensitive lethality of CspR1 mutants at 25[o]C.
Expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) restores the thermo-tolerance of evoked release at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions. No difference is observed in spontaneous quantal release compared to controls. Neither mEJP frequency nor mEJP amplitude are significantly different between 22[o]C and 32[o]C in CspR1 mutants expressing CspΔL.Scer\UAS (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42).
Expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) greatly reduces the abnormally increased frequency of asynchronous release shortly after the evoked EJP.
At 30[o]C, motor neuron-specific expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42 partially reverses the abnormally high '[Ca[2+]'] resting levels of CspR1 mutant boutons to an intermediate level of 93.4nM. Statistically, '[Ca[2+]'] levels at 30[o]C are significantly different from those seen in CspR1 mutants and CspR1 mutants expressing CspΔJ.Scer\UAS. At 20[o]C, expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS has no significant effect on the intraterminal '[Ca[2+]'].
Expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS in CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) partially restores normal intraterminal
'[Ca[2+]'] levels at 30[o]C. Ca[2+] signals at rest, during and after stimulation, reaches intermediate levels, being significantly higher than those of wild-type controls at 30[o]C, but also clearly lower than those of CspR1 mutants.
Expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42), restores the thermo-tolerance of release: at 32[o]C, the average EJP amplitude is slight reduced by 16% but is not significantly different to wild-type controls. Neither mEJP frequency onor mEJP amplitude is significantly different between the groups at 22 or 32[o]C.
Expression of CspΔL.Scer\UAS at CspR1 mutant neuromuscular junctions (under the control of Scer\GAL4D42) significantly reduces the frequency of asynchronous release shortly after the evoked EJP.
Expression of Csp1.Scer\UAS, Csp2.Scer\UAS or Csp3.Scer\UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4elav-C155 has no effect on spontaneous miniature excitatory junction potentials at the neuromuscular junction of CspR1 third instar larvae, but does rescue the evoked excitatory junction potential at the neuromuscular junction.
Semilethality of homozygotes can be rescued by introduction of the P{Csp12.3} construct.
All heteroallelic combinations of Csp are semi-lethal.