Amino acid replacement: C200Y.
G19887194A
C200Y | ninaE-PA
C200Y|FBrf0080181
Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
ninaERH27 flies start to lose photoreceptor cells after 25 days of 12-h light/12-h dark cycling.
Ommatidia, after light-rearing for 8 weeks, exhibit small cell bodies for R1-R6 and the rhabdomere membranes are reduced and disorganised. Cells show the typical features of apoptosis: cytoplasmic condensation, nuclear chromatin condensation and relatively normal looking mitochondria.
ninaERH27 has increased cell death phenotype, non-suppressible by Atg1ninaE.Tag:MYC
BacA\p35GMR.PH, ninaERH27 has wild-type phenotype
ninaERH27 has photoreceptor neuron phenotype, non-enhanceable by Tsc1UAS.cGa/Scer\GAL4GMR.PU
ninaERH27 has photoreceptor neuron phenotype, non-enhanceable by gigUAS.cTa/Scer\GAL4GMR.PU
Overexpression of Tsc1Scer\UAS.cGa or gigScer\UAS.cTa under the control of Scer\GAL4GMR.PU does not attenuate photoreceptor cell death in ninaERH27 flies and even has converse effects.
Direct induction of autophagy by expression of Atg1ninaE.T:Hsap\MYC does not suppress cell death caused by the dominant ninaERH27 mutation.
Light-induced retinal degeneration is blocked by expression of BacA\p35GMR.PH : photoreceptor cells and organelles are indistinguishable from wild-type. The 'walking optomotor response' for ninaERH27/BacA\p35GMR.PH flies is normal.