embryonic trachea & cortical actin cytoskeleton, with Scer\GAL4btl.PS
Embryos that express Mkp3GS801 under the control of Scer\GAL4btl.PS show normal tracheal development up to stage 13. At stage 14, several primary dorsal branches and ganglionic branches fail to form or contain only one or two cells. Additionally, breaks can be observed using luminal markers in thin unicellular branches, such as the most ventral (lateral trunk posterior) and dorsal branches. Branch breaks increase with time and in late stages of embryogenesis sometimes almost no branches appear continuous. In vivo imaging shows that tracheal cells appear more rounded than in wild-type embryos and that breaks occur due to tracheal cells pulling apart; at first the cells remain connected by long cytoplasmic extensions that can eventually break.
The tracheal tree of Scer\GAL4btl.PS>Mkp3GS801 embryos shows few apoptotic cells, indicating that cell death is not the major reason for the branch integrity phenotype.
The tracheal tubes of stage 16 Scer\GAL4btl.PS>Mkp3GS801 embryos show a thinner accumulation of cortical actin compared to controls.
The embryonic tracheal phenotype is also observed when Mkp3GS801 is expressed under the control of Scer\GAL4arm.PS, Scer\GAL4ptc-559.1 or Scer\GAL469B.
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has ganglionic tracheal branch primordium phenotype, enhanceable by rl[+]/rl10a
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has dorsal tracheal branch primordium phenotype, enhanceable by rl[+]/rl10a
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has tracheal branch primordium phenotype, enhanceable by rl[+]/rl10a
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has ganglionic tracheal branch primordium phenotype, enhanceable by btlLG19/btl[+]
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has dorsal tracheal branch primordium phenotype, enhanceable by btlLG19/btl[+]
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has dorsal tracheal branch primordium phenotype, suppressible by rlSem.cUa.UAS, Scer\GAL4btl.PS
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has ganglionic tracheal branch primordium phenotype, suppressible by rlSem.cUa.UAS, Scer\GAL4btl.PS
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has tracheal branch primordium phenotype, suppressible by rlSem.cUa.UAS, Scer\GAL4btl.PS
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has tracheal branch primordium phenotype, non-suppressible by BacA\p35UAS.cHa, Scer\GAL4btl.PS
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has ganglionic tracheal branch primordium phenotype, non-suppressible by BacA\p35UAS.cHa, Scer\GAL4btl.PS
Mkp3GS801, Scer\GAL4btl.PS has dorsal tracheal branch primordium phenotype, non-suppressible by BacA\p35UAS.cHa, Scer\GAL4btl.PS
The branch integrity defects of Scer\GAL4btl.PS>Mkp3GS801 embryos are increased when these embryos have a rl10a/+ background relative to a wild-type background.
Coexpression of rlSem.cUa.UAS suppresses the tracheal branching defects of Scer\GAL4btl.PS>Mkp3GS801 embryos.
Expression of Mkp3GS801 under the control of Scer\GAL4btl.PS in a btlLG19/+ background does not affect the penetrance of the Scer\GAL4btl.PS>Mkp3GS801 branch integrity phenotype but results in a significant increase in failure of branch formation.
Coexpression of Mkp3GS801 with BacA\p35Scer\UAS.cHa, under the control of Scer\GAL4btl.PS does not suppress the branch integrity and primary branching defects of Mkp3GS801 embryos.