Amino acid replacement: E139A.
Amino acid replacement: E140A.
Amino acid replacement: K141A.
Amino acid replacement: L142L.
Amino acid replacement: R143A.
lethal | larval stage | heat sensitive, with tsrΔ96
lethal | pupal stage | cold sensitive, with tsrΔ96
viable | cold sensitive, with tsrΔ96, tsrV27Q.cBa
wing hair, with tsrΔ96, tsrV27Q.cBa
Animals carrying both tsrV27Q.cBa and tsr139.cBa transgenes survive and are relatively healthy at 16oC and 18oC, but few animals survive to the late pupal stage at 25oC.
Over 90% of tsrV27Q.cBa, tsr139.cBa; tsrΔ96 flies raised at 18oC show planar cell polarity defects. For example, wing hairs have a non-distal orientation. The site of wing prehair initiation is variable in these mutants while initiation occurs at the distal side of cells in wild type. In moderately to severely affected tsrV27Q.cBa, tsr139.cBa; tsrΔ96 wings, prehairs are observed as F-actin accumulations near cell centres or as long F-actin fibers that span from near cell centres to the distal side of cells. Unlike in wild type, prehairs are not oriented along the PD axis but emerge from either side adjacent to the distal-most vertex of the cell. Additionally, F-actin accumulation on apical cell surfaces is increased and variable compared to wild-type wing cells.
The fine hairs of the notum often adopt non-posterior orientations in tsrV27Q.cBa, tsr139.cBa; tsrΔ96 flies. Occasionally, multiple notum hairs are observed.
tsr139.cBa partially rescues tsrΔ96
Expression of tsr139.cBa results in a limited, temperature-dependent rescue of tsrΔ96 mutants. At 29oC, lethality is not rescued at all, at 25oC, a few tsr139.cBa; tsrΔ96 animals survive to the second instar larval stage, and at 18oC and 16oC these animals are pupal lethal. Coexpression of both tsr139.cBa and tsrV27Q.cBa results in a more effective rescue, although this is still temperature-dependent. While tsrV27Q.cBa, tsr139.cBa; tsrΔ96 animals die at the first larval instar at 29oC, a few survive to the pupal stage at 25oC, while animals survive to the adult stage at 16oC and 18oC.