UAS regulatory sequences drive expression of exd amino acid residues 178-300, with mutations in both the nuclear export signal (NES) (amino acid replacements I209A, F213A, I216A and M218A) and exd nuclear localization signal 1 (NLS1) (residues 240, 241 and 242 have been mutated to Ala residues). The protein is tagged at the N-terminal end with Tag:MYC and GFP.