Imprecise excision of an insertion in DNApol-η, resulting in a deletion of part of the coding region.
Mutant larvae exposed to UV radiation show reduced survival to adulthood compared to controls.
Mutant larvae are severely sensitive to ultraviolet radiation, but are not sensitive to nitrogen mustard or to ionising radiation.
Mutants show a 45% decrease in full homologous recombination (HR) repair events in assays of excision and repair events of P{hswa}, but the frequency of aborted HR is unchanged. Analysis of aborted HR products shows no significant difference in the synthesis tract lengths between repair events isolated from mutant or wild-type flies.
PolH12, Rev1ΔCTD has chemical sensitive phenotype
PolH12, Rev1ΔCTD has increased mortality | chemical conditional phenotype
DNApol-η12 mus2053B double mutants show no difference in the frequency of full homologous recombination (HR) repair events in assays of excision and repair events of P{hswa} compared to wild type. The repair tract lengths in aborted HR products isolated from the double mutants are substantially increased compared to wild type.
Pol32L2 DNApol-η12 double mutants show a 60% decrease in full HR repair events in assays of excision and repair events of P{hswa}, but repair synthesis tract lengths of aborted HR products are increased dramatically over wild type.