A 2833 base pair fragment from the flanking non-coding or intronic region of Lkr is fused upstream of a Drosophila core synthetic promoter (DSCP) followed by sequence encoding a lexA::p65 driver. The driver sequence has been optimized for Drosophila codon usage. An Hsp70 transcriptional terminator is present.
EcollexA[GMR65C07] drives expression in neurons whos projections intermingle with neurons with expression driven by ScerGAL4121Y, ScerGAL4cv-c-C5 or ScerGAL4c584 in the fan-shaped body.
Although alleles from the Janelia Farm lexA driver collection incorporate the same enhancer fragments used to create the Janelia Farm GAL4 driver alleles (GMR_Brain_exp_1), significant differences are frequently observed in the expression pattern of a given enhancer fragment inserted in the P{CaryP}attP40 or other docking site compared to the same fragment inserted in the P{CaryP}attP2 docking site. Generally the Ecol\lexA patterns are subsets of the Scer\GAL4 patterns.