UAS regulatory sequences drive the expression of wild type Hsap\RAB7A. The construct is tagged at the N-terminal with Venus.
Scer\GAL4Rab7-Gal4-KO/Hsap\RAB7AUAS.Venus is a suppressor of abnormal neurophysiology | dominant phenotype of Rab7Gal4-KO
Scer\GAL4Rab7-Gal4-KO/Hsap\RAB7AUAS.Venus is a suppressor of lethal - all die before end of pupal stage | recessive phenotype of Rab7Gal4-KO
Scer\GAL4Rab7-Gal4-KO/Hsap\RAB7AUAS.Venus is a suppressor of abnormal neurophysiology | somatic clone | adult stage | progressive phenotype of Rab7Gal4-KO
Scer\GAL4Rab7-Gal4-KO/Hsap\RAB7AUAS.Venus is a suppressor of abnormal neuroanatomy | somatic clone | adult stage | progressive phenotype of Rab7Gal4-KO
Hsap\RAB7AUAS.Venus, Rab7Gal4-KO, Scer\GAL4Rab7-Gal4-KO has viable phenotype
Flies expressing one copy of Hsap\RAB7AScer\UAS.T:Avic\GFP-YFP.Venus under the control of one copy of Scer\GAL4Rab7.T:Disc\RFP (in a Rab7GAL4.T:Disc\RFP/+ mutant background) are viable and do not display any obvious behavioural defects or altered lifespan. Electroretinogram recordings from the larval neuromuscular junction are indistinguishable from wild type. The frequency and amplitudes of spontaneous single vesicle release events are normal, as are evoked neurotransmission events. As in wild type, no photoreceptor defects, either morphological or functional, are seen in adult flies that have been exposed to 10 days of constant light stimulation.
Expression of one copy of Hsap\RAB7AScer\UAS.T:Avic\GFP-YFP.Venus under the control of Scer\GAL4Rab7.T:Disc\RFP rescues the lethality seen in homozygous Rab7GAL4.T:Disc\RFP mutant flies.
Expression of Hsap\RAB7AScer\UAS.T:Avic\GFP-YFP.Venus under the control of Scer\GAL4Rab7.T:Disc\RFP partially rescues the progressive synaptic and neuronal degeneration seen in homozygous Rab7GAL4.T:Disc\RFP mutant eye clones after 10 days of constant light stimulation.