Inferred boundaries of a deletion that removes the GstE14 coding region. The deletion boundaries were inferred from primer sequences.
Homozygous GstE14KO mutants exhibit embryonic lethality, and the embryos do not produce a differentiated cuticle structure. They also display abnormal morphogenetic movements that involve the failure of head involution, defects in dorsal closure and abnormal gut looping. Treatment with 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) midway through embryogenesis overcomes the embryonic lethality, allowing embryos to hatch into first instar larvae. Lethality is almost completely rescued when the mother's food is supplemented with either cholesterol or 7-dehydrocholesterol (7dC).
Homozygous GstE14KO mutant larvae (obtained by maternal administration of cholesterol) exhibit a developmental arrest phenotype at the first or second instar larval stage, and none of them reach the third instar larval stage. This developmental arrest is overcome when the diet is supplemented with 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E), but not with cholesterol of 7-dehydrocholesterol (7dC).
GstE14KO has lethal - all die during embryonic stage | recessive phenotype, suppressible by Bmor\GSTe7UAS.Tag:HA/Scer\GAL4phtm.PO
GstE14KO has lethal - all die during embryonic stage | recessive phenotype, non-suppressible by Scer\GAL4phtm.PO/GstE4UAS.cEa
GstE14KO has lethal - all die during embryonic stage | recessive phenotype, non-suppressible by GstE12UAS.cEa/Scer\GAL4phtm.PO
GstE14KO has lethal - all die during embryonic stage | recessive phenotype, non-suppressible by Scer\GAL4phtm.PO/seUAS.cKa
GstE14KO has lethal - all die during embryonic stage | recessive phenotype, non-suppressible by GstO1UAS.cKa/Scer\GAL4phtm.PO
GstE14KO has lethal - all die during embryonic stage | recessive phenotype, non-suppressible by GstO2A.UAS/Scer\GAL4phtm.PO
GstE14KO has lethal - all die during embryonic stage | recessive phenotype, non-suppressible by Scer\GAL4phtm.PO/GstO2B.UAS
Expression of GstE4Scer\UAS.cEa under the control of Scer\GAL4phm.PO does not rescue the embryonic lethality associated with homozygous GstE14KO mutants.
Expression of GstE12Scer\UAS.cEa under the control of Scer\GAL4phm.PO does not rescue the embryonic lethality associated with homozygous GstE14KO mutants.
Expression of seScer\UAS.cKa under the control of Scer\GAL4phm.PO does not rescue the embryonic lethality associated with homozygous GstE14KO mutants.
Expression of GstO1Scer\UAS.cKa under the control of Scer\GAL4phm.PO does not rescue the embryonic lethality associated with homozygous GstE14KO mutants.
Expression of GstO2A.Scer\UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4phm.PO does not rescue the embryonic lethality associated with homozygous GstE14KO mutants.
Expression of GstO2B.Scer\UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4phm.PO does not rescue the embryonic lethality associated with homozygous GstE14KO mutants.
Expression of Bmor\GSTe7Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1 under the control of Scer\GAL4phm.PO suppresses the embryonic lethality associated with homozygous GstE14KO. The flies are able to complete their development and grow to the adult stages.
GstE14KO is rescued by GstE14UAS.Tag:HA/Scer\GAL4phtm.PO
Expression of GstE14Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1 under the control of Scer\GAL4phm.PO rescues the lethality seen in GstE14KO mutant embryos.