Amino acid replacement: Q505term.
Nucleotide substitution: C2161T.
C3181513T
C2161T
Q505term | Girdin-PA; Q505term | Girdin-PB; Q505term | Girdin-PC; Q505term | Girdin-PD; Q505term | Girdin-PE
Q505term
Girdin101 homozygotes show a severely uncoordinated phenotype (unable to stand on legs, legs are crossed, wings are held straight up).
Recordings from bristles in Girdin101 mutants show they do not have mechanoreceptor currents (MRC) but are able to maintain normal transepithelial potentials (TEP). Mechanosensory neurons of Girdin101 late pupae show several phenotypes: 60% of the thoracic mechanosensory organs are missing their neurons, and most of the remaining 40% with sensory neurons do not have dendrites (with the remainder having abnormally short dendrites that fail to innervate the bristle base); cell bodies of those neurons lacking dendrites often cluster together. Girdin101 pupae also show defects in the dendritic sheath, which does not contain a sensory cilium within the tubular body.
At 30-50hr APF, all sensory neurons have an axon and a dendrite in Girdin101 pupae; at 60-70hr APF, many dendrites begin to degenerate and cell bodies form clusters.
GirdinT:Avic\GFP rescues behavioral phenotypes and sensory neuron dendrite degeneration, and generates viable Girdin101 flies.