photoreceptor | adult stage, with cacF
retina | adult stage, with cacF
retina | adult stage, with cacJ
rhabdomere | adult stage, with cacF
Wild-type flies carrying cacGR-R1673P genomic fragment do not display any significant aberrations in their electroretinogram traces; no defects are observed even when combined with a single copy of either cacJ or cacF.
cacGR-R1673P partially rescues cacF
cacGR-R1673P partially rescues cacJ
The lethality of either cacF or cacJ mutants cannot be rescued by combination with cacGR-R1673P.
The loss of 'on' and 'off' transients in electroretinogram traces from either cacF or cacJ mutant clone cells in the eye of 3-day-old flies is suppressible by combination with cacGR-R1673P (the transients are actually larger than in wild-type rescue controls, i.e. flies carrying Dp(1;3)DC131 for genomic rescue). At 30 days of age, the transients loss is accompanied by decreased depolarization amplitude but neither of these phenotypes can be significantly ameliorated by cacGR-R1673P in either cacF or cacJ mosaic flies.
The neurodegeneration observed in cacF mutant photoreceptor cells at the level of lamina where they make connection with laminar neurons (expanded terminals, accumulation of autophagic vacuoles and signs of synaptic degeneration) is further exacerbated in cacF;cacGR-R1673P flies.