aret, Bruno, Bru, arrest, Dm Bru
ribonucleoprotein-type RNA-binding protein - regulates multiple mRNAs involved in female and male gametogenesis
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AlphaFold produces a per-residue confidence score (pLDDT) between 0 and 100. Some regions with low pLDDT may be unstructured in isolation.
Annotated transcripts do not represent all possible combinations of alternative exons and/or alternative promoters.
Low-frequency RNA-Seq exon junction(s) not annotated.
Gene model reviewed during 5.45
Gene model reviewed during 6.46
4.0, 3.7, 3.3, 2.7 (northern blot)
808, 604 (aa)
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The testis specificity index was calculated from modENCODE tissue expression data by Vedelek et al., 2018 to indicate the degree of testis enrichment compared to other tissues. Scores range from -2.52 (underrepresented) to 5.2 (very high testis bias).
Comment: maternally deposited
Comment: rapidly degraded
Comment: RNA-Seq, isolated IFM, 30 hours APF
Comment: RNA-Seq, isolated IFM, 72 hours APF
bru1 mRNA is highly expressed in developing IFMs at 30 and 72 hours APF and is maintained at lower levels in adult IFMs but is not in tubular leg or jump muscles.
aret expression at embryonic stages 1-4 is localized to the posterior pole of the embryo.
The 4.0kb aret transcript is expressed specifically in the testis.
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polyclonal
monoclonal
Cell-free assays indicate that aret represses osk translation by two different mechanisms. The first is by interacting with the cup protein that binds the eIF-4E protein, thus preventing recruitment of the small ribosomal subunit. The second is by inducing oligomerization of osk mRNA which is then sequestered in large RNP complexes that cannot be accessed by the 43S preinitiation complex.
Control of germ cell proliferation.
aret has a function in the cytoblast to cyst transition during early oogenesis.
aret protein regulates multiple mRNAs involved in gametogenesis and early embryogenesis.
One readily detectable protein with an apparent molecular weight of 80kD binds specifically to the nos mRNA 3' untranslated region (3'UTR), the protein is called aret. Binding assays demonstrate aret response elements (BRE) exist in the A, B and C region of osk 3' UTR. aret is required for preventing translation of osk mRNA prior to its localisation at the posterior pole of the oocyte.
Postmeiotic differentiation defect.
The aret locus affects early oogenesis.
Mutations cause the production of few, defective, germ cells. In weak alleles their may be small egg chambers that fail to develop.
Source for merge of: aret NEST:bs34h11
Source for merge of: aret NEST:bs01g04
Source for merge of: aret BcDNA:GM15173
Source for merge of aret NEST:bs01g04 was sequence comparison ( date:030903 ).
Source for merge of aret BcDNA:GM15173 was a shared cDNA ( date:030728 ).
Source for identity of: aret CG6319
Source for identity of: bru1 aret
Changed from 'aret/arrest' to 'bru1/bruno 1' to reflect the nomenclature used in first paper to characterize the gene (FBrf0082225), the preferred usage in the literature since, and the subsequent discovery of additional members of the bruno family (FBrf0129832).