transcription factor - zinc finger - transcriptonal activator that regulates the segmentation of the head - along with Ems, serves as a major activator of string expression in mitotic domain 2
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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.
Gene model reviewed during 5.47
There is only one protein coding transcript and one polypeptide associated with this gene
644 (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: anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm primordium
Comment: reported as gnathal lobes anlage
Comment: reported as head epidermis primordium
Comment: reported as head epidermis primordium
Comment: reported as head epidermis primordium
btd mRNA is highly enriched in the lysate extracted from larval brains enriched with type II neuroblasts.
btd is expressed in the entire leg imaginal disc except in the most proximal ring of cells that will become the body wall. In the antennal disc it is expressed in a medial ring of cells along the rpoximal-distal axis. No expression is observed in the wing, haltere, or eye discs.
btd is first expressed in the embryo in an anterior head stripe that is roughly located in the area of the intercalary and mandibulary segment and later abuts the cephalic furrow. Later a segmentally repeated pattern emerges.
btd transcripts are expressed at roughly 67-75% egg length in the cellular blastoderm embryo. Beginning at gastrulation, btd expression becomes divided into two domains. One is in the anterior dorsomedial region and overlaps partially with the tll expression domain. The other is a set of stripes just anterior to the cephalic furrow. Expression in the protocerebral domain of the head is mostly gone by stage 9.
In blastoderm embryos, btd is expressed in the anlage of the antennal, intercalary, and mandibular segments. During cellularization a dorsal head spot appears in the proneural region anterior to the head stripe. Head spot expression continues and splits into several small spots during germ band retraction. These become integrated into the brain, marking different brain regions. During early germ band extension, btd is expressed in a metameric pattern. This pattern breaks up in fully germ band extended embryos, but btd expression continues in single neuroblasts which eventually become part of the ventral nerve cord. During germ band extension, btd expression is also observed in the lateral part of the embryo in the region of the proneural clusters. It is also expressed in the leg anlagen located in the thoracic segments and continues there until the end of embryogenesis.
btd transcript is first detected in embryonic cycle 12 as a stripe at 65-77% egg length. In late embryonic cycle 14, the stripe assumes a wedge shape which is narrower dorsally, and wider ventrally. Subsequently, an additional spot of btd expression appears more dorsally and anteriorly. In gastrulation, the cephalic furrow forms at the posterior edge of btd expression.
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For each fully sequenced cDNA the DGRC maintains various forms of the cDNA (e.g tagged or untagged) in several different host vectors for subsequent cloning and expression in Drosophila and Drosophila cell lines.
btd has a gap-gene-like role in mediating the development of head structures.
Mutations in zygotic gene btd do not interact with RpII140wimp.
A screen for X-linked genes that affect embryo morphology revealed btd.
btd mutants display incomplete head involution.