Decapo, p21, Cdi4, p27Dap, chakra
CIP/KIP family cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor - inhibits cell cycle progression - .binds to CycE-Cdk2 complexes - Upregulation of Dap is required after the last mitosis for arresting cells in G1/G0 before terminal differentiation in many post-mitotic cell types
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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 5.42
Low-frequency RNA-Seq exon junction(s) not annotated.
Gene model reviewed during 5.49
2.5 (northern blot)
There is only one protein coding transcript and one polypeptide associated with this gene
245 (aa)
245 (aa); 27 (kD predicted)
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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: anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: early stage 11
Comment: late stage 11
Comment: S-phase of embryonic cycle 16
Comment: S-phase of embryonic cycle 16
Comment: reported as dorsal/lateral sensory complexes
Comment: photoreceptor precursors immediately posterior to morphogenetic furrow only
dap transcript levels are at a constant low level in endocycling nurse cells.
Maternally derived dap transcripts are observed in early syncytial cycles then disappear rapidly in the syncytial blastoderm stage except in the pole cells. Zygotic expression begins during cellularization and persists during gastrulation around the amnioserosa. During germ band extension, expression is seen in the anterior and posterior midgut anlagen and in the developing CNS. In neuroblast lineages, dap expression appears to start just before the terminal division which generates neurons which exit from the mitotic cycle. In the epidermis, expression is at background levels and then expands greatly just before the onset of mitosis 16. Transcripts persist for about 2 hours after mitosis 16. dap transcripts are also observed in mesodermal cells that become postmitotic during these stages. After germ band retraction, expression is restricted mainly to the developing CNS and PNS. In summary, transient up-regulation of dap is tightly correlated with the arrest of cell proliferation in embryos. In larval eye imaginal discs, high levels of dap transcripts are observed in postmitotic cells of the differentiating ommatidial clusters posterior to the morphogenetic furrow.
dap transcripts are detected at the posterior pole of blastoderm embryos where the pole cells will form. At the onset of gastrulation, they are observed in the amnioserosa and in the cephalic and ventral furrows. After germ band elongation, they are expressed in dorsal and ventral cells of the epidermis. After germ band retraction, they are found in the CNS and PNS. After dorsal closure, dap is expressed in a small subset of cells in the ventral nerve cord and in the brain. In each of these cases, expression coincides with cell cycle arrest during development. Later in development, dap transcripts are detected in eye imaginal discs in the morphogenetic furrow and weakly posterior to the furrow.
Comment: S-phase of embryonic cycle 16
Comment: S-phase of embryonic cycle 16
Comment: photoreceptor precursors immediately posterior to morphogenetic furrow only
dap protein expression correlates with exit of cells from the cell cycle. It is first observed in early embryos in yolk nuclei and later in the pole cells. During gastrulation, dap protein is expressed at high levels in the amnioserosa and is also seen in a row of cells on either side of the ventral furrow. After the onset of germ band elongation, dap expression is observed in the epidermis, first dorsally and then in dorsolateral cells and the ventral epidermis. During germ band retraction dap protein is expressed in cells of the PNS and CNS. In all cases, the peak of dap expression occurs as cells are completing their final divisions. In most cases, expression is maintained briefly and then subsides.
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polyclonal
dap is necessary for the maintenance of the meiotic cycle and differentiation state of oocytes.
dsRNA made from templates generated with primers directed against this gene tested in RNAi screen for effects on Kc167 and S2R+ cell morphology.
dap expression is controlled by modular arrays of tissue specific cis-regulatory elements.
dap is required to arrest cell proliferation in the embryonic epidermis at the correct developmental stage.
Identified in a screen for genes that interact with R. dap is essential for normal embryonic development, it functions during embryogenesis to achieve a precisely timed exit from the cell cycle. Overexpression during eye development interferes with cell cycle progression and interacts genetically with Rbf and CycE. In absence of gross abnormalities in embryonic morphology or in cell fate determination the reason for lethality in dap embryos is unclear and may reflect additional functions of dap.
dap is essential in controlling S phase entry.
Source for merge of: dap chakra
"chakra" means "wheel" in Sanskrit.