l(3)02102
zinc finger transcription factor - regulates neuropeptidergic cellular identity and FMRFamide expression
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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 5.54
There is only one protein coding transcript and one polypeptide associated with this gene
Interacts with nab; which acts as a coactivator. Interacts with ap.
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Comment: maternally deposited
Comment: subsets of neurons
sqz transcript is expressed in a subset of neurons in the embryonic and first instar larval central nervous system. Scer\GAL4sqz-GAL4-driven expression reveals that this subset is a population of lateral interneurons that primarily project axons in the anterior and posterior commisures of the ventral nerve cord.
sqz is expressed in the fifth born EL neuron.
GBrowse - Visual display of RNA-Seq signals
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3-65.4
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Source for identity of: sqz l(3)02102
Source for merge of: sqz anon-WO0118547.697
"l(3)02102" may correspond to "Scim34". Sequence analysis off ends of P{SUPor-P} in Scim insertion mutant places "Scim34" near/in "l(3)02102".
Source for merge of sqz anon-WO0118547.697 was sequence comparison ( date:051113 ).
dsRNA has been made from templates generated with primers directed against this gene. RNAi of sqz causes an increase in the number of class I da neurons. RNAi also causes defects in muscle, alterations in the number of MD neurons, defects in dendrite morphogenesis but no obvious defects in da dendrite development.
The autosomal "FLP-DFS" technique (using the P{ovoD1-18} P{FRT(whs)} P{hsFLP} chromosomes) has been used to identify the specific maternal effect phenotype for the zygotic lethal mutation. sqz is required for germ cell viability or early oogenesis.
Named "squeeze" because mutant larvae display a motility defect whereby the body wall musculature over-contracts radially during the peristaltic wave typical of larval motility, apparent as a "squeezing" of the intestine.
The gene is named "squeeze" due to a larval motility defect seen in mutants.