Subject: Curation of 36th Ann. Dros. Conf. abstract 123A
Dear Dr. Murphy,
I am a curator of FlyBase at the Cambridge, England, site working with
Prof. M. Ashburner.
I shall be curating the abstracts from the 36th Ann. Dros. Res. Conf.
Your abstract, 123A, discusses a new gene rho-like. In your abstract
you assign the symbol rol for this gene. Unfortunately this symbol has
already been used for the gene reduced optic lobes. Therefore you
shall have to decide upon a new symbol, please could you consult the
database before deciding upon another symbol.
In addition do you know the cytological or genetic location of the gene or
the function of the gene product?
As this is a new gene the information will be very useful to users of
FlyBase.
Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated and will be
curated as a personal communication.
I apologise for having to bring this to your attention.
Many thanks,
Eleanor Whitfield.
Subject: Re: Curation of 36th Ann. Dros. Conf. abstract 123A
Dear Dr. Whitfield,
actually subsequent to the receipt of abstracts and prior to the actual
meeting, we had realised that rol was already assigned and therefore had
consulted with other ras,rho,rac workers about assigning rhoL to our new
member of the rho family of small GTPases. RhoL(pronounced roll) is we
believe at 67A. Though this needs to be confirmed. The data is being
written up with regard to its mutant phenotypes and homology to other rho
family members.
Thank you for your attention,
Anne Marie Murphy