I have a copy of the draft Antp sequence paper and this lead to an
exchange of email between Susan Celniker and I involving TK
re his cc genes. On the basis of the attached we can rename
cc1 .. cc7 and merge cc8 and Edg84A.
\*a cc1
\>
\*a Ccp84Aa
\#
\*a cc2
>
\*a Ccp84Ab
\#
\*a cc3
\>
\*a Ccp84Ac
\#
\*a cc4
\>
\*a Ccp84Ad
\#
\*a cc5
\>
\*a Ccp84Ae
\#
\*a cc6
\>
\*a Ccp84Af
\#
\*a cc7
\>
\*a Ccp84Ag
\#
\*a cc8
\+
\*a Edg84a
\>
\*a Edg84a
\#
I see that while these are mentioned in Kaufman et al., 1990, Adv. Genet. 27: 309--362 the note in FlyBase says that were un-named. Therefore
I suggest that you do name these Ccp84A BUT NOT -1 to -7 but
a .. g, ie Ccp84Aa .. Ccp84Ag, which is the standard way.
Kaufman's paper describes 8 genes in this order:
In direction of increasing cytology: cc1+ cc2+ cc3- cc4+ cc5+ cc6? cc7- cc8+ pb- zen2?
where +/-/? means 5'-3', 3'-5' or unknown direction of transcription.
You should reference this paper. Why you have 7 genes and TK had
8 I do not know (polymorphism ?). Perhaps you should discuss this with TK.
>
Subject:
Re:
Dear Michael,
We will use your suggested name with a-g. Thanks Sue
>
Subject: Re: cc genes
Yes, they have the complete sequence and therefore have a much better
picture than our individual clones. Especially since there is so much
redundancy (sequence) among that set of transcripts.
\--tk
>Tom
>
>Kaufman et al., 1990, Adv. Genet. 27: 309--362 mention 8 cuticle
>protein genes in the Antp cluster. Celniker et al have found 7
>which they would like to call Ccp84a..Ccp84g. Susan (who I
>think will be sending you a preprint for comment) thinks
>that the 8th is Edg84A, which would make sense. Sound OK to you ?
>
>Michael
Thom Kaufman