Subject: ADRC-707A
Dear Kathleen,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming Bellevue
(Seattle) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am
writing in connection with your abstract:
'Mlp84B and D-PINCH are two LIM-domain proteins implicated in muscle
cytoskeleton stability'
You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, dpin. We do not prefix gene
symbols with d for drosophila, leaving pin, but pin is preoccupied
(pin: pinto). How about pinch? It is short enough to be used as a
symbol.
Do you have a map location for 'dpin'? It is nice if we can keep as many
gene records as possible anchored to the map.
Thank you for your help,
with best wishes,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: ADRC-707A
Dear Rachel,
The drosophila pinch gene is part of a gene family. Although there is no
evidence now, there is likely to be one or two additional drosophila
family members. So, if I could, I would like to use pin85A as the gene
symbol for this gene. The sequence and some RNA localization studies are
know published for this gene, and in the paper it was referred to as dpin
and d-pinch.I think these should be referred to as alternate names in the
final flybase description. The map location for the gene is 85A1-3, as
determined by chromosome in situ hybridization. Right now this is
unpublished, but I am planning to present the cytological location of the
gene at the fly meeting, so feel free to include this information.
Sincerely,
Kathleen