Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-235C Dear Richard, We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 41st (Pittsburgh) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am writing in connection with your abstract: 'dSAP18 is an E(Z) interacting protein.' You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, Sap18. Do you have a map location for Sap18? This is a data class we like to track, if possible. I am writing to you because the first author does not have an address in FlyBase - please feel free to pass my query on if there is someone better placed to answer it. Thank you for your help, with best wishes, Rachel. Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-235C Dear Rachel, dSAP18, which is 58% identical to human SAP18, is located ~43 kb distal to Sb/sbd within the 89B9-10 region. Human SAP18 was originally identified as a component of SIN3 complexes. It was also described in an abstract from Steve Hanes' lab at the 1999 Ann. Dros. Conf. (Zhu and Hanes, Program No. 070). However, they referred to the protein as Bin1 (Bicoid Interacting Protein \#1). Best regards, Rick \------------------------------------- Richard S. Jones Dept. of Biological Sciences Fondren Science Building Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275-0376 \-------------------------------------