Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-1008C
Dear Dr. Ray,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 43rd
(San Diego) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
'Investigating the role of KAP (Kinesin Associated Protein) in Drosophila'.
You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, Kap. Do you know which of
the Genome Project CG annotations your gene corresponds to? Is it
CG11759 by any chance? All the CGs have corresponding gene records in
FlyBase already and we don't like to make duplicate records for what is
actually the same gene unless we can't avoid it. If your gene does not
correspond to a CG then perhaps you could tell me its map location, as
this is valuable information for the genome annotation project.
Thank you very much for your help.
Best wishes,
Rachel.
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Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D.
FlyBase (Cambridge),
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Subject: RE: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-1008C
Dear Rachel,
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The BDGP gene annotation no. CG11759, predicted ORF CT4241, Flybase acc. no.
Fban 0011759, we found that it is homologous to the SpKAP115 of sea urchin,
KAP3A and KAP3B of mouse. We have also identified EMS and P-insertion lethal
mutations in the gene which maps close to the sisA locus. We labelled the
gene DmKAP and a manuscript describing the mRNA expression pattern has ben
submitted for publication recently.
sincerely,
krishanu.