Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-60448 and 60450
Dear Takefumi and Yoshiko,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 48th
(Philadelphia) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstracts:
polycistronically-encoded small peptides regulate actin-based morphogenesis in 
Drosophila.
and
The role of a short peptide gene, polished rice, during imaginal development.
You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, pri.  Do you know which of the
CG annotations your gene corresponds to?  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.  The CG symbols become synonyms when an annotation is named
with a more descriptive or functional name.
Best regards,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-60448 and 60450
Dear Rachel,
Thank you for e-mail.
polished rice is annotated as a non-coding RNA gene and
corresponding to CR33327 in Flybase, which is based on a EST
clone LD11162.  Our results clearly showed that CR33327 indeed
polycistronic peptide gene (it is the first case in Drosophila) and
encode at least four tiny peptides.  These peptides are encoded in:
408 to 443 (length = 36)
521 to 556 (length = 36)
628 to 663 (length = 36)
753 to 851 (length = 99)
Each number is corresponding to that in the LD11162 sequence.
This gene was also briefly described as non-coding RNA by
Inagaki et al. <up>Genes. Cells, 2005, 10 (12), 1163-1173</up> and
Tupy et al. <up>Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2005, 102(15), 5495-5500</up>,
referred to as MRE29 and  npcr001:3R , respectively.  When you
describe polished rice, please register these synonyms to avoid
confusion.
We really appreciate your great efforts to keep Flybase in shape.
--
Yuji Kageyama, PhD
PREST Investigator
Japan Science and Technology Agent
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Biological Sciences
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
8916-5 Takayama
Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan