A 3354 base pair fragment from the flanking non-coding or intronic region of pdfr is fused upstream of a Drosophila core synthetic promoter (DSCP) followed by sequence encoding a lexA::p65 driver. The driver sequence has been optimized for Drosophila codon usage. An Hsp70 transcriptional terminator is present.
EcollexAGMR18H11 drives expression in a subset of DN1 neurons in the adult dorsal brain; this subset partially overlaps the DN1 neurons labeled by ScerGAL4Clk.4.1M. These neurons coexpress ScerGAL4VGlut-MI04979-TG4.2.