A 1235 base pair fragment from the flanking non-coding or intronic region of DAT 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.
Drives expression in dopaminergic PAM neurons and larval dopaminergic pPAM neurons.
EcollexAGMR58E02 positive dopaminergic PAM neurons are in close proximity with ScerGAL4GMR66C08 expressing mushroom body medial lobe arborizing neuron 6 as shown by a positive GFP reconstitution across synaptic partners (GRASP) signal.
Some dopaminergic PAM neurons labelled by EcollexAGMR58E02 are also co-labelled by ScerGAL4ple.PF.