Role of AWD/Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase in Drosophila Development |
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Authors: | Lisa Timmons Allen Shearn |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland, 21210;(2) Department of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218 |
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Abstract: | The abnormal wing discs gene of Drosophila encodes a soluble protein with nucleosidediphosphate kinase activity. This enzymic activity is necessary for the biological function ofthe abnormal wing discs gene product. Complete loss of function, i.e., null, mutations causelethality after the larval stage. Most larval organs in such null mutant larvae appear to benormal, but the imaginal discs are small and incapable of normal differentiation.Killer-of-prune is a neomorphic mutation in the abnormal wing discs gene. It causes dominant lethalityin larvae that lack prune gene activity. The Killer-of-prune mutant protein may have alteredsubstrate specificity. Null mutant larvae have a low level of nucleoside diphosphate kinaseactivity. This suggests that there may be additional Drosophila genes that encode proteinswith nucleoside dipthosphate kinase activity. Candidate genes have been found in theDrosophila genome. |
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Keywords: | abnormal wing discs lethal mutant Drosophila Killer-of-prune prune |
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