UASt regulatory sequences drive expression of Gcn5 that has been mutated to contain the F304S amino acid replacement (this is equivalent to the F307S mutation in the human Hsap\KAT2B ortholog; F307S is a potentially damaging mutation found to be segregating with the disease phenotype in a family with intellectual disability, microcephaly, cardiomyopathy and steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome). The coding sequence is tagged at the C-terminal end with Tag:FLAG.
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F304S | Gcn5-PA
Analogous F307S mutation in human KAT2B implicated in intellectual disability, syndromic, with renal and cardiac dysfunction; mutation carried on in vitro construct; site of nucleotide substitution in fly gene inferred by FlyBase curator based on reported amino acid change.
The disease model involves expression of Gcn5F304S.UAS.Tag:FLAG in a Gcn5E333st/Y hemizygous background.
Gcn5E333st/Df(3L)sex204 transheterozygotes rescued to adulthood by the expression of Gcn5F304S.UAS.Tag:FLAG under the control of Scer\GAL4da.G32 are flightless and exhibit fully penetrant blistered wing and small, mildly rough eye phenotypes, and exhibit frequent leg morphology defects. They show cardiac defects: significant decreases in cardiac output, diastolic diameter and fractional shortening, and significant increases in heart period and arrhythmia index. They also show abnormally-shaped pericardial nephrocytes.
Gcn5F304S.UAS.Tag:FLAG/Scer\GAL4da.G32 partially rescues Df(3L)sex204/Gcn5E333st
Gcn5F304S.UAS.Tag:FLAG/Scer\GAL4αTub84B.PL partially rescues Df(3L)sex204/Gcn5E333st
Expressing Gcn5F304S.UAS.Tag:FLAG under the control of either Scer\GAL4da.G32 or Scer\GAL4αTub84B.PL partially rescues the full lethality of Gcn5E333st/Df(3L)sex204, giving rise to only a few adults that die a few days after eclosion (Scer\GAL4da.G32), or to nearly half of the expected adult progeny (Scer\GAL4αTub84B.PL).