Amino acid replacement: ?289term.
G20935818A
W289term | Npc1b-PA
?289term
G to A nucleotide change at the second or third position of the wild type Trp codon leads to a nonsense mutation (exact site of mutation unspecified). The mutation was annotated at the second base of the codon.
Npc1b1/Npc1bR9-28 animals die at the second instar larval stage and are able to survive for at least a week as second instar larvae.
The ratio of absorbed cholesterol:glucose is severely reduced in Npc1b1 first instar larvae relative to wild type.
Homozygous germline clones display rescuable maternal effect lethality. Embryos derived from heterozygous mothers exhibit head and dorsal closure defects.
Maternal germline clonal analysis demonstrates a maternal effect, twisted embryos with holes in the cuticle. This phenotype is rescuable by introduction of the wild-type copy of the gene from the father.
Npc1bR9-28 is rescued by Npc1b+t6.6
Npc1bR9-28 is rescued by Npc1bUASp.cVa/Scer\GAL4Npc1b.PV
Lifschytz.