Amino acid replacement: S589N.
Amino acid replacement: S589N. Nucleotide substitution: G?A.
Nucleotide substitution: G?A. Amino acid replacement: S589N. Mutation is in exon 5.
G2690196A
S589N | per-PA; S589N | per-PB
S589N
Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
pers mutant adults have their longest daytime sleep bout significantly earlier than controls.
The phase of the evening peak of locomotor activity is advanced compared to wild type under 12 hour light/12 hour dark conditions.
Mutant flies have locomotor activity rhythms with 19.7 hour periods (shorter than wild type) when the free running period is determined in constant darkness conditions at 25[o]C after 4 days of 12 hour light: 12 hour dark conditions.
Mutant flies have a shorter circadian locomotor activity period than control flies.
Under constant darkness conditions at 25[o]C, flies show rhythmic locomotor activity, but the period is shorter than the wild-type period length (19.2 +/- 0.1 hours compared to 24.0 +/- 0.1 hours respectively).
The evening peak of activity occurs earlier than normal in mutant flies under 12 hour light: 12 hour dark conditions.
Unlike wild-type males, pers homozygous males that have undergone courtship conditioning (kept in the presence of a female for 7 hours) do not spend significantly less time engaged in courtship behaviour when placed with a female 5 days after conditioning than non-conditioned males of the same genotype.
Mutant flies have a circadian locomotor activity period of 18.9 +/- 0.1 hours (compared to 23.6 +/- 0.1 hours for wild-type flies).
pers flies entrain normally at 28oC under an light-dark (LD) 10:10 regime.
For wild-type, approximately 80% of the flies tested appear strongly rhythmic in light-pulse experiments, compared to approximately 50% of the pers mutants. The most frequently observed period values (the plurality categories) are 24 to 24.5 h for wild-type and 18.5 to 19 h for pers.
The effect of light pulse is different in wild-type and pers. An average phase delay of 5.9 h (with reference to the free running periods) is observed in wild-type, whereas the opposite kind of behavioural shift - a phase advance of approximately 4 h - is detected for pers mutants ( a 3.1 h advance in real time). These values are significantly different for those of non-pulsed controls for both wild-type and pers mutant flies.
pers mutants show increased responsiveness to initial cocaine 75μg exposure, and weak sensitization (as compared to wild-type) to a second exposure when tested for behavioural responses. These flies do not show sensitization to other cocaine doses.
The period of the interpulse interval (IPI) of the male courtship song is 45.9 seconds (wild-type value is 67.9 seconds).
Mean courtship bout duration in pers males is not significantly different from that of wild-type males.
The period of locomotor activity under constant darkness conditions is 19.3 +/- 0.1 hours (shorter than wild-type flies).
At 25oC, homozygous flies show clear bimodal locomotor activity rhythms peaking around lights-on and before lights-off, with the activity being concentrated in the light phase, under 12 hour light:12 hour dark conditions. At 30oC, daytime activity tends to decrease and night time activity increases. These patterns of activity are similar to wild-type flies. Flies show clear freerunning locomotor activity rhythms under constant darkness. The freerunning period increases significantly with decreased temperature, in contrast to wild-type flies which show little change in freerunning period with increased temperature. Locomotor rhythms can be entrained to temperature cycles under constant lighting conditions, but the entrainability is reduced compared to wild-type flies.
Endogenous period is 19 hours instead of the wild type 24 hours. Flies are very light sensitive, could be the reason why flies can entrain well to 24 hour LD cycles.
Circadian period is 19 hours, timSL can lengthen the period by an hour.
Shorted circadian rhythms.
Free running periods of 19 hours.
Mutation has no effect on larval heartbeat.
Exposing flies reared in constant darkness (DD) to light as embryos or larvae has no effect on circadian rhythm. Exposing adults fully restores normal circadian rhythms.
Mutants have a shortened active phase (α). Phase response curves (PRCs) change from a low amplitude, Type 1 to a high amplitude, Type 0 with increased duration of the light pulse. Mutants have increase light 'sensitivity'. The shortening of circadian period is a consequence of changes in the time course of the oscillation in the late subjective day.
No larvae exhibit appreciable diel rhythms under cycling conditions of light or temperature. Larvae are also not rhythmic under free-running conditions.
Mutants display short circadian rhythm and males produce short song rhythms. This genetic coupling found in males does not extend to females, females have a preference for wild type courtship song over the mutant short song rhythm.
Short cycle duration, the evening peak of activity is shifted to an earlier time than wild type.
Evening activity peak is shifted to an earlier time in light-dark regimes.
Measures of acquisition at intermediate and maximum levels and of 30 min memory retention are normal. Mean Courtship Index (CI) for males exposed to fertilised females for 30 mins shows a significant decrease in response to virgin females, but does not differ significantly when flies are exposed to other fertilised females. After 30 mins exposure of an immature male to another immature male a significantly suppressed response to another immature male is observed.
Pupal and larval stages are less pronounced. Circadian rhythm runs 5 hours faster than wild type. In conditions of cycling light (12h light and 12h darkness) the pacemaker can be reset to exhibit 24h rhythmicity, but the 'evening peaks' of locomotor activity are in the daytime, not in the evening.
Spectral analysis of tone pulse production demonstrated that pers male courtship song is strongly rhythmic.
Flies can be entrained to a 24 hour cycle of light and dark (Konopka, Ph.D. Thesis, Pasadena). The effect on circadian behaviour is matched by the effect on the song cycle, a short 40 sec lovesong cycle (Kyriacou and Hall, Anim. Behav. 37: 850). Flies develop faster than wild type under a variety of environmental conditions when the circadian behaviour is arrhythmic (Kyriacou, Heredity, in press). Males do not show defective courtship conditioning (Jackson, J. Comp. Phys. A 151: 545). Transplantation of donor pers brains into per01 abdomens causes some per01 hosts to take on the donors locomotor activity characteristics (Handler, Nature 279: 236). A possible neurohumoral mediation of circadian rhythms may be involved in switching on pers rhythm in the host, certain neurosecretory cells in the brain are abnormal (Konopka, J. Neurobiol 11: 411).
The average period of locomotor activity rhythm increases slightly with decreasing temperature. The period increases by about 0.6 hours when pers flies are transferred to constant infrared light after 10 days of constant light. The light intensity threshold for maximum lengthening of the period and production of arrhythmia is decreased compared to wild-type.
Normal song pulses and hums.
Mutants show reduced activity of Tdc gene product.
circadian rhythms; short period Adults stain normally with anti-PER antibody (Siwicki, Eastman, Petersen, Rosbasch and Hall, 1988)
pers has abnormal circadian rhythm | adult stage phenotype, enhanceable by Df(2L)BSC278/PRL-1LL07771
pers has abnormal circadian rhythm | adult stage phenotype, non-enhanceable by PRL-1LL07771/PRL-1[+]
pers has abnormal circadian rhythm | adult stage phenotype, suppressible | partially by Df(2L)BSC278/PRL-1LL07771
pers has abnormal circadian rhythm phenotype, suppressible by timUL
pers has abnormal circadian rhythm | adult stage phenotype, non-suppressible by PRL-1LL07771/PRL-1[+]
pers is a suppressor | partially of abnormal locomotor rhythm phenotype of dcoEY02910
pers is a suppressor | partially of abnormal circadian rhythm phenotype of dcoj3B9/dcoar
pers is a suppressor of abnormal circadian rhythm phenotype of timUL
cryb, pers has abnormal locomotor rhythm phenotype
cryb, pers has abnormal circadian rhythm phenotype
cryb, pers has abnormal circadian rhythm | recessive phenotype
Presence of pers does not rescue arrhythmicity of dcoEY02910 flies but shortens the period of weakly rhythmic dcoEY02910 flies.
In light-dark (LD) conditions pers,cryb double mutant flies show a temperature dependant defect in locomotor activity cycles. At 18oC all flies show a periodic component of about 24 hours (as seen in wild-type) but about 60% of them also display a minor 19 hour component. At 28oC 79% of the rhythmic flies display the endogenous 19 hour period as the main rhythmic component. When pers,cryb double mutant flies are entrained under an light-dark (LD) 10:10 regime - the entrainment breaks down very rapidly during the first two cycles of the new light/dark regime, with their daytime activity advancing by about 90 minutes in each successive day.
Double mutant pers, cryb flies have complex behavior under LD conditions. The double mutant shows both entrained and free running behavioral components. The double mutants are active at different times essentially every day, so their average activity plot shows a monotonic decrease in behavior throughout the daytime, whereas singly mutant pers flies exhibit a pronounced midday peak of activity.
Konopka, Benzer.
Short cycle period.
per nuclear translocation in pacemaker neurons is unaltered compared to wild type.