Point mutation.
Khc4/Khc5 heteroallelic flies cultured at 22oC become paralysed at 39oC. The temperature threshold for this behavior is higher than that for mlenap-ts1 or parats1, and the timecourse of recovery is slower. For many minutes the flies remain sluggish. Shows no bang sensitivity.
Impairs action potential propagation in axons and neurotransmitter release at nerve terminals, but has no effect on the concentration of synaptic vesicles in nerve terminal cytoplasm, nor the number of axons in a nerve bundle. Post-synaptic response to spontaneous vesicle release is normal. The phenotype is more severe for the A6 segment than the A2 segment demonstrating a correlation between severity of phenotype and axon length.
Larval growth abnormalities and lack of mobility.
Khc5 is an enhancer of phenotype of mlenap-ts1