Rca12 mutant animals fail to execute mitosis after the 16th cell cycle, and subsequently embryos have fewer cells compared to wild-type.
Rca12 mutant clones generated in the wing imaginal disc have a severe proliferation disadvantage, and are much reduced in size compared to wild-type clones. Mutant cells undergo endoreplication of the DNA, and have an increased nuclear size.
Rca12/Rca13 embryos exhibit a failure of cell division in the epidermis at mitotic cycle 16: No mitotic spindles are seen at the time when wild-type cells would normally undergo this division, and the DNA is decondensed, suggesting arrest in interphase. Rca12 homozygotes also exhibit cycle 16 cell cycle arrest. Somatic clones of Rca12 in the wing disc are smaller than their corresponding wild-type twinspots. The presence of twinspots in the absence of a corresponding Rca12 mutant clone suggests that mutant cells are sometimes eliminated from the disc.
Rca12 has abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype, enhanceable by CycAC8LR1/CycAC8LR1
Rca12 has abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype, suppressible by Df(1)bi-D3/Df(1)bi-D3
Rca12 has abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/CycEUAS.cLa
Rca12 has abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/CycAUAS.Tag:HA
Rca12 has decreased occurrence of cell division | embryonic stage phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/CycAUAS.Tag:HA
Rca12 has decreased occurrence of cell division | embryonic stage phenotype, suppressible by Df(1)bi-D3/Df(1)bi-D3
Rca12/Rca12 is an enhancer of abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype of CycAC8LR1
CycAScer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1; Scer\GAL4prd.RG1 suppresses the mitotic block due to Rca12/Rca12, in alternate segments. CycEScer\UAS.cLa; Scer\GAL4prd.RG1 suppresses the mitotic block due to Rca12/Rca12, in alternate segments. The embryonic cycle 16 mitotic block due to Rca12/Rca12 is suppressed by Df(1)bi-D3/Df(1)bi-D3. Cell cycle arrest in CycAC8LR1/CycAC8LR1; Rca12/Rca12 embryos, occurs earlier (cycle 15) than in either single mutant (both arrest at cycle 16).
One copy of Rca12 suppresses the increased mitotic index seen in pupal wing clones expressing Hsp83NIG.1242R under the control of Scer\GAL4Scer\FRT.Rnor\CD2.Act5C (co-expressed with Dcr-2Scer\UAS.cDa and BacA\p35Scer\UAS.cHa).
Rca12 is rescued by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/Rca1UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG
Rca12 is rescued by Scer\GAL4Tub.PU/Rca1UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG
Rca12 is rescued by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/Rca1Δ203.UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG
Rca12 is rescued by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/Rca1Δ133.UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG
Rca12 is rescued by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/Rca1ΔF-box.UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG
Rca12 is partially rescued by Rca1Δ203.UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG/Scer\GAL4Tub.PU
Rca12 is partially rescued by Rca1ΔF-box.UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG/Scer\GAL4Tub.PU
Rca13/Rca12 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/Rca1UAS.Tag:HA
Rca12 is not rescued by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/Rca1Δ255.UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG
Rca12 is not rescued by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/Rca1C351S.UAS.Tag:HA.Tag:FLAG
Expression of Rca1Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG, Rca1Δ133.Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG, Rca1Δ203.Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG or Rca1ΔF-box.Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG under the control of Scer\GAL4prd.RG1 in a Rca12 mutant background restores embryonic cell numbers to wild-type levels in Scer\GAL4prd.RG1-expressing segments.
Expression of Rca1Δ255.Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG or Rca1C351S.Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG under the control of Scer\GAL4prd.RG1 in a Rca12 mutant background fails to restore embryonic cell numbers to wild-type levels in Scer\GAL4prd.RG1-expressing segments.
Expression of Rca1Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG under the control of Scer\GAL4tub in Rca12 mutant wing disc clones suppresses the proliferation disadvantage observed in Rca12 mutant tissue, and clones are similar in size to wild-type. No endoreplication is observed in these cells and nuclear size is comparable to wild-type cells.
Expression of Rca1Δ203.Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG or Rca1ΔF-box.Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.T:Zzzz\FLAG under the control of Scer\GAL4tub in Rca12 mutant wing disc clones partially suppresses the proliferation disadvantage observed in Rca12 mutant tissue. Clones are increased in size compared to Rca12 mutant clones, but are only a third of the size of wild-type clones. Rarely, endoreplication is observed in mutant clones.
(with Rca13) Partially rescues: { Rca1<up>Scer\UAS. T:Ivir \HA1</up>, Scer\GAL4prd.RG1 } In Rca12/Rca13; Rca1Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1/Scer\GAL4prd.RG1 embryos, mitosis 16 is rescued in alternating segments resulting in almost twice as many cells in mutant segments as in rescued ones.