Expression of parkdsRNA.UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL results in decreased lifespan and severely impaired adult locomotion, Scer\GAL4GMR.PF-driven expression leads to reduced number of ommatidia in adult eyes and disrupted ommatidial lattice.
Whole-eye knockdown of park, through expression of parkdsRNA.Scer\UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4ey.PH leads to lipid droplet accumulation. Aconitase activity is reduced to less than 50% of wild-type in these mutants and there is a strong correlation between decreased aconitase enzymatic activity and the number of lipid droplets per ommatidium, suggesting reactive oxygen species may play a role in lipid droplet accumulation.
Expression of parkdsRNA.Scer\UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL does not significantly affect the number of dopaminergic neurons in the dorsomedial clusters of the brain in 30 day old flies.
Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL, parkRNAi.UAS has short lived phenotype, enhanceable by BuffyUAS.cQa, Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL
Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL, parkRNAi.UAS has abnormal locomotor behavior | adult stage phenotype, enhanceable by BuffyUAS.cQa, Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL
parkRNAi.UAS, Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL is an enhancer of abnormal neuroanatomy phenotype of Hsap\GPR37UAS.cYa, Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL
Scer\GAL4GMR.PF, parkRNAi.UAS has eye phenotype, suppressible by BuffyUAS.cQa, Scer\GAL4GMR.PF
Scer\GAL4GMR.PF, parkRNAi.UAS has ommatidium | adult stage phenotype, suppressible by BuffyUAS.cQa, Scer\GAL4GMR.PF
parkRNAi.UAS, Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL is an enhancer of dopaminergic neuron phenotype of Hsap\GPR37UAS.cYa, Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL
The reduced adult lifespan along with the impaired climbing ability characteristic for flies expressing parkdsRNA.UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL is significantly enhanced by co-expression of BuffyUAS.cQa. In contrast, the disrupted ommatidial lattice and loss of ommatidia of flies expressing parkdsRNA.UAS driven by Scer\GAL4GMR.PF is ameliorated by BuffyUAS.cQa.
Coexpression of parkdsRNA.Scer\UAS results in a dosage-dependent acceleration of the dopaminergic (DA) neuron degeneration that is seen in flies expressing Hsap\GPR37Scer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4Ddc.PL; flies co-expressing Hsap\GPR37Scer\UAS.cYa and two copies of parkdsRNA.Scer\UAS show the degeneration phenotype at 14 days of age, whereas flies expressing Hsap\GPR37Scer\UAS.cYa alone or Hsap\GPR37Scer\UAS.cYa and one copy of parkdsRNA.Scer\UAS have a relatively normal number of DA neurons in the dorsomedial clusters. The severity of the DA neuron degeneration phenotype is also enhanced.