Imprecise excision has created this mutation. Exons 2 to 8 and part of exon 9 have been deleted.
ommatidium & microvillus | somatic clone
wing (with SlikKG04837)
wing & epithelial cell
wing & epithelial cell | ectopic
wing | somatic clone (with SlikKG04837)
Slik1 embryos show muscle detachment at stage 17, but not at stage 16. Stage 17 Slik1/Df(2R)BSC603 embryos show a similar muscle detachment phenotype.
In pupal Slik1 homozygous mosaic retinas, ommatidia composed of only mutant photoreceptors exhibit C-shaped peripheral photoreceptor rhabdomeres; in adult homozygous photoreceptors, the stalk-rhabdomere segregation is disrupted, catacomb-like membrane architecture is absent and rhabdomeric microvilli do not unite to form a single round structure, instead spread to the entire apical membrane, compared to controls.
Nearly half of mutant animals survive to pupation but die shortly after. In mutant wings, the columnar epithelium is abnormally thin. Many cells lose their capacity to remain intergrated in the epithelium and are extruded basally to form a disorganised mass. Many of these cells undergo apoptosis, though clusters of these cells survive. When homozygous mutant clones are made in the eye, defects are seen in rhabdomere differentiation. Many mutant ommatidia have patches of apical membrane devoid of microvilli. However mutant photoreceptors are present in the eyes of 18-day old adult flies.
slik1 animals rescued with slikScer\UAS.cHa driven by Scer\GAL4arm.PS develop to adulthood of reduced body size, with mildly rough eyes, but of otherwise normal appearance. Mutant larvae show a decrease in endoreplication. slik1/slikKG04837 animals are viable, 90% of expected flies survive. Homozygous mutant clones generated in the wing imaginal disc between about 48 hours cover on average only 44% of the area of the corresponding wild-type twin clones. This is caused by a defect in cell survival. When mutant clones are made in a Minute background at about 60h (+-12h), the wings in the adult are curved upward of downward to varying degrees, suggesting that there are differences in the sizes of the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the wing blade. In more severe cases, the wings are small and contain vesicles of blackened tissue. However mutant cells that remain in the epithelium differentiate into morphologically normal wing blade cells, margin, and wing veins. Mutant cells are the same size as wild-type cells.
SlikKG04837/Slik1 has partially lethal - majority die phenotype, enhanceable by Raf7
SlikKG04837/Slik1 has increased cell death phenotype, enhanceable by Raf7
Slik1 has increased cell death | larval stage | somatic clone phenotype, enhanceable by Raf[+]/Raf7
Slik1 has increased mortality during development phenotype, suppressible by rheaT152E.UAS.Tag:FLAG/Scer\GAL4Mef2.PU
Slik1 has lethal | recessive | pupal stage phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4arm.PS/MoeTD.UAS.EGFP
Slik1 has increased cell death | somatic clone phenotype, suppressible by RafUAS.F179/Scer\GAL4αTub84B.PL
Slik1 has increased cell death | somatic clone phenotype, suppressible by hepr75
Slik1 has abnormal developmental rate phenotype, non-suppressible by Scer\GAL4arm.PS/MoeTD.UAS.EGFP
Slik1 has increased cell death | somatic clone phenotype, non-suppressible by rlSem.cUa.UAS/Scer\GAL4αTub84B.PL
SlikKG04837/Slik1 has wing phenotype, enhanceable by Raf7
Slik1 has wing & epithelial cell | ectopic phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4arm.PS/MoeTD.UAS.EGFP
Slik1 has wing & epithelial cell phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4arm.PS/MoeTD.UAS.EGFP
slik[+]/Slik1 is an enhancer of wing phenotype of Mer1-600.UAS.Tag:MYC, Scer\GAL4ap-md544
Reduction of slik in a slik1/+ background reduces wing size by a mean of 18% in flies expressing Mer1-600.Scer\UAS.T:Hsap\MYC (under the control of Scer\GAL4ap-md544) compared to wild-type flies (and compared to a 15% reduction in
9% of slik1 mutants expressing MoeTD.Scer\UAS.T:Avic\GFP-EGFP driven by Scer\GAL4arm.PS, reach pharate adult stages, compared top none in slik1 alone. Imaginal discs from these animals show improvement in overall structure and organisation, basal extrusion of cells is reduced and in some cases nearly eliminated.
When heterozygous phl7 is added to slik1/slikKG04837 animals about 40% of animals survive(as opposed to 90%) and the penetrance of the wing phenotype is increased from 11% to almost 100%. The number of apoptotic cells seen also increases.
Slik1 is partially rescued by SlikUAS.cUa/Scer\GAL4Mef2.PU
Slik1 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4arm.PS/SlikUAS.cHa