Amino acid replacement: T300I.
The T300I amino acid replacement eliminates an XhoI restriction enzyme site.
In mt:CoIT300I ovaries mitochondrial membrane potential (tetramethylrhodamine staining) is significantly reduced while the morphology and size of the mitochondria appear normal at a restrictive temperature (29[o]C) when compared to controls.
Homoplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant flies survive to adult stages when raised at 25[o]C, but only live to two weeks. Their motility drops quickly with age; by the age of 10 days most mt:CoIT300I flies can hardly move. mt:CoIT300I mutant flies die within 5 days of being shifted to 29[o]C.
Generation of homoplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant tissue in a heteroplasmic background through expression of Xvas\XhoIScer\UAS.P\T.T:Mito-kdn,T:Hsap\MYC has no effect on eclosion rate at 29[o]C using any of the following drivers: Scer\GAL4ey.PH (eye discs), Scer\GAL4repo (glia), Scer\GAL4C805 (ring glands, larval guts and tubules), Scer\GAL4Cg.PA (hemocytes and fat body) or Scer\GAL471B (imaginal discs).
Generation of homoplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant tissue in the nervous system in heteroplasmic flies (through expression of Xvas\XhoIScer\UAS.P\T.T:Mito-kdn,T:Hsap\MYC under the control of Scer\GAL4insc-Mz1407) results in a 25% reduction in eclosion rate and dramatically reduced adult lifespan compared with controls.
Eyes containing homoplasmic mt:CoIT300I mitochondria (generated through expression of Xvas\XhoIScer\UAS.P\T.T:Mito-kdn,T:Hsap\MYC under the control of Scer\GAL4ey.PH in a heteroplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant background) exhibit photoreceptor degeneration This phenotype is not seen in the heteroplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant flies.
Homoplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant flies develop normally at 18[o]C, but fail to eclose from pupae at 29[o]C. When shifted to 29[o]C after eclosion at the permissive temperature, flies die within 5 days.
mt:CoIT300I mutant mitochondria show normal respiration at 18[o]C but a significant reduction in the respiratory control ratio is seen at 29[o]C.
Ovarian mtDNA replication (EdU incorporation) appears normal in mt:CoIT300I mutant flies raised at 18[o]C, as well as in the ovarian stem cells and post-germarial egg chambers at 29[o]C. Significantly reduced replication is seen in region 2b of mt:CoIT300I mutant germaria at 29[o]C.
Heteroplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant flies (generated through transplantation of wild type germplasm into homoplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant flies) that contain less than 10% wild type mtDNA are viable at 29[o]C. There is no significant increase in germarium cell death in these flies, and fecundity is normal.
The recruitment of mitochondria to the fusome that is seen in region 2b of wild type germaria does not take place in mt:CoIT300I mutant mitochondria.
Adult flies homoplasmic for mt:CoIT300I are viable and healthy at 25[o]C, but die after four days at 29[o]C.
TazKO2/TazKO1, mt:CoIT300I has lethal - all die before end of P-stage phenotype
TazKO1/TazKO3, mt:CoIT300I has lethal - all die before end of P-stage phenotype
Scer\GAL4Tub.PU, TazHMC03231, mt:CoIT300I has partially lethal - majority die phenotype
Scer\GAL4Tub.PU, TazJF01564, mt:CoIT300I has partially lethal - majority die phenotype
mt:CoIT300I, mt:ND2del1 has lethal | temperature conditional phenotype
Bsub\BglIIUASp.Tag:Mito(Cs1), Scer\GAL4nanos.PU, mt:CoIT300I, mt:ND2del1 has female semi-sterile | maternal effect | temperature conditional phenotype
Scer\GAL4ey.PH, mt:CoIT300I has eye photoreceptor cell phenotype, suppressible | partially by Letm1UAS.cCa, Scer\GAL4ey.PH
Pink1B9 or spoonmdi-1 females, or females expressing larp4D.UASp.GFP,Tag:Mito(Tom20) under the control of Scer\GAL4nos.PU lay eggs that lack the counterselection ability of mitochondrial temperature sensitive (mt-ts, mt:CoIT300I) genome in a heteroplasmic background containing both mt-ts and wild-type mitochondrial genomes at a restrictive temperature (29[o]C) different than controls.
Co-expression of Letm1Scer\UAS.cCa significantly suppresses the photoreceptor degeneration seen in homoplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant eyes (generated through expression of Xvas\XhoIScer\UAS.P\T.T:Mito-kdn,T:Hsap\MYC under the control of Scer\GAL4ey.PH in a heteroplasmic mt:CoIT300I mutant background). Many vacuoles are seen in both young and old photoreceptors.
mt:CoIT300I,mt:ND2del1 flies are temperature lethal.
Flies heteroplasmic for mt:CoIT300I and mt:ND2del1 are healthy at 29[o], even when the temperature-sensitive mt:CoIT300I mutant is in high abundance.
Ubiquitous expression of Zzzz\AOXScer\UAS.cCa under the control of Scer\GAL4Act5C.PI completely restores the viability of homoplastic mt:CoIT300I mutant flies at 29[o]C.
Heteroplasmic flies containing in addition to the wild-type mitochondrial (mt) genome also both mt:CoIT300I and mt:ND2del1 kept at 29[o]C (to select against the mutant genomes) and also expressing Bsub\BglIIScer\UAS.P\T.T:Mito-kdn under the control of Scer\GAL4nos.PU (to select against the wild-type mt genome) can produce viable female offspring: about 15% of the F1 females are both viable and fertile and produce progeny that show the repaired, wild-type sequence at the CoI gene while also harboring the mt:ND2 [del1] mutation.