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inv | Homeobox protein invected; Engrailed (en) and invected (inv) are functionally redundant transcription factors in neuronal precursor cell NB5-3 specification. Inv is unable to substitute for en in other regulatory processes such as maintaining gsb expression in the neuroectoderm after stage 10 of embryogenesis. Maintenance of gsb expression in row 5 of the neuroectoderm involves an as yet unidentified short range signaling molecule. (576 aa) | ||||
da | Daughterless (da) encodes a class I bHLH protein important for sex determination and dosage compensation by controlling the feminizing switch gene Sxl. It participates in transcriptional regulation of a wide variety processes, including oogenesis, neurogenesis, myogenesis and cell proliferation. (775 aa) | ||||
ac | Achaete-scute complex protein T5; Achaete (ac) encodes a BHLH transcription factor that interacts antagonistically with the Notch signaling pathway to promote neural precursor formation. Its major role is in nervous system development. (201 aa) | ||||
sc | Achaete-scute complex protein T4; AS-C proteins are involved in the determination of the neuronal precursors in the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system. Also involved in sex determination and dosage compensation. (345 aa) | ||||
l(1)sc | Achaete-scute complex protein T3; AS-C proteins are involved in the determination of the neuronal precursors in the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system. (257 aa) | ||||
ase | Achaete-scute complex protein T8; Asense (ase) encodes a transcription factor in the achaete-scute complex. It acts together with other proneural genes in nervous system development, which involves N-mediated lateral inhibition. ase is expressed in the CNS type-I neuroblasts and the PNS sensory organ precursors (SOPs) but not in the proneural clusters that give rise to the SOP via lateral inhibition. (486 aa) | ||||
vnd | Homeobox protein vnd; Ventral nervous system defective (vnd) encodes a Nk2-class homeodomain transcription factor that acts in a context-dependent manner as an activator or repressor. It has roles in neuroectoderm patterning, formation and specification of ventral neuroblasts and proper development of their cell lineages. (723 aa) | ||||
N | Processed neurogenic locus Notch protein; Essential signaling protein which has a major role in many developmental processes. Functions as a receptor for membrane-bound ligands Delta and Serrate to regulate cell-fate determination. Upon ligand activation, and releasing from the cell membrane, the Notch intracellular domain (NICD) forms a transcriptional activator complex with Su(H) (Suppressor of hairless) and activates genes of the E(spl) complex. Regulates oogenesis, the differentiation of the ectoderm and the development of the central and peripheral nervous system, eye, wing disk, [...] (2703 aa) | ||||
amx | TM2 domain-containing protein almondex; Involved in the control of cell fates in the neurectoderm. Acts as a positive regulator of Notch pathway and is required at different levels during development; Belongs to the TM2 family. (284 aa) | ||||
insc | Inscuteable (insc) encodes an adaptor protein required for asymmetric cell division. It interacts with the microtubule binding protein encoded by mud and the adaptor encoded by pins. It also binds to the apical complex proteins encoded by baz, par-6 and aPKC and may recruit microtubule binding proteins to the apical cell cortex to induce apical-basal spindle orientation. (859 aa) | ||||
spen | Protein split ends; Probable corepressor protein, which regulates different key pathways such as the EGF receptor and Wg pathways. Involved in neuronal cell fate, survival and axon guidance, cell cycle regulation and repression of head identity in the embryonic trunk. May act with the Hox gene Deformed and the EGF receptor signaling pathway. Positive regulator of the Wg pathway in larval tissues but not in embryonic tissues. May act as a transcriptional corepressor protein, which repress transcription via the recruitment of large complexes containing histone deacetylase proteins. (5560 aa) | ||||
hkb | Huckebein (hkb) is expressed in patches within the embryonic neuroectoderm and a subset of neuroblasts and their progeny, where it is required for proper neuronal specification and axon targeting. It is a terminal gap gene mediating the maternal terminal information at the posterior end of the blastoderm embryo. (297 aa) | ||||
kuz | Kuzbanian, isoform A; Kuzbanian (kuz) encodes an ADAM metalloendopeptidase that regulates activation of the receptors encoded by N and robo1 by cleavage. (1238 aa) | ||||
hb | Protein hunchback; Gap class segmentation protein that controls development of head structures; Belongs to the hunchback C2H2-type zinc-finger protein family. (758 aa) | ||||
neur | Neuralized (neur) encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase of the RING family. It is part of the Notch signaling pathway, where it is thought to contribute to the endocytosis-dependent activation of the ligand. It also has Notch-independent functions in epithelial morphogenesis. (754 aa) | ||||
abd-A | Homeobox protein abdominal-A; Sequence-specific transcription factor which is part of a developmental regulatory system that provides cells with specific positional identities on the anterior-posterior axis. Required for segmental identity of the second through eighth abdominal segments. Once a pattern of abd-A expression is turned on in a given parasegment, it remains on the more posterior parasegment, so that the complex pattern of expression is built up in the successive parasegments. Appears to repress expression of Ubx whenever they appear in the same cell, but abd-A is repressed [...] (590 aa) | ||||
Dl | Neurogenic locus protein delta; Acts as a ligand for Notch (N) receptor. Essential for proper differentiation of ectoderm. Dl is required for the correct separation of neural and epidermal cell lineages. Fringe (fng) acts in the Golgi to determine the type of O-linked fucose on the EGF modules in N, altering the ability of N to bind with Delta (Dl). O-fut1 also has a role in modulating the interaction. (833 aa) | ||||
mira | Miranda, isoform A; Miranda (mira) encodes a cytoplasmic and cortical scaffolding protein that binds the products of pros, stau and brat. It is asymmetrically localized to the basal cortex during neuroblast asymmetric cell division, resulting in its partioning into GMC daughter cells, where it is degraded and releases its cargo proteins. (829 aa) | ||||
Dr | Muscle segmentation homeobox; Drop (Dr) encodes a homeodomain transcription factor involved in patterning of the neuroectoderm and wing disc, specification of myoblasts and neuroblasts, proper development of muscle, neuronal and glial cells, male genital disc, and regulation of glucose metabolism; Belongs to the Msh homeobox family. (515 aa) | ||||
stau | Maternal effect protein staufen; RNA-binding protein which forms ribonucleoprotein complexes (RNPs) that play critical roles in the localization, translational repression and turnover of RNAs during embryogenesis, neurotransmission and neurogenesis. In the oocyte, essential for the localization of both the osk/oskar mRNA to the posterior pole and bcd/bicoid RNA to the anterior pole, and is therefore required for the correct anterior- posterior patterning of the developing embryo. Association with osk or bcd at their respective poles, appears to promote the formation and stabilization o [...] (1026 aa) | ||||
en | Segmentation polarity homeobox protein engrailed; Engrailed (en) encodes a homeodomain-containing transcription factor that is essential for posterior compartment identity and for compartment boundary formation and maintenance. It positively regulates the hh gene and negatively regulates the Hedgehog targets encoded by ci, ptc and dpp. (552 aa) | ||||
CycE | G1/S-specific cyclin-E; Essential for the control of the cell cycle at the G1/S (start) transition. Targeted by archipelago for degradation by the SFC ubiquitin ligase complex. (712 aa) | ||||
Kr | Protein krueppel; Krueppel is a gap class segmentation protein. It is involved in the segmentation of the embryo and in the differentiation of the Malpighian tubules; Belongs to the krueppel C2H2-type zinc-finger protein family. (502 aa) | ||||
ind | Intermediate neuroblasts defective (ind) encodes a transcription factor involved in the development of the central nervous system. (320 aa) | ||||
brat | Brain tumor protein; A NHL-domain family protein that functions a translational repressor to inhibit cell proliferation. Plays a central role in translation repression of hb mRNA by being recruited by nos and pum to the Nanos Response Element (NRE), a 16 bp sequence in the hb mRNA 3'-UTR. Probably recruited by other proteins to repress translation of other mRNAs in other tissues. Involved in the regulation of ribosomal RNA synthesis and cell growth. Participates in abdominal segmentation and imaginal disk development. During neuroblast division, segregates asymmetrically and inhibits s [...] (1061 aa) | ||||
mam | Neurogenic protein mastermind; Mastermind (mam) encodes a transcriptional coactivator that functions in the Notch signaling pathway. It regulates gene expression by interacting with the intracellular domain of the product of N, which is produced upon receptor activation. (1594 aa) | ||||
run | Segmentation protein Runt; Runt (run) encodes an alpha-subunit of the transcription factor complex core binding factor, which is involved in transcription regulation. It contributes to axon guidance, dendrite morphogenesis and germ-band extension. (510 aa) |