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Nost | Nostrin, isoform H; Nostrin (Nost) encodes a lipid binding protein involved in epithelial cell differentiation, plasma membrane tubulation and adherens junction organization. (1330 aa) | ||||
sqh | Spaghetti squash (sqh) encodes the regulatory light chain of the nonmuscle type 2 myosin. Its phosphorylation through the Rho-Rho Kinase pathway is predicted to activate myosin motor activity. The product of sqh and myosin function in cellular processes such as cytokinesis, and also contribute to tissue morphogenesis. (174 aa) | ||||
mwh | Multiple wing hairs (mwh) encodes the most downstream member of the fz/stan planar cell polarity pathway. It binds to the sides of F-actin polymers, inhibits actin polymerization and bundles F-actin. It accumulates on the proximal side of wing cells prior to hair initiation and then in the growing hair. (1069 aa) | ||||
tio | Protein tiptop; Tiptop (tio) and teashirt (tsh) have, on the whole, common activities. Tio and tsh repress each other's expression and tsh has a crucial role for trunk patterning that is in part masked by ectopic expression of tiptop. Both genes share a common activity required for the activation of Ser and svb and the maintenance of en and wg. Belongs to the teashirt C2H2-type zinc-finger protein family. (1024 aa) | ||||
daw | Dawdle, isoform A; Dawdle (daw) encodes an Activin- like ligand of the TGF beta superfamily that is required for proper tricarboxylic acid cycle function in the fat body and also regulates insulin release from IPC neurons. (586 aa) | ||||
tow | Target of wingless (tow) overexpression and genetic interaction studies suggest that it acts downstream of the products of fz/dsh (Planar Cell Polarity pathway) and upstream of the product of smo (Hedgehog pathway) during development. (451 aa) | ||||
lbl | Ladybird late (lbl) encodes a transcription factor involved in muscle and heart development. It also plays a role in regulating the embryonic expression of wg. (410 aa) | ||||
trc | Serine/threonine-protein kinase tricorner; Has an important role, with fry, in controlling cell structure and proliferation of a variety of polarized outgrowths including epidermal hairs, bristles, arista laterals, and dendrites. Affects cellular morphogenesis by regulating the expression of target genes that encode cytoskeleton-interacting proteins and not via the direct modification of the cytoskeleton. Maintains the integrity of epidermal hairs and is an essential component of the signaling pathway regulating dendritic branching of sensory neurons. Belongs to the protein kinase supe [...] (463 aa) | ||||
Rac1 | Ras-related protein Rac1; During various developmental processes, regulates changes in cell morphology in response to extracellular signals. During oogenesis, mediates signaling from the tyrosine kinase (RTK) chemoattractant receptors (Egfr and Pvr) to the guidance pathway that control the directional persistent collective migration of the border cell (BC) cluster through the nurse cells to the oocyte. Once activating by Pvr and Egfr, promotes the formation of forward-directed actin protrusions which stabilize the DE- cadherin (shg)-mediated adhesions. In turn, DE-mediated adhesion bet [...] (192 aa) | ||||
Vang | Vang-like protein; Van Gogh (Vang) encodes a four-pass transmembrane protein that localizes to cell junctions. It is part of the Frizzled-dependent planar polarity pathway that establishes planar polarity in epithelia. It is also implicated in nervous system patterning. (608 aa) | ||||
stan | Protocadherin-like wing polarity protein stan; Involved in the fz signaling pathway that controls wing tissue polarity. Also mediates homophilic cell adhesion. May play a role in initiating prehair morphogenesis. May play a critical role in tissue polarity and in formation of normal dendrite fields. During planar cell polarity, stabilizes asymmetric PCP domains together with ATP6AP2. (3648 aa) | ||||
par-1 | Par-1 (par-1) encodes a protein kinase involved in multiple processes, including microtubule cytoskeleton organization, axis specification and cell polarity. It regulates hippo signaling and osk mRNA localization. (1170 aa) | ||||
fz | Frizzled; Receptor for Wnt proteins. Most of frizzled receptors are coupled to the beta-catenin canonical signaling pathway, which leads to the activation of disheveled proteins, inhibition of GSK-3 kinase, nuclear accumulation of beta-catenin and activation of Wnt target genes. A second signaling pathway involving PKC and calcium fluxes has been seen for some family members, but it is not yet clear if it represents a distinct pathway or if it can be integrated in the canonical pathway, as PKC seems to be required for Wnt-mediated inactivation of GSK-3 kinase. Both pathways seem to inv [...] (612 aa) | ||||
Cdc42 | Cdc42 (Cdc42) encodes a GTPase signaling protein that acts as a molecular switch and functions as key regulator of the actin cytoskeleton. It plays a central role in diverse biological processes including actin cytoskeleton organization, mophogenesis, hemocyte migration, cell polarity, and wound repair. (191 aa) | ||||
scrib | Protein lap4; Scribble (scrib) encodes a scaffolding protein that is part of the conserved machinery regulating apicobasal polarity. It acts with the products of dlg1 and l(2)gl to distinguish the basolateral domain of epithelial cells and neuroblasts, via reciprocally antagonistic interactions with the aPKC/par-6 complex that impacts vesicle trafficking. The product of scrib also organizes synaptic architecture and is implicated in learning and memory. (2585 aa) | ||||
Mbs | Myosin binding subunit (Mbs) encodes a regulatory subunit of myosin phosphatase. It interacts with the catalytic subunit of the myosin phosphatase encoded by flw. It is involved in cell movement in various biological processes and in the arrest of constriction of contractile rings and ring canals during oogenesis. (1273 aa) | ||||
l(2)gl | Lethal(2) giant larvae protein; Essential for the development of polarized epithelia, for cell polarity associated with asymmetric cell division of neuroblasts during development, and for oocyte polarity formation. Promotes the formation of actin-rich projections at the oocyte cortex and the posterior enrichment of par-1 which is required for oocyte polarization. Regulates the localization of axis-specifying morphogens such as stau and grk. [Isoform p127]: Has an accessory function in control of cell proliferation and differentiation during development. (1161 aa) | ||||
fry | Protein furry; Trc/fry signaling pathway plays a key role in maintaining the integrity of polarized cell extensions (arista) during morphogenesis, regulates the actin cytoskeleton and plays a key role in patterning sensory neuron dendritic fields by promoting avoidance between homologous dendrites as well as by limiting dendritic branching. Fry positively regulates trc kinase activity. (3544 aa) | ||||
qua | Villin-like protein quail; Required for the formation of cytoplasmic actin filament bundles in nurse cells, possibly by regulating both the polymerization and organization of actin filaments. Mutations in quail result in female sterility due to the disruption of cytoplasmic transport from the nurse cells into the oocyte late in oogenesis. (892 aa) | ||||
f | Forked, isoform F; Forked (f) encodes a protein involved in assembly of actin filament bundles. (1918 aa) | ||||
Rap1 | Ras-related protein Rap1; Rap1 GTPase (Rap1) encodes a small GTPase in the Ras superfamily. When GTP bound, it binds to a number of different effectors, one of which is the product of scno. Together they regulate many morphogenetic movements including mesoderm invagination and dorsal closure, help establish apical-basal polarity during cellularization, regulate macrophage migration, help define neuroblast asymmetric division, and play a role in planar cell polarity in the imaginal discs. (184 aa) | ||||
EcR | Ecdysone receptor (EcR) encodes a protein that interacts with the product of usp to form the nuclear ecdysone receptor heterodimer, which modulates, in conjunction with co-activators and co-repressors, the activities of hundreds of genes in a tissue- and stage-specific way. EcR is widely expressed in embryonic and larval tissues and in some adult tissues where its activities (modulated by the hormone ecdysone) trigger both molting and metamorphosis. (878 aa) | ||||
ovo | Transcriptional activator shavenbaby; Transcriptional regulator with essential functions in the germline and soma. Plays an essential role in regulating the formation of apical cell extensions such as denticles and aristae, and initiating cytoskeletal remodeling during epidermal differentiation. [Transcriptional activator shavenbaby]: Transcriptional activator which initiates trichome development and also promotes tarsal joint development. Has an essential somatic role regulating the tal-dependent formation of trichomes, and initiating cytoskeletal remodeling during epidermal different [...] (1351 aa) | ||||
app | Approximated (app) encodes a palmitoyltransferase involved in planar cell polarity. It regulates Fat signaling and the localization and activity of the product of d; Belongs to the DHHC palmitoyltransferase family. ERF2/ZDHHC9 subfamily. (755 aa) | ||||
sha | Shavenoid, isoform B; Shavenoid (sha) encodes a novel protein that appears to promote trichome (hair) formation. sha mutations interact synergistically with mutations in fz/stan pathway genes. (1633 aa) | ||||
Cip4 | Cdc42-interacting protein 4 (Cip4) encodes an F-BAR protein that functions as an adaptor protein regulating membrane curvature and dynamics. (665 aa) | ||||
hh | Protein hedgehog C-product; Intercellular signal essential for a variety of patterning events during development. Establishes the anterior-posterior axis of the embryonic segments and patterns the larval imaginal disks. Binds to the patched (ptc) receptor, which functions in association with smoothened (smo), to activate the transcription of target genes wingless (wg), decapentaplegic (dpp) and ptc. In the absence of hh, ptc represses the constitutive signaling activity of smo through fused (fu). Essential component of a signaling pathway which regulates the Duox-dependent gut immune r [...] (471 aa) | ||||
Galphao | G protein alpha o subunit (Galphao) encodes the most abundant G protein in the nervous tissue and is involved in signaling by a variety of GPCRs. It contributes to heart development, axonogenesis, neuro-muscular junction formation, asymmetric cell division, planar cell polarity, blood-brain barrier establishment, Wnt signaling, and gustatory and olfactory sensory perception; Belongs to the G-alpha family. G(i/o/t/z) subfamily. (354 aa) | ||||
pk | Protein prickle; Acts in a planar cell polarity (PCP) complex; polarization along the apical/basal axis of epithelial cells. Correct expression of the alternative isoforms is required for PCP signaling in imaginal disks. PCP signaling in the wing disk requires the receptor fz and the cytoplasmic proteins dsh and pk. These act in a feedback loop leading to activation of the jnk cascade and subsequent polarized arrangement of hairs and bristles. Dgo and pk compete with one another for dsh binding, thereby modulating fz dsh activity and ensuring tight control over fz PCP signaling. Vang, [...] (1299 aa) | ||||
lin | Protein lines; Has a dual role as a segment polarity protein and as a modulator of the Abd-B protein. Required for Abd-B to activate the transcription of genes (including ems, cut and sal) that are involved in posterior spiracle morphogenesis. Also required for Abd-B to form an eighth abdominal denticle belt. Acts in a hierarchy downstream of drm and upstream of bowl during foregut and hindgut patterning and morphogenesis. Involved in cell rearrangement during elongation of the embryonic hindgut. Required to regulate expression of embryonic hindgut patterning genes in order to establis [...] (858 aa) | ||||
dgo | Diego, isoform A; Diego (dgo) encodes an ankyrin-repeat protein involved in planar cell polarity. (927 aa) | ||||
Rho1 | Ras-like GTP-binding protein Rho1; Has a role in regulating actin cytoskeletal organization: required during early development for proper execution of morphogenetic movements of individual cells and groups of cells important for the formation of the embryonic body plan. Plays a role in regulating dorsal closure during embryogenesis. During axis elongation, required for Rho-kinase Rok planar polarity and adherens junction localization as well as for generating a planar polarized distribution of the actin-binding protein Shrm. During embryogenesis, acts upstream of wash to regulate the d [...] (192 aa) | ||||
fj | Extracellular serine/threonine protein kinase four-jointed; Golgi serine/threonine protein kinase required for intermediate growth in the proximal-distal axis. Phosphorylates specific residues within extracellular cadherin domains of Fat (ft) and Dachsous (ds) as they transit through the Golgi. Acts in ommatidial polarity determination as a secondary signal downstream of Notch, JAK/STAT and wingless. Also necessary for the initiation, up- regulation or maintenance of Notch ligand, Serrate (Ser) expression in legs, thereby participating in a feedback loop with N signaling. Sufficient fo [...] (583 aa) | ||||
cora | Protein 4.1 homolog; An integral component of the septate junction. May play a role in cell-cell interactions that are necessary for proper development. Vital for embryonic development. (1698 aa) | ||||
tsh | Protein teashirt; Homeotic protein that acts downstream of Arm in the Wg cascade during embryogenesis to determine segment identity throughout the entire trunk. Acts cooperatively with other trunk homeotic proteins to repress head homeotic genes and therefore repress head segmental identity. Necessary, in combination with Scr, for the formation of the prothoracic segment. Promotes eye development in the dorsal region of the eye disk and suppresses eye development in the ventral region in combination with Wg-signaling and several early dorso-ventral eye patterning genes. Required for pr [...] (954 aa) | ||||
WASp | WASp, isoform A; WASp (WASp) encodes the homolog of the conserved Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome family of nucleation promoting factors. It enables the Arp2/3 complex to nucleate polymerization of branched microfilament arrays. It contributes to gastrulation, myoblast fusion, synapse morphology at neuromuscular junctions, sensory organ development, and spermatogenesis. (527 aa) | ||||
Mtl | Mig-2-like (Mtl) encodes a Rho GTPase involved in actin organization regulation. It contributes to multiple actin-mediated processes including dorsal closure, wound healing, cell migration, germ band shortening and salivary gland morphogenesis. (195 aa) | ||||
lbe | Ladybird early (lbe) encodes a transcription factor involved in muscle and heart development. It also plays a role in regulating the embryonic expression of wg. (479 aa) | ||||
ATP6AP2 | ATPase H(+)-transporting accessory protein 2 C-terminal fragment; Multifunctional protein which functions as transmembrane receptor in the planar cell polarity (PCP) and is involved in the assembly of the proton-transporting vacuolar (V)-ATPase protein pump. As transmembrane receptor mediates fz/PCP signaling through interaction with fz and stabilizes asymmetric PCP domains through its interaction with stan. Also mediates Wnt/beta-cat signaling through interaction with fz/fz2. Probably by controlling the assembly of the V-ATPase pump and thus the acidification of the endo-lysosomal sys [...] (320 aa) | ||||
puc | Puckered, isoform A; Puckered (puc) encodes a serine/threonine protein phosphatase that mediates a feedback loop that regulates the Jun-N-terminal kinase pathway. (476 aa) | ||||
CG13123 | RH12261p; Zinc ion binding; DNA-binding transcription activator activity, RNA polymerase II-specific; sequence-specific DNA binding; DNA-binding transcription repressor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific. It is involved in the biological process described with: epidermal cell differentiation; negative regulation of transcription, DNA-templated. (323 aa) | ||||
Rbsn-5 | Rabenosyn-5 (Rbsn-5) encodes a Rab5-binding effector that controls entry of endocytosed cargo into the early endosome. (505 aa) | ||||
wg | Protein wingless; Binds as a ligand to a family of frizzled seven-transmembrane receptors and acts through a cascade of genes on the nucleus. Segment polarity protein. May be a growth factor. Acts on neighboring cells to regulate at least one gene, the homeobox segmentation gene engrailed. Wg signal represses arm phosphorylation. Wg signaling operates by inactivating the sgg repression of engrailed autoactivation. Wg and Wnt2 have a role in the developing trachea and together are responsible for all dorsal trunk formation. Wg also acts in the developing epidermis. Acts as a morphogen, [...] (468 aa) | ||||
in | Inturned (in) encodes a cytoplasmic protein that functions as a downstream member of the fz-stan planar cell polarity pathway, which controls hair and bristle polarity in the adult. In directly binds with the products of fy, frtz and mwh and accumulates on the proximal side of wing cells. (869 aa) | ||||
ck | Myosin-VIIa; Myosins are actin-based motor molecules with ATPase activity. Unconventional myosins serve in intracellular movements: can function in cells as a single-molecule cargo transporter. A very slow and high-duty-ratio motor, may be suitable for tension maintenance of actin filaments. Their highly divergent tails are presumed to bind to membranous compartments, which would be moved relative to actin filaments. Plays a key role in the formation of cellular projections and other actin-based functions required for embryonic and larval viability. Necessary for auditory transduction: [...] (2167 aa) | ||||
Gli | Gliotactin, isoform A; Gliotactin (Gli) encodes a transmembrane protein localized at tricellular junctions that is necessary for septate junction and permeability barrier formation. (956 aa) | ||||
vri | Vrille, isoform A; Vrille (vri) encodes a bZIP transcription factor acting as an enhancer of dpp phenotypes both in embryo and in wing. It is involved in hair and cell growth and in tracheal development. Vri is a clock-controlled gene acting as a repressor of the products of Clk and cry. (729 aa) | ||||
cno | Canoe, isoform E; Canoe (cno) encodes a scaffold protein in adherens junctions that is involved in morphogenesis in a variety of tissues. (2051 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) | ||||
ds | Protein dachsous; Required for normal morphogenesis of adult structures derived from imaginal disks. Plays a role in planar cell polarity and in determining body left-right asymmetry. Expression in segment H1 of the imaginal ring and interaction with Myo31DF are required to induce changes of cell shape and orientation in segment H2, which then gives rise to normal, dextral looping of the adult hindgut. (3556 aa) | ||||
frtz | Fritz (frtz) encodes a cytoplasmic protein that functions as a planar polarity effector as a downstream member of the fz-stan planar cell polarity pathway that controls hair and bristle polarity. frtz protein directly binds to the product of in and accumulates on the proximal side of wing cells. (951 aa) | ||||
ft | Cadherin-related tumor suppressor; Involved in regulation of planar cell polarity in the compound eye where it is required for correct specification of the R3 and R4 photoreceptor cells by regulating Fz activity in the R3/R4 precursor cells. This is likely to occur through creation of an ft gradient so that the equatorial R3/R4 precursor cell has a higher level of ft function than its polar neighbor. Also required for planar cell polarity of wing hairs. Mediates heterophilic cell adhesion in vitro and is required to stabilize ds on the cell surface. Involved in regulation of eye imagin [...] (5147 aa) | ||||
cmb | Combover, isoform A; Combover (cmb) encodes an in vitro substrate of the product of Rho1 that physically interacts with the planar cell polarity (PCP) effector encoded by mwh. It contributes to PCP during wing hair formation. (1657 aa) | ||||
flr | Actin-interacting protein 1; Induces disassembly of actin filaments in conjunction with ADF/cofilin family proteins. Essential for organismal and cell viability. Required for the development of normal wing cell planar polarity. (608 aa) | ||||
SMC3 | Structural maintenance of chromosomes 3 (SMC3) encodes a subunit of the cohesin complex. It is involved in planar cell polarity by regulating the membrane enrichment of the transmembrane cadherin encoded by stan. (1200 aa) | ||||
Rok | Rho-associated protein kinase; Rho kinase (Rok) encodes a kinase that, when activated by the GTP form of the product of Rho1, phosphorylates and modulates cytoskeletal proteins, particularly myosin II. Dynamic regulation of this kinase in subcellular locales influences cell polarization, movement, and shape during interphase and mitosis. (1390 aa) | ||||
LIMK1 | LIM domain kinase 1 (LIMK1) encodes a protein that belongs to a phylogenetically conserved family of serine/threonine kinases. It is a potent stabilizer of the actin cytoskeleton by inactivating the product of tsr. It stabilizes the synapse structure at the neuromuscular junction and promotes synaptic remodeling and glomerular development in the developing antennal lobe. (1257 aa) | ||||
fw | Furrowed, isoform A; Furrowed (fw) encodes a selectin that mediates the interaction of planar cell polarity proteins by stabilizing the product of fz. (1174 aa) | ||||
m | Miniature (m) encodes a protein that belongs to the ZP-domain proteins family known as extracellular modular proteins. These proteins are secreted and anchored to the membrane or released into the extracellular space to form specialized extracellular matrices. (682 aa) | ||||
dsh | Segment polarity protein dishevelled; Required to establish coherent arrays of polarized cells and segments in embryos. Plays a role in wingless (wg) signaling, possibly through the reception of the wg signal by target cells and subsequent redistribution of arm protein in response to that signal in embryos. This signal seems to be required to establish planar cell polarity and identity. (623 aa) | ||||
tsr | Cofilin/actin-depolymerizing factor homolog; Exhibits F-actin depolymerizing activity and regulates actin cytoskeleton dynamics. Required for cytokinesis in both mitotic and meiotic cells and for aster migration and separation. Promotes cell motility during ovary development and oogenesis. During larval development, required for the cell rearrangement needed for formation of terminal filaments which are stacks of somatic cells that are important for the initiation of ovarioles. Also required for border cell migration during oogenesis. During border cell migration, required for actin tu [...] (148 aa) | ||||
sn | Protein singed; Acts as an actin bundling protein. May have a role in the asymmetric organization and/or movement of cytoplasmic components. It has a role in somatic cells during the formation of adult bristles and hairs, and in the female germline during oogenesis. (512 aa) | ||||
Pgcl | Pepsinogen C-like (Pgcl) encodes a protein predicted to belong to a family of aspartic proteases and controls planar cell polarity. Pgcl mutants result in loss of wing margins; Belongs to the peptidase A1 family. (407 aa) |