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Dfd | Homeotic protein deformed; Sequence-specific transcription factor which is part of a developmental regulatory system that provides cells with specific positional identities on the anterior-posterior axis. Homeotic protein controlling Drosophila head development. Transcriptional activator of the apoptotic activator protein rpr in cells at the maxillary/mandibular boundary; Belongs to the Antp homeobox family. Deformed subfamily. (586 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) | ||||
Lst8 | Protein LST8 homolog; Subunit of TORC1 and TORC2, which regulate cell growth and survival in response to nutrient and hormonal signals. Essential for TORC2-mediated regulation of cell growth and phosphorylation of Akt1. However it is not required for TORC1-mediated functions such as TORC1- dependent regulation of cell growth, autophagy and phosphorylation of S6K ; Belongs to the WD repeat LST8 family. (313 aa) | ||||
btd | Transcription factor btd; Buttonhead (btd) encodes a triple C(2)H(2) zinc finger protein structurally and functionally related to the human transcription factors Sp5, Sp8, and Sp9. The product of btd contributes to embryonic head segmentation, leg development, embryonic hematopoiesis, PNS formation, and maintenance of the functional heterogeneity of brain neural stem cells. (644 aa) | ||||
Dcp-1 | Caspase-1 subunit p13; Death caspase-1 (Dcp-1) encodes an effector caspase that cleaves specific proteins during apoptosis. It typically acts downstream of the initiator caspase encoded by Dronc. It is also involved in non-apoptotic processes such as autophagy. (323 aa) | ||||
gsb | Protein gooseberry; Expressed in segmentally repeating pattern to define the polarity of embryonic segments. (427 aa) | ||||
rpr | Cell death protein rpr; Reaper (rpr) encodes Reaper, Hid, Grim (RHG) protein. It contributes to the caspase dependent apoptosis by inhibiting the anti-apoptotic protein encoded by Diap1. (65 aa) | ||||
HGTX | GTX/Nkx6B-like homeodomain protein; HGTX (HGTX) encodes a homeodomain transcription factor that acts in parallel with the product of exex to promote the development and differentiation of motor neurons that innervate ventral body wall muscles. Its major roles include neuronal specification and differentiation. (513 aa) | ||||
bowl | Protein bowel; Putative transcription factor. Required for leg joint formation, acting downstream of Notch to pattern the leg tarsal segments. Functions in the terminal pathway during embryogenesis, acting downstream of tll in the posterior of the embryo. Acts in a hierarchy downstream of drm and lin during foregut and hindgut patterning and morphogenesis. Involved in cell rearrangement during elongation of the embryonic hindgut. Regulates expression of hindgut patterning genes to establish the small intestine region of the embryonic hindgut. Required in the foregut for spatially local [...] (744 aa) | ||||
slp1 | Sloppy paired 1 (slp1) encodes a transcription factor of the fork-head family that functions by interacting with the corepressor encoded by gro. The product of slp1 regulates a wide variety of developmental processes including embryonic segmentation, ventral fate specification in the retina, and temporal patterning of the neuroblasts that produce medulla neurons. (322 aa) | ||||
odd | Protein odd-skipped; Pair-rule protein that determines both the size and polarity of even-numbered as well as odd-numbered parasegments during embryogenesis. DNA-binding transcription factor that acts primarily as a transcriptional repressor but can also function as a transcriptional activator, depending on the stage of development and spatial restrictions. May function redundantly with odd and drm in leg joint formation during the larval stages, acting downstream of Notch activation. (392 aa) | ||||
sob | Protein sister of odd and bowel; Pair-rule protein that determines both the size and polarity of even-numbered as well as odd-numbered parasegments during embryogenesis. DNA-binding transcription factor that acts primarily as a transcriptional repressor but can also function as a transcriptional activator, depending on the stage of development and spatial restrictions (By similarity). May function redundantly with odd and drm in leg joint formation during the larval stages, acting downstream of Notch activation. (578 aa) | ||||
dpp | Protein decapentaplegic; Required during oogenesis for eggshell patterning and dorsal/ventral patterning of the embryo. Acts as a morphogen during embryogenesis to pattern the dorsal/ventral axis, specifying dorsal ectoderm and amnioserosa cell fate within the dorsal half of the embryo; this activity is antagonized by binding to sog and tsg. Induces the formation of visceral mesoderm and the heart in early embryos. Required later in embryogenesis for dorsal closure and patterning of the hindgut. Also functions postembryonically as a long-range morphogen during imaginal disk development [...] (588 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) | ||||
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) | ||||
CenG1A | Centaurin-gamma-1A; Centaurin gamma 1A (CenG1A) encodes a GTPase that may have a role in regulating the second to third instar larval transition, which is ecdysone signaling-dependent. (995 aa) | ||||
wor | Worniu (wor) encodes a zinc finger C2H2 transcription factor involved in nervous system development. It contributes to neuroblast asymmetric cell division and brain development. (548 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) | ||||
PpD3 | Protein phosphatase D3 (PpD3) encodes a protein required for mitosis. (520 aa) | ||||
svp | Steroid receptor seven-up, isoform A; Receptor that is required in photoreceptors R1, R3, R4 and R6 during eye development; generation of the ganglion mother cell-2 (GMC- 2) fate in the nb7-3 lineage, coinciding with the transition in the expression of HB to KR in the neuroblasts (NBs). Belongs to the nuclear hormone receptor family. NR2 subfamily. (746 aa) | ||||
ems | Empty spiracles (ems) encodes a homeotic selector gene that encodes a transcription factor involved in spiracle morphogenesis, axogenesis, and development of the ventral nerve cord, brain and tracheal system; Belongs to the EMX homeobox family. (494 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) | ||||
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) | ||||
cato | Cousin of atonal (cato) encodes a transcription factor involved in the development of the sensory nervous system. (189 aa) | ||||
eve | Segmentation protein even-skipped; May play a role in determining neuronal identity. May be directly involved in specifying identity of individual neurons. Pair- rule protein required for segmentation; involved in transforming the broad, spatial, aperiodic expression patterns of the gap genes into a system of precise periodic expression patterns of the pair-rule and segmentary polarity genes; Belongs to the even-skipped homeobox family. (376 aa) | ||||
unpg | Homeobox protein unplugged; Plays a regulatory role in neural branching of the tracheae: segment-specific aspects of these neural branching patterns appear to be generated by homeotic regulation of expression. May have a role with oc/otd in the postembryonic development of the brain. (485 aa) | ||||
dpn | Protein deadpan; Transcriptional repressor of genes that require a bHLH protein for their transcription. In the larval brain, required to maintain the self- renewal and identity of type II neuroblasts by regulating the expression of the transcriptional repressor erm together with other self-renewal transcriptional repressors such as klu and E(spl)mgamma- HLH. As part of its role in neuroblasts development, has been shown to be a direct target of the Notch signaling pathway, however might work also independently of N/Notch. In the developing larval and pupal brain, required for mushroom [...] (435 aa) | ||||
chrb | Protein charybde; Inhibits cell growth by regulating the Tor pathway upstream of the Tsc1-Tsc2 complex and downstream of Akt1. Acts as cell death activator during head development; Belongs to the DDIT4 family. (299 aa) | ||||
Poxn | Paired box pox-neuro protein; Pox neuro (Poxn) encodes a transcriptional factor that specifies the differences between mono-innervated external sensory (m-es) organs and poly-innervated external sensory (p-es) organs. Poxn expression in the external sensory organ precursor determines the fate to form larval p-es organs and adult chemosensory bristles. (425 aa) | ||||
mirr | Mirror, isoform C; Mirror (mirr) encodes an iroquois homeobox transcription factor involved in dorso-ventral axis formation during oogenesis and eye formation. It also contributes to embryonic segmentation, peripheral nervous system development and growth regulation. (682 aa) | ||||
kek1 | Kekkon 1 (kek1) encodes a transmembrane protein that acts in a negative feedback loop to modulate the activity of the product of Egfr in a number of tissues, including follicle cells and imaginal discs. It also plays a role in axonal outgrowth in the central nervous system. (880 aa) | ||||
ind | Intermediate neuroblasts defective (ind) encodes a transcription factor involved in the development of the central nervous system. (320 aa) | ||||
sog | Dorsal-ventral patterning protein Sog; Short gastrulation (sog) encodes a secreted BMP antagonist that is expressed in the embryonic ventral neuroectoderm. sog product promotes neural development by preventing dorsally produced dpp from diffusing into the neuroectoderm and suppressing expression of neural genes. sog protein also diffuses dorsally where it helps establish a BMP activity gradient essential for partitioning that domain into cells giving rise to the dorsal epidermis versus amnioserosa. (1038 aa) | ||||
kni | Zygotic gap protein knirps; Transcriptional repressor. Binds to multiple sites in the eve stripe 3 enhancer element. Plays an essential role in the segmentation process both by refining the expression patterns of gap genes and by establishing pair-rules stripes of gene expression. (434 aa) |