Nucleotide substitution: G4100A.
The protease domain of this allele has been sequenced. Amino acid replacement: V1278M. Nucleotide substitution: a G to A transition.
G6598612A
G?A
V1278M | ndl-PA
V1278M
Position of mutation on reference sequence inferred by FlyBase curator based on author statement.
In eggs from mutant mothers, the vitelline membrane is permeable to Neutral red dye.
Allele has partial activity in dorsoventral polarity establishment.
Class II allele. Affected embryos show temperature sensitive dorsalization. The degree of dorsalization varies from so mild as to allow hatching (8% at 18oC) to completely dorsalized (66% at 18oC). Eggs are not fragile.
Homozygous females produce dorsalised embryos that are unusually fragile as they are contained within the vitelline envelope not the entire eggshell. The cuticle is twisted and lacks ventral and lateral structures. The percentage of eggs laid by ndl9/ndl1 females that hatch following temperature shifts demonstrate the temperature sensitive period for ndl begins around stage 7 of oogenesis and ends roughly 2 hours after fertilisation.
Embryos transplanted with perivitelline fluid from Tl2 embryos exhibit a polar gastrulation. At the end of embryogenesis an almost complete restoration of pattern along the dorsoventral axis is seen. The point of injection determines the ventralmost point of the restored pattern.
Embryos derived from homozygous females are dorsalised.
maternal-effect lethal embryos. Spacing of transverse stripes of ftz protein altered in mutant embryos (Carroll, Winslow, Twombly, and Scott, 1987). totally dorsalized
When pipST2.Scer\UAS is expressed under the control of Scer\GAL4ET3 in ndl1/ndl2 females, the resulting embryos are dorsalised.
ndl1 is rescued by ndlGAG.S-A
Class II allele.
Complements most Class I ndl alleles, and the Class II ndl9 allele.