A heat shock promoter drives expression of the cnc B isoform. The construct contains 390bp of 5' UTR and 1230bp of 3' UTR from exon A3.
Ubiquitous heat-shock induced expression of cncB.hs 6 and 8 hours of development is lethal for 99% of embryos, and most lack mouth hooks and other head structures.
Ectopic expression of cncB.hs at 4-10 hours of embryonic development results in lethality. Ectopic expression at 6-8 hours after egg laying results in a defective head phenotype; rudimentary mouth hooks, H-piece and cirri are formed. The anterior part of the lateralgraten are truncated. The dorsal bridge is abnormal or absent. The antennal sense organ, vertical plates and T-ribs develop normally. These head defects are produced at high penetrance (greater than 95%) by heat shocks between 4-10 hours of development. 10-70% of these embryos (depending on the stage of heat shock) show replacement of abdominal denticles near the ventral midline with naked cuticle.
cncB.hs has embryonic head phenotype, suppressible by hthUAS.cPa/Scer\GAL4hs.PB
cncB.hs has mouth hook phenotype, suppressible by hthUAS.cPa/Scer\GAL4hs.PB
Scer\GAL4arm.PS/cncB.hs is an enhancer of mouth hook phenotype of Dfd16, DfdUAS.cLa
Scer\GAL4arm.PS/cncB.hs is an enhancer of cirri phenotype of Dfd16, DfdUAS.cLa
cncB.hs is an enhancer of mouth hook phenotype of Dfd16, DfdUAS.cLa, Scer\GAL4arm.PS
Dfdhs.PK, cncB.hs has mouth hook | ectopic phenotype
When cncB.hs and hthScer\UAS.cPa (driven by Scer\GAL4hs.PB) are both ectopically expressed throughout the embryo, a reduction in severity of all aspects of the cncB.hs phenotype is observed. Although still resulting in embryonic lethality, most head skeletal elements are close to wild-type and mouth hooks are seen in all embryos. The addition of cncB.hs suppresses the rescuing effect seen by DfdScer\UAS.cLa (when driven by Scer\GAL4arm.PS) on Dfd16 mutants.