l(1)G0160, l(1)G0395, l(1)G0479
chordin homolog - a Dpp antagonist involved in the determination of dorsal/ventral polarity - leads to the subdivision of the dorsal region of the fly into amnioserosa and dorsal ectoderm
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AlphaFold produces a per-residue confidence score (pLDDT) between 0 and 100. Some regions with low pLDDT may be unstructured in isolation.
RNA-Seq data support additional isoforms with extended 3' UTRs of differing length, some of which appear to be stage and/or tissue specific.
Gene model reviewed during 5.45
Low-frequency RNA-Seq exon junction(s) not annotated.
Annotated transcripts do not represent all supported alternative splices within 5' UTR.
Gene model reviewed during 5.50
7 (northern blot)
120 (kD observed)
1038 (aa)
Component of a complex composed of dpp, sog and tsg (PubMed:11260716). Interacts with palmitoyltransferase Hip14 (PubMed:20599894).
Palmitoylated, probably by Hip14.
Cleaved by metalloproteases tok and tld (PubMed:15872004). Cleavage by tok during pupal development contributes to specification of the posterior crossvein in the wing (PubMed:15872004).
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The testis specificity index was calculated from modENCODE tissue expression data by Vedelek et al., 2018 to indicate the degree of testis enrichment compared to other tissues. Scores range from -2.52 (underrepresented) to 5.2 (very high testis bias).
Comment: anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: anlage in statu nascendi
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as procephalic ectoderm anlage
Comment: reported as ventral nerve cord anlage
Comment: reference states 25-30 hr APF
Expression pattern inferred from unspecified enhancer trap line.
sog is expressed in lateral stripes in the presumptive neurogenic ectoderm.
In wing and leg imaginal discs, sog transcript is expressed in stripes running parallel to the dpp stripe along the compartment border. sog and dpp transcripts are expressed in complementary patterns during pupal wing vein development. sog transcript is first detected in 18-20 hr pupae, in the center of the intervein domains. By 25-30 hr, sog is expressed in most of the intervein cells. Double labeling experiments with sog and dpp transcripts show that sog and dpp are expressed in a strictly complementary pattern in most of the pupal wing, with the exception of the L5 vein, where there is a one-cell-wide gap between sog and dpp expressing cells.
During cycle 14, sog is expressed in a broad lateral stripe 14-16 cells wide. The dorsal boundary of the sog expression domain abuts the ventral boundary of the dpp domain as early as cycle 13. Later, sog expression fades from its dorsal limits and there is a gap between the sog and dpp expression domains. The ventral border of the sog expression domain is marked by the mesectoderm and includes the single row of mesectodermal cells. sog expression is progressively lost dorsally during late blastoderm and early gastrulation. By germ band extension, the transcripts are confined to the ventral midline. Transcripts are localized apically within the cells. At full germ band extension, sog is expressed in a pattern of lateral patches dorsal to the tracheal pits that fuse to form a lateral stripe running between the two stripes of dpp expression. After germ band retraction, sog is expressed in ventral epidermal cells in a pattern resembling the outline of future denticle belts. Internally, sog is expressed in a series of bands in the endoderm of the gut and in the esophagus. While generally out of phase, endodermal cells expressing sog and visceral mesoderm cells expressing dpp are in contact at the junction of the gut with the esophagus.
In cellular blastoderm embryos, high levels of sog protein strongly colocalizes with sog transcript in two broad ventro-lateral stripes. Lower levels localize to the ventral mesoderm and dorsal ectoderm. Localization in the dorsal ectoderm is graded, with highest levels in the region adjacent to the ventral neurogenic region. The dorsal ventral gradient is more pronounced in late blastoderm embryos.
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polyclonal
Mutant embryos lack the corpus cardiacum.
sog protein has a graded distribution across the dorsal side of blastoderm embryos.
sog and Xlae\noggin do not show a synergistic interaction in their capability to induce ventral fates in preblastoderm embryos.
sog is expressed in complementary intervein cells and suppresses vein formation. sog and dpp are expressed in complementary patterns during pupal wing vein development and function during the same phenocritical period to influence the vein versus intervein cell fate choice. dpp promotes vein fates indirectly by activating rho and sog functions by blocking an autoactivating dpp feedback loop. These data support the view that sog is a dedicated dpp antagonist.
sog and Xlae\chordin protein function in dorsal-ventral axis formation.
Data presented by FBrf0083197 supports Geoffroy St-Hilaire's theory of dorsal-ventral inversion between vertebrate and arthropod embryos. Results suggest that two classes of signalling molecule (dpp and sog) represent counteracting systems that control dorsal-ventral patterning and might have been established in a primitive ancestor before the divergence of the arthropods and vertebrates.
sog, which is expressed in the ventrolateral region of the embryo that gives rise to the nerve cord, is functionally homologous to the chordin gene of Xenopus, which is expressed in the dorsal blastopore lip of the embryo and in dorsal mesoderm, in particular the notochord. sog antagonises the dorsalising effects of dpp.
Expression of sog in Xenopus embryos suggests that the mechanism of dorsal-ventral patterning may be conserved between the evolutionarily distinct organisms.
Zygotically active locus involved in the terminal developmental program in the embryo.
Involved in the regulatory hierarchy responsible for the asymmetric distribution and function of zygotic regulatory gene products along the DV axis of early embryos. sog is required for the refinement of the zen expression pattern during cellularization and gastrulation: zen products do not become restricted to the presumptive amnioserosa.
Identification: A screen for X-linked genes that affect embryo morphology revealed sog.
sog mutants display incomplete germ band extension, head and spiracles defective in posterior cuticle.
Source for merge of: sog l(1)G0395 l(1)G0479 l(1)G0160
"l(1)G0123" may affect "sog".
Source for identity of: sog CG9224