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As these observations place to a purposeful significance of BicD phosphorylation, we established out to study the molecular foundation of this phenotype. The Su(66) mutation maps to the 2nd chromosome and recombination mapping experiments put Su(sixty six) in the quick vicinity of BicD (A. Swan and B. Suter, individual interaction). In buy to identify this suppressor mutation, we sequenced BicD and its 4 proximal neighboring genes Sgt, Aac11, fws and CG5110 from homozygous BicDPA66 Su(66) flies. The sequences were compared to the parental BicDPA66 chromosome. No polymorphism was detected in the four proximal genes and the BicDPA66 mutation was current on the BicDPA66 Su(sixty six) chromosome as expected. In addition, we found in the BicD gene a single nucleotide changeover CRT that was not current in the parental BicDPA66 pressure. This mutation modifications the codon 103 from TCC to TTC, resulting in the commonly present serine to be substituted by a phenylalanine in Su(66). This substitution was of outstanding desire, due to the fact our MS assessment discovered this Ser103 to be phosphorylated. In get to examination regardless of whether the S103F substitution without a doubt acts as suppressor of the BicDPA66 allele, we reconstructed this BicD allele with equally mutations. Without a doubt, ladies with one particular duplicate of this double mutant chromosome BicDA40V, S103F ended up viable and fertile, even though the ones with BicDA40V by itself are practical but sterile. In buy to study the consequences of this mutation, we analyzed the impact of residue 103 on the distribution of the protein through oogenesis. At first look, ovaries of BicDA40V, S103F flies surface mostly regular and consist of mainly egg chambers with typical morphology (Determine 3). The mutant BicD protein accumulates in the oocyte and shows a typical subcellular distribution. Even so, the accumulation appears a lot less pronounced as opposed to the wild variety situation (Figure 3A, F), suggesting that the double mutant BicD protein is significantly less lively than wild kind BicD. In addition, this kind of BicDA40V, S103F ovaries have a number of egg chambers that unsuccessful to type an oocyte, and, rather, have sixteen polyploid nurse cells (arrow in Determine 3C, H), like all egg chambers from manage BicDA40V ladies do (Determine 3B, G). This is constant with our preceding observations [four], To exclude the possibility that the consistent pattern between Specialty and Stanford-Treated datasets results from overlapping samples confirming that the S103F substitution is adequate to partly suppress the effects of the BicDA40V mutation.Because phenylalanine is not phosphorylatable, we wondered whether blocking Ser103 phosphorylation is ample to suppress the BicDPA66 phenotype. To exam this, we made the BicDA40V, S103A allele, the place the Ser103 is changed by an alanine, which cannot be phosphorylated either. Surprisingly on the other hand, this sort of BicDA40V, S103A girls ended up sterile with ovaries consisting of egg chambers with 16 nurse cells and no oocyte (Determine 3D, I), indistinguishable from the phenotype of BicDA40V females that have the wild sort serine at posture 103. Therefore, the suppression impact of the S103F substitution on BicDA40V can not be brought about simply by inhibition of phosphorylation of Ser103. We upcoming questioned how mimicking permanent phosphorylation of Ser103 in BicDA40V influences the operate of the protein. Strikingly,BicD with both substitutions, A40V and S103D, does not rescue BicDnull alleles and as a result behaves like a recessive lethal mutant.