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The enzymatic activity of Drosophila AWD/NDP kinase is necessary but not sufficient for its biological function.

Abstract：

:The Drosophila abnormal wing discs (awd) gene encodes the subunit of a protein that has nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDP kinase) activity. Null mutations of the awd gene cause lethality after puparium formation. Larvae homozygous for such mutations have small imaginal discs, lymph glands, and brain lobes. Neither the imaginal discs nor the ovaries from such null mutant larvae are capable of further growth or normal differentiation when transplanted into suitable host larvae. This null mutant phenotype can be entirely rescued by one copy of a transgene that has 750 bp of awd upstream regulatory DNA fused to a full-length awd cDNA. Tissue-specific expression of AWD protein from this rescue transgene is identical to tissue-specific expression of beta-galactosidase from a reporter transgene that has the same regulatory region fused to the bacterial lac Z gene. However, this rescue transgene or reporter transgene expression pattern is only a subset of the endogenous pattern of expression detected by either in situ hybridization or immunohistochemistry. This suggests that awd is normally expressed in some tissues where it is not required. The null mutant phenotype cannot be rescued at all by a transgene that has 750 bp of awd upstream regulatory DNA fused to a full-length awd cDNA with a mutation that eliminates NDP kinase activity by replacement of the active site histidine with alanine. This suggests that the enzymatic activity of the AWD protein is necessary for its biological function. The human genes nm23-H1 and nm23-H2 encode NDP kinase A and B subunits, respectively. The protein subunit encoded by either human nm23 gene is 78% identical to that encoded by the Drosophila awd gene. Transgenes that have the 750-bp awd upstream regulatory DNA fused to human nm23-H2 cDNA but not to nm23-H1 cDNA can rescue the imaginal disc phenotype and the zygotic lethality caused by homozygosis for an awd null mutation as efficiently as an awd transgene. However, rescue of female sterility requires twice as much nm23-H2 expression as awd expression. This implies that the enzymatic activity of the AWD protein is not sufficient for its biological function. The biological function may require nonconserved residues of the AWD protein that allow it to interact with other proteins.

journal_name

Dev Biol

journal_title

Developmental biology

authors

Xu J,Liu LZ,Deng XF,Timmons L,Hersperger E,Steeg PS,Veron M,Shearn A

doi

10.1006/dbio.1996.0184

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-08-01 00:00:00

pages

544-57

issue

eissn

0012-1606

issn

1095-564X

pii

S0012-1606(96)90184-0

journal_volume

177

pub_type

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The enzymatic activity of Drosophila AWD/NDP kinase is necessary but not sufficient for its biological function.