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Gene Dmel\fz

General Information
SymbolDmel\fzSpeciesD. melanogaster
NamefrizzledAnnotation symbolCG17697
Feature typeprotein_coding_geneFlyBase IDFBgn0001085
Created / Updated2003-12-01/2003-12-01
Genomic Location
Chromosome (arm)3LRecombination map3-41.7
Cytogenetic map 70D4-70D5 Sequence location3L:14,267,447..14,361,748 [+]
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The gene frizzled is referred to in FlyBase by the symbol fz (CG17697, FBgn0001085). It has the cytological map location 70D4-70D5. Its sequence location is 3L:14267447..14361748. Its molecular function is described as: Wnt receptor activity; Wnt-protein binding; transmembrane receptor activity; non-G-protein coupled 7TM receptor activity; G-protein coupled receptor activity. It is involved in the biological processes described with 22 unique terms, many of which group under: anatomical structure development; establishment of planar polarity; cell communication; sensory organ development; signal transduction; macromolecule localization; protein localization; imaginal disc-derived wing hair organization and biogenesis; organ morphogenesis; Wnt receptor signaling pathway; epithelial cell differentiation; homophilic cell adhesion; cell division; regulation of cellular component organization and biogenesis; ommatidial rotation. 170 alleles are reported. The phenotypes of these alleles are annotated with 34 unique terms, many of which group under: adult segment; peripheral nervous system; nervous system; adult mesothoracic segment; organ system; embryonic nervous system; metatarsus; appendage segment; thoracic segment; adult cuticle. It has 2 annotated transcripts and 2 annotated polypeptides.

External Summaries
hide Phenotypic Description from the Red Book (Lindsley & Zimm 1992)
Gene/Allele symbols may differ from current usage
fz: frizzled
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fz: frizzled
From Bridges and Brehme, 1944, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. No. 552: 85.
Hairs on thorax directed irregularly toward midline. Thoracic bristles also inturned and often wavy. Postverticals may turn outward. Hairs on wing edge and feet nearly erect; trichomes on wings of flies carrying weaker alleles tend to form swirls rather than lying parallel to one another and pointing distally; stronger alleles can cause random orientation of trichomes. Polarity of chaetae deranged in characteristic ways on wings, notum, halteres, legs, tergites, and sternites; fz M+ clones in M/+ wings cause derangement of polarity in M/+ cells surrounding clone (Gubb and Garcia-Bellido, 1982, J. Embryol. Exp. Morphol. 68: 37-57). In a wild-type background clones of wing cells homozygous for fz alleles that cause eye roughening, but not of those without effect on eye texture, cause adjacent normal trichomes in regions distal, anterior, and posterior, but not proximal to the clone, to orient toward the clone rather than distally as they normally do; no effect on trichomes on opposite surface of the wing (Vinson and Adler, 1987, Nature 329: 549-51). Wing may be reduced. A low level of doubling of trichomes and splitting of chaetae observed. Sex combs may be irregular. Most alleles cause eyes to be rough. Two weak alleles, fz24 and fz34 and two neomorphic alleles, fz13 and fz20, have normal eye textures. Extra leg joints tend to form as mirror-image duplications proximal to the normal joints on tarsal segments one to four. Also polarities of bristles, hairs, and bracts on legs abnormal (Held, Duarte, and Derakhshanian, 1986, Wilhelm Roux's Arch. Dev. Biol. 195: 145-57). RK2.
fz13
A neomorphic allele causing severe disruption of trichome orientation in the costal wing cell, a region little affected by most alleles; phenotype of homozygote more severe than that of hemizygote. Also unlike other alleles, homozygous clones of fz13 cells in the wing do not affect orientation of trichomes in surrounding normal cells. A third notable feature of fz13 is that it is without effect on eye texture.
fz20
Like fu13.
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FlyBase Computed Cytological Location
Cytogenetic map
Evidence for location
70D4-70D5  
Limits computationally determined from genome sequence between P{PZ}l(3)70Da02402&P{PZ}btl00208 and P{PZ}Mpcp00564  
Experimentally Determined Cytological Location
Cytogenetic map
Notes
References
70D4-70D7
(determined by in situ hybridisation)  
70D4-70D7
(determined by in situ hybridisation)  
Experimentally Determined Recombination Data
Location
3-41.7
 
Left of (cM)
Right of (cM)
Notes
Molecular Map Data
Gene Order (in direction of increasing cytology)
References
Gene Order (overall orientation not stated)
References
hide Gene Model & Products
Please see the GBrowse view of Dmel\fz for information on other features
detailed view FBtr0075742 FBtr0075743 FBtr0075744 FBtr0113170 FBpp0075484 FBpp0075485 FBpp0075486 FBpp0112083 FBti0044263 FBti0049233 FBti0035988 FBti0068843 FBti0055440 FBti0035514 FBti0035559 FBti0055573 FBti0039656 FBti0033922 FBti0072768 FBti0018408 FBti0069985 FBti0036608 FBti0037535 FBti0047252 FBti0027196 FBti0036681 FBti0036636 FBti0036675 FBti0053241 FBti0049645 FBti0054508 FBti0053124 FBti0048274 FBti0065953 FBti0057741 FBti0047273 FBti0047019 FBti0018386 FBti0046524 FBti0053748 FBti0044558
Comments on Gene Model
Transposon inserted in intron
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Annotated Transcripts
Name
FlyBase ID
RefSeq ID
Length (nt)
Associated CDS (aa)
FBtr0075743
  3794
  581
FBtr0075742
  3765
  415
Additional Transcript Data & Comments
Reported size (kB)
4.0 (northern blot)
4.0, >4.0 (northern blot)
Comments
The 3.6kb and 4.0kb fz transcripts appear to differ only in the site of polyadenlyation.
External Data
Crossreferences
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Annotated Polypeptides
Name
FlyBase ID
Predicted MW (kD)
Length (aa)
Theoretical pI
RefSeq ID
GenBank protein
fz-PA  
FBpp0075485  
64.8  
581  
8.22  
fz-PB  
FBpp0075484  
46.1  
415  
7.78  
Additional Polypeptide Data & Comments
Reported size (kD)
62, 60 (kD observed)
62, 60 (kD observed); 62 (kD predicted)
581, 415 (aa)
60, 42 (kD observed)
Comments
Experiments with heat shock driven transgenes demonstrate that only the longer 581aa form of the fz protein shows any activity and rescues fz mutations. Overexpression results in two distinct tissue polarity phenotypes.
The fz protein has 7 putative transmembrane domains.
The fz protein contains and odd number of transmembrane domains and is glycosylated.
Experiments with heat shock driven transgenes demonstrate that the shorter 415aa form of the fz protein is unable to rescue fz mutations. No endogenous protein of this size was detected.
One of a couple of protein products.
The 415aa fz protein is essentially a carboxy-terminal truncated class I fz protein. It contains the seven transmembrane domains and is also likely to be an integral membrane protein.
External Data
Linkouts
PANTHER - Protein classification by function, families, and pathways
Crossreferences
InterPro domains - A database of protein families, domains, and functional sites
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    Type
    Symbol & Location
    Additional Notes
    References
    point mutation
    comment=Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
    evidence=experimental
    na_change=T14268556A
    pr_change=C134|fz-PB,C134|fz-PA
    reported_pr_change=C134@
    point mutation
    comment=Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
    evidence=experimental
    na_change=A14268704T
    pr_change=K184|fz-PB,K184|fz-PA
    reported_pr_change=K184@
    point mutation
    comment=Position of mutation on reference sequence inferred from Figure 3.
    evidence=experimental
    na_change=G14298010A
    pr_change=C229Y|fz-PB,C229Y|fz-PA
    reported_na_change=G?A
    reported_pr_change=C229Y
    point mutation
    comment=P278 is in the first cytoplasmic loop of the fz protein.
    evidence=experimental
    na_change=C14305000T
    pr_change=P278S|fz-PB,P278S|fz-PA
    reported_na_change=C?T
    reported_pr_change=P278S
    point mutation
    comment=P278 is in the first cytoplasmic loop of the fz protein.
    evidence=experimental
    na_change=C14305000T
    pr_change=P278S|fz-PB,P278S|fz-PA
    reported_na_change=C?T
    reported_pr_change=P278S
    point mutation
    comment=P278 is in the first cytoplasmic loop of the fz protein.
    evidence=experimental
    na_change=C14305001T
    pr_change=P278L|fz-PB,P278L|fz-PA
    reported_na_change=C?T
    reported_pr_change=P278L
    point mutation
    comment=P278 is in the first cytoplasmic loop of the fz protein.
    evidence=experimental
    na_change=C14305001T
    pr_change=P278L|fz-PB,P278L|fz-PA
    reported_na_change=C?T
    reported_pr_change=P278L
    point mutation
    comment=Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
    evidence=experimental
    na_change=C14305132T
    pr_change=Q322|fz-PB,Q322|fz-PA
    reported_pr_change=Q322@
    point mutation