Worm Breeder's Gazette 15(3): 30 (June 1, 1998)
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1 | Dept. of Biochemistry and HHMI, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY, NY 10032 |
2 | Current address: Dept. of Biology, NYU, NY, NY 10003 |
lin-12(n941) is an EMS-induced lin-12 allele that our lab uses as the canonical null allele for genetic studies. This allele contains an amber stop codon in the eighth EGF-like motif (amino acid W400STOP). This observation suggests that lin-12(n941) is a molecular null allele. lin-12(n941) causes a highly penetrant 2 AC defect and other cell fate transformations as described in Greenwald et al. (1983). Note that in the presence of smg-1, the lin-12(n941) allele causes an embryonic lethal phenotype, probably as a result of a dominant-negative effect of the truncated extracellular domain (Hilary Wilkinson, personal communication.) lin-12(n302ar220) behaves like a null allele; it contains a UV/TMP-induced lesion, ar220, a small deletion in the extracellular domain that creates a frameshift mutation in the fourth EGF-like motif. We have not examined the effect of smg-1 on this allele. lin-12(n676n930) is an EMS-induced hypomorphic allele that we have used for many genetic studies in our lab. This allele contains a missense mutation in the second EGF-like repeat (amino acid C138Y). The genetic properties of this allele have been described in detail in Sundaram and Greenwald (1993a). Sequence changes associated with lin-12(n302), lin-12(n676) and most other lin-12(d) mutations were published in Greenwald and Seydoux (1990).