pad poils au dos [Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: padprovided by FlyBase
Official Full Name: poils au dosprovided by FlyBase
Primary source: FLYBASE:FBgn0038418
Locus tag: Dmel_CG10309
See related: AllianceGenome:FB:FBgn0038418
Gene type: protein coding
RefSeq status: REVIEWED
Organism: Drosophila melanogaster
Lineage: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Ecdysozoa; Arthropoda; Hexapoda; Insecta; Pterygota; Neoptera; Endopterygota; Diptera; Brachycera; Muscomorpha; Ephydroidea; Drosophilidae; Drosophila; Sophophora
Also known as: CG10309; Dmel\CG10309
Summary: Enables DNA binding activity. Involved in chaeta morphogenesis and negative regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Predicted to be located in nucleus. Predicted to be active in chromosome. Is expressed in embryonic brain; larval ventral nerve cord; and organism. Orthologous to human ZNF623 (zinc finger protein 623). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jan 2025]
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Annotation release	Status	Assembly	Chr	Location
Release 6.54	current	Release 6 plus ISO1 MT (GCF_000001215.4)	3R	NT_033777.3 (16342318..16345829)
Release 5.57	previous assembly	Release 5 (GCF_000001215.2)	3R	NT_033777.2 (12168040..12171551)

Chromosome 3R - NT_033777.3 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

Genomic Sequence:

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poils au dos is a zinc-finger transcription factor that represses achaete and scute.
Title: A major bristle QTL from a selected population of Drosophila uncovers the zinc-finger transcription factor poils-au-dos, a repressor of achaete-scute.

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Products	Interactant	Other Gene	Complex	Source	Pubs	Description

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables DNA binding	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
enables chromatin insulator sequence binding	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
enables zinc ion binding	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
involved_in chaeta morphogenesis	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
is_active_in chromosome	IBA Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor more info
located_in nucleus	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info

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