Dominant Suppressors of a Muscle Mutant Define an Essential Gene of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS

AUTOR(ES)

Greenwald, Iva S.

RESUMO

The sup-11 I locus of C. elegans was defined by rare dominant suppressors of unc-93(e1500) III, a mutation that affects muscle structure. All ten of these dominant suppressors have a recessive "scrawny" phenotype. Two additional classes of sup-11 alleles were identified. One class, null alleles, was obtained by reversion of the dominant suppressor activity. These null alleles are recessive embryonic lethals, indicating that sup-11 is an essential gene. Members of the second class, rare semidominant revertants of the "scrawny" phenotype, are partial suppressors of unc-93(e1500). The genetic properties of the dominant suppressor mutations suggest that they are rare missense mutations that confer a novel activity to the sup-11 protein. We consider some of the ways that sup-11 alleles might suppress unc-93(e1500), including the possibilities that the altered sup-11 proteins restore function to a protein complex or are modified products of a gene that is a member of an unc-93 gene family.

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