ft fat [Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: ftprovided by FlyBase
Official Full Name: fatprovided by FlyBase
Primary source: FLYBASE:FBgn0001075
Locus tag: Dmel_CG3352
See related: AllianceGenome:FB:FBgn0001075
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: 79/18; CG3352; CT11259; Dm Fat; Dmel\CG3352; Fat; Ft; FT; l(2)24Da; l(2)79/18; l(2)fat; l(2)fd; l(2)ft; l(2)gd-1; l(2)gd-l; l(2)gd2; l(2)k07918
Summary: Enables cadherin binding activity and calcium ion binding activity. Involved in several processes, including establishment of planar polarity; instar larval or pupal development; and negative regulation of developmental growth. Located in apicolateral plasma membrane. Is expressed in several structures, including antennal primordium; epithelium; gut section; head epidermis primordium; and pigment cell. Used to study carcinoma; neurodegenerative disease; and obesity. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Hennekam syndrome and Van Maldergem syndrome 2. Orthologous to human FAT4 (FAT atypical cadherin 4). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Dec 2024]
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Genomic context

Location:: 24D8-24D8; 2-11 cM

Exon count:: 9

Annotation release	Status	Assembly	Chr	Location
Release 6.54	current	Release 6 plus ISO1 MT (GCF_000001215.4)	2L	NT_033779.5 (4198404..4221796, complement)
Release 5.57	previous assembly	Release 5 (GCF_000001215.2)	2L	NT_033779.4 (4198404..4221796, complement)

Chromosome 2L - NT_033779.5 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

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Genomic Sequence:

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GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

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Deciphering the roles of cell shape and Fat and Dachsous planar polarity in arranging the Drosophila apical microtubule network through quantitative image analysis.
Title: Deciphering the roles of cell shape and Fat and Dachsous planar polarity in arranging the Drosophila apical microtubule network through quantitative image analysis.
Expanded directly binds conserved regions of Fat to restrain growth via the Hippo pathway.
Title: Expanded directly binds conserved regions of Fat to restrain growth via the Hippo pathway.
The goal of this study was to investigate the role of the Ft/Ds pathway in the context of Fz planar cell polarity signaling model.
Title: Two frizzled planar cell polarity signals in the Drosophila wing are differentially organized by the Fat/Dachsous pathway.
Heterophilic cell-cell adhesion of atypical cadherins Fat and Dachsous regulate epithelial cell size dynamics during Drosophila thorax morphogenesis.
Title: Heterophilic cell-cell adhesion of atypical cadherins Fat and Dachsous regulate epithelial cell size dynamics during Drosophila thorax morphogenesis.
findings suggest that Fat and the Hippo pathway control four-jointed expression independently of each other and none of the transcription factors known to function downstream of the Hippo pathway are required to regulate four-jointed expression through the 1.2kb element.
Title: Fat regulates expression of four-jointed reporters in vivo through a 20 bp element independently of the Hippo pathway.
Here we identify the early girl gene as playing an essential role in Fat signaling by limiting the levels of Dachs protein. early girl mutants display overgrowth of the wings and reduced cross vein spacing, hallmark features of mutations affecting Fat signaling
Title: Early girl is a novel component of the Fat signaling pathway.
Dlish (CG10933) tethers Dachs to the subapical cell cortex, an effect partly mediated by the palmitoyltransferase Approximated under the control of Fat. Conversely, Dlish promotes the Fat-mediated degradation of Dachs
Title: The novel SH3 domain protein Dlish/CG10933 mediates fat signaling in Drosophila by binding and regulating Dachs.
Cell Death Changes the Orientation of Cell Division in the Developing Drosophila Wing Imaginal Disc Without Using Fat or Dachsous as Orienting Signals
Title: Local Cell Death Changes the Orientation of Cell Division in the Developing Drosophila Wing Imaginal Disc Without Using Fat or Dachsous as Orienting Signals.
Vamana associates with the Dachsous intracellular domain and with a region of the Fat intracellular domain that is essential for controlling Hippo signaling and levels of Dachs.
Title: Vamana Couples Fat Signaling to the Hippo Pathway.
App promotes drosophila growth via the Hippo pathway by palmitoylation of Fat protein.
Title: The palmitoyltransferase Approximated promotes growth via the Hippo pathway by palmitoylation of Fat.

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Interactions

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Products	Interactant	Other Gene	Complex	Source	Pubs	Description

General gene information

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Markers

Dm0172 (e-PCR)
- UniSTS:34534

Homology

NCBI Orthologs

Orthologs from OrthoDB

Gene Ontology Provided by FlyBase

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables cadherin binding	IPI Inferred from Physical Interaction more info	PubMed
enables calcium ion binding	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
enables calcium ion binding	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables protein binding	IPI Inferred from Physical Interaction more info	PubMed

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
involved_in calcium-dependent cell-cell adhesion via plasma membrane cell adhesion molecules	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
involved_in cell-cell adhesion	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in cell-cell adhesion mediated by cadherin	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
involved_in equator specification	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in establishment of body hair planar orientation	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in establishment of imaginal disc-derived wing hair orientation	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in establishment of ommatidial planar polarity	IGI Inferred from Genetic Interaction more info	PubMed
involved_in establishment of ommatidial planar polarity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in establishment of planar polarity	IGI Inferred from Genetic Interaction more info	PubMed
involved_in establishment of planar polarity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in establishment of tissue polarity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in establishment or maintenance of polarity of larval imaginal disc epithelium	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in heterophilic cell-cell adhesion via plasma membrane cell adhesion molecules	IPI Inferred from Physical Interaction more info	PubMed
involved_in homophilic cell adhesion via plasma membrane adhesion molecules	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
involved_in imaginal disc growth	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in imaginal disc pattern formation	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in imaginal disc-derived wing morphogenesis	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in microtubule cytoskeleton organization involved in establishment of planar polarity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of cell population proliferation	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of gene expression	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of growth	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of imaginal disc growth	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of organ growth	IGI Inferred from Genetic Interaction more info	PubMed
involved_in negative regulation of organ growth	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in positive regulation of apoptotic process	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in positive regulation of hippo signaling	IGI Inferred from Genetic Interaction more info	PubMed
involved_in positive regulation of hippo signaling	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in protein localization involved in establishment of planar polarity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in pupal development	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in regulation of establishment of planar polarity	IGI Inferred from Genetic Interaction more info	PubMed
involved_in regulation of establishment of planar polarity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in regulation of growth	IGI Inferred from Genetic Interaction more info	PubMed
involved_in regulation of growth	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in regulation of imaginal disc growth	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in regulation of protein localization	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in regulation of tube length, open tracheal system	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in tissue development	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
involved_in wing disc development	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
located_in apicolateral plasma membrane	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
located_in plasma membrane	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
located_in plasma membrane	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info

General protein information

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Preferred Names: fat

Names: CG3352-PA; floppy-discs; ft-PA; giant discs 2; giant-discs-1

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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Genome Annotation

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Reference assembly

Genomic

NT_033779.5 Reference assembly

Range

4198404..4221796 complement

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mRNA and Protein(s)

NM_058149.4 → NP_477497.1 fat [Drosophila melanogaster]

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Status: REVIEWED

UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot

P33450, Q9VQX5

Related

FBpp0077167

Conserved Domains (6) summary

cd11304
Location:3233 → 3330

Cadherin_repeat; Cadherin tandem repeat domain

cd00054
Location:4094 → 4128

EGF_CA; Calcium-binding EGF-like domain, present in a large number of membrane-bound and extracellular (mostly animal) proteins. Many of these proteins require calcium for their biological function and calcium-binding sites have been found to be located at the ...

cd00110
Location:4428 → 4543

LamG; Laminin G domain; Laminin G-like domains are usually Ca++ mediated receptors that can have binding sites for steroids, beta1 integrins, heparin, sulfatides, fibulin-1, and alpha-dystroglycans. Proteins that contain LamG domains serve a variety of ...

pfam00008
Location:4017 → 4047

EGF; EGF-like domain

pfam00028
Location:3018 → 3114

Cadherin; Cadherin domain

pfam00054
Location:4156 → 4306

Laminin_G_1; Laminin G domain