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Complex Study of Drosophila Mutants in the agnostic Locus: A Model for Coupling Chromosomal Architecture and Cognitive Functions

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After the devastation of genetics in our country, Academician Leon A. Orbeli has provided an opportunity for the studies on evolutionary conservatism of genes controlling the main properties of the higher nervous activity and conditioning. For the last few years, determination and bioinformatic analysis of genome sequences in the plant, worm, Drosophila, and human genome have revealed, indeed, a high interspecies homology of genes. Studies on Drosophila mutants have shown that components of intracellular signalization systems regulating neuronal functions and gene expression are organized in supramolecular complexes. It has become evident that the chromosomal architecture predetermines the appearance of deletions, duplications, insertions, and translocations and, therefore, plays an important role not only in evolution but also in generating human pathological syndromes with multiple manifestations, including cognitive dysfunctions. There appeared a new approach, comparative genomics, that allows revealing functions of human disease genes on the basis of their sequence homology to the known Drosophila gene with various well-studied mutant phenotypes. For this reason, the Drosophila genes should be saturated with mutant phenotypes, and these are to be studied in comparison with the chromosomal architecture. Our complex behavioral and molecular-genetic study of spontaneous, induced, and P-insertional mutations in the Drosophila agnostic locus and the bioinformatic analyses of genomic sequences has allowed us to assign the locus to the Drosophila genomic scaffold AE003489 from the 11AB X-chromosomal region that contains the CG1848 gene coding for LIM-kinase 1. Mutations, insertions, and deletions in the agnostic locus lead to an increased activity of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent PDE1, resistance to ether, an inactivator of synaptic transmission, impairments of the brain structures, learning and memory defects in conditioned courtship suppression paradigm, alterations in sound production and in structural-functional chromosomal organization. Therefore, the agnostic locus represents a model to study the human Williams syndrome with multiple dysfunctions due to a contiguous deletion in the 7q11.23 spanning 17 genes, among them the gene for LIM-kinase 1 presumed to be responsible for cognitive defects. The Williams syndrome is considered to be a most efficient model to study human cognition, human genome organization, and evolution.

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Savvateeva-Popova, E.V., Peresleny, A.I., Scharagina, L.M. et al. Complex Study of Drosophila Mutants in the agnostic Locus: A Model for Coupling Chromosomal Architecture and Cognitive Functions. Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology 38, 706–733 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023003625014

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