The C-terminal ZZ domain of the Drosophila ORB2 RNA-binding protein is required for spermatid individualization
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Abstract
Abstract ORB2 is the Drosophila ortholog of the human CPEB2-4 family of RNA-binding proteins, which include a conserved C-terminal Zinc-binding (‘ZZ’) domain. We have recently shown that this domain interacts with several translation co-repressors in the early embryo, and that deletion of this domain from the endogenous orb2 gene results in derepression of its target mRNAs (LOW et al . 2025). Here we assess the effect of deletion of the ZZ domain on spermatogenesis. We find that ORB2ΔZZ protein is no longer localized to the distal tip of spermatids; that in orb2 ΔZZ testes, additional proteins known to play a role in spermatid individualization – ORB, IMP, SOTI – are mislocalized; that the SOTI-dependent Cleaved Caspase 3 gradient no longer forms; that individualization complexes are defective; and that orb2 ΔZZ flies are sterile and lack mature sperm.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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