Muv.

Multi-vulva. Recessive.

K10G6.1. Variable vulval phenotypes. Mostly wild type and able to lay eggs, but some animals have defective vulvae and become bags of worms. Some animals have multiple pseudovulvae. External left primer: TAGACACCCCACCATTCCAT. External right primer: TCGGCTGAACCAAATACACA. Internal left primer: CAGTTCTCGGGTGGTCTGAT. Internal right primer: AGCCTAATCCTAAGCCGGAG. Internal WT amplicon: 2297 bp. Deletion size: 1922 bp. Deletion left flank: TAGTGATGTGAATGTAAAACAAAGACTTAT. Deletion right flank: GCTTAAATTTAGGTTTAGGCTTAGGCTTAG. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Reverse Genetics Core Facility at the University of British Columbia, which is part of the international C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807

sEx11267 [rCesK10G6.1::GFP + pCeh361]. Maintain by picking WT. WT animals are GFP+. Strain construction supported by Genome British Columbia and Genome Canada. Please acknowledge McKay et al, Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 68: 159-169 2004 (WBPaper00006525).

Muv.

Muv. Unc.

Dpy. Variable Muv.

Muv. Unc.

Heterozygotes are Muv and segregate Muv, dead eggs, and MuvBli. Maintain by picking Muv nonBli. Alarming tendency to lose the deficiency. New stock received 9/15/97 from MT.

Hets are Muv and segregate Muv, dead eggs, and MuvBli. Maintain by picking Muv nonBli. New stock received 9/15/97 from MT.

Hets are Muv and segregate Muv, dead eggs, and MuvBli. Maintain by picking Muv nonBli. Received new stock from Horvitz lab 10/97.

mup-1(e2430) is a temperature sensitive two-fold arrest lethal. Maintain at 15C. Easily scored, at restrictive temperature they look like tiny little croissants. Muv and Unc.

Non-rubberband. Muv.

Dpy. Muv. Starved translucent appearance at 20c; inviable at 25C.

Mapping strain.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, DpyUnc (mnC1 homozygotes) and larval lethals (lin-31 hlh-1 homozygotes). The lin-31 hlh-1 homozygotes are very Dpy and Lumpy and look like they hatched just after reaching the two-fold stage. See also WBPaper00001975.

WT looking worms. 40% alae gap. ku322 suppresses lin-31(lf) Muv phenotype. Received new stock 8/2006 from Han lab.

Superficially wild-type. Identified in a screen for suppressors of the Multivulva (Muv) phenotype in lin-31 loss-of-function (lf) mutants. Reference: Ding L, et al. Mol Cell. 2005 Aug 19;19(4):437-47. PMID: 16109369.

Bacteria. E. coli harboring the plasmid PB255, which uses the lin-31 promoter variant to express the lin-31::VP16 chimeric gene. It is particularly useful for the expression of heterologous genes in the vulval precursor cells. PB255 possesses three main components : an enhancer, a promoter region, a multi-cloning site (MCS), and a 3' UTR derived from the unc-54 gene. [CGC note: The plasmid in this strain was constructed from pBS II KS(+) and is likely Amp-R, but Amp-R has not been confirmed]. Biosafety Level: BSL-1.

ujIs113 [pie-1p::mCherry::H2B::pie-1 3'UTR + nhr-2p::mCherry::his-24::let-858 3’UTR + unc-119(+)] II. mNeonGreen knockin at N-terminus of lin-31 locus. Cellular protein expression pattern during embryogenesis (until bean stage) is available at http://dulab.genetics.ac.cn/TF-atlas. Reference: Ma X, Zhao Z, Xiao L, et al. Nat Methods. 2021;18(8):893-902. doi:10.1038/s41592-021-01216-1.

bqSi294 [hsp16.41p::FRT::mCherry::his-58::FRT::GFP::his-58 + unc-119(+)] II; bqSi1021 [lin-31p::FLP::SL2::mNG + unc-119(+)] IV. Heat shock induces nuclear GFP expression in P1.p-P11.p and nuclear mCherry expression elsewhere. Constitutive expression of diffusible mNeonGreen in P1.p-P11.p can mask GFP::HIS-58 signal. May carry unc-119(ed3) or unc-119(ed9) III. Reference: Fragoso-Luna A, et al. 2021 bioRxiv 2021.12.21.473632; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.21.473632

bmdSi346 [loxN::lin-31p::FLP]; inserted into safe harbor site ttTi4348 in Chr I. bmdSi297 [loxN::rpl-28p::FRT3::STOP::FRT3::TIR1(F79G)::T2A::DHB::2xmKate2]; inserted into safe harbor site ttTi5605 in Chr II. FLP-ON::TIR1 system for AID-tagged protein degradation in VPCs. High levels of TIR1(F79G) expression in vulval precursor cells by lin-31p::FLP with co-expression of CDK activity sensor. bmdSi297 contains the ubiquitous rpl-28 promoter driving expression of FRT3::STOP::FRT3::TIR1(F79G)::DHB construct dependent upon tissue-specific FLPase. High levels of TIR1(F79G) can be expressed in specific tissue or cell types via FLPase activity, allowing spatiotemporally-targeted degradation of AID-tagged proteins. Reference: Xiao Y, et al. An expandable FLP-ON::TIR1 system for precise spatiotemporal protein degradation in C. elegans. bioRxiv 2022.10.14.512315; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.14.512315

arTi85 [lin-31p::ERK::KTR::mClover::T2A::mCherry::his-11::unc-54 3'UTR + rps-27p::NeoR::unc-54 3'UTR]. Superficially wild-type. arTi85 transgene is a single-copy transposon insertion expressing a fluorescent protein (ERK::KTR::mClover) that reports MPK-1 kinase activity in vulval precursor cells (VPCs). A nuclear histone marker is co-expressed (mCherry::H2B). Reference: de la Cova C, et al. Developmental Cell. 2017 Vol. 42(5):542-553.

arTi101 [lin-31p::ERK::KTR(S43A, T55A, S62A)::mClover::T2A::mCherry::his-11::unc-54 3'UTR + rps-27p::NeoR::unc-54 3'UTR]. Superficially wild-type. arTi101 transgene is a single-copy transposon insertion expressing a mutant, unphosphorylated form of a fluorescent protein (ERK::KTR::mClover) that reports MPK-1 kinase activity in vulval precursor cells (VPCs). A nuclear histone marker is co-expressed (mCherry::H2B). Use arTi101 as a negative control for transgene arTi85. Reference: de la Cova C, et al. Developmental Cell. 2017 Vol. 42(5):542-553.

mfIs70 [lin-31p::rde-1 + myo2p::GFP]. mfIs70 is a spontaneous integration in LG IV. Superficially wild-type. This strain can be used for Pn.p-specific RNAi. Reference: Barkoulas et al. (2013) Developmental Cell Jan 14;24(1):64-75

mfIs70 [lin-31p::rde-1 + myo2p::GFP]. mfIs70 is a spontaneous integration in LG IV. Superficially wild-type. This strain can be used for Pn.p-specific RNAi. Reference: Barkoulas et al. (2013) Developmental Cell Jan 14;24(1):64-75

ccIs4251 [(pSAK2) myo-3p::GFP::LacZ::NLS + (pSAK4) myo-3p::mitochondrial GFP + dpy-20(+)] I. stIs10187 [lin-31p::HIS-24::mCherry + unc-119(+)]. Reference: Liu, X, et al., Cell (2009).

heSi220 [lin-31p::Cre] X. Vulval lineage is marked through activity of a Cre-dependent reporter (blue-to-red switch). All cells in the animal are expressing BFP, except for vulval cells which are expressing mCherry. he317 was inserted into the cxTi10816 site using CRISPR/Cas9. Reference: van der Vaart A, et al. Sci. Adv. 2020 May; 6(21): eaay3823. PMID: 32494730.