The following
Drosophila stocks were used: UAS-
Vha68-2RNAi (34390; Vienna Drosophila Resource Center [VDRC] and BL34582; Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center), UAS-
Vha100-2RNAi (30297; VDRC), UAS-
VhaAC39-1RNAi (20950; VDRC),
E(spl)mγ-GFP (Almeida and Bray, 2005 (
link)),
NRE-LacZ;
esg-GAL4, UAS-GFP
, tubulin-GAL80
ts (Lucchetta and Ohlstein, 2017 (
link)), UAS-
NotchRNAi (100002; VDRC), UAS-NotchΔECD (Larkin et al., 1996 (
link)), UAS-
bratRNAi (31333; VDRC), and UAS-mCherry
RNAi (BL35785). The following GAL4 driver lines were used: UAS-
dcr2;
ase-GAL4, UAS-stingerGFP (Barolo et al., 2000 (
link)),
ase-GAL4 (Zhu et al., 2006 (
link)), UAS-
dcr2;
wor-GAL4,
ase-GAL80 (Neumüller et al., 2011 (
link)), UAS-stingerRFP (Homem et al., 2014 (
link)), and
esg-GAL4, UAS-mCD8::GFP,
tubulin-GAL80
ts (Goulas et al., 2012 (
link)).
Stock generated in this study was Vha68-2-GFP. gRNA was cloned into
pU6-BbsI-chiRNA (45946; 100 ng/μl; Addgene) and coinjected with the donor plasmid (250 ng/μl) into act>Cas9 embryos. The gRNA used was GGAGGACTAGAGACCGCGC.
Fly crosses were set up at 25°C for 24 h and then shifted to 29°C. For experiments in
Fig. 7 (b–f), fly crosses were set up and reared at 18°C. 3-d-old female flies were shifted to 29°C for 6 d. For the
brat rescue, double RNAi crosses were set up and reared at 29°C. Flies were collected 2 d after eclosion and kept at 29°C.