Abstract: (A) Guts from 20-day-old males with relish mutation or ubiquitous knockdown of dSTING by Actin-Gal4 driven dSTING RNAi do not show gut lipid droplet depletion on BODIPY 493/503 dye staining (Scale bar 10μm). (B) Quantification of the amount of food consumed by adult males in 24-hour period laced with Blue-1 food dye color shows that nazo mutants do not have feeding defects. (N = 20, Student t-test p-value ns = not significant) (C) Quantification of gut fluorescence in flies of indicated genotypes fed with fluorescent oleic acid reveals that that nazo mutants are not defective in absorption of fluorescent labeled oleic acid (N = 20, Student t-test, p-value ns = not significant). (D) Quantification of whole-body glucose from males of indicated genotypes. 8 males per genotype per biological replicates were used in triplets. (Student t-test p-value ns = not significant) (E) Nazo microRNA leads to efficient depletion of Nazo transcript. Relative expression of nazo transcripts in guts of flies ubiquitously expressing Nazo mircroRNA under actin-Gal4 driver. The three transgenic lines represent different insertions of the same microRNA transgene. (Student’s t-test p-value **** = <0.0001). (TIF)
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