Abstract
Abstract Drosophila melanogaster Armadillo and its vertebrate homolog β-catenin play multiple roles during development. Both are components of cell-cell adherens junctions and both transduce Wingless (Wg)/Wnt intercellular signals. The current model for Wingless signaling proposes that Armadillo binds the DNA-binding protein dTCF, forming a bipartite transcription factor that activates Wingless-responsive genes. In this model, Armadillo's C-terminal domain is proposed to serve an essential role as a transcriptional activation domain. In Xenopus, however, overexpression of C-terminally truncated β-catenin activates Wnt signaling, suggesting that the C-terminal domain might not be essential. We reexamined the function of Armadillo's C terminus in Wingless signaling. We found that C-terminally truncated mutant Armadillo has a deficit in Wg-signaling activity, even when corrected for reduced protein levels. However, we also found that Armadillo proteins lacking all or part of the C terminus retain some signaling ability if overexpressed, and that mutants lacking different portions of the C-terminal domain differ in their level of signaling ability. Finally, we found that the C terminus plays a role in Armadillo protein stability in response to Wingless signal and that the C-terminal domain can physically interact with the Arm repeat region. These data suggest that the C-terminal domain plays a complex role in Wingless signaling and that Armadillo recruits the transcriptional machinery via multiple contact sites, which act in an additive fashion.
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Created | 4 years, 4 months ago (April 27, 2021, 11:11 p.m.) |
Deposited | 3 years, 8 months ago (Jan. 3, 2022, 10:44 p.m.) |
Indexed | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (June 11, 2025, 1:03 a.m.) |
Issued | 26 years ago (Sept. 1, 1999) |
Published | 26 years ago (Sept. 1, 1999) |
Published Online | 26 years ago (Sept. 1, 1999) |
Published Print | 26 years ago (Sept. 1, 1999) |
@article{Cox_1999, title={Roles of the C Terminus of Armadillo in Wingless Signaling in Drosophila}, volume={153}, ISSN={1943-2631}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/153.1.319}, DOI={10.1093/genetics/153.1.319}, number={1}, journal={Genetics}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={Cox, Rachel T and Pai, Li-Mei and Kirkpatrick, Catherine and Stein, Joel and Peifer, Mark}, year={1999}, month=sep, pages={319–332} }