Abstract
ABSTRACT The Drosophila signaling molecule Wingless (Wg) plays crucial roles in cell-cell communications during development. In the developing nervous system, a previous study has shown that Wg acts non-autonomously to specify the fate of a specific neuronal precursor, NB4-2 (Q. ChuLaGraff and C. Q. Doe (1993) Science 261, 1594-1597). The lack of autocrine specification of NB4-2 in Wg-expressing cells suggests that the response to Wg is spatially restricted, presumably through the activity of the Wg-receptor. I show that two other proteins, a transcription factor Gooseberry (Gsb) and a transmembrane protein Patched (Ptc), participate in the Wg-mediated specification of NB4-2 by controlling the response to the Wg signal. In gsb mutants, Wgpositive NB5-3 is transformed to NB4-2 in a Wg-dependent manner, suggesting that Gsb normally represses the capacity to respond to the Wg signal. In ptc mutants, Gsb is ectopically expressed in normally Wg-responsive cells, thus preventing the Wg response and consequently the correct specification of NB4-2 does not take place. This conclusion is supported by the observation that NB4-2 can be specified in gsb;ptc double mutants in a Wg-dependent manner. Moreover, ectopic expression of Gsb from the hsp70-gsb transgene also blocks the response to the Wg signal. I propose that the responsiveness to the Wg signal is controlled by sequential negative regulation, ptc→gsb→Wg receptor. The timing of the response to Gsb suggests that the specification of neuroblast identities takes place within the neuroectoderm, prior to neuroblast delamination.
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Created | 4 years, 4 months ago (April 23, 2021, 3:03 p.m.) |
Deposited | 6 months, 2 weeks ago (Feb. 13, 2025, 6:12 p.m.) |
Indexed | 1 month, 2 weeks ago (July 14, 2025, 11:24 p.m.) |
Issued | 29 years ago (Sept. 1, 1996) |
Published | 29 years ago (Sept. 1, 1996) |
Published Online | 29 years ago (Sept. 1, 1996) |
Published Print | 29 years ago (Sept. 1, 1996) |
@article{Bhat_1996, title={The patched signaling pathway mediates repression of gooseberry allowing neuroblast specification by wingless during Drosophila neurogenesis}, volume={122}, ISSN={1477-9129}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.122.9.2921}, DOI={10.1242/dev.122.9.2921}, number={9}, journal={Development}, publisher={The Company of Biologists}, author={Bhat, Krishna Moorthi}, year={1996}, month=sep, pages={2921–2932} }