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DEVELOPMENT
Volume 150, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.201457
Keywords
Cell migration; Visceral muscle development; Somatic muscle development; RNF220; Drosophila
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This study investigates the last step of migration and morphogenesis of longitudinal visceral muscle precursors in the Drosophila midgut. It reveals that multinucleated precursors utilize dynamic filopodial extensions to migrate and form longitudinal muscle fibers. The study also identifies Tey, a tissue-specific nuclear factor, as a crucial regulator of this process and shows its role in proper differentiation and pathfinding of the longitudinal visceral muscles.
Development of the visceral musculature of the Drosophila midgut encompasses a closely coordinated sequence of migration events of cells from the trunk and caudal visceral mesoderm that underlies the formation of the stereotypic orthogonal pattern of circular and longitudinal midgut muscles. Our study focuses on the last step of migration and morphogenesis of longitudinal visceral muscle precursors and shows that these multinucleated precursors utilize dynamic filopodial extensions to migrate in dorsal and ventral directions over the forming midgut tube. The establishment of maximal dorsoventral distances from one another, and anteroposterior alignments, lead to the equidistant coverage of the midgut with longitudinal muscle fibers. We identify Teyrha-Meyhra (Tey), a tissue-specific nuclear factor related to the RNF220 domain protein family, as a crucial regulator of this process of muscle migration and morphogenesis that is further required for proper differentiation of longitudinal visceral muscles. In addition, Tey is expressed in a single somatic muscle founder cell in each hemisegment, regulates the migration of this founder cell, and is required for proper pathfinding of its developing myotube to specific myotendinous attachment sites.
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