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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 11, Pages 1161-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb3420
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- University of Zurich
- Swiss initiative in Systems Biology, SystemsX.ch (MorphogenetiX)
- Cantons Basel-Stadt and Basel-Land
- SNSF
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Tissue morphogenesis requires coordination of multiple force-producing components. During dorsal closure in fly embryogenesis, an epidermis opening closes. A tensioned epidermal actin/MyosinII cable, which surrounds the opening, produces a force that is thought to combine with another MyosinII force mediating apical constriction of the amnioserosa cells that fill the opening. A model proposing that each force could autonomously drive dorsal closure was recently challenged by a model in which the two forces combine in a ratchet mechanism. Acute force elimination via selective MyosinII depletion in one or the other tissue shows that the amnioserosa tissue autonomously drives dorsal closure while the actin/MyosinII cable cannot. These findings exclude both previous models, although a contribution of the ratchet mechanism at dorsal closure onset remains likely. This shifts the current view of dorsal closure being a combinatorial force-component system to a single tissue-driven closure event.
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