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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 778-785Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.10.007
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- Ministry of Health (MOH) Ministry of Education [MOE2008 T2 1 048]
- Singapore National Research Foundation [NRF2008NRF RF001 117]
- Temasek Life Sciences
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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How a cell decides to self-renew or differentiate is a critical issue in stem cell and cancer biology Atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) promotes self-renewal of Drosophila larval brain neural stem cells, neuroblasts However, it is unclear how aPKC cortical polarity and protein levels are regulated Here, we have identified a zinc-finger protein, Zif, which is required for the expression and asymmetric localization of aPKC aPKC displays ectopic cortical localization with upregulated protein levels in dividing zif mutant neuroblasts, leading to neuroblast overproliferation We show that Zif is a transcription factor that directly represses aPKC transcription We further show that Zif is phosphorylated by aPKC both in vitro and in vivo Phosphorylation of Zif by aPKC excludes it from the nucleus, leading to Zif inactivation in neuroblasts Thus, reciprocal repression between Zif and aPKC act as a critical regulatory mechanism for establishing cell polarity and controlling neuroblast self-renewal
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