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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 299-309Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.04.002
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- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [5R37HD15587]
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Localized cell shape change initiates epithelial folding, while neighboring cell invagination determines the final depth of an epithelial fold. The mechanism that controls the extent of invagination remains unknown. During Drosophila gastrulation, a higher number of cells undergo invagination to form the deep posterior dorsal fold, whereas far fewer cells become incorporated into the initially very similar anterior dorsal fold. We find that a decrease in alpha-catenin activity causes the anterior fold to invaginate as extensively as the posterior fold. In contrast, constitutive activation of the small GTPase Rap1 restricts invagination of both dorsal folds in an alpha-catenin-dependent manner. Rap1 activity appears spatially modulated by Rapgap1, whose expression levels are high in the cells that flank the posterior fold but low in the anterior fold. We propose a model whereby distinct activity states of Rap1 modulate alpha-catenin-dependent coupling between junctions and actin to control the extent of epithelial invagination.
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