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GENETICS
Volume 180, Issue 1, Pages 219-228Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.091314
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- National Institute of General Medical Science
- United Kingdom Medical Research Council
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM037163] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The frizzled signaling/signal transduction pathway controls planar cell polarity (PCP) in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Epistasis experiments argue that in the Drosophila epidermis multiple wing hairs (mwh) acts as a downstream component of the pathway. The PCP proteins accumulate asymmetrically in pupal wing cells where they are thought to form distinct protein complexes. One is liocated on the distal side of wing cells and a second on the proximal side. This asymmetric protein accumultion is thought to lead to the activation of the cytoskeleton on the distal side, which in turn leads to each cell forming a single distally pointing hair. We identified mwh as CG13913, which encodes a novel G protein binding proxinial side of wing cells prior to hair formation. Unlike planar polarity proteins such as Frizzled or Inturned, Mwh also accumulated in growing hairs. This suggested that mwh had two temporally separate functions in wing development. Evidence for these two functions also came form temperature-shift experiments with a temperature-sensitive allele. Overexpression of Mwh inhibited hair initiation, thus Mwh acts as a negative regulator of the cystoskeleton. Our data argued early proximal Mwh accumulation restructs hair initiation to the distal side of wing cells and the later hair accumulation of Mwh prevents the formation of ectopic secondary hairs. This later function appears to be a feedback mechanism that limits cytoskeleton activation to ensure a single hair is formed.
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