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A transitory signaling center controls timing of primordial germ cell differentiation

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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
卷 56, 期 12, 页码 1742-+

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.05.008

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  1. Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center [NIH P40OD018537]
  2. NHGRI [U41HG000739]
  3. European Molecular Biology Organization longterm fellowship [ALTF47-2014]
  4. NYU
  5. Israel Cancer Research Fund [12-3073-PG]
  6. Helen and Martin Kimmel Institute for Stem Cell Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science (HMKISCR)
  7. HHMI
  8. NIH [R37HD41900]

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This research has identified a mechanism that connects hormonal triggers for somatic tissue morphogenesis with PGC differentiation. Two hormone peaks allow PGCs to promote differentiation by derepressing a differentiation gene.
Organogenesis requires exquisite spatiotemporal coordination of cell morphogenesis, migration, proliferation, and differentiation of multiple cell types. For gonads, this involves complex interactions between somatic and germline tissues. During Drosophila ovary morphogenesis, primordial germ cells (PGCs) either are sequestered in stem cell niches and aremaintained in an undifferentiated germline stem cell state or transition directly toward differentiation. Here, we identify a mechanism that links hormonal triggers of somatic tissue morphogenesis with PGC differentiation. An early ecdysone pulse initiates somatic swarm cell (SwC) migration, positioning these cells close to PGCs. A second hormone peak activates Torso-like signal in SwCs, which stimulates the Torso receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling pathway in PGCs promoting their differentiation by de-repression of the differentiation gene, bag of marbles. Thus, systemic temporal cues generate a transitory signaling center that coordinates ovarian morphogenesis with stem cell self-renewal and differentiation programs, highlighting a more general role for such centers in reproductive and developmental biology.

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