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DEVELOPMENT
卷 150, 期 17, 页码 -出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.201818
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Drosophila development; Optogenetics; ERK signaling; byn stripe
This study investigates the formation of a gene expression stripe in early Drosophila embryos using optogenetics and live-cell biosensors. The research reveals the importance of ERK signaling dosage and time delay in the formation of the gene expression stripe. The findings provide valuable insights into the interpretation of developmental signals in both space and time.
Positional information in development often manifests as stripes of gene expression, but how stripes form remains incompletely understood. Here, we use optogenetics and live-cell biosensors to investigate the posterior brachyenteron (byn) stripe in early Drosophila embryos. This stripe depends on interpretation of an upstream ERK activity gradient and the expression of two target genes, tailless (tll) and huckebein (hkb), that exert antagonistic control over byn. We find that high or low doses of ERK signaling produce transient or sustained byn expression, respectively. Although tll transcription is always rapidly induced, hkb converts graded ERK inputs into a variable time delay. Nuclei thus interpret ERK amplitude through the relative timing of tlland hkb transcription. Antagonistic regulatory paths acting on different timescales are hallmarks of an incoherent feedforward loop, which is sufficient to explain byn dynamics and adds temporal complexity to the steady-state model of byn stripe formation. We further show that 'blurring' of an all-or-none stimulus through intracellular diffusion non locally produces a byn stripe. Overall, we provide a blueprint for using optogenetics to dissect developmental signal interpretation in space and time.
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