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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
卷 8, 期 2, 页码 255-266出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2005.01.003
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- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS028202-10, R01 NS028202-13, R01 NS028202-11A1, R01 NS028202-14, R01 NS028202-12] Funding Source: Medline
We here identify and characterize an extracellular modulator of Hedgehog signaling in Drosophila, Shifted. Shifted is required for high levels of long-range signaling in the developing wing imaginal disc. Surprisingly, shifted encodes the only Drosophila ortholog of the secreted vertebrate protein Writ Inhibitory Factor-1 (WIF-1), whose known role is to bind to extracellular Writs and inhibit their activity. However, Shifted does not regulate Hedgehog signaling by affecting Wingless or Writ signaling. We show instead that Shifted is a secreted protein that acts over a long distance and is required for the normal accumulation of Hh protein and its movement in the wing. Our data further indicate that Shf interacts with Hh and the heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Therefore, we propose that Shf stabilizes the interaction between Hh and the proteoglycans, an unexpected role for a member of the WIF-1 family.
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