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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
卷 116, 期 17, 页码 3601-3610出版社
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00661
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cell cycle; growth; Drosophila; Rheb; TOR
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA41996, CA32737, CA16042] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI28697] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD09948] Funding Source: Medline
Precise body and organ sizes in the adult animal are ensured by a range of signaling pathways. In a screen to identify genes affecting hindgut morphogenesis in Drosophila, we identified a P-element insertion in dRheb, a novel, highly conserved member of the Ras superfamily of G-proteins. Overexpression of dRheb in the developing fly (using the GAL4:UAS system) causes dramatic overgrowth of multiple tissues: in the wing, this is due to an increase in cell size; in cultured cells, dRheb overexpression results in accumulation of cells in S phase and an increase in cell size. Using a loss-of-function mutation we show that dRheb is required in the whole organism for viability (growth) and for the growth of individual cells. Inhibition of dRheb activity in cultured cells results in their arrest in G1 and a reduction in size. These data demonstrate that dRheb is required for both cell growth (increase in mass) and cell cycle progression; one explanation for this dual role would be that dRheb promotes cell cycle progression by affecting cell growth. Consistent with this interpretation, we find that flies with reduced dRheb activity are hypersensitive to rapamycin, an inhibitor of the growth regulator TOR. In cultured cells, the effect of overexpressing dRheb was blocked by the addition of rapamycin. These results imply that dRheb is involved in TOR signaling.
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