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Thomson L, Shah HP, Akinwotu Adewale V, Beise A, Bliayang C, Cioch Z, Craig M, Crump A, Durdan M, Espinosa M, Feda K, Feist J, Fragoso A, Haro G, Hoffman B, Horne P, Houha N, Hounnou S, Inman A, Jakobsze D, Juarez-Morales Y, Khan Y, Kohler J, Lawlor R, Lieser B, Loitz R, Martinez E, Martinez A, Martinez M, Maza B, Mendoza B, Miller S, Mngodo H, O'Shea S, Piane SN, Raivala E, Ruger S, Singer A, Strand JE, Traylor A, Wright A, McCabe S, Pandit SS, Bieser K, Croonquist P, Taylor EE, Wittke-Thompson J, Kagey JD, Devergne O. Genetic Mapping and Phenotypic Analysis of GstE14 E.4.1 on Eye and Antennae Development in Drosophila melanogaster. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2024; 2024:10.17912/micropub.biology.001019. [PMID: 38681673 PMCID: PMC11056011 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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Genetic screens are valuable for identifying novel genes involved in the regulation of developmental processes. To identify genes associated with cell growth regulation in Drosophila melanogaster , a mutagenesis screen was performed. Undergraduate students participating in Fly-CURE phenotypically characterized the E.4.1 mutant which is associated with rough eyes and antennae overgrowth. Following complementation analysis and subsequent genomic sequencing, E.4.1 was identified as a novel mutant allele of GstE14 , a gene involved in ecdysone biosynthesis important for the timing of developmental events. The abnormal eye and antenna phenotypes observed resulting from the loss of GstE14 suggest its role in tissue growth.
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- Lauren Thomson
- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois, United States
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- University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Nevada State University, Henderson, Nevada, United States
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- Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
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- Universty of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Atayik MC, Çakatay U. Mitochondria-associated cellular senescence mechanisms: Biochemical and pharmacological perspectives. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2023. [PMID: 37437976 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2023.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2023]
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Initially, endosymbiotic relation of mitochondria and other cellular compartments had been continued mutually. However, that evolutionary adaptation impaired because of the deterioration of endosymbiotic crosstalk due to aging and several pathological consequences in cellular redox status are seen, such as deterioration in redox integrity of mitochondria, interfered inter-organelle redox signaling and inefficient antioxidant response element mediated gene expression. Although the dysfunction of mitochondria is known to be a classical pattern of senescence, it is unresolved that why dysfunctional mitochondria is the core of senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Redox impairment and SASP-related disease development are generally together with weaken immunity. Impaired mitochondrial redox integrity and its ineffectiveness in immunity control render elders to be more prone to age-related diseases. As senotherapeutic agents, senolytics remove senescent cells whilst senomorphics/senostatics inhibits the secretion of SASP. Senotherapeutics and the novel approaches for ameliorating SASP-related unfavorable effects are recently thought to be promising ways as mitochondria-targeted gerotherapeutic options.
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Atayik MC, Çakatay U. Mitochondria-targeted senotherapeutic interventions. Biogerontology 2022; 23:401-423. [PMID: 35781579 DOI: 10.1007/s10522-022-09973-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Healthy aging is the art of balancing a delicate scale. On one side of the scale, there are the factors that make life difficult with aging, and on the other side are the products of human effort against these factors. The most important factors that make the life difficult with aging are age-related disorders. Developing senotherapeutic strategies may bring effective solutions for the sufferers of age-related disorders. Mitochondrial dysfunction comes first in elucidating the pathogenesis of age-related disorders and presenting appropriate treatment options. Although it has been widely accepted that mitochondrial dysfunction is a common characteristic of cellular senescence, it still remains unclear why dysfunctional mitochondria occupy a central position in the development senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) related to age-related disorders. Mitochondrial dysfunction and SASP-related disease progression are closely interlinked to weaken immunity which is a common phenomenon in aging. A group of substances known as senotherapeutics targeted to senescent cells can be classified into two main groups: senolytics (kill senescent cells) and senomorphics/senostatics (suppress their SASP secretions) in order to extend health lifespan and potentially lifespan. As mitochondria are also closely related to the survival of senescent cells, using either mitochondria-targeted senolytic or redox modulator senomorphic strategies may help us to solve the complex problems with the detrimental consequences of cellular senescence. Killing of senescent cells and/or ameliorate their SASP-related negative effects are currently considered to be effective mitochondria-directed gerotherapeutic approaches for fighting against age-related disorders.
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- Mehmet Can Atayik
- Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Medical Program, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Lee JEA, Parsons LM, Quinn LM. MYC function and regulation in flies: how Drosophila has enlightened MYC cancer biology. AIMS GENETICS 2021. [DOI: 10.3934/genet.2014.1.81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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AbstractProgress in our understanding of the complex signaling events driving human cancer would have been unimaginably slow without discoveries from Drosophila genetic studies. Significantly, many of the signaling pathways now synonymous with cancer biology were first identified as a result of elegant screens for genes fundamental to metazoan development. Indeed the name given to many core cancer-signaling cascades tells of their history as developmental patterning regulators in flies—e.g. Wingless (Wnt), Notch and Hippo. Moreover, astonishing insight has been gained into these complex signaling networks, and many other classic oncogenic signaling networks (e.g. EGFR/RAS/RAF/ERK, InR/PI3K/AKT/TOR), using sophisticated fly genetics. Of course if we are to understand how these signaling pathways drive cancer, we must determine the downstream program(s) of gene expression activated to promote the cell and tissue over growth fundamental to cancer. Here we discuss one commonality between each of these pathways: they are all implicated as upstream activators of the highly conserved MYC oncogene and transcription factor. MYC can drive all aspects of cell growth and cell cycle progression during animal development. MYC is estimated to be dysregulated in over 50% of all cancers, underscoring the importance of elucidating the signals activating MYC. We also discuss the FUBP1/FIR/FUSE system, which acts as a ‘cruise control’ on the MYC promoter to control RNA Polymerase II pausing and, therefore, MYC transcription in response to the developmental signaling environment. Importantly, the striking conservation between humans and flies within these major axes of MYC regulation has made Drosophila an extremely valuable model organism for cancer research. We therefore discuss how Drosophila studies have helped determine the validity of signaling pathways regulating MYC in vivo using sophisticated genetics, and continue to provide novel insight into cancer biology.
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- Jue Er Amanda Lee
- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Melbourne, Australia
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Kannangara JR, Mirth CK, Warr CG. Regulation of ecdysone production in Drosophila by neuropeptides and peptide hormones. Open Biol 2021; 11:200373. [PMID: 33593157 PMCID: PMC8103234 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.200373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In both mammals and insects, steroid hormones play a major role in directing the animal's progression through developmental stages. To maximize fitness outcomes, steroid hormone production is regulated by the environmental conditions experienced by the animal. In insects, the steroid hormone ecdysone mediates transitions between developmental stages and is regulated in response to environmental factors such as nutrition. These environmental signals are communicated to the ecdysone-producing gland via the action of neuropeptide and peptide hormone signalling pathways. While some of these pathways have been well characterized, there is evidence to suggest more signalling pathways than has previously been thought function to control ecdysone production, potentially in response to a greater range of environmental conditions. Here, we review the neuropeptide and peptide hormone signalling pathways known to regulate the production of ecdysone in the model genetic insect Drosophila melanogaster, as well as what is known regarding the environmental signals that trigger these pathways. Areas for future research are highlighted that can further contribute to our overall understanding of the complex orchestration of environmental, physiological and developmental cues that together produce a functioning adult organism.
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- Jade R Kannangara
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Tasmanian School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia
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Mirth CK, Shingleton AW. Coordinating Development: How Do Animals Integrate Plastic and Robust Developmental Processes? Front Cell Dev Biol 2019; 7:8. [PMID: 30788342 PMCID: PMC6372504 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2019.00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Our developmental environment significantly affects myriad aspects of our biology, including key life history traits, morphology, physiology, and our susceptibility to disease. This environmentally-induced variation in phenotype is known as plasticity. In many cases, plasticity results from alterations in the rate of synthesis of important developmental hormones. However, while developmental processes like organ growth are sensitive to environmental conditions, others like patterning - the process that generates distinct cell identities - remain robust to perturbation. This is particularly surprising given that the same hormones that regulate organ growth also regulate organ patterning. In this review, we revisit the current approaches that address how organs coordinate their growth and pattern, and outline our hypotheses for understanding how organs achieve correct pattern across a range of sizes.
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- Christen K Mirth
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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Prud'homme SM, Renault D, David JP, Reynaud S. Multiscale Approach to Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Direct and Intergenerational Effect of Ibuprofen on Mosquito Aedes aegypti. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2018; 52:7937-7950. [PMID: 29874051 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The anti-inflammatory ibuprofen is a ubiquitous surface water contaminant. However, the chronic impact of this pharmaceutical on aquatic invertebrate populations remains poorly understood. In model insect Aedes aegypti, we investigated the intergenerational consequences of parental chronic exposure to an environmentally relevant concentration of ibuprofen. While exposed individuals did not show any phenotypic changes, their progeny showed accelerated development and an increased tolerance to starvation. In order to understand the mechanistic processes underpinning the direct and intergenerational impacts of ibuprofen, we combined transcriptomic, metabolomics, and hormone kinetics studies at several life stages in exposed individuals and their progeny. This integrative approach revealed moderate transcriptional changes in exposed larvae consistent with the pharmacological mode of action of ibuprofen. Parental exposure led to lower levels of several polar metabolites in progeny eggs and to major transcriptional changes in the following larval stage. These transcriptional changes, most likely driven by changes in the expression of numerous transcription factors and epigenetic regulators, led to ecdysone signaling and stress response potentiation. Overall, the present study illustrates the complexity of the molecular basis of the intergenerational pollutant response in insects and the importance of considering the entire life cycle of exposed organisms and of their progeny in order to fully understand the mode of action of pollutants and their impact on ecosystems.
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- Sophie M Prud'homme
- Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA , 38000 Grenoble , France
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- Université de Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio, Campus de Beaulieu, 263 Avenue du Gal Leclerc, CS 74205 , 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
- Institut Universitaire de France , 1 rue Descartes , 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA , 38000 Grenoble , France
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- Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA , 38000 Grenoble , France
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Lim DH, Lee S, Han JY, Choi MS, Hong JS, Seong Y, Kwon YS, Lee YS. Ecdysone-responsive microRNA-252-5p controls the cell cycle by targeting Abi in Drosophila. FASEB J 2018. [PMID: 29543534 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201701185rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The steroid hormone ecdysone has a central role in the developmental transitions of insects through its control of responsive protein-coding and microRNA (miRNA) gene expression. However, the complete regulatory network controlling the expression of these genes remains to be elucidated. In this study, we performed cross-linking immunoprecipitation coupled with deep sequencing of endogenous Argonaute 1 (Ago1) protein, the core effector of the miRNA pathway, in Drosophila S2 cells. We found that regulatory interactions between miRNAs and their cognate targets were substantially altered by Ago1 in response to ecdysone signaling. Additionally, during the larva-to-adult metamorphosis, miR-252-5p was up-regulated via the canonical ecdysone-signaling pathway. Moreover, we provide evidence that miR-252-5p targets Abelson interacting protein ( Abi) to decrease the protein levels of cyclins A and B, controlling the cell cycle. Overall, our data suggest a potential role for the ecdysone/miR-252-5p/Abi regulatory axis partly in cell-cycle control during metamorphosis in Drosophila.-Lim, D.-H., Lee, S., Han, J. Y., Choi, M.-S., Hong, J.-S., Seong, Y., Kwon, Y.-S., Lee, Y. S. Ecdysone-responsive microR-252-5p controls the cell cycle by targeting Abi in Drosophila.
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- Do-Hwan Lim
- College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.,Institute of Animal Molecular Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
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- College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.,Institute of Animal Molecular Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
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- College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
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- College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.,Institute of Animal Molecular Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
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- College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.,Institute of Animal Molecular Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
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- College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.,Institute of Animal Molecular Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
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Yuan S, Huang W, Geng L, Beerntsen BT, Song H, Ling E. Differentiation of lepidoptera scale cells from epidermal stem cells followed by ecdysone-regulated DNA duplication and scale secreting. Cell Cycle 2017; 16:2156-2167. [PMID: 28933984 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2017.1376148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Integuments are the first line to protect insects from physical damage and pathogenic infection. In lepidopteran insects, they undergo distinct morphology changes such as scale formation during metamorphosis. However, we know little about integument development and scale formation during this stage. Here, we use the silkworm, Bombyx mori, as a model and show that stem cells in the integument of each segment, but not intersegmental membrane, divide into two scale precursor cells during the spinning stage. In young pupae, the scale precursor cell divides again. One of the daughter cells becomes a mature scale-secreting cell that undergoes several rounds of DNA duplication and the other daughter cell undergoes apoptosis later on. This scale precursor cell division is crucial to the development and differentiation of scale-secreting cells because scale production can be blocked after treatment with the cell division inhibitor paclitaxel. Subsequently, the growth of scale-secreting cells is under the control of 20-hydroxyecdysone but not juvenile hormone since injection of 20-hydroxyecdysone inhibited scale formation. Further work demonstrated that 20-hydroxyecdysone injection inhibits DNA duplication in scale-secreting cells while the expression of scale-forming gene ASH1 was down-regulated by BR-C Z2. Therefore, this research demonstrates that the scale cells of the silkworm develops through stem cell division prior to pupation and then another wave of cell division differentiates these cells into scale secreting cells soon after entrance into the pupal stage. Additionally, DNA duplication and scale production in the scale-secreting cells were found to be under the regulation of 20-hydroxyecdysone.
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- Shenglei Yuan
- a Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology , Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China.,b Department of Neurosciences , College of Life Sciences, Shanghai University , Shanghai , China
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- a Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology , Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China
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- a Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology , Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China
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- c Department of Veterinary Pathobiology , University of Missouri , Columbia , MO , USA
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- b Department of Neurosciences , College of Life Sciences, Shanghai University , Shanghai , China
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- a Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology , Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai , China
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Fujinaga D, Kohmura Y, Okamoto N, Kataoka H, Mizoguchi A. Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-like peptide and 20-hydroxyecdysone regulate the growth and development of the male genital disk through different mechanisms in the silkmoth, Bombyx mori. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 87:35-44. [PMID: 28610907 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2017.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 06/07/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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It is well established that ecdysteroids play pivotal roles in the regulation of insect molting and metamorphosis. However, the mechanisms by which ecdysteroids regulate the growth and development of adult organs after pupation are poorly understood. Recently, we have identified insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-like peptides (IGFLPs), which are secreted after pupation under the control of 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E). In the silkmoth, Bombyx mori, massive amounts of Bombyx-IGFLP (BIGFLP) are present in the hemolymph during pupal-adult development, suggesting its importance in the regulation of adult tissue growth. Thus, we hypothesized that the growth and development of adult tissues including imaginal disks are regulated by the combined effects of BIGFLP and 20E. In this study, we investigated the growth-promoting effects of BIGFLP and 20E using the male genital disks of B. mori cultured ex vivo, and further analyzed the cell signaling pathways mediating hormone actions. We demonstrate that 20E induces the elongation of genital disks, that both hormones stimulate protein synthesis in an additive manner, and that BIGFLP and 20E exert their effects through the insulin/IGF signaling pathway and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway, respectively. These results show that the growth and development of the genital disk are coordinately regulated by both BIGFLP and 20E.
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- Daiki Fujinaga
- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
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Moriyama M, Osanai K, Ohyoshi T, Wang HB, Iwanaga M, Kawasaki H. Ecdysteroid promotes cell cycle progression in the Bombyx wing disc through activation of c-Myc. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 70:1-9. [PMID: 26696544 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2015.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Revised: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Developmental switching from growth to metamorphosis in imaginal primordia is an essential process of adult body planning in holometabolous insects. Although it is disciplined by a sequential action of the ecdysteroid, molecular mechanisms linking to cell proliferation are poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated the expression control of cell cycle-related genes by the ecdysteroid using the wing disc of the final-instar larvae of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. We found that the expression level of c-myc was remarkably elevated in the post-feeding cell proliferation phase, which coincided with a small increase in ecdysteroid titer. An in vitro wing disc culture showed that supplementation of the moderate level of the ecdysteroid upregulated c-myc expression within an hour and subsequently increased the expression of cell cycle core regulators, including A-, B-, D-, and E-type cyclin genes, Cdc25 and E2F1. We demonstrated that c-myc upregulation by the ecdysteroid was not inhibited in the presence of a protein synthesis inhibitor, suggesting a possibility that the ecdysteroid directly stimulates c-myc expression. Finally, results from the administration of a c-Myc inhibitor demonstrated that c-Myc plays an essential role in 20E-inducible cell proliferation. These findings suggested a novel pathway for ecdysteroid-inducible cell proliferation in insects, and it is likely to be conserved between insects and mammals in terms of steroid hormone regulation.
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- Minoru Moriyama
- Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, 350 Mine, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8505, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, 350 Mine, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8505, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, 350 Mine, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8505, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, 350 Mine, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8505, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, 350 Mine, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8505, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, 350 Mine, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8505, Japan.
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Mitchell NC, Tchoubrieva EB, Chahal A, Woods S, Lee A, Lin JI, Parsons L, Jastrzebski K, Poortinga G, Hannan KM, Pearson RB, Hannan RD, Quinn LM. S6 Kinase is essential for MYC-dependent rDNA transcription in Drosophila. Cell Signal 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2015.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Lee JEA, Mitchell NC, Zaytseva O, Chahal A, Mendis P, Cartier-Michaud A, Parsons LM, Poortinga G, Levens DL, Hannan RD, Quinn LM. Defective Hfp-dependent transcriptional repression of dMYC is fundamental to tissue overgrowth in Drosophila XPB models. Nat Commun 2015; 6:7404. [PMID: 26074141 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2014] [Accepted: 05/06/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Nucleotide excision DNA repair (NER) pathway mutations cause neurodegenerative and progeroid disorders (xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), Cockayne syndrome (CS) and trichothiodystrophy (TTD)), which are inexplicably associated with (XP) or without (CS/TTD) cancer. Moreover, cancer progression occurs in certain patients, but not others, with similar C-terminal mutations in the XPB helicase subunit of transcription and NER factor TFIIH. Mechanisms driving overproliferation and, therefore, cancer associated with XPB mutations are currently unknown. Here using Drosophila models, we provide evidence that C-terminally truncated Hay/XPB alleles enhance overgrowth dependent on reduced abundance of RNA recognition motif protein Hfp/FIR, which transcriptionally represses the MYC oncogene homologue, dMYC. The data demonstrate that dMYC repression and dMYC-dependent overgrowth in the Hfp hypomorph is further impaired in the C-terminal Hay/XPB mutant background. Thus, we predict defective transcriptional repression of MYC by the Hfp orthologue, FIR, might provide one mechanism for cancer progression in XP/CS.
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- Jue Er Amanda Lee
- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne Victoria 3002, Australia
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- Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- 1] Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne Victoria 3002, Australia [2] Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra Australian Capital Territory 2600, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne 3010, Australia
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Qian W, Kang L, Zhang T, Meng M, Wang Y, Li Z, Xia Q, Cheng D. Ecdysone receptor (EcR) is involved in the transcription of cell cycle genes in the silkworm. Int J Mol Sci 2015; 16:3335-49. [PMID: 25654229 PMCID: PMC4346899 DOI: 10.3390/ijms16023335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Revised: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 01/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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EcR (ecdysone receptor)-mediated ecdysone signaling pathway contributes to regulate the transcription of genes involved in various processes during insect development. In this work, we detected the expression of EcR gene in silkworm ovary-derived BmN4 cells and found that EcR RNAi result in an alteration of cell shape, indicating that EcR may orchestrate cell cycle progression. EcR RNAi and EcR overexpression analysis revealed that in the cultured BmN4 cells, EcR respectively promoted and suppressed the transcription of E2F-1 and CycE, two genes controlling cell cycle progression. Further examination demonstrated that ecdysone application in BmN4 cells not only changed the transcription of these two cell cycle genes like that under EcR overexpression, but also induced cell cycle arrest at G2/M phase. In vivo analysis confirmed that E2F-1 expression was elevated in silk gland of silkworm larvae after ecdysone application, which is same as its response to ecdysone in BmN4 cells. However, ecdysone also promotes CycE transcription in silk gland, and this is converse with the observation in BmN4 cells. These results provide new insights into understanding the roles of EcR-mediated ecdysone signaling in the regulation of cell cycle.
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- Wenliang Qian
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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Heemskerk I, Lecuit T, LeGoff L. Dynamic clonal analysis based on chronic in vivo imaging allows multiscale quantification of growth in the Drosophila wing disc. Development 2014; 141:2339-48. [PMID: 24866118 DOI: 10.1242/dev.109264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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In the course of morphogenesis, tissues change shape and grow. How this is orchestrated is largely unknown, partly owing to the lack of experimental methods to visualize and quantify growth. Here, we describe a novel experimental approach to investigate the growth of tissues in vivo on a time-scale of days, as employed to study the Drosophila larval imaginal wing disc, the precursor of the adult wing. We developed a protocol to image wing discs at regular intervals in living anesthetized larvae so as to follow the growth of the tissue over extended periods of time. This approach can be used to image cells at high resolution in vivo. At intermediate scale, we tracked the increase in cell number within clones as well as the changes in clone area and shape. At scales extending to the tissue level, clones can be used as landmarks for measuring strain, as a proxy for growth. We developed general computational tools to extract strain maps from clonal shapes and landmark displacements in individual tissues, and to combine multiple datasets into a mean strain. In the disc, we use these to compare properties of growth at the scale of clones (a few cells) and at larger regional scales.
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- Idse Heemskerk
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IBDML UMR7288, case 907, Marseille 13009, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IBDML UMR7288, case 907, Marseille 13009, France
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Domanitskaya E, Anllo L, Schüpbach T. Phantom, a cytochrome P450 enzyme essential for ecdysone biosynthesis, plays a critical role in the control of border cell migration in Drosophila. Dev Biol 2013; 386:408-18. [PMID: 24373956 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2013] [Revised: 12/05/2013] [Accepted: 12/10/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The border cells of Drosophila are a model system for coordinated cell migration. Ecdysone signaling has been shown to act as the timing signal to initiate the migration process. Here we find that mutations in phantom (phm), encoding an enzyme in the ecdysone biosynthesis pathway, block border cell migration when the entire follicular epithelium of an egg chamber is mutant, even when the associated germline cells (nurse cells and oocyte) are wild-type. Conversely, mutant germline cells survive and do not affect border cell migration, as long as the surrounding follicle cells are wild-type. Interestingly, even small patches of wild-type follicle cells in a mosaic epithelium are sufficient to allow the production of above-threshold levels of ecdysone to promote border cell migration. The same phenotype is observed with mutations in shade (shd), encoding the last enzyme in the pathway that converts ecdysone to the active 20-hydroxyecdysone. Administration of high 20-hydroxyecdysone titers in the medium can also rescue the border cell migration phenotype in cultured egg chambers with an entirely phm mutant follicular epithelium. These results indicate that in normal oogenesis, the follicle cell epithelium of each individual egg chamber must supply sufficient ecdysone precursors, leading ultimately to high enough levels of mature 20-hydroxyecdysone to the border cells to initiate their migration. Neither the germline, nor the neighboring egg chambers, nor the surrounding hemolymph appear to provide threshold amounts of 20-hydroxyecdysone to do so. This "egg chamber autonomous" ecdysone synthesis constitutes a useful way to regulate the individual maturation of the asynchronous egg chambers present in the Drosophila ovary.
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- Elena Domanitskaya
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
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Kharazmi J, Moshfegh C. Investigation of dmyc Promoter and Regulatory Regions. GENE REGULATION AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2013; 7:85-102. [PMID: 23761963 PMCID: PMC3663572 DOI: 10.4137/grsb.s10751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Products of the myc gene family integrate extracellular signals by modulating a wide range of their targets involved in cellular biogenesis and metabolism; the purpose of this integration is to regulate cell death, proliferation, and differentiation. However, understanding the regulation of myc at the transcription level remains a challenge. We performed rapid amplification of dmyc cDNA ends (5' RACE) and mapped the transcription start site at P1 promoter, 18 base pairs upstream of the start of the known EST GM01143 and within the 5' UTR. Our data show that the first TATA box, previously computationally predicted, is utilized to generate dmyc full length mRNA. The largest transcript contains all three exons, generated after the removal of the introns by constitutively regulated splicing events. Further investigation of Downstream Promoter Element (DPE) was achieved by studying lacZ reporter activity; investigation revealed that this element and its upstream cluster of binding sites are required for the dmyc intron 2 activity. These findings may provide valuable tools for further analysis of dmyc cis-elements.
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- Jasmine Kharazmi
- Bio-Technopark Zurich, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland. ; Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich-Irchel, Zurich, Switzerland
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Das S, Durica DS. Ecdysteroid receptor signaling disruption obstructs blastemal cell proliferation during limb regeneration in the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2013; 365:249-59. [PMID: 23142248 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2012.10.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2012] [Revised: 10/22/2012] [Accepted: 10/26/2012] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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To study ecdysteroid signaling during limb regeneration, we have applied RNAi (dsRNA) mediated silencing to EcR/RXR, the genes encoding the ecdysteroid receptor heterodimer, in the fiddler crab Uca pugilator. We injected RNAi into the blastemal chamber during early limb regeneration. Silencing was evaluated by knockdown in receptor transcript abundance, and disruption was evaluated by changes in growth rate and morphology of limb regenerates. q-PCR results indicated a 50% drop in transcript abundance 48h post injection in both RNAi (dsEcR/dsRXR) injected ipsilateral and uninjected contralateral blastemas in experimental animals relative to controls. EcR/RXR transcript levels further decreased over time. Several phenotypes were associated with knockdown. The experimental blastema failed to develop; microscopic examination of the arrested blastema revealed an absence of the cuticular ingrowths characteristic of the beginnings of limb segmentation and cell proliferation assays revealed that the arrested blastema had few dividing cells. Ecdysteroid levels were also lowered in experimental animals; given the bilateral effects of RNAi on limb buds in experimental animals, these results suggest RNAi had a systemic effect. Although hormone titers in experimental animals rose to comparable control levels during the late proecdysial phase of limb regeneration, most experimental crabs failed to molt and died. The overall failure to molt indicates that RNAi receptor knockdown has long-term effects. The combined effects of receptor knockdown indicate that, although circulating ecdysteroid titers are normally low during basal limb bud growth, signaling via the ecdysteroid receptor pathway is necessary for establishment of blastemal cell proliferation and development in the regenerating limbs of U. pugilator.
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- Sunetra Das
- Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, 730 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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Foulk MS, Waggener JM, Johnson JM, Yamamoto Y, Liew GM, Urnov FD, Young Y, Lee G, Smith HS, Gerbi SA. Isolation and characterization of the ecdysone receptor and its heterodimeric partner ultraspiracle through development in Sciara coprophila. Chromosoma 2013; 122:103-19. [PMID: 23321980 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0395-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2012] [Revised: 12/09/2012] [Accepted: 12/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Regulation of DNA replication is critical, and loss of control can lead to DNA amplification. Naturally occurring, developmentally regulated DNA amplification occurs in the DNA puffs of the late larval salivary gland giant polytene chromosomes in the fungus fly, Sciara coprophila. The steroid hormone ecdysone induces DNA amplification in Sciara, and the amplification origin of DNA puff II/9A contains a putative binding site for the ecdysone receptor (EcR). We report here the isolation, cloning, and characterizing of two ecdysone receptor isoforms in Sciara (ScEcR-A and ScEcR-B) and the heterodimeric partner, ultraspiracle (ScUSP). ScEcR-A is the predominant isoform in larval tissues and ScEcR-B in adult tissues, contrary to the pattern in Drosophila. Moreover, ScEcR-A is produced at amplification but is absent just prior. We discuss these results in relation to the model of ecdysone regulation of DNA amplification.
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- Michael S Foulk
- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
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Lee JEA, Cranna NJ, Chahal AS, Quinn LM. Genetic systems to investigate regulation of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes in Drosophila. Cells 2012; 1:1182-96. [PMID: 24710550 PMCID: PMC3901149 DOI: 10.3390/cells1041182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2012] [Revised: 11/12/2012] [Accepted: 11/28/2012] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Animal growth requires coordination of cell growth and cell cycle progression with developmental signaling. Loss of cell cycle control is extremely detrimental, with reduced cycles leading to impaired organ growth and excessive proliferation, potentially resulting in tissue overgrowth and driving tumour initiation. Due to the high level of conservation between the cell cycle machinery of Drosophila and humans, the appeal of the fly model continues to be the means with which we can use sophisticated genetics to provide novel insights into mammalian growth and cell cycle control. Over the last decade, there have been major additions to the genetic toolbox to study development in Drosophila. Here we discuss some of the approaches available to investigate the potent growth and cell cycle properties of the Drosophila counterparts of prominent cancer genes, with a focus on the c-Myc oncoprotein and the tumour suppressor protein FIR (Hfp in flies), which behaves as a transcriptional repressor of c-Myc.
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- University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Melbourne, Australia.
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- University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Melbourne, Australia.
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- University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Melbourne, Australia.
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Kharazmi J, Moshfegh C, Brody T. Identification of cis-Regulatory Elements in the dmyc Gene of Drosophila Melanogaster. GENE REGULATION AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2012; 6:15-42. [PMID: 22267917 PMCID: PMC3256997 DOI: 10.4137/grsb.s8044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Myc is a crucial regulator of growth and proliferation during animal development. Many signals and transcription factors lead to changes in the expression levels of Drosophila myc, yet no clear model exists to explain the complexity of its regulation at the level of transcription. In this study we used Drosophila genetic tools to track the dmyc cis-regulatory elements. Bioinformatics analyses identified conserved sequence blocks in the noncoding regions of the dmyc gene. Investigation of lacZ reporter activity driven by upstream, downstream, and intronic sequences of the dmyc gene in embryonic, larval imaginal discs, larval brain, and adult ovaries, revealed that it is likely to be transcribed from multiple transcription initiation units including a far upstream regulatory region, a TATA box containing proximal complex and a TATA-less downstream promoter element in conjunction with an initiator within the intron 2 region. Our data provide evidence for a modular organization of dmyc regulatory sequences; these modules will most likely be required to generate the tissue-specific patterns of dmyc transcripts. The far upstream region is active in late embryogenesis, while activity of other cis elements is evident during embryogenesis, in specific larval imaginal tissues and during oogenesis. These data provide a framework for further investigation of the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of dmyc.
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- Jasmine Kharazmi
- Biotechnopark Zurich, Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Zurich-Irchel, Zurich, Switzerland
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Ziosi M, Baena-López LA, Grifoni D, Froldi F, Pession A, Garoia F, Trotta V, Bellosta P, Cavicchi S, Pession A. dMyc functions downstream of Yorkie to promote the supercompetitive behavior of hippo pathway mutant cells. PLoS Genet 2010; 6:e1001140. [PMID: 20885789 PMCID: PMC2944792 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2009] [Accepted: 08/24/2010] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Genetic analyses in Drosophila epithelia have suggested that the phenomenon of “cell competition” could participate in organ homeostasis. It has been speculated that competition between different cell populations within a growing organ might play a role as either tumor promoter or tumor suppressor, depending on the cellular context. The evolutionarily conserved Hippo (Hpo) signaling pathway regulates organ size and prevents hyperplastic disease from flies to humans by restricting the activity of the transcriptional cofactor Yorkie (yki). Recent data indicate also that mutations in several Hpo pathway members provide cells with a competitive advantage by unknown mechanisms. Here we provide insight into the mechanism by which the Hpo pathway is linked to cell competition, by identifying dMyc as a target gene of the Hpo pathway, transcriptionally upregulated by the activity of Yki with different binding partners. We show that the cell-autonomous upregulation of dMyc is required for the supercompetitive behavior of Yki-expressing cells and Hpo pathway mutant cells, whereas the relative levels of dMyc between Hpo pathway mutant cells and wild-type neighboring cells are critical for determining whether cell competition promotes a tumor-suppressing or tumor-inducing behavior. All together, these data provide a paradigmatic example of cooperation between tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes in tumorigenesis and suggest a dual role for cell competition during tumor progression depending on the output of the genetic interactions occurring between confronted cells. One of the major challenges of developmental biology and cancer research is to get a better understanding of how different signals regulate proper organ growth and prevent tumor formation. Even though there is a strong correlation between tumor progression and Myc family misexpression or Hippo signaling pathway malfunction, the relationship between these organ growth regulators remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that the Hippo signaling pathway controls the transcription of Drosophila dmyc. Furthermore, we show that the misregulated expression of dMyc in Hippo mutant cells elicits their proliferative expansion at the expense of normal surrounding cells. These findings reveal a molecular mechanism of cooperation between oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that favors both tumor progression and wild-type tissue elimination. Additionally, our findings indicate a dual role for cell competition during the tumour progression depending on the cellular context.
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- Marcello Ziosi
- Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ginecologia, Ostetricia e Pediatria, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
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- NGB Genetics s.r.l, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biology, City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
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Mitchell NC, Johanson TM, Cranna NJ, Er ALJ, Richardson HE, Hannan RD, Quinn LM. Hfp inhibits Drosophila myc transcription and cell growth in a TFIIH/Hay-dependent manner. Development 2010; 137:2875-84. [PMID: 20667914 DOI: 10.1242/dev.049585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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An unresolved question regarding the RNA-recognition motif (RRM) protein Half pint (Hfp) has been whether its tumour suppressor behaviour occurs by a transcriptional mechanism or via effects on splicing. The data presented here demonstrate that Hfp achieves cell cycle inhibition via an essential role in the repression of Drosophila myc (dmyc) transcription. We demonstrate that regulation of dmyc requires interaction between the transcriptional repressor Hfp and the DNA helicase subunit of TFIIH, Haywire (Hay). In vivo studies show that Hfp binds to the dmyc promoter and that repression of dmyc transcription requires Hfp. In addition, loss of Hfp results in enhanced cell growth, which depends on the presence of dMyc. This is consistent with Hfp being essential for inhibition of dmyc transcription and cell growth. Further support for Hfp controlling dmyc transcriptionally comes from the demonstration that Hfp physically and genetically interacts with the XPB helicase component of the TFIIH transcription factor complex, Hay, which is required for normal levels of dmyc expression, cell growth and cell cycle progression. Together, these data demonstrate that Hfp is crucial for repression of dmyc, suggesting that a transcriptional, rather than splicing, mechanism underlies the regulation of dMyc and the tumour suppressor behaviour of Hfp.
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- Naomi C Mitchell
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
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Froldi F, Ziosi M, Garoia F, Pession A, Grzeschik NA, Bellosta P, Strand D, Richardson HE, Pession A, Grifoni D. The lethal giant larvae tumour suppressor mutation requires dMyc oncoprotein to promote clonal malignancy. BMC Biol 2010; 8:33. [PMID: 20374622 PMCID: PMC2877678 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2009] [Accepted: 04/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Background Neoplastic overgrowth depends on the cooperation of several mutations ultimately leading to major rearrangements in cellular behaviour. Precancerous cells are often removed by cell death from normal tissues in the early steps of the tumourigenic process, but the molecules responsible for such a fundamental safeguard process remain in part elusive. With the aim to investigate the molecular crosstalk occurring between precancerous and normal cells in vivo, we took advantage of the clonal analysis methods that are available in Drosophila for studying the phenotypes due to lethal giant larvae (lgl) neoplastic mutation induced in different backgrounds and tissues. Results We observed that lgl mutant cells growing in wild-type imaginal wing discs show poor viability and are eliminated by Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK)-dependent cell death. Furthermore, they express very low levels of dMyc oncoprotein compared with those found in the surrounding normal tissue. Evidence that this is a cause of lgl mutant cells elimination was obtained by increasing dMyc levels in lgl mutant clones: their overgrowth potential was indeed re-established, with mutant cells overwhelming the neighbouring tissue and forming tumourous masses displaying several cancer hallmarks. Moreover, when lgl mutant clones were induced in backgrounds of slow-dividing cells, they upregulated dMyc, lost apical-basal cell polarity and were able to overgrow. Those phenotypes were abolished by reducing dMyc levels in the mutant clones, thereby confirming its key role in lgl-induced tumourigenesis. Furthermore, we show that the eiger-dependent Intrinsic Tumour Suppressor pathway plays only a minor role in eliminating lgl mutant cells in the wing pouch; lgl-/- clonal death in this region is instead driven mainly by dMyc-induced Cell Competition. Conclusions Our results provide the first evidence that dMyc oncoprotein is required in lgl tumour suppressor mutant tissue to promote invasive overgrowth in larval and adult epithelial tissues. Moreover, we show that dMyc abundance inside versus outside the mutant clones plays a key role in driving neoplastic overgrowth.
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- Francesca Froldi
- Alma Mater Studiorum, Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Via S, Giacomo 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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