Abstract
Drosophila dorsal air sac development depends on Decapentaplegic (Dpp) and Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) proteins produced by the wing imaginal disc and transported by cytonemes to the air sac primordium (ASP). Dpp and FGF signaling in the ASP was dependent on components of the planar cell polarity (PCP) system in the disc, and neither Dpp- nor FGF-receiving cytonemes extended over mutant disc cells that lacked them. ASP cytonemes normally navigate through extracellular matrix (ECM) composed of collagen, laminin, Dally and Dally-like (Dlp) proteins that are stratified in layers over the disc cells. However, ECM over PCP mutant cells had reduced levels of laminin, Dally and Dlp, and whereas Dpp-receiving ASP cytonemes navigated in the Dally layer and required Dally (but not Dlp), FGF-receiving ASP cytonemes navigated in the Dlp layer, requiring Dlp (but not Dally). These findings suggest that cytonemes interact directly and specifically with proteins in the stratified ECM.
Highlights
The language of development has a small vocabulary of signaling proteins that consists in part of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and Bone morphogenic proteins such as Drosophila Decapentaplegic (Dpp)
To investigate whether planar cell polarity (PCP) mutants affect the cytonemes that interact with the wing disc, we examined air sac primordium (ASP) morphology in PCP mutant third instar larvae
We took advantage of these attributes to address the general question of targeting, asking how ASP cytonemes navigate across the wing disc in order to synapse with cells that express either Dpp or FGF
Summary
The language of development has a small vocabulary of signaling proteins that consists in part of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and Bone morphogenic proteins such as Drosophila Decapentaplegic (Dpp). This language may be used in most or all metazoan organs. The cytonemes that mediate the exchange of these proteins contain the Dpp receptor Thickveins (Tkv) or the FGF receptor Breathless (Btl), extending from the basal surface of the ASP cells and synapsing with Dpp- or FGF-producing disc cells, respectively (Roy et al, 2014). Possible candidates that might have roles in these intermediate cells that we tested
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