pannier acts upstream of wingless to direct dorsal eye disc development in Drosophila

Development ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 127 (5) ◽  
pp. 1007-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Maurel-Zaffran ◽  
J.E. Treisman
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Boundary Region ◽  
Dorsal Margin ◽  
Secreted Protein ◽  
Dorsoventral Patterning ◽  
Eye Disc ◽  
Eye Field ◽  
Upstream Element ◽  
Dorsoventral Boundary ◽  
Gata Family

The dorsoventral midline of the Drosophila eye disc is a source of signals that stimulate growth of the eye disc, define the point at which differentiation initiates, and direct ommatidial rotation in opposite directions in the two halves of the eye disc. This boundary region seems to be established by the genes of the iroquois complex, which are expressed in the dorsal half of the disc and inhibit fringe expression there. Fringe controls the activation of Notch and the expression of its ligands, with the result that Notch is activated only at the fringe expression boundary at the midline. The secreted protein Wingless activates the dorsal expression of the iroquois genes. We show here that pannier, which encodes a GATA family transcription factor expressed at the dorsal margin of the eye disc from embryonic stages on, acts upstream of wingless to control mirror and fringe expression and establish the dorsoventral boundary. Loss of pannier function leads to the formation of an ectopic eye field and the reorganization of ommatidial polarity, and ubiquitous pannier expression can abolish the eye field. Pannier is thus the most upstream element yet described in dorsoventral patterning of the eye disc.

Different contributions of pannier and wingless to the patterning of the dorsal mesothorax of Drosophila

Development ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 126 (16) ◽  
pp. 3523-3532 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Garcia-Garcia ◽  
P. Ramain ◽  
P. Simpson ◽  
J. Modolell
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Concentration Gradient ◽  
Positional Information ◽  
Secreted Protein ◽  
Expression Domain ◽  
Similar Role ◽  
Finger Protein ◽  
Proneural Cluster ◽  
Gata Family ◽  
Permissive Role

In Drosophila, the GATA family transcription factor Pannier and the Wnt secreted protein Wingless are known to be important for the patterning of the notum, a part of the dorsal mesothorax of the fly. Thus, both proteins are necessary for the development of the dorsocentral mechanosensory bristles, although their roles in this process have not been clarified. Here, we show that Pannier directly activates the proneural genes achaete and scute by binding to the enhancer responsible for the expression of these genes in the dorsocentral proneural cluster. Moreover, the boundary of the expression domain of Pannier appears to delimit the proneural cluster laterally, while antagonism of Pannier function by the Zn-finger protein U-shaped sets its limit dorsally. So, Pannier and U-shaped provide positional information for the patterning of the dorsocentral cluster. In contrast and contrary to previous suggestions, Wingless does not play a similar role, since the levels and vectorial orientation of its concentration gradient in the dorsocentral area can be greatly modified without affecting the position of the dorsocentral cluster. Thus, Wingless has only a permissive role on dorsocentral achaete-scute expression. We also provide evidence indicating that Pannier and U-shaped are main effectors of the regulation of wingless expression in the presumptive notum.

The functions ofpannierduringDrosophilaembryogenesis

Development ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 128 (23) ◽  
pp. 4837-4846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector Herranz ◽  
Ginés Morata
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Zinc Finger ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Jnk Pathway ◽  
Zinc Finger Transcription Factor ◽  
Upstream Regulator ◽  
And Function ◽  
Gata Family

The pannier (pnr) gene of Drosophila encodes a zinc-finger transcription factor of the GATA family and is involved in several developmental processes during embryonic and imaginal development. We report some novel aspects of the regulation and function of pnr during embryogenesis. Previous work has shown that pnr is activated by decapentaplegic (dpp) in early development, but we find that after stage 10, the roles are reversed and pnr becomes an upstream regulator of dpp. This function of pnr is necessary for the activation of the Dpp pathway in the epidermal cells implicated in dorsal closure and is not mediated by the JNK pathway, which is also necessary for Dpp activity in these cells. In addition, we show that pnr behaves as a selector-like gene in generating morphological diversity in the dorsoventral body axis. It is responsible for maintaining a subdivision of the dorsal half of the embryo into two distinct, dorsomedial and dorsolateral, regions, and also specifies the identity of the dorsomedial region. These results, together with prior work on its function in adults, suggest that pnr is a major factor in the genetic subdivision of the body of Drosophila.

Retinoic acid establishes ventral retinal characteristics

Development ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.A. Hyatt ◽  
E.A. Schmitt ◽  
N. Marsh-Armstrong ◽  
P. McCaffery ◽  
U.C. Drager ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Retinoic Acid ◽  
Optic Nerve ◽  
Normal Development ◽  
Cell Content ◽  
Optic Stalk ◽  
Eye Field ◽  
Dorsal Retina ◽  
Choroid Fissure

The developing eye is known to be rich in retinoic acid (RA), and perturbations in RA levels during formation of the optic primordia, as well as RA receptor mutations, cause retinal malformations, especially in ventral eye regions. To test the hypothesis that RA plays a role in the establishment of ventral retinal characteristics, we examined several dorsal and ventral ocular markers in RA-treated zebrafish. The optic stalk represents the ventral-most region of the early eye field. During normal development, the optic stalks constrict, decreasing in width and are gradually replaced by the optic nerve. Systemic high RA levels cause an expansion in the optic stalk with an increased cell content and a patent lumen. In addition, the stalks do not constrict and persist into later stages of development indicating an enhancement of early ventral eye characteristics. Expression of the transcription factor pax[b], normally confined to the ventral retina, expands into the dorsal retina following RA treatment, whereas msh[c], normally expressed in the dorsal retinal pole, disappears. Activity of an aldehyde dehydrogenase that normally occupies the dorsal third of the retina is reduced or abolished following high systemic RA. When a localized RA source, an RA-soaked bead, is placed next to the developing eye, a fissure resembling the choroid fissure appears in the eye facing the bead. Taken together, these observations suggest that RA is involved in the determination of the ventral retina.

scholarly journals The secreted protein DEL-1 activates a β3 integrin–FAK–ERK1/2–RUNX2 pathway and promotes osteogenic differentiation and bone regeneration

2020 ◽  
Vol 295 (21) ◽  
pp. 7261-7273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Da-Yo Yuh ◽  
Tomoki Maekawa ◽  
Xiaofei Li ◽  
Tetsuhiro Kajikawa ◽  
Khalil Bdeir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Bone Regeneration ◽  
Osteogenic Differentiation ◽  
Secreted Protein ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Point Mutant ◽  
Rgd Motif ◽  
Β3 Integrin ◽  
Defective Bone

The integrin-binding secreted protein developmental endothelial locus-1 (DEL-1) is involved in the regulation of both the initiation and resolution of inflammation in different diseases, including periodontitis, an oral disorder characterized by inflammatory bone loss. Here, using a mouse model of bone regeneration and in vitro cell-based mechanistic studies, we investigated whether and how DEL-1 can promote alveolar bone regeneration during resolution of experimental periodontitis. Compared with WT mice, mice lacking DEL-1 or expressing a DEL-1 variant with an Asp-to-Glu substitution in the RGD motif (“RGE point mutant”), which does not interact with RGD-dependent integrins, exhibited defective bone regeneration. Local administration of DEL-1 or of its N-terminal segment containing the integrin-binding RGD motif, but not of the RGE point mutant, reversed the defective bone regeneration in the DEL-1–deficient mice. Moreover, DEL-1 (but not the RGE point mutant) promoted osteogenic differentiation of MC3T3-E1 osteoprogenitor cells or of primary calvarial osteoblastic cells in a β3 integrin–dependent manner. The ability of DEL-1 to promote in vitro osteogenesis, indicated by induction of osteogenic genes such as the master transcription factor Runt-related transcription factor-2 (Runx2) and by mineralized nodule formation, depended on its capacity to induce the phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2). We conclude that DEL-1 can activate a β3 integrin–FAK–ERK1/2–RUNX2 pathway in osteoprogenitors and promote new bone formation in mice. These findings suggest that DEL-1 may be therapeutically exploited to restore bone lost due to periodontitis and perhaps other osteolytic conditions.

scholarly journals Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of a Gata-Family Transcription Factor Functions as a Development Timer

2015 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 463a
Author(s):  
Huaqing Cai ◽  
Mariko Katoh-Kurasawa ◽  
Tetsuya Muramoto ◽  
Balaji Santhanam ◽  
Yu Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling ◽  
Gata Family

Osteogenic transcription factor Runx2 is a maternal determinant of dorsoventral patterning in zebrafish

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vega C. Flores ◽  
Enid Yi Ni Lam ◽  
Kathryn E. Crosier ◽  
Philip S. Crosier
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Dorsoventral Patterning

scholarly journals Transcription factor IIIA gene expression in Xenopus oocytes utilizes a transcription factor similar to the major late transcription factor.

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 5003-5011 ◽  
Author(s):  
R K Hall ◽  
W L Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Transcriptional Control ◽  
Somatic Cells ◽  
State Level ◽  
Control Element ◽  
Transcription Factor Iiia ◽  
Shift Analysis ◽  
Late Transcription ◽  
Upstream Element

Xenopus transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA) gene expression is stringently regulated during development. The steady-state level of TFIIIA mRNA in a somatic cell is approximately 10(6) times less than in an immature oocyte. We have undertaken studies designed to identify differences in how the TFIIIA gene is transcribed in oocytes and somatic cells. In this regard, we have localized an upstream transcriptional control element in the TFIIIA promoter that stimulates transcription from the TFIIIA promoter approximately threefold in microinjected oocytes. The upstream element, in cis. does not stimulate transcription from the TFIIIA promoter in somatic cells. Thus, the element appears to be oocyte specific in the context of the TFIIIA promoter. However, both oocytes and somatic cells contain a protein (or a related protein) that binds the upstream element. We have termed this protein from oocytes the TFIIIA distal element factor. The sequence of the upstream element is similar to the sequence of the upstream element found in the adenovirus major late promoter that is a binding site for the major late transcription factor. By gel shift analysis, chemical footprinting, methylation intereference, and point mutation analysis, we demonstrate that the TFIIIA distal element factor and major late transcription factor have similar DNA-binding properties.

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