RRC ID 5655
著者 Sinenko SA, Mandal L, Martinez-Agosto JA, Banerjee U.
タイトル Dual role of wingless signaling in stem-like hematopoietic precursor maintenance in Drosophila.
ジャーナル Dev Cell
Abstract In Drosophila, blood development occurs in a specialized larval hematopoietic organ, the lymph gland (LG), within which stem-like hemocyte precursors or prohemocytes differentiate to multiple blood cell types. Here we show that components of the Wingless (Wg) signaling pathway are expressed in prohemocytes. Loss- and gain-of-function analysis indicates that canonical Wg signaling is required for maintenance of prohemocytes and negatively regulates their differentiation. Wg signals locally in a short-range fashion within different compartments of the LG. In addition, Wg signaling positively regulates the proliferation and maintenance of cells that function as a hematopoietic niche in Drosophila, the posterior signaling center (PSC), and in the proliferation of crystal cells. Our studies reveal a conserved function of Wg signaling in the maintenance of stem-like blood progenitors and reveal an involvement of this pathway in the regulation of hemocyte differentiation through its action in the hematopoietic niche.
巻・号 16(5)
ページ 756-63
公開日 2009-5-1
DOI 10.1016/j.devcel.2009.03.003
PII S1534-5807(09)00093-8
PMID 19460351
PMC PMC2718753
MeSH Animals Cell Proliferation Drosophila / embryology* Drosophila Proteins / metabolism* Embryo, Nonmammalian Frizzled Receptors / metabolism Hemocytes / cytology Hemocytes / metabolism* Signal Transduction* Wnt1 Protein / metabolism*
IF 10.092
引用数 81
WOS 分野 DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CELL BIOLOGY
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