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Brittle A, Warrington SJ, Strutt H, Manning E, Tan SE, Strutt D. Distinct mechanisms of planar polarization by the core and Fat-Dachsous planar polarity pathways in the Drosophila wing. Cell Rep 2022; 40:111419. [PMID: 36170824 PMCID: PMC9631118 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Planar polarity describes the coordinated polarization of cells within a tissue plane, and in animals can be determined by the “core” or Fat-Dachsous pathways. Current models for planar polarity establishment involve two components: tissue-level “global” cues that determine the overall axis of polarity and cell-level feedback-mediated cellular polarity amplification. Here, we investigate the contributions of global cues versus cellular feedback amplification in the core and Fat-Dachsous pathways during Drosophila pupal wing development. We present evidence that these pathways generate planar polarity via distinct mechanisms. Core pathway function is consistent with strong feedback capable of self-organizing cell polarity, which can then be aligned with the tissue axis via weak or transient global cues. Conversely, generation of cell polarity by the Ft-Ds pathway depends on strong global cues in the form of graded patterns of gene expression, which can then be amplified by weak feedback mechanisms. The core and Fat-Dachsous planar polarity pathways function via distinct mechanisms The core can self-organize planar polarity and be oriented by weak upstream cues Fat-Dachsous are oriented by strong gradient cues but show poor self-organization
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- Amy Brittle
- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
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The Drosophila wing imaginal disc is a tissue of undifferentiated cells that are precursors of the wing and most of the notum of the adult fly. The wing disc first forms during embryogenesis from a cluster of ∼30 cells located in the second thoracic segment, which invaginate to form a sac-like structure. They undergo extensive proliferation during larval stages to form a mature larval wing disc of ∼35,000 cells. During this time, distinct cell fates are assigned to different regions, and the wing disc develops a complex morphology. Finally, during pupal stages the wing disc undergoes morphogenetic processes and then differentiates to form the adult wing and notum. While the bulk of the wing disc comprises epithelial cells, it also includes neurons and glia, and is associated with tracheal cells and muscle precursor cells. The relative simplicity and accessibility of the wing disc, combined with the wealth of genetic tools available in Drosophila, have combined to make it a premier system for identifying genes and deciphering systems that play crucial roles in animal development. Studies in wing imaginal discs have made key contributions to many areas of biology, including tissue patterning, signal transduction, growth control, regeneration, planar cell polarity, morphogenesis, and tissue mechanics.
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- Bipin Kumar Tripathi
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Muñoz-Nava LM, Alvarez HA, Flores-Flores M, Chara O, Nahmad M. A dynamic cell recruitment process drives growth of the Drosophila wing by overscaling the vestigial expression pattern. Dev Biol 2020; 462:141-151. [PMID: 32197891 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2020.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Revised: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Organs mainly attain their size by cell growth and proliferation, but sometimes also grow through recruitment of undifferentiated cells. Here we investigate the participation of cell recruitment in establishing the pattern of Vestigial (Vg), the product of the wing selector gene in Drosophila. We find that the Vg pattern overscales along the dorsal-ventral (DV) axis of the wing imaginal disc, i.e., it expands faster than the DV length of the pouch. The overscaling of the Vg pattern cannot be explained by differential proliferation, apoptosis, or oriented-cell divisions, but can be recapitulated by a mathematical model that explicitly considers cell recruitment. When impairing cell recruitment genetically, we find that the Vg pattern almost perfectly scales and adult wings are approximately 20% smaller. Conversely, impairing cell proliferation results in very small wings, suggesting that cell recruitment and cell proliferation additively contribute to organ growth in this system. Furthermore, using fluorescent reporter tools, we provide direct evidence that cell recruitment is initiated between early and mid third-instar larval development. Altogether, our work quantitatively shows when, how, and by how much cell recruitment shapes the Vg pattern and drives growth of the Drosophila wing.
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- Luis Manuel Muñoz-Nava
- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Neurosciences, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnical Institute (Cinvestav-IPN), Mexico City, 07360, Mexico
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- Systems Biology Group (SysBio), Institute of Physics of Liquids and Biological Systems (IFLYSIB), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, B1900BTE, Argentina; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, 1900, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Neurosciences, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnical Institute (Cinvestav-IPN), Mexico City, 07360, Mexico
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- Systems Biology Group (SysBio), Institute of Physics of Liquids and Biological Systems (IFLYSIB), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, B1900BTE, Argentina; Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Dresden, 01069, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Neurosciences, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnical Institute (Cinvestav-IPN), Mexico City, 07360, Mexico.
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Lander AD, Nie Q, Sanchez-Tapia C, Simonyan A, Wan FYM. Regulatory feedback on receptor and non-receptor synthesis for robust signaling. Dev Dyn 2020; 249:383-409. [PMID: 32034817 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Elaborate regulatory feedback processes are thought to make biological development robust, that is, resistant to changes induced by genetic or environmental perturbations. How this might be done is still not completely understood. Previous numerical simulations on reaction-diffusion models of Dpp gradients in Drosophila wing imaginal disc have showed that feedback (of the Hill function type) on (signaling) receptors and/or non-(signaling) receptors are of limited effectiveness in promoting robustness. Spatial nonuniformity of the feedback processes has also been shown theoretically to lead to serious shape distortion and a principal cause for ineffectiveness. Through mathematical modeling and analysis, the present article shows that spatially uniform nonlocal feedback mechanisms typically modify gradient shape through a shape parameter (that does not change with location). This in turn enables us to uncover new multi-feedback instrument for effective promotion of robust signaling gradients.
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- Arthur D Lander
- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.,Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS), University of California Irvine, Irvine, California
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.,Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS), University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.,Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.,NSF-Simon Center for Multiscale Cell Fate (CMCF), University of California Irvine, Irvine, California
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- Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.,Geffen Academy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California
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Fat/Dachsous family cadherins in cell and tissue organisation. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2020; 62:96-103. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2019.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Gou J, Lin L, Othmer HG. A Model for the Hippo Pathway in the Drosophila Wing Disc. Biophys J 2018; 115:737-747. [PMID: 30041810 PMCID: PMC6103738 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2018] [Revised: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Although significant progress has been made toward understanding morphogen-mediated patterning in development, control of the size and shape of tissues via local and global signaling is poorly understood. In particular, little is known about how cell-cell interactions are involved in the control of tissue size. The Hippo pathway in the Drosophila wing disc involves cell-cell interactions via cadherins, which lead to modulation of Yorkie, a cotranscriptional factor that affects control of the cell cycle and growth, and studies involving over- and underexpression of components of this pathway reveal conditions that lead to tissue over- or undergrowth. Here, we develop a mathematical model of the Hippo pathway that can qualitatively explain these observations, made in both whole-disc mutants and mutant-clone experiments. We find that a number of nonintuitive experimental results can be explained by subtle changes in the balances between inputs to the Hippo pathway and suggest some predictions that can be tested experimentally. We also show that certain components of the pathway are polarized at the single-cell level, which replicates observations of planar cell polarity. Because the signal transduction and growth control pathways are highly conserved between Drosophila and mammalian systems, the model we formulate can be used as a framework to guide future experimental work on the Hippo pathway in both Drosophila and mammalian systems.
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- Jia Gou
- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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