
pmid: 15458640
Segmentation of the Drosophila embryo is a classic paradigm for pattern formation during development. The Wnt-1 homolog Wingless (Wg) is a key player in the establishment of a segmentally reiterated pattern of cell type specification. The intrasegmental polarity of this pattern depends on the precise positioning of the Wg signaling source anterior to the Engrailed (En)/Hedgehog (Hh) domain. Proper polarity of epidermal segments requires an asymmetric response to the bidirectional Hh signal: wg is activated in cells anterior to the Hh signaling source and is restricted from cells posterior to this signaling source.Here we report that Midline (Mid) and H15, two highly related T box proteins representing the orthologs of zebrafish hrT and mouse Tbx20, are novel negative regulators of wg transcription and act to break the symmetry of Hh signaling. Loss of mid and H15 results in the symmetric outcome of Hh signaling: the establishment of wg domains anterior and posterior to the signaling source predominantly, but not exclusively, in odd-numbered segments. Accordingly, loss of mid and H15 produces defects that mimic a wg gain-of-function phenotype. Misexpression of mid represses wg and produces a weak/moderate wg loss-of-function phenocopy. Furthermore, we show that loss of mid and H15 results in an anterior expansion of the expression of serrate (ser) in every segment, representing a second instance of target gene repression downstream of Hh signaling in the establishment of segment polarity.The data we present here indicate that mid and H15 are important components in pattern formation in the ventral epidermis. In odd-numbered abdominal segments, Mid/H15 activity plays an important role in restricting the expression of Wg to a single domain.
570, Molecular Sequence Data, 590, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, Animals, Drosophila Proteins, Hedgehog Proteins, Serrate-Jagged Proteins, Amino Acid Sequence, Cloning, Molecular, In Situ Hybridization, Body Patterning, Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Calcium-Binding Proteins, Membrane Proteins, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Immunohistochemistry, Gene Expression Regulation, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Drosophila, Sequence Alignment, Jagged-1 Protein, Signal Transduction
570, Molecular Sequence Data, 590, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, Animals, Drosophila Proteins, Hedgehog Proteins, Serrate-Jagged Proteins, Amino Acid Sequence, Cloning, Molecular, In Situ Hybridization, Body Patterning, Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Calcium-Binding Proteins, Membrane Proteins, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Immunohistochemistry, Gene Expression Regulation, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Drosophila, Sequence Alignment, Jagged-1 Protein, Signal Transduction
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