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Development, Vol 100, Issue 1 163-170, Copyright © 1987 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Cell polarity during wound healing in an insect epidermis

K Nubler-Jung, R Bonitz and M Sonnenschein
Institut fur Biologie I (Zoologie) der Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg, West Germany.

The insect integument displays uniform posterior orientation of cuticular denticles or bristles formed by the epidermal cells. We want to understand how cell polarities become uniformly oriented in the plane of the epidermal sheet. Here we test whether directed cell migration disturbs the orientation of denticles. Burning a circular area of epidermal cells beneath the cuticle causes cells to migrate into the resulting wound and the cuticle pattern observed after the subsequent moult depends on the time interval between burning and ecdysis. After a short wound-healing period cuticular protrusions tend to point away from the wound. With increasing would healing periods they tend to point more and more towards the wound centre. These results suggest that the migrating cells tend to orient cuticular protrusions in the direction of cell movement while continued cell movement will bend nascent cuticular protrusions outwards. Cell shape may also determine denticle orientation. I propose that the asymmetric localization of cell components known to determine the orientation of cell migration may also determine denticle orientation in insect epidermal cells.


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