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Development, Vol 121, Issue 8 2611-2620, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists
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A Paululat, S Burchard and R Renkawitz-Pohl
Philipps-Universitat, Marburg, FRG.
The development and differentiation of the body wall musculature in Drosophila are accompanied by changes in gene expression and cellular architecture. We isolated a Drosophila gene, termed rolling stone (rost), which, when mutated, specifically blocks the fusion of mononucleated cells to myotubes in the body wall musculature. beta 3 tubulin, which is an early marker for the onset of mesoderm differentiation, is still expressed in these cells. Gastrulation and mesoderm formation, as well as the development of the epidermis and of the central and peripheral nervous systems, appear quite normal in homozygous rolling stone embryos. Embryonic development stops shortly before hatching in a P-element-induced mutant, as well as in 16 EMS-induced alleles. In mutant embryos, other mesodermal derivatives such as the visceral mesoderm and the dorsal vessel, develop fairly normally and defects are restricted to the body wall musculature. Myoblasts remain as single mononucleated cells, which express muscle myosin, showing that the developmental program of gene expression proceeds. These myoblasts occur at positions corresponding to the locations of dorsal, ventral and pleural muscles, showing that the gene rolling stone is involved in cell fusion, a process that is independent of cell migration in these mutants. This genetic analysis has set the stage for a molecular analysis to clarify where the rolling stone action is manifested in the fusion process and thus gives insight into the complex regulating network controlling the differentiation of the body wall musculature.
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