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Development, Vol 124, Issue 17 3233-3240, Copyright © 1997 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
DI Strutt and M Mlodzik
Developmental Biology Programme, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. d.strutt@sheffield.ac.uk
Pattern formation in the eye imaginal disc of Drosophila occurs in a wave that moves from posterior to anterior. The anterior edge of this wave is marked by a contracted band of cells known as the morphogenetic furrow, behind which photoreceptors differentiate. The movement of the furrow is dependent upon the secretion of the signalling protein Hedgehog (Hh) by more posterior cells, and it has been suggested that Hh acts as an inductive signal to induce cells to enter a furrow fate and begin differentiation. To further define the role of Hh in this process, we have analysed clones of cells lacking the function of the smoothened (smo) gene, which is required for transduction of the Hh signal and allows the investigation of the autonomous requirement for hh signalling. These experiments demonstrate that the function of hh in furrow progression is indirect. Cells that cannot receive/transduce the Hh signal are still capable of entering a furrow fate and differentiating normally. However, hh is required to promote furrow progression and regulate its rate of movement across the disc, since the furrow is significantly delayed in smo clones.
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