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Regulation of CNS and motor axon guidance in Drosophila by the receptor tyrosine phosphatase DPTP52F

Benno Schindelholz^1,*, Matthias Knirr^1,, Rahul Warrior² and Kai Zinn^1,

¹ Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
² Department of Biology, University of Southern California, 835 W 37^th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
^* Present address: The Genetics Company, Winterthurstr. 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Present address: Friedrich-Miescher-Labor der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Spemannstr. 37, D-72070 Tübingen, Germany

Author for correspondence (e-mail: zinnk{at}its.caltech.edu)

Accepted August 10, 2001

Receptor-linked protein tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) regulate axon guidance and synaptogenesis in Drosophila embryos and larvae. We describe DPTP52F, the sixth RPTP to be discovered in Drosophila. Our genomic analysis indicates that there are likely to be no additional RPTPs encoded in the fly genome. Five of the six Drosophila RPTPs have C. elegans counterparts, and three of the six are also orthologous to human RPTP subfamilies. DPTP52F, however, has no clear orthologs in other organisms. The DPTP52F extracellular domain contains five fibronectin type III repeats and it has a single phosphatase domain. DPTP52F is selectively expressed in the CNS of late embryos, as are DPTP10D, DLAR, DPTP69D and DPTP99A. To define developmental roles of DPTP52F, we used RNA interference (RNAi)-induced phenotypes as a guide to identify Ptp52F alleles among a collection of EMS-induced lethal mutations. Ptp52F single mutant embryos have axon guidance phenotypes that affect CNS longitudinal tracts. This phenotype is suppressed in Dlar Ptp52F double mutants, indicating that DPTP52F and DLAR interact competitively in regulating CNS axon guidance decisions. Ptp52F single mutations also cause motor axon phenotypes that selectively affect the SNa nerve. DPTP52F, DPTP10D and DPTP69D have partially redundant roles in regulation of guidance decisions made by axons within the ISN and ISNb motor nerves.

Key words: Receptor tyrosine phosphatase, PTP, Drosophila, Neural development, Axon guidance, Neuromuscular system, Genomics, Motor axon, RNAi

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