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Development 129, 5697-5706 (2002)
Copyright © 2002 The Company of Biologists Limited

The ubiquitin ligase Hyperplastic discs negatively regulates hedgehog and decapentaplegic expression by independent mechanisms

Jeffrey D. Lee1, Kazuhito Amanai2,*, Allen Shearn2 and Jessica E. Treisman1,{dagger}

1 Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, 540 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
2 Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
* Present address: Center for Developmental Biology and Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 6000 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA

{dagger} Author for correspondence (e-mail: treisman{at}saturn.med.nyu.edu)

Accepted 16 September 2002

Photoreceptor differentiation in the Drosophila eye disc progresses from posterior to anterior in a wave driven by the Hedgehog and Decapentaplegic signals. Cells mutant for the hyperplastic discs gene misexpress both of these signaling molecules in anterior regions of the disc, leading to premature photoreceptor differentiation and overgrowth of surrounding tissue. The two genes are independently regulated by hyperplastic discs; decapentaplegic can still be misexpressed in cells mutant for both hyperplastic discs and hedgehog, and a repressor form of the transcription factor Cubitus interruptus can block decapentaplegic misexpression but not hedgehog misexpression. Loss of hyperplastic discs causes the accumulation of full-length Cubitus interruptus protein, but not of Smoothened, in both the eye and wing discs. hyperplastic discs encodes a HECT domain E3 ubiquitin ligase that is likely to act by targeting Cubitus interruptus and an unknown activator of hedgehog expression for proteolysis.

Key words: Ubiquitin, Morphogenetic furrow, hedgehog, Cubitus interruptus, slmb, Drosophila melanogaster


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