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Development ePress online publication date 16 Mar 2005
doi: 10.1242/dev.01785

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DjPum, a homologue of Drosophila Pumilio, is essential to planarian stem cell maintenance


Alessandra Salvetti, Leonardo Rossi, Annalisa Lena, Renata Batistoni, Paolo Deri, Giuseppe Rainaldi, Maria Teresa Locci, Monica Evangelista, and Vittorio Gremigni*
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As stem cells are rare and difficult to study in vivo in adults, the use of classical models of regeneration to address fundamental aspects of the stem cell biology is emerging. Planarian regeneration, which is based upon totipotent stem cells present in the adult - the so-called neoblasts - provides a unique opportunity to study in vivo the molecular program that defines a stem cell. The choice of a stem cell to self-renew or differentiate involves regulatory molecules that also operate as translational repressors, such as members of PUF proteins. In this study, we identified a homologue of the Drosophila PUF gene Pumilio (DjPum) in the planarian Dugesia japonica, with an expression pattern preferentially restricted to neoblasts. Through RNA interference (RNAi), we demonstrate that gene silencing of DjPum dramatically reduces the number of neoblasts, thus supporting the intriguing hypothesis that stem cell maintenance may be an ancestral function of PUF proteins.
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