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First published online 3 August 2006
doi: 10.1242/dev.02511

Development 133, 3349-3357 (2006)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2006
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Actin capping protein {alpha} maintains vestigial-expressing cells within the Drosophila wing disc epithelium

Florence Janody1,*,{dagger} and Jessica E. Treisman2

1 Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille Luminy, UMR6216 - Case 907, Parc Scientific de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France.
2 Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.

{dagger} Author for correspondence (e-mail: fjanody{at}igc.gulbenkian.pt)

Accepted 26 June 2006

Tissue patterning must be translated into morphogenesis through cell shape changes mediated by remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton. We have found that Capping protein {alpha} (Cpa) and Capping protein ß (Cpb), which prevent extension of the barbed ends of actin filaments, are specifically required in the wing blade primordium of the Drosophila wing disc. cpa or cpb mutant cells in this region, but not in the remainder of the wing disc, are extruded from the epithelium and undergo apoptosis. Excessive actin filament polymerization is not sufficient to explain this phenotype, as loss of Cofilin or Cyclase-associated protein does not cause cell extrusion or death. Misexpression of Vestigial, the transcription factor that specifies the wing blade, both increases cpa transcription and makes cells dependent on cpa for their maintenance in the epithelium. Our results suggest that Vestigial specifies the cytoskeletal changes that lead to morphogenesis of the adult wing.

Key words: Actin, Cytoskeleton, Capping protein, Wing disc, Vestigial, Epithelium, Drosophila




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