Hormone receptor 4 is required in muscles and distinct ovarian cell types to regulate specific steps of Drosophila oogenesis
| Autor: | Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, Lesley N. Weaver |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0303 health sciences
Gene knockdown Regulator Context (language use) Biology Oogenesis Germline Cell biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nuclear receptor Hormone receptor Stem cell Molecular Biology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 030304 developmental biology Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Development. 148 |
| ISSN: | 1477-9129 0950-1991 |
| Popis: | The conserved nuclear receptor superfamily has crucial roles in many processes, including reproduction. Nuclear receptors with known roles in oogenesis have been studied mostly in the context of their ovary-intrinsic requirement. Recent studies in Drosophila, however, have begun to reveal new roles of nuclear receptor signaling in peripheral tissues in controlling reproduction. Here, we identified Hormone receptor 4 (Hr4) as an oogenesis regulator required in the ovary and muscles. Global Hr4 knockdown leads to increased germline stem cell (GSC) loss, reduced GSC proliferation, early germline cyst death, slowed follicle growth and vitellogenic follicle degeneration. Tissue-specific knockdown experiments uncovered ovary-intrinsic and peripheral tissue requirements for Hr4. In the ovary, Hr4 is required in the niche for GSC proliferation and in the germline for GSC maintenance. Hr4 functions in muscles to promote GSC maintenance and follicle growth. The specific tissues that require Hr4 for survival of early germline cysts and vitellogenic follicles remain unidentified. These results add to the few examples of muscles controlling gametogenesis and expand our understanding of the complexity of nuclear receptor regulation of various aspects of oogenesis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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