MSP and GLP-1/Notch signaling coordinately regulate actomyosin-dependent cytoplasmic streaming and oocyte growth inC. elegans
| Autor: | J. Amaranath Govindan, E. Jane Albert Hubbard, David Greenstein, Saravanapriah Nadarajan, Marie McGovern |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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endocrine system
Notch signaling pathway Cytoplasmic Streaming Myosins Biology Germline Genes Reporter medicine Animals Caenorhabditis elegans Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins Molecular Biology Research Articles Membrane Glycoproteins Receptors Notch Oocyte activation Helminth Proteins Oocyte Actins Cell biology Cytoplasmic streaming Major sperm protein medicine.anatomical_structure Oocytes Cellularization Signal transduction Signal Transduction Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Development. 136:2223-2234 |
| ISSN: | 1477-9129 0950-1991 |
| Popis: | Fertility depends on germline stem cell proliferation, meiosis and gametogenesis, yet how these key transitions are coordinated is unclear. In C. elegans, we show that GLP-1/Notch signaling functions in the germline to modulate oocyte growth when sperm are available for fertilization and the major sperm protein (MSP) hormone is present. Reduction-of-function mutations in glp-1 cause oocytes to grow abnormally large when MSP is present and Gαs-adenylate cyclase signaling in the gonadal sheath cells is active. By contrast, gain-of-function glp-1 mutations lead to the production of small oocytes. Surprisingly, proper oocyte growth depends on distal tip cell signaling involving the redundant function of GLP-1 ligands LAG-2 and APX-1. GLP-1 signaling also affects two cellular oocyte growth processes, actomyosin-dependent cytoplasmic streaming and oocyte cellularization. glp-1 reduction-of-function mutants exhibit elevated rates of cytoplasmic streaming and delayed cellularization. GLP-1 signaling in oocyte growth depends in part on the downstream function of the FBF-1/2 PUF RNA-binding proteins. Furthermore, abnormal oocyte growth in glp-1 mutants, but not the inappropriate differentiation of germline stem cells, requires the function of the cell death pathway. The data support a model in which GLP-1 function in MSP-dependent oocyte growth is separable from its role in the proliferation versus meiotic entry decision. Thus, two major germline signaling centers, distal GLP-1 activation and proximal MSP signaling, coordinate several spatially and temporally distinct processes by which germline stem cells differentiate into functional oocytes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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