Asymmetric segregation of the homeodomain protein Prospero during Drosophila development
| Autor: | Yo-ichi Nabeshima, Fumio Matsuzaki, Hideki Nakagoshi, Joe Hirata |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Cytoplasm
animal structures Cellular differentiation Recombinant Fusion Proteins Molecular Sequence Data Nerve Tissue Proteins Neuroblast division Neuroblast Escherichia coli Animals Drosophila Proteins Amino Acid Sequence RNA Messenger Mitosis Asymmetric stem cell division Genetics Cell Nucleus Homeodomain Proteins Neurons Multidisciplinary Binding Sites biology Apical cortex Cell Cycle Nuclear Proteins Prospero biology.organism_classification beta-Galactosidase Cell biology Ganglia Invertebrate Drosophila Ganglion mother cell Cell Division Transcription Factors |
| Zdroj: | Nature. 377(6550) |
| ISSN: | 0028-0836 |
| Popis: | ASYMMETRIC divisions that produce two distinct cells play fundamental roles in generating different cell types during development1,2. In the Drosophilacentral nervous system, neural stem cells called neuroblasts divide unequally into another neuro-blast and a ganglion mother cell which is subsequently cleaved into neurons. Correct gene expression of ganglion mother cells requires the transcription factor Prospero3a¤-5. Here we demonstrate the asymmetric segregation of Prospero on neuroblast division. Prospero synthesized in neuroblasts is retained in the cytoplasm and at mitosis is exclusively partitioned to ganglion mother cells, in which it is translocated to the nucleus. Differential segregation of Prospero was also found in the endoderm. We have identified a region in Prospero that is responsible for this event. The region shares a common motif with Numb6, which also shows unequal segregation7. We propose that asymmetric segregation of transcription factors is an intrinsic mechanism for establishing asymmetry in gene expression between sibling cells. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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