The Abl pathway bifurcates to balance Enabled and Rac signaling in axon patterning in Drosophila

Autor: Edward Giniger, Akanni Clarke, Tatiana S. Karpova, Madhuri Shivalkar, Benjamin Wang, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Lyudmila Kotlyanskaya, Irina Kuzina, Jeong-Kuen Song, Qun Gu
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Neurogenesis
Genes
Insect

Nerve Tissue Proteins
Biology
Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
Animals
Genetically Modified

03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Protein Domains
hemic and lymphatic diseases
medicine
Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
Animals
Drosophila Proteins
Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors
Spectrin
Axon
Kinase activity
Molecular Biology
Actin
Body Patterning
Neurons
ABL
Signal transducing adaptor protein
Cell migration
Cell Biology
Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
Phosphoproteins
Protein subcellular localization prediction
Axons
Cell biology
rac GTP-Binding Proteins
DNA-Binding Proteins
030104 developmental biology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Drosophila melanogaster
Mutation
Axon guidance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Developmental Biology
Signal Transduction
Research Article
Zdroj: Development (Cambridge, England). 144(3)
ISSN: 1477-9129
Popis: The Abl tyrosine kinase signaling network controls cell migration, epithelial organization, axon patterning and other aspects of development. While individual components are known, the relationships among them remain mysterious. We now use FRET measurements of pathway activity, analysis of protein localization and genetic epistasis to dissect the structure of this network in Drosophila. We find that the adaptor protein Disabled stimulates Abl kinase activity. Abl suppresses the actin regulatory factor Enabled, and we find that Abl also acts through the GEF Trio to stimulate the signaling activity of Rac GTPase: Abl gates the activity of the spectrin repeats of Trio, allowing them to relieve intramolecular repression of Trio GEF activity by the Trio N-terminal domain. Finally, we show that a key target of Abl signaling in axons is the WAVE complex that promotes formation of branched actin networks. Thus, we show that Abl constitutes a bifurcating network, suppressing Ena activity in parallel with stimulation of WAVE. We suggest that the balancing of linear and branched actin networks by Abl is likely to be central to its regulation of axon patterning.
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