Rhomboid function in the midline of the Drosophila CNS

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 321-330

  Lanoue, Brad R ^a   Jacobs, J Roger ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila; EGF receptor; Glia; Midline; Rhomboid; Spitz

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HEAT SHOCK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0032715588     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1999)25:4<321::AID-DVG6>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Bergmann A, Agapite J, McCall K, Steller H. 1998. The Drosophila gene hid is a direct molecular target of ras-dependent survival signaling. Cell 95:331-341.
2. Bier E, Jan L, Jan Y. 1990. rhomboid, a gene required for dorsoventral axis establishment and peripheral nervous system development in Drosophila. Genes Dev 4:190-203.
3. Buff E, Carmena A, Gisselbrecht S, Jimenez F, Michelson AM. 1998. Signalling by the Drosophila epidermal growth factor receptor is required for the specification and diversification of embryonic muscle progenitors. Development 125:2075-2086.
4. Dong R, Jacobs JR. 1997. Origin and differentiation of supernumerary midline glia in Drosophila embryos deficient for apoptosis. Dev Biol 190:165-177.
5. Freeman M. 1994. The spitz gene is required for photoreceptor determination in the Drosophila eye where it interacts with EGF receptor. Mech Dev 48:25-33.
6. Freeman M. 1996. Reiterative use of the EGF receptor triggers differentiation of all cell types in the Drosophila eye. Cell 87:651-660.
7. Freeman M, Kimmel BE, Rubin GM. 1992. Identifying targets of the rough homeobox gene of Drosophila: evidence that rhomboid functions in eye development. Development 116:335-346.
8. Gabay L, Scholz H, Golembo M, Klaes A, Shilo BZ, Klämbt C. 1996. EGF receptor signaling induces pointed P1 transcription and inactivates Yan protein in the Drosophila embryonic ventral ectoderm. Development 122:3355-3362.
9. Golembo M, Schweitzer R, Freeman M, Shilo BZ. 1996a. Argos transcription is induced by the Drosophila EGF receptor pathway to form an inhibitory feedback loop. Development 122:223-230.
10. Golembo M, Raz E, Shilo B-Z. 1996b. The Drosophila embryonic midline is the site of Spitz processing and induces activation of the EGF receptor in the ventral ectoderm. Development 122:3363-3370.
11. Guichard A, Biehs B, Sturtevant MA, Wickline L, Chacko J, Howard K, Bier E. 1999. rhomboid and Star interact synergistically to promote EGFR/MAPK signaling during Drosophila wing vein development. Development 1126:2663-2676.
12. Kerber B, Fellert S, Hoch M. 1998. Seven-up, the Drosophila homolog of the COUP-TF orphan receptors, controls cell proliferation in the insect kidney. Genes Dev 12:1781-1786.
13. Kramer S, Okabe M, Hacohen N, Krasnow MA, Hiromi Y. 1999. Sprouty: a common antagonist of FGF and EGF signaling pathways in Drosophila. Development 126:2515-2525.
14. Kurada P, White K. 1998. Ras promotes cell survival in Drosophila by downregulating hid expression. Cell 95:319-329.
15. Lage P, Jan YN, Jarman AP. 1997. Requirement for EGF receptor signalling in neural recruitment during formation of Drosophila chordotonal sense organ clusters [see comments]. Curr Biol 7:166-175.
16. Mayer U, Nüsslein-Volhard C. 1988. A group of genes required for pattern formation in the ventral ectoderm of the Drosophila embryo. Genes Dev 2:1496-1511.
17. Mellerick DM, Nirenberg M. 1995. Dorsal-ventral patterning genes restrict NK-2 homeobox gene expression to the ventral half of the central nervous system of Drosophila embryos. Dev Biol 171:306-316.
18. Morimoto AM, Jordan KC, Tietze K, Britton JS, O'Neill EM, Ruohola-Baker H. 1996. Pointed, an ETS domain transcription factor, negatively regulates the EGF receptor pathway in Drosophila oogenesis. Development 122:3745-3754.
19. Noll R, Sturtevant MA, Gollapudi RR, Bier E. 1994. New functions of the Drosophila rhomboid gene during embryonic and adult development are revealed by a novel genetic method, enhancer piracy. Development 120:2329-2338.
20. Noordermeer JN, Kopczynski CC, Fetter RD, Bland KS, Chen W-Y, Goodman CS. 1998. Wrapper, a novel member of the Ig superfamily, is expressed by midline glia and is required for them to ensheath commissural axons in Drosophila. Neuron 21:991-1001.
21. Nüsslein-Volhard C, Wieschaus E, Kluding H. 1984. Mutations affecting the pattern of the larval cuticle in Drosophila melanogaster I. Zygotic loci on the second chromosome. Rouxs Arch Dev Biol 193:267-282.
22. O'Keefe L, Dougan ST, Gabay L, Raz E, Shilo BZ, DiNardo S. 1997. Spitz and Wingless, emanating from distinct borders, cooperate to establish cell fate across the Engrailed domain in the Drosophila epidermis. Development 124:4837-4845.
23. Okabe M, Okano H. 1997. Two-step induction of chordotonal organ precursors in Drosophila embryogenesis. Development 124:1045-1053.
24. Pascall JC, Brown KD. 1998. Characterization of a mammalian cDNA encoding a protein with high sequence similarity to the Drosophila regulatory protein Rhomboid. FEBS Lett 429:337-340.
25. Patel N. 1994. Imaging neuronal subsets and other cell types in Whole-mount Drosophila embryos and larvae using antibody probes. Methods Cell Biol 44:445-505.
26. Perrimon N, Perkins LA. 1997. There must be 50 ways to rule the signal: the case of the Drosophila EGF receptor. Cell 89:13-16.
27. Perz MJ. 1994. The midline glia lineage in the post embryonic fly Drosophila. MSc thesis. Hamilton, ON: McMaster University.
28. Pickup A, Banerjee U. 1999. The role of Star in the production of an activated ligand for the EGF receptor signaling pathway. Dev Biol 205:254-259.
29. Raz E, Shilo BZ. 1993. Establishment of ventral cell fates in the Drosophila embryonic ectoderm requires DER, the EGF receptor homolog. Genes Dev 7:1937-1948.
30. Ruohola-Baker H, Grell E, Chou T-B, Baker D, Jan LY, Jan YN. 1993. Spatially localized rhomboid is required for establishment of the dorsal-ventral axis in Drosophila oogenesis. Cell 73:953-965.
31. Rutledge B, Zhang K, Bier E, Jan Y, Perrimon N. 1992. The Drosophila spitz gene encodes a putative EGF-like growth factor involved in dorsal-ventral axis formation and neurogenesis. Genes Dev 6:1503-1517.
32. Sapir A, Schweitzer R, Shilo BZ. 1998. Sequential activation of the EGF receptor pathway during Drosophila oogenesis establishes the dorsoventral axis. Development 125:191-200.
33. Scholz H, Sadlowski E, Klaes A, Klämbt C. 1997. Control of midline glia development in the embryonic Drosophila CNS [corrected and republished in Mech Dev 1997 Jun;64(1-2):137-151]. Mech Dev 62:79-91.
34. Scholz H, Sadlowski E, Klaes A, Klämbt C. 1997. Control of midline glia development in the embryonic Drosophila CNS [corrected and republished in Mech Dev 1997 Jun;64(1-2):137-151]. Mech Dev 62:79-91.
35. Schweitzer R, Saharabany M, Seger R, Shilo BZ. 1995. Secreted spitz triggers the DER signaling pathway and is a limiting component in embryonic ventral ectoderm determination. Genes Dev 9:1519-1529.
36. Simcox A. 1997. Differential requirement for EGF-like ligands in Drosophila wing development. Mech Dev 62:41-50.
37. Skeath JB. 1998. The Drosophila EGF receptor controls the formation and specification of neuroblasts along the dorsal-ventral axis of the Drosophila embryo. Development 125:3301-3312.
38. Sonnenfeld MJ, Jacobs JR. 1994. Mesectodermal cell fate analysis in Drosophila midline mutants. Mech Dev 46:3-13.
39. Sonnenfeld MJ, Jacobs JR. 1995. Apoptosis of the midline glia during Drosophila embryogenesis: a correlation with axon contact. Development 121:569-578.
40. Stemerdink C, Jacobs JR. 1997. Argos and Spitz group genes function to regulate midline glial cell number in Drosophila embryos. Development 124:3787-3796.
41. Sturtevant MA, Bier E. 1995. Analysis of the genetic hierarchy guiding wing vein development in Drosophila. Development 121:785-801.
42. Sturtevant MA, O'Neill JW, Bier E. 1994. Down-regulation of Drosophila Egf-r mRNA levels following hyperactivated receptor signaling. Development 120:2593-2600.
43. Sturtevant MA, Roark M, Bier E. 1993. The Drosophila rhomboid gene mediates the localised formation of wing veins and interacts genetically with components of the EGF-R signaling pathway. Genes Dev 7:961-973.
44. Sturtevant MA, Roark M, O'Neill JW, Biehs B, Colley N, Bier E. 1996. The Drosophila rhomboid protein is concentrated in patches at the apical cell surface. Dev Biol 174:298-309.
45. Tautz D, Pfeifle C. 1989. A non-radioactive in situ hybridisation method for the localisation of specific RNAs in Drosophila embryos reveals translational control of the segmentation gene hunchback. Chromosoma 98:81-85.
46. Wasserman JD, Freeman M. 1998. An autoregulatory cascade of EGF receptor signaling patterns the Drosophila egg. Cell 95:355-364.
47. Xiao H, Hrdlicka LA, Nambu JR. 1996. Alternate functions of the single-minded and rhomboid genes in development of the Drosophila ventral neuroectoderm. Mech Dev 58:65-74.
48. Yarnitzky T, Min L, Volk T. 1997. The Drosophila neuregulin homolog Vein mediates inductive interactions between myotubes and their epidermal attachment cells. Genes Dev 11:2691-2700.
49. Zhou L, Xiao H, Nambu JR. 1997. CNS midline to mesoderm signaling in Drosophila. Mech Dev 67:59-68.