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The Drosophila actin regulator ENABLED regulates cell shape and orientation during gonad morphogenesis.


ABSTRACT: Organs develop distinctive morphologies to fulfill their unique functions. We used Drosophila embryonic gonads as a model to study how two different cell lineages, primordial germ cells (PGCs) and somatic gonadal precursors (SGPs), combine to form one organ. We developed a membrane GFP marker to image SGP behaviors live. These studies show that a combination of SGP cell shape changes and inward movement of anterior and posterior SGPs leads to the compaction of the spherical gonad. This process is disrupted in mutants of the actin regulator, enabled (ena). We show that Ena coordinates these cell shape changes and the inward movement of the SGPs, and Ena affects the intracellular localization of DE-cadherin (DE-cad). Mathematical simulation based on these observations suggests that changes in DE-cad localization can generate the forces needed to compact an elongated structure into a sphere. We propose that Ena regulates force balance in the SGPs by sequestering DE-cad, leading to the morphogenetic movement required for gonad compaction.

SUBMITTER: Sano H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3530444 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Drosophila actin regulator ENABLED regulates cell shape and orientation during gonad morphogenesis.

Sano Hiroko H   Kunwar Prabhat S PS   Renault Andrew D AD   Barbosa Vitor V   Clark Ivan B N IB   Ishihara Shuji S   Sugimura Kaoru K   Lehmann Ruth R  

PloS one 20121226 12


Organs develop distinctive morphologies to fulfill their unique functions. We used Drosophila embryonic gonads as a model to study how two different cell lineages, primordial germ cells (PGCs) and somatic gonadal precursors (SGPs), combine to form one organ. We developed a membrane GFP marker to image SGP behaviors live. These studies show that a combination of SGP cell shape changes and inward movement of anterior and posterior SGPs leads to the compaction of the spherical gonad. This process i  ...[more]

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