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Wash functions downstream of Rho1 GTPase in a subset of Drosophila immune cell developmental migrations.


ABSTRACT: Drosophila immune cells, the hemocytes, undergo four stereotypical developmental migrations to populate the embryo, where they provide immune reconnoitering, as well as a number of non-immune-related functions necessary for proper embryogenesis. Here, we describe a role for Rho1 in one of these developmental migrations in which posteriorly located hemocytes migrate toward the head. This migration requires the interaction of Rho1 with its downstream effector Wash, a Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome family protein. Both Wash knockdown and a Rho1 transgene harboring a mutation that prevents Wash binding exhibit the same developmental migratory defect as Rho1 knockdown. Wash activates the Arp2/3 complex, whose activity is needed for this migration, whereas members of the WASH regulatory complex (SWIP, Strumpellin, and CCDC53) are not. Our results suggest a WASH complex-independent signaling pathway to regulate the cytoskeleton during a subset of hemocyte developmental migrations.

SUBMITTER: Verboon JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4436778 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Wash functions downstream of Rho1 GTPase in a subset of Drosophila immune cell developmental migrations.

Verboon Jeffrey M JM   Rahe Travis K TK   Rodriguez-Mesa Evelyn E   Parkhurst Susan M SM  

Molecular biology of the cell 20150304 9


Drosophila immune cells, the hemocytes, undergo four stereotypical developmental migrations to populate the embryo, where they provide immune reconnoitering, as well as a number of non-immune-related functions necessary for proper embryogenesis. Here, we describe a role for Rho1 in one of these developmental migrations in which posteriorly located hemocytes migrate toward the head. This migration requires the interaction of Rho1 with its downstream effector Wash, a Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome famil  ...[more]

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