Grieder Nicole C, Charlafti Ilias, Kloter Urs, Jäckle Herbert, Schäfer Ulrich, Gehring Walter J
Biozentrum der Universität Basel, Abteilung Zellbiologie, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
Genetics. 2007 Apr;175(4):1707-18. doi: 10.1534/genetics.106.064212. Epub 2006 Dec 18.
To identify novel factors that lead a fly imaginal disc to adopt its developmental fate, we carried out a modular dominant misexpression screen in imaginal discs. We have identified two factors that appear to change the fate of the respective body structure and appear to lead to the transformation of a body part. In one mutant line, notum tissue, normally derived from wing imaginal tissue, formed close to the site of the sternopleural bristles, which are leg disc derivatives. In the other line, the arista is transformed into a tubular structure, resembling an abnormal leg. We found that ectopic expression of abrupt was responsible for this potential transformation of the arista.
为了鉴定导致果蝇成虫盘发育为特定命运的新因子,我们在成虫盘中进行了模块化显性错表达筛选。我们鉴定出了两个因子,它们似乎改变了相应身体结构的命运,并似乎导致了身体部位的转变。在一个突变品系中,通常源自翅成虫组织的背板组织,在位于胸侧板刚毛(腿盘衍生物)的部位附近形成。在另一个品系中,触角转变为管状结构,类似于异常的腿。我们发现,abrupt的异位表达导致了触角的这种潜在转变。