Distinct genetic programs guide Drosophila circular and longitudinal visceral myoblast fusion

BMC Cell Biology

Susanne F Önel²  Anne Holz¹  Renate Renkawitz-Pohl²  Susanne Berger⁶  Michael Pütz⁵  Dörthe Kesper⁷  Georg Wolfstetter⁴  Matthias Jacobs²  Detlev Buttgereit²  Anja Rudolf³ 

[1] Institut für Allgemeine Zoologie und Entwicklungsbiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Stephanstraße 24, Giessen 35390, Germany;Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 8, Marburg 35043, Germany;Present address: INSERM U1016 Institut Cochin, Département Génétique et Développement, 24 Rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris 75014, France;Present address: Department of Molecular Biology, Building 6 L, Umeå University, Umeå 90187, Sweden;Present address: Institute for Neurology, Clinical Neurobiology, FB20 Philipps-Universität Marburg, Baldingerstraße, Marburg 35043, Germany;Present address: Life and Medical Sciences Institute, Universität Bonn, Carl-Troll-Straße 31, Bonn 53115, Germany;Present address: Institute of Pathobiochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 2, Marburg 35043, Germany

关键词: Kette/Nap-1;    Rols;    Blow;    Scar/Wave;    Differential transcriptional control;    Site-specific mRNA localization;    Myoblast fusion;    FuRMAS;    Actin regulation;    Visceral musculature;   

Others  :  1230196
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2121-15-27

 received in 2013-09-10, accepted in 2014-06-25,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

The visceral musculature of Drosophila larvae comprises circular visceral muscles tightly interwoven with longitudinal visceral muscles. During myogenesis, the circular muscles arise by one-to-one fusion of a circular visceral founder cell (FC) with a visceral fusion-competent myoblast (FCM) from the trunk visceral mesoderm, and longitudinal muscles arise from FCs of the caudal visceral mesoderm. Longitudinal FCs migrate anteriorly under guidance of fibroblast growth factors during embryogenesis; it is proposed that they fuse with FCMs from the trunk visceral mesoderm to give rise to syncytia containing up to six nuclei.

Results

Using fluorescence in situ hybridization and immunochemical analyses, we investigated whether these fusion events during migration use the same molecular repertoire and cellular components as fusion-restricted myogenic adhesive structure (FuRMAS), the adhesive signaling center that mediates myoblast fusion in the somatic mesoderm. Longitudinal muscles were formed by the fusion of one FC with Sns-positive FCMs, and defects in FCM specification led to defects in longitudinal muscle formation. At the fusion sites, Duf/Kirre and the adaptor protein Rols7 accumulated in longitudinal FCs, and Blow and F-actin accumulated in FCMs. The accumulation of these four proteins at the fusion sites argues for FuRMAS-like adhesion and signaling centers. Longitudinal fusion was disturbed in rols and blow single, and scar wip double mutants. Mutants of wasp or its interaction partner wip had no defects in longitudinal fusion.

Conclusions

Our results indicated that all embryonic fusion events depend on the same cell-adhesion molecules, but that the need for Rols7 and regulators of F-actin distinctly differs. Rols7 was required for longitudinal visceral and somatic myoblast fusion but not for circular visceral fusion. Importantly, longitudinal fusion depended on Kette and SCAR/Wave but was independent of WASp-dependent Arp2/3 activation. Thus, the complexity of the players involved in muscle formation increases from binucleated circular muscles to longitudinal visceral muscles to somatic muscles.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Rudolf et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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