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Coupling between dynamic 3D tissue architecture and BMP morphogen signaling during Drosophila wing morphogenesis.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Gui, Jinghua 
Huang, Yunxian 
Montanari, Martin 
Toddie-Moore, Daniel  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8043-9763
Kikushima, Kenji 

Abstract

At the level of organ formation, tissue morphogenesis drives developmental processes in animals, often involving the rearrangement of two-dimensional (2D) structures into more complex three-dimensional (3D) tissues. These processes can be directed by growth factor signaling pathways. However, little is known about how such morphological changes affect the spatiotemporal distribution of growth factor signaling. Here, using the Drosophila pupal wing, we address how decapentaplegic (Dpp)/bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling and 3D wing morphogenesis are coordinated. Dpp, expressed in the longitudinal veins (LVs) of the pupal wing, initially diffuses laterally within both dorsal and ventral wing epithelia during the inflation stage to regulate cell proliferation. Dpp localization is then refined to the LVs within each epithelial plane, but with active interplanar signaling for vein patterning/differentiation, as the two epithelia appose. Our data further suggest that the 3D architecture of the wing epithelia and the spatial distribution of BMP signaling are tightly coupled, revealing that 3D morphogenesis is an emergent property of the interactions between extracellular signaling and tissue shape changes.

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Keywords

bone morphogenetic protein, drosophila, epithelial morphogenesis, live-imaging, three-dimensional architecture, Animals, Bone Morphogenetic Proteins, Cell Differentiation, Cell Proliferation, Drosophila Proteins, Drosophila melanogaster, Epithelium, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Morphogenesis, Signal Transduction, Wings, Animal

Journal Title

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

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0027-8424
1091-6490

Volume Title

116

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences