原文摘要: Cytoneme-Mediated Contact-Dependent Transport of the DrosophilaDecapentaplegic Signaling Protein Sougata Roy, Hai Huang, Songmei Liu, Thomas B. Kornberg Decapentaplegic
(Dpp), a Drosophila morphogen signaling protein, transfers directly at
synapses made at sites of contact between cells that produce Dpp and
cytonemes that extend from recipient cells. The Dpp that cytonemes
receive moves together with activated receptors toward the recipient
cell body in motile puncta. Genetic loss-of-function conditions for
diaphanous, shibire, neuroglian and capricious perturbed cytonemes by
reducing their number or only the synapses they make with cells they
target; and reduced cytoneme-mediated transport of Dpp and Dpp
signaling. These experiments provide direct evidence that cells use
cytonemes to exchange signaling proteins, that cytoneme-based exchange
is essential for signaling and normal development, and that morphogen
distribution and signaling can be contact-dependent, requiring cytoneme
synapses.