Fig. 4. Arrow knockdown causes intracellular Wg accumulation and loss of Wg
signaling. (A) Anti-Arrow staining of wing disc with arrow
RNAi induced in the dorsal compartment. Dorsal cells lack Arrow, except in
four small clones that failed to excise the HcRed cassette and initiate RNAi
(imaged using higher gain than Fig.
5C to maximize residual Arrow detection). (B) Top panel
shows a control wing. Middle panel shows a wing from a fly that emerged 6 days
after arrow RNAi induction in the posterior compartment. Lower panel
shows a wing from a fly that emerged 6 days after induction of GFP-Dlp
overexpression in the posterior compartment. (C) Projection of 12
confocal sections 1 µm apart from a disc that expressed arrow RNAi
in the dorsal compartment for 48 hours, stained for Wg. (D) Single
confocal section of the disc shown in (C) showing Wg, CFPRab5 and YFPRab7.
Yellow arrowheads show examples of co-localization between Wg and endosomes.
Scale bar: 20 µm.