Fig. 7. Reducing Dia function destabilizes AJs. Drosophila embryos:
anterior leftwards, genotypes and antigens indicated. (A,B) Wild
type. (C,D,I) Zygotically-rescued dia5M.
(E-H) dia5M/Z; note less continuous AJs.
(I-K) DE-cad. (J-K) dia5M/Z. (I2,J2 insets)
Cross-sections. (L) Immunoblot showing 6-8 hour wild-type and
dia5M/Z embryo extracts.
-tubulin is used as a
loading control.
(M-N',P,P',R-S')
dia5M/Z. (O,Q,Q') Wild-type.
(P,P') Increased apical Rab5-positive vesicles; some colocalize with
DE-cad (arrows, lines). (R,S) Abnormal cortical blebbing (arrows). Scale bars:
20 µm.