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Development, Vol 110, Issue 1 239-248, Copyright © 1990 by Company of Biologists

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Ecdysone-dependent proteolysis of an apical surface glycoprotein may play a role in imaginal disc morphogenesis in Drosophila

CA Birr, D Fristrom, DS King and JW Fristrom
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

An apical surface glycoprotein, designated gp125 for its apparent molecular weight of 125,000, appears in Ca2(+)-free, ionic detergent extracts of imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster in response to the steroid hormone, 20-hydroxyecdysone (20-HE). Gp125 is not synthesized in response to 20-HE, but results from modification of an existing macromolecule. Treatment of discs or larval epidermis with serine protease (e.g., trypsin) results in hormone-independent production of gp125. Antiserum raised to electrophoretically purified gp125 recognizes, in addition to gp125, two closely related glycoproteins with higher apparent molecular weights, gp200 and gp180. This family of glycoproteins is localized at the apical surface of imaginal disc cells and of the epidermal epithelium in embryos, larvae and prepupae. Ca2+ affects both the solubility and the proteolytic products of this family of glycoproteins. We discuss the possibility that gp125 is generated through the action of a hormonally controlled serine protease in a process that is necessary for disc morphogenesis.


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