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Development, Vol 113, Issue 1 27-33, Copyright © 1991 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
LA Raftery, M Sanicola, RK Blackman and WM Gelbart
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138-2097.
Imaginal disks, the primordia of the adult appendages in Drosophila, are divided into anterior and posterior compartments. However, the developmental role of such compartments remains unclear. The expression of decapentaplegic (dpp), a pattern formation gene required for imaginal disk development, has the intriguing property of being expressed in a line at or near the boundary between these compartments. Here, we compare the distribution of dpp-driven reporter gene expression to the pattern of expression of the engrailed (en) gene, known to be required for the maintenance of the compartment boundary. Using confocal microscopy to obtain single cell resolution, we have determined that the majority of the en+ imaginal disk cells expressing the dpp-driven reporter genes about those cells expressing en, while a small percentage of dpp reporter gene expressing cells also express en. In posterior regions of en mutant disks, where compartmentalization is abnormal, we observe ectopic expression of the dpp-driven reporter genes. We conclude that the pattern of dpp expression in imaginal disks is delimited in part through the direct or indirect repression by engrailed. Our results lead us to question the widely held assumption that the anterior edge of en expression demarcates the A/P compartment boundary.
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