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Development, Vol 120, Issue 1 123-133, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
TV Menne and C Klambt
Universitat zu Koln, Institut fur Entwicklungsbiologie, Germany.
The commissures of the Drosophila central nervous system (CNS) are formed in close relation to the ventral midline cells, a morphologically distinct set of cells located at the midline of the developing CNS. To analyze the function of these cells during commissure formation, we looked for mutations that result in the absence of commissures. One example of a gene that can give rise to such a phenotype is the neurogenic gene Notch. Here we show that mutant Notch embryos are devoid of commissural connections and have an abnormal midline. The midline cells of the embryonic Drosophila CNS are specified during the blastoderm stage about two hours before the first neuroblasts start to delaminate from the neurogenic region. To analyze Notch function for commissure development further, we took advantage of the Notchts1 allele. Temperature-shift experiments demonstrated that the lack of commissures in mutant Notch embryos results from defects in the analage of the CNS midline cells. Here maternal as well as zygotic Notch function are required for the correct activation of the gene single-minded, since mutant Notch embryos derived from germ-line clones lack most of the single-minded-positive midline cells.
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