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Development, Vol 122, Issue 11 3639-3650, Copyright © 1996 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
MK Larkin, K Holder, C Yost, E Giniger and H Ruohola-Baker
Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7350, USA.
During early development, there are numerous instances where a bipotent progenitor divides to give rise to two progeny cells with different fates. The Notch gene of Drosophila and its homologues in other metazoans have been implicated in many of these cell fate decisions. It has been argued that the role of Notch in such instances may be to maintain cells in a precursor state susceptible to specific differentiating signals. This has been difficult to prove, however, due to a lack of definitive markers for precursor identity. We here perform molecular and morphological analyses of the roles of Notch in ovarian follicle cells during Drosophila oogenesis. These studies show directly that constitutively active Notch arrests cells at a precursor stage, while the loss of Notch function eliminates this stage. Expression of moderate levels of activated Notch leads to partial transformation of cell fates, as found in other systems, and we show that this milder phenotype correlates with a prolonged, but still transient, precursor stage. We also find that expression of constitutively active Notch in follicle cells at later stages leads to a defect in the anterior-posterior axis of the oocyte.
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