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First published online 13 December 2006
doi: 10.1242/dev.02737

Development 134, 327-334 (2007)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2007
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Hox control of morphogen mobility and organ development through regulation of glypican expression

Michael A. Crickmore1 and Richard S. Mann2,*

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, HHSC 1104, 701 W. 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.

* Author for correspondence (e-mail: rsm10{at}columbia.edu)

Accepted 13 November 2006

Animal bodies are composed of structures that vary in size and shape within and between species. Selector genes generate these differences by altering the expression of effector genes whose identities are largely unknown. Prime candidates for such effector genes are components of morphogen signaling pathways, which control growth and patterning during development. Here we show that in Drosophila the Hox selector gene Ultrabithorax (Ubx) modulates morphogen signaling in the haltere through transcriptional regulation of the glypican dally. Ubx, in combination with the posterior selector gene engrailed (en), represses dally expression in the posterior (P) compartment of the haltere. Compared with the serially homologous wing, where Ubx is not expressed, low levels of posterior dally in the haltere contribute to a reduced P compartment size and an overall smaller appendage size. We also show that one molecular consequence of dally repression in the posterior haltere is to reduce Dpp diffusion into and through the P compartment. Our results suggest that Dpp mobility is biased towards cells with higher levels of Dally and that selector genes modulate organ development by regulating glypican levels.

Key words: Drosophila, P-Mad, BMP, dally, Organ size, Decapentaplegic, HSPG




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