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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
14
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-6-23
pubmed:abstractText
Brain development in Drosophila is characterized by two neurogenic periods, one during embryogenesis and a second during larval life. Although much is known about embryonic neurogenesis, little is known about the genetic control of postembryonic brain development. Here we use mosaic analysis with a repressible cell marker (MARCM) to study the role of the brain tumor (brat) gene in neural proliferation control and tumour suppression in postembryonic brain development of Drosophila. Our findings indicate that overproliferation in brat mutants is due to loss of proliferation control in the larval central brain and not in the optic lobe. Clonal analysis indicates that the brat mutation affects cell proliferation in a cell-autonomous manner and cell cycle marker expression shows that cells of brat mutant clones show uncontrolled proliferation, which persists into adulthood. Analysis of the expression of molecular markers, which characterize cell types in wild-type neural lineages, indicates that brat mutant clones comprise an excessive number of cells, which have molecular features of undifferentiated progenitor cells that lack nuclear Prospero (Pros). pros mutant clones phenocopy brat mutant clones in the larval central brain, and targeted expression of wild-type pros in brat mutant clones promotes cell cycle exit and differentiation of brat mutant cells, thereby abrogating brain tumour formation. Taken together, our results provide evidence that the tumour suppressor brat negatively regulates cell proliferation during larval central brain development of Drosophila, and suggest that Prospero acts as a key downstream effector of brat in cell fate specification and proliferation control.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0950-1991
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
133
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2639-48
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-10-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Animals, Genetically Modified, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Cell Cycle, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Cell Lineage, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Drosophila melanogaster, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Genes, Tumor Suppressor, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Larva, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:16774999-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
The brain tumor gene negatively regulates neural progenitor cell proliferation in the larval central brain of Drosophila.
pubmed:affiliation
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't