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Citation	Stute, C., Schimmelpfeng, K., Renkawitz-Pohl, R., Palmer, R.H., Holz, A. (2004). Myoblast determination in the somatic and visceral mesoderm depends on Notch signalling as well as on milliways (mili[Alk]) as receptor for Jeb signalling. Development 131(4): 743--754. (Export to RIS)
FlyBase ID	FBrf0174588
Publication Type	Research paper
PubMed ID	14757637
PubMed Abstract	The visceral muscles of the Drosophila midgut consist of syncytia and arise by fusion of founder and fusion-competent myoblasts, as described for the somatic muscles. A single-step fusion results in the formation of binucleate circular midgut muscles, whereas a multiple-step fusion process produces the longitudinal muscles. A prerequisite for muscle fusion is the establishment of myoblast diversity in the mesoderm prior to the fusion process itself. We provide evidence for a role of Notch signalling during establishment of the different cell types in the visceral mesoderm, demonstrating that the basic mechanism underlying the segregation of somatic muscle founder cells is also conserved during visceral founder cell determination. Searching for genes involved in the determination and differentiation of the different visceral cell types, we identified two independent mutations causing loss of visceral midgut muscles. In both of these mutants visceral muscle founder cells are missing and the visceral mesoderm consists of fusion-competent myoblasts only. Thus, no fusion occurs resulting in a complete disruption of visceral myogenesis. Subsequent characterisation of the mutations revealed that they are novel alleles of jelly belly (jeb) and the Drosophila Alk homologue named milliways (mili(Alk)). We show that the process of founder cell determination in the visceral mesoderm depends on Jeb signalling via the Milliways/Alk receptor. Moreover, we demonstrate that in the somatic mesoderm determination of the opposite cell type, the fusion-competent myoblasts, also depends on Jeb and Alk, revealing different roles for Jeb signalling in specifying myoblast diversity. This novel mechanism uncovers a crosstalk between somatic and visceral mesoderm leading not only to the determination of different cell types but also maintains the separation of mesodermal tissues, the somatic and splanchnic mesoderm.
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Language of Publication	English
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Publication Type	Journal
Abbreviation	Development
Title	Development
Publication Year	1987-
ISBN/ISSN	0950-1991
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Aberrations (1)
	Df(2R)ΔAlk21
Alleles (16)
	Alk¹ Alk^mili Alk^Scer\UAS.cLa Dl::N^{ΔECN.Scer\UAS} Dl^B2 Dl^Scer\UAS.cDa Ecol\lacZ^bap.3 Ecol\lacZ^kirre-rP298 jeb^k05644 jeb^Scer\UAS.cWa jeb^weli N^55e11 N^{ECN.Scer\UAS.cGa} N^{intra.hs.Scer\UAS} Scer\GAL4^bap.3 Scer\GAL4^twi.PG
Constructs (9)
	P{bap-GAL4.3} P{bap-lacZ.3} P{GAL4-twi.G} P{UAS-Alk.L} P{UAS-Dl::N.ΔECN} P{UAS-Dl.D} P{UAS-hs.N.intra.1790} P{UAS-jeb.W} P{UAS-N.ECN.G}
Genes (12)
	Alk bap Dl Dl::N Ecol\lacZ Fas3 jeb kirre lmd N Scer\GAL4 sns
Insertions (2)
	P{lacW}jeb^k05644 P{PZ}rP298