The Drosophila F-box protein Fbxl7 binds to the protocadherin Fat and regulates Dachs localization and Hippo signaling

  1. Justin A Bosch
  2. Taryn M Sumabat
  3. Yassi Hafezi
  4. Brett J M Pellock
  5. Kevin D Gandhi
  6. Iswar Hariharan  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  2. Providence College, United States

Abstract

The Drosophila protocadherin, Fat (Ft) regulates growth, planar cell polarity (PCP) and proximodistal patterning. A key downstream component of Ft signaling is the atypical myosin Dachs (D). Multiple regions of the intracellular domain of Ft have been implicated in regulating growth and PCP but how Ft regulates D is not known. Mutations in Fbxl7, which encodes an F-box protein, result in tissue overgrowth and abnormalities in proximodistal patterning that phenocopy deleting a specific portion of the intracellular domain (ICD) of Ft that regulates both growth and PCP. Fbxl7 binds to this same portion of the Ft ICD, co-localizes with Ft to the proximal edge of cells and regulates the levels and asymmetry of D at the apical membrane. Fbxl7 can also regulate the trafficking of proteins between the apical membrane and intracellular vesicles. Thus Fbxl7 functions in a subset of pathways downstream of Ft and links Ft to D localization.

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  1. Justin A Bosch

    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  2. Taryn M Sumabat

    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  3. Yassi Hafezi

    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  4. Brett J M Pellock

    Providence College, Providence, United States
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  5. Kevin D Gandhi

    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  6. Iswar Hariharan

    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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    ikh@berkeley.edu
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  1. Helen McNeill, The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Canada

Ethics

Animal experimentation: Custom antibodies used in this study were generated in guinea pigs by the vendor Pocono Rabbit Farm and Laboratory. Pocono Rabbit Farm and Laboratory, Inc. has an Animal Welfare Assurance on file with The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW). The Animal Welfare Assurance number is A3886-01. This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health.

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  1. Received: May 15, 2014
  2. Accepted: August 5, 2014
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: August 8, 2014 (version 1)
  4. Accepted Manuscript updated: August 11, 2014 (version 2)
  5. Version of Record published: August 27, 2014 (version 3)

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© 2014, Bosch et al.

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  1. Justin A Bosch
  2. Taryn M Sumabat
  3. Yassi Hafezi
  4. Brett J M Pellock
  5. Kevin D Gandhi
  6. Iswar Hariharan
(2014)
The Drosophila F-box protein Fbxl7 binds to the protocadherin Fat and regulates Dachs localization and Hippo signaling
eLife 3:e03383.
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