Long-term live imaging of the Drosophila adult midgut reveals real-time dynamics of division, differentiation, and loss
- Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
Abstract
Organ renewal is governed by the dynamics of cell division, differentiation, and loss. To study these dynamics in real time, we present a platform for extended live imaging of the adult Drosophila midgut, a premier genetic model for stem cell-based organs. A window cut into a living animal allows the midgut to be imaged while intact and physiologically functioning. This approach prolongs imaging sessions to 12-16 hours and yields movies that document cell and tissue dynamics at vivid spatiotemporal resolution. Applying a pipeline for movie processing and analysis, we uncover new, intriguing cell behaviors: that mitotic stem cells dynamically re-orient, that daughter cells use slow kinetics of Notch activation to reach a fate-specifying threshold, and that enterocytes extrude via ratcheted constriction of a junctional ring. By enabling real-time study of midgut phenomena that were previously inaccessible, our platform opens a new realm for dynamic understanding of adult organ renewal.
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All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. Source data files for figures have also been uploaded to Dryad (https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1v1g1b0).
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National Institutes of Health (R01GM116000-01A1)
- Judy Lisette Martin
- Erin Nicole Sanders
- Paola Moreno-Roman
- Leslie Ann Jaramillo Koyama
- Shruthi Balachandra
- XinXin Du
- Lucy Erin O'Brien
National Institutes of Health (1F31GM123736-01)
- Leslie Ann Jaramillo Koyama
National Institutes of Health (Stanford Discovery Fund Innovation Program)
- Lucy Erin O'Brien
Stanford University (Center for Biomedical Imaging at Stanford Seed Grant)
- Judy Lisette Martin
- Lucy Erin O'Brien
National Science Foundation (GRFP DGE-1656518)
- Erin Nicole Sanders
National Institutes of Health (2T32GM00779038)
- Erin Nicole Sanders
- Leslie Ann Jaramillo Koyama
William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation (Stanford Bio X Bowes Graduate Fellowship)
- Paola Moreno-Roman
Stanford University (Stanford DARE (Diversifying Academia Recruiting Excellence) Fellowship)
- Paola Moreno-Roman
National Institutes of Health (NRSA 1F32GM115065)
- XinXin Du
Stanford University (Stanford Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship)
- XinXin Du
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Reviewing Editor
- Allan C Spradling, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Institution for Science, United States
Version history
- Received: February 27, 2018
- Accepted: November 12, 2018
- Accepted Manuscript published: November 14, 2018 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: December 3, 2018 (version 2)
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© 2018, Martin et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Long-term live imaging of the Drosophila adult midgut reveals real-time dynamics of division, differentiation, and loss
eLife 7:e36248.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36248
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