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Differential activation of JAK-STAT signaling reveals functional compartmentalization in Drosophila blood progenitors

  1. Diana Rodrigues
  2. Yoan Renaud
  3. K VijayRaghavan
  4. Lucas Waltzer  Is a corresponding author
  5. Maneesha S Inamdar  Is a corresponding author
  1. National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
  2. GReD (Genetics, Reproduction and Development Institute), INSERM 1103, CNRS 6293, University of Clermont Auvergne, France
  3. University of Clermont Auvergne, France
  4. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, India
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61409
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  1. Diana Rodrigues
  2. Yoan Renaud
  3. K VijayRaghavan
  4. Lucas Waltzer
  5. Maneesha S Inamdar
(2021)
Differential activation of JAK-STAT signaling reveals functional compartmentalization in Drosophila blood progenitors
eLife 10:e61409.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61409
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Abstract

Blood cells arise from diverse pools of stem and progenitor cells. Understanding progenitor heterogeneity is a major challenge. The Drosophila larval lymph gland is a well-studied model to understand blood progenitor maintenance and recapitulates several aspects of vertebrate hematopoiesis. However in-depth analysis has focused on the anterior lobe progenitors (AP), ignoring the posterior progenitors (PP) from the posterior lobes. Using in situ expression mapping, developmental and transcriptome analysis we reveal PP heterogeneity and identify molecular-genetic tools to study this abundant progenitor population. Functional analysis shows that PP resist differentiation upon immune challenge, in a JAK-STAT-dependent manner. Upon wasp parasitism, AP downregulate JAK-STAT signaling and form lamellocytes. In contrast, we show that PP activate STAT92E and remain undifferentiated, promoting survival. Stat92E knockdown or genetically reducing JAK-STAT signaling permits PP lamellocyte differentiation. We discuss how heterogeneity and compartmentalization allow functional segregation in response to systemic cues and could be widely applicable.

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RNA-seq data has been deposited in GEO under the accession number GSE152416.All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files.Source data files have been provided for Figures 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and Figure 1-figure supplement- 1, 2, Figure 4-figure supplement- 1, 2, Figure 5-figure supplement- 1, 2, Figure 7-figure supplement- 1

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  1. Diana Rodrigues

    Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
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  2. Yoan Renaud

    Development, GReD (Genetics, Reproduction and Development Institute), INSERM 1103, CNRS 6293, University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
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  3. K VijayRaghavan

    Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
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    K VijayRaghavan, Senior editor, eLife.
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  4. Lucas Waltzer

    University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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    lucas.waltzer@uca.fr
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  5. Maneesha S Inamdar

    Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, Bangalore, India
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    inamdar@jncasr.ac.in
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Funding

Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research

  • Maneesha S Inamdar

Science and Engineering Research Board

  • Maneesha S Inamdar

J C Bose Fellowship

  • Maneesha S Inamdar

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

  • Maneesha S Inamdar

Agence Nationale pour la Recherche and Fondation ARC

  • Lucas Waltzer

Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research

  • Lucas Waltzer

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Jiwon Shim, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea

Version history

  1. Received: July 24, 2020
  2. Accepted: February 16, 2021
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: February 17, 2021 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: March 1, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2021, Rodrigues et al.

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  1. Diana Rodrigues
  2. Yoan Renaud
  3. K VijayRaghavan
  4. Lucas Waltzer
  5. Maneesha S Inamdar
(2021)
Differential activation of JAK-STAT signaling reveals functional compartmentalization in Drosophila blood progenitors
eLife 10:e61409.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61409

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