GSBS Student Publications
Title
SRC-1 and Wnt signaling act together to specify endoderm and to control cleavage orientation in early C. elegans embryos
GSBS Program
Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2002-07-12
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Program in Molecular Medicine
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
In early C. elegans embryos, signaling between a posterior blastomere, P2, and a ventral blastomere, EMS, specifies endoderm and orients the division axis of the EMS cell. Although Wnt signaling contributes to this polarizing interaction, no mutants identified to date abolish P2/EMS signaling. Here, we show that two tyrosine kinase-related genes, src-1 and mes-1, are required for the accumulation of phosphotyrosine between P2 and EMS. Moreover, src-1 and mes-1 mutants strongly enhance endoderm and EMS spindle rotation defects associated with Wnt pathway mutants. SRC-1 and MES-1 signal bidirectionally to control cell fate and division orientation in both EMS and P2. Our findings suggest that Wnt and Src signaling function in parallel to control developmental outcomes within a single responding cell.
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/S1534-5807(02)00185-5
Source
Dev Cell. 2002 Jul;3(1):113-25.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Developmental cell
Related Resources
PubMed ID
12110172
Repository Citation
Bei Y, Hogan J, Berkowitz LA, Soto MC, Rocheleau CE, Pang KM, Collins JJ, Mello CC. (2002). SRC-1 and Wnt signaling act together to specify endoderm and to control cleavage orientation in early C. elegans embryos. GSBS Student Publications. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1534-5807(02)00185-5. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/93