Publication Date:
2014-01-18
Description:
Btk29A is the Drosophila ortholog of the mammalian Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk), mutations of which in humans cause a heritable immunodeficiency disease. Btk29A mutations stabilized the proliferating cystoblast fate, leading to an ovarian tumor. This phenotype was rescued by overexpression of wild-type Btk29A and phenocopied by the interference of Wnt4-beta-catenin signaling or its putative downstream nuclear protein Piwi in somatic escort cells. Btk29A and mammalian Btk directly phosphorylated tyrosine residues of beta-catenin, leading to the up-regulation of its transcriptional activity. Thus, we identify a transcriptional switch involving the kinase Btk29A/Btk and its phosphorylation target, beta-catenin, which functions downstream of Wnt4 in escort cells to terminate Drosophila germ cell proliferation through up-regulation of piwi expression. This signaling mechanism likely represents a versatile developmental switch.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hamada-Kawaguchi, Noriko -- Nore, Beston F -- Kuwada, Yusuke -- Smith, C I Edvard -- Yamamoto, Daisuke -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Jan 17;343(6168):294-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1244512.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Sendai 980-8577, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24436419" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Argonaute Proteins/*biosynthesis
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*Cell Proliferation
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DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded
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Drosophila Proteins/*biosynthesis/genetics/*metabolism
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Drosophila melanogaster/genetics/metabolism/*physiology
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Gene Knockdown Techniques
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Genomic Instability
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Germ Cells/cytology/metabolism/*physiology
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Glycoproteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Phosphorylation
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Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics/*metabolism
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RNA, Small Interfering/genetics/metabolism
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Signal Transduction
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Transcription, Genetic
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Tyrosine/genetics/metabolism
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Up-Regulation
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Wnt Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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beta Catenin/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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