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ArticleThe EMBO journal2008

Beta-catenin asymmetry is regulated by PLA1 and retrograde traffic in C. elegans stem cell divisions.

Takahiro Kanamori, Takao Inoue, Taro Sakamoto, Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Masafumi Tsujimoto, Shohei Mitani, Hitoshi Sawa, Junken Aoki, Hiroyuki Arai

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Takahiro KanamoriDepartment of Health Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Takao Inoue
Taro Sakamoto
Keiko Gengyo-Ando
Masafumi Tsujimoto
Shohei Mitani
Hitoshi Sawa
Junken Aoki
Hiroyuki Arai
RIKEN · JPTokyo Women's Medical University · JPJapan Science and Technology Agency · JPKitasato University · JPKobe University · JPThe University of Tokyo · JPTohoku University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asymmetric division is an important property of stem cells. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the Wnt/beta-catenin asymmetry pathway determines the polarity of most asymmetric divisions. The Wnt signalling components such as beta-catenin localize asymmetrically to the cortex of mother cells to produce two distinct daughter cells. However, the molecular mechanism to polarize them remains to be elucidated. Here, we demonstrate that intracellular phospholipase A(1) (PLA(1)), a poorly characterized lipid-metabolizing enzyme, controls the subcellular localizations of beta-catenin in the terminal asymmetric divisions of epithelial stem cells (seam cells). In mutants of ipla-1, a single C. elegans PLA(1) gene, cortical beta-catenin is delocalized and the asymmetry of cell-fate specification is disrupted in the asymmetric divisions. ipla-1 mutant phenotypes are rescued by expression of ipla-1 in seam cells in a catalytic activity-dependent manner. Furthermore, our genetic screen utilizing ipla-1 mutants reveals that reduction of endosome-to-Golgi retrograde transport in seam cells restores normal subcellular localization of beta-catenin to ipla-1 mutants. We propose that membrane trafficking regulated by ipla-1 provides a mechanism to control the cortical asymmetry of beta-catenin.

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Cell DivisionAnimalsbeta CateninBiological TransportCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCell CountCell LineageCell PolarityCytoskeletal ProteinsFemaleGenes, HelminthGenes, SuppressorGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsMutant ProteinsMutationbeta CateninCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCytoskeletal ProteinsGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsMutant ProteinsPhospholipases A1rab GTP-Binding ProteinsWRM-1 protein, C elegans

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PMID18497747
PMCPMC2396877
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