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ArticlePloS one2012

Spire, an actin nucleation factor, regulates cell division during Drosophila heart development.

Peng Xu, Tamara L Johnson, Jessica R Stoller-Conrad, Robert A Schulz

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Article in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peng XuDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America. px3x@virginia.edu
Tamara L Johnson
Jessica R Stoller-Conrad
Robert A Schulz
University of Notre Dame · US

Funding

TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORS OF CARDIAC GENE EXPRESSIONR01HL059151 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI SCHULZ, ROBERT A. · 1998 to 2017
$3.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL059151NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL059151
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Drosophila dorsal vessel is a beneficial model system for studying the regulation of early heart development. Spire (Spir), an actin-nucleation factor, regulates actin dynamics in many developmental processes, such as cell shape determination, intracellular transport, and locomotion. Through protein expression pattern analysis, we demonstrate that the absence of spir function affects cell division in Myocyte enhancer factor 2-, Tinman (Tin)-, Even-skipped- and Seven up (Svp)-positive heart cells. In addition, genetic interaction analysis shows that spir functionally interacts with Dorsocross, tin, and pannier to properly specify the cardiac fate. Furthermore, through visualization of double heterozygous embryos, we determines that spir cooperates with CycA for heart cell specification and division. Finally, when comparing the spir mutant phenotype with that of a CycA mutant, the results suggest that most Svp-positive progenitors in spir mutant embryos cannot undergo full cell division at cell cycle 15, and that Tin-positive progenitors are arrested at cell cycle 16 as double-nucleated cells. We conclude that Spir plays a crucial role in controlling dorsal vessel formation and has a function in cell division during heart tube morphogenesis.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DivisionDNA-Binding ProteinsDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHeartHomeodomain ProteinsImmunohistochemistryMEF2 Transcription FactorsMicrofilament ProteinsMyogenic Regulatory FactorsReceptors, SteroidRepressor ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsTranscription FactorsDNA-Binding ProteinsDrosophila Proteinseve protein, DrosophilaHomeodomain ProteinsMEF2 Transcription FactorsMicrofilament ProteinsMyogenic Regulatory Factorspnr protein, DrosophilaReceptors, SteroidRepressor Proteinsspir protein, Drosophilasvp protein, Drosophilatin protein, DrosophilaTrans-ActivatorsTranscription Factors

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PMID22276214
PMCPMC3262839
OpenAlexW2070924260

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