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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2014

The F-box protein Slmb restricts the activity of aPKC to polarize epithelial cells.

Lara C Skwarek, Sarah L Windler, Geert de Vreede, Gregory C Rogers, David Bilder

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Gene model for the ortholog ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Mechanisms of polarity protein expression control.Current opinion in cell biology · 2016
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  7. Establishing and maintaining cell polarity with mRNA localization in Drosophila.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Lara C SkwarekDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA.
Sarah L WindlerDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA.
Geert de VreedeDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA.
Gregory C RogersDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.
David BilderDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA bilder@berkeley.edu.

Funding

VITAMIN AP30CA023074 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI Dan Theodorescu · 1985 to 2026
$110.2M
Regulation of Drosophila Epithelial PolarityR01GM068675 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI BILDER, DAVID · 2003 to 2017
$3.9M
Mechanisms of Drosophila Tumor SuppressionR01GM090150 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI BILDER, DAVID · 2010 to 2018
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA023074NCI NIH HHS P30 CA23074NIGMS NIH HHS GM068675NIGMS NIH HHS GM090150NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068675NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM090150
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Par-3/Par-6/aPKC complex is the primary determinant of apical polarity in epithelia across animal species, but how the activity of this complex is restricted to allow polarization of the basolateral domain is less well understood. In Drosophila, several multiprotein modules antagonize the Par complex through a variety of means. Here we identify a new mechanism involving regulated protein degradation. Strong mutations in supernumerary limbs (slmb), which encodes the substrate adaptor of an SCF-class E3 ubiquitin ligase, cause dramatic loss of polarity in imaginal discs accompanied by tumorous proliferation defects. Slmb function is required to restrain apical aPKC activity in a manner that is independent of endolysosomal trafficking and parallel to the Scribble module of junctional scaffolding proteins. The involvement of the Slmb E3 ligase in epithelial polarity, specifically limiting Par complex activity to distinguish the basolateral domain, points to parallels with polarization of the C. elegans zygote.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalAllelesAnimalsCell Cycle ProteinsCell ProliferationCell Transformation, NeoplasticDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsEndosomesEpithelial CellsF-Box ProteinsFemaleLysosomesMutationPhenotypeProtein Kinase CCell Cycle ProteinsDrosophila ProteinsF-Box ProteinsPKC-3 proteinProtein Kinase Cslmb protein, DrosophilaUbiquitin-Protein LigasesDrosophilaEpitheliaParPolarityTumorUbiquitin ligase

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PMID25053431
PMCPMC4197664

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