Drosophila melanogaster Hedgehog cooperates with Frazzled to guide axons through a noncanonical signalling pathway

© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. We report that the morphogen Hedgehog (Hh) is an axonal chemoattractant in the midline of Drosophila melanogaster embryos. Hh is present in the ventral nerve cord during axonal guidance and overexpression of hh in the midline causes ectopic midline crossing of FasIIposit...

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Autores: Ricolo, Delia, Buti, Elisenda, Araújo, Sofia J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/124500
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/124500
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Hedgehog
Axons
Drosophila
Patched
Frazzled
DCC
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Sumario:© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. We report that the morphogen Hedgehog (Hh) is an axonal chemoattractant in the midline of Drosophila melanogaster embryos. Hh is present in the ventral nerve cord during axonal guidance and overexpression of hh in the midline causes ectopic midline crossing of FasIIpositive axonal tracts. In addition, we show that Hh influences axonal guidance via a noncanonical signalling pathway dependent on Ptc. Our results reveal that the Hh pathway cooperates with the Netrin/Frazzled pathway to guide axons through the midline in invertebrates.