title: Regulation of wingless transcription in the Drosophila embryo.
abstract: The segment polarity gene wingless (wg) is expressed in a complex pattern during embryogenesis suggesting that it plays multiple roles in the development of the embryo. The best characterized of these is its role in cell pattening in each parasegment, a process that requires the activity of other segment polarity genes including patched (ptc) and hedgehog (hh). Here we present further evidence that ptc and hh encode components of a signal transduction pathway that regulate the expression of wg transcription following its activation by pair-rule genes. We also show that most other aspects of wg expression are independent of this regulatory network.
authors.affiliation: ICRF Developmental Biology Unit, Department of Zoology, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Ingham
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hidalgo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000235:genetics*; D017344:Genes, Insect / Q000235:genetics*; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D051155:Wnt1 Protein
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D051155:Wnt1 Protein; C074622:wg protein, Drosophila