title: Pattern- and growth-linked cell cycles in Drosophila development.
abstract: During Drosophila development the cell cycle is subject to diverse regulatory inputs. In embryos, cells divide in stereotypic patterns that correspond to the cell fate map. There is little cell growth during this period, and cell proliferation is regulated at G2/M transitions by patterned transcription of the Cdk1-activator, Cdc25/String. The string locus senses pattern information via a > 40 kb cis-regulatory region composed of many cell-type specific transcriptional enhancers. Later, in differentiated larval tissues, the cell cycle responds to nutrition via mechanisms that sense cellular growth. These larval cell cycles lack mitoses altogether, and are regulated at G/S transitions. Cells in developing imaginal discs exhibit a cycle that is regulated at both G1/S and G2/M transitions. G2/M progression in disc cells is regulated, as in the embryo, by string transcription and is thus influenced by the many transcription factors that interact with string's 'pattern-sensing' control region. G1/S progression in disc cells is controlled, at least in part, by factors that regulate cell growth such as Myc, Ras and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase. Thus G1/S progression appears to be growth-coupled, much as in the larval endocycles. The dual control mechanism used by imaginal disc cells allows integration of diverse inputs which operate in both cell specification and cell metabolism.
authors.affiliation: Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Edgar
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Britton
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: de la Cruz
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Johnston
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lehman
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martin-Castellanos
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prober
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning / Q000502:physiology; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000502:physiology*; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000196:embryology / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000502:physiology; D050684:E2F Transcription Factors; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000502:physiology; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D006801:Humans; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000378:metabolism; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D050684:E2F Transcription Factors; D014157:Transcription Factors; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; C059217:stg protein, Drosophila