title: Drosophila E-cadherin functions in hematopoietic progenitors to maintain multipotency and block differentiation.
abstract: A fundamental question in stem cell biology concerns the regulatory strategies that control the choice between multipotency and differentiation. Drosophila blood progenitors or prohemocytes exhibit key stem cell characteristics, including multipotency, quiescence, and niche dependence. As a result, studies of Drosophila hematopoiesis have provided important insights into the molecular mechanisms that control these processes. Here, we show that E-cadherin is an important regulator of prohemocyte fate choice, maintaining prohemocyte multipotency and blocking differentiation. These functions are reminiscent of the role of E-cadherin in mammalian embryonic stem cells. We also show that mis-expression of E-cadherin in differentiating hemocytes disrupts the boundary between these cells and undifferentiated prohemocytes. Additionally, upregulation of E-cadherin in differentiating hemocytes increases the number of intermediate cell types expressing the prohemocyte marker, Patched. Furthermore, our studies indicate that the Drosophila GATA transcriptional co-factor, U-shaped, is required for E-cadherin expression. Consequently, E-cadherin is a downstream target of U-shaped in the maintenance of prohemocyte multipotency. In contrast, we showed that forced expression of the U-shaped GATA-binding partner, Serpent, repressed E-cadherin expression and promoted lamellocyte differentiation. Thus, U-shaped may maintain E-cadherin expression by blocking the inhibitory activity of Serpent. Collectively, these observations suggest that GATA:FOG complex formation regulates E-cadherin levels and, thereby, the choice between multipotency and differentiation. The work presented in this report further defines the molecular basis of prohemocyte cell fate choice, which will provide important insights into the mechanisms that govern stem cell biology.
authors.affiliation: Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases and the Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Hongjuan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Xiaorong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fossett
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015820:Cadherins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019070:Cell Lineage; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D050980:GATA Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D006434:Hemocytes / Q000166:cytology; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D015820:Cadherins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; C508614:FOG protein, Drosophila; D050980:GATA Transcription Factors; C501889:shg protein, Drosophila
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