title: Transgressions of compartment boundaries and cell reprogramming during regeneration in Drosophila.
abstract: Animals have developed mechanisms to reconstruct lost or damaged tissues. To regenerate those tissues the cells implicated have to undergo developmental reprogramming. The imaginal discs of Drosophila are subdivided into distinct compartments, which derive from different genetic programs. This feature makes them a convenient system to study reprogramming during regeneration. We find that massive damage inflicted to the posterior or the dorsal compartment of the wing disc causes a transient breakdown of compartment boundaries, which are quickly reconstructed. The cells involved in the reconstruction often modify their original identity, visualized by changes in the expression of developmental genes like engrailed or cubitus interruptus. This reprogramming is mediated by up regulation of the JNK pathway and transient debilitation of the epigenetic control mechanism. Our results also show that the local developmental context plays a role in the acquisition of new cell identities: cells expressing engrailed induce engrailed expression in neighbor cells. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01831.001.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Salvador C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Herrera
authors.forename: Ginés
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morata
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D065150:Cellular Reprogramming; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D017344:Genes, Insect; D020935:MAP Kinase Signaling System; D012038:Regeneration; D014921:Wings, Animal / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: cell identity; cell reprogramming; compartment boundaries; engrailed; imaginal discs; regeneration
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