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Phagocytosis genes nonautonomously promote developmental cell death in the Drosophila ovary.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2016 Mar 01; Vol. 113 (9), pp. E1246-55. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Feb 16. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Programmed cell death (PCD) is usually considered a cell-autonomous suicide program, synonymous with apoptosis. Recent research has revealed that PCD is complex, with at least a dozen cell death modalities. Here, we demonstrate that the large-scale nonapoptotic developmental PCD in the Drosophila ovary occurs by an alternative cell death program where the surrounding follicle cells nonautonomously promote death of the germ line. The phagocytic machinery of the follicle cells, including Draper, cell death abnormality (Ced)-12, and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), is essential for the death and removal of germ-line-derived nurse cells during late oogenesis. Cell death events including acidification, nuclear envelope permeabilization, and DNA fragmentation of the nurse cells are impaired when phagocytosis is inhibited. Moreover, elimination of a small subset of follicle cells prevents nurse cell death and cytoplasmic dumping. Developmental PCD in the Drosophila ovary is an intriguing example of nonapoptotic, nonautonomous PCD, providing insight on the diversity of cell death mechanisms.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1091-6490
- Volume :
- 113
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 26884181
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1522830113