Delta and Serrate are redundant Notch ligands required for asymmetric cell divisions within the Drosophila sensory organ lineage

AUTOR(ES)

Zeng, Chaoyang

FONTE

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

RESUMO

Asymmetric divisions allow a precursor to produce four distinct cells of a Drosophila sensory organ lineage (SOL). Whereas this process requires cell–cell communication via Notch (N) receptor, mitotic recombination that removes the N ligand Delta (Dl) or Serrate (Ser) in the SOL had mild or no effect. Removal of both Dl and Ser, however, led to cell fate transformations similar to the N phenotype. Cell fate transformation occurred even when a single SOL cell lost both Dl and Ser. Thus, Dl and Ser are redundant in mediating signaling between daughter cells to specify their distinct cell fates.

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