Drosophila Glypicans Regulate Follicle Stem Cell Maintenance and Niche Competition

Adult stem cells reside in specialized microenvironments called niches, which provide signals for stem cells to maintain their undifferentiated and self-renewing state. To maintain stem cell quality, several types of stem cells are known to be regularly replaced by progenitor cells through niche com...

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Veröffentlicht in:Genetics (Austin) 2018-06, Vol.209 (2), p.537-549
Hauptverfasser: Su, Tsu-Yi, Nakato, Eriko, Choi, Pui Yee, Nakato, Hiroshi
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Zusammenfassung:Adult stem cells reside in specialized microenvironments called niches, which provide signals for stem cells to maintain their undifferentiated and self-renewing state. To maintain stem cell quality, several types of stem cells are known to be regularly replaced by progenitor cells through niche competition. However, the cellular and molecular bases for stem cell competition for niche occupancy are largely unknown. Here, we show that two members of the glypican family of heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs), Dally and Dally-like (Dlp), differentially regulate follicle stem cell (FSC) maintenance and competitiveness for niche occupancy. Lineage analyses of glypican mutant FSC clones showed that is essential for normal FSC maintenance. In contrast, is a hypercompetitive mutation: mutant FSC progenitors often eventually occupy the entire epithelial sheet. RNA interference knockdown experiments showed that Dally and Dlp play both partially redundant and distinct roles in regulating Jak/Stat, Wg, and Hh signaling in FSCs. The FSC system offers a powerful genetic model to study the mechanisms by which HSPGs exert specific functions in stem cell replacement and competition.
ISSN:1943-2631
0016-6731
1943-2631
DOI:10.1534/genetics.118.300839