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Title: DaPKC-dependent phosphorylation of Crumbs is required for epithelial cell polarity in Drosophila

Abstract

Both in Drosophila and vertebrate epithelial cells, the establishment of apicobasal polarity requires the apically localized, membrane-associated Par-3–Par-6–aPKC protein complex. In Drosophila, this complex colocalizes with the Crumbs–Stardust (Sdt)–Pals1-associated TJ protein (Patj) complex. Genetic and molecular analyses suggest a functional relationship between them. In this work we show, by overexpression of a kinase-dead Drosophila atypical PKC (DaPKC), the requirement for the kinase activity of DaPKC to maintain the position of apical determinants and to restrict the localization of basolateral ones. We demonstrate a novel physical interaction between the apical complexes, via direct binding of DaPKC to both Crb and Patj, and identify Crumbs as a phosphorylation target of DaPKC. This phosphorylation of Crumbs is functionally significant. Thus, a nonphosphorylatable Crumbs protein behaves in vivo as a dominant negative. Moreover, the phenotypic effect of overexpressing wild-type Crumbs is suppressed by reducing DaPKC activity. These results provide a mechanistic framework for the functional interaction between the Par-3–Par-6–aPKC and Crumbs–Sdt–Patj complexes based in the posttranslational modification of Crb by DaPKC.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid (Spain). Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa; Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid (Spain)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid (Spain); Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid (Spain)
Sponsoring Org.:
Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (CAM); Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica; Fundación Ramón Areces
OSTI Identifier:
1625133
Grant/Contract Number:  
08.5/0030/2000; PB98-0682; BMC2002-00411; SAF1999-0053; 2FD97-1429; SAF2000-0175; 08.1/0060/2000
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Cell Biology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 166; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9525
Publisher:
Rockefeller University Press
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; cell biology; DaPKC; Crumbs; Drosophila; epithelial cell polarity; signal transduction

Citation Formats

Sotillos, Sol, Díaz-Meco, María Teresa, Caminero, Eva, Moscat, Jorge, and Campuzano, Sonsoles. DaPKC-dependent phosphorylation of Crumbs is required for epithelial cell polarity in Drosophila. United States: N. p., 2004. Web. doi:10.1083/jcb.200311031.
Sotillos, Sol, Díaz-Meco, María Teresa, Caminero, Eva, Moscat, Jorge, & Campuzano, Sonsoles. DaPKC-dependent phosphorylation of Crumbs is required for epithelial cell polarity in Drosophila. United States. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200311031
Sotillos, Sol, Díaz-Meco, María Teresa, Caminero, Eva, Moscat, Jorge, and Campuzano, Sonsoles. Mon . "DaPKC-dependent phosphorylation of Crumbs is required for epithelial cell polarity in Drosophila". United States. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200311031. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1625133.
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abstractNote = {Both in Drosophila and vertebrate epithelial cells, the establishment of apicobasal polarity requires the apically localized, membrane-associated Par-3–Par-6–aPKC protein complex. In Drosophila, this complex colocalizes with the Crumbs–Stardust (Sdt)–Pals1-associated TJ protein (Patj) complex. Genetic and molecular analyses suggest a functional relationship between them. In this work we show, by overexpression of a kinase-dead Drosophila atypical PKC (DaPKC), the requirement for the kinase activity of DaPKC to maintain the position of apical determinants and to restrict the localization of basolateral ones. We demonstrate a novel physical interaction between the apical complexes, via direct binding of DaPKC to both Crb and Patj, and identify Crumbs as a phosphorylation target of DaPKC. This phosphorylation of Crumbs is functionally significant. Thus, a nonphosphorylatable Crumbs protein behaves in vivo as a dominant negative. Moreover, the phenotypic effect of overexpressing wild-type Crumbs is suppressed by reducing DaPKC activity. These results provide a mechanistic framework for the functional interaction between the Par-3–Par-6–aPKC and Crumbs–Sdt–Patj complexes based in the posttranslational modification of Crb by DaPKC.},
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