Effects of juvenile hormone on the ecdysone response of Drosophila Kc cells

Developmental Genetics
L CherbasP Cherbas

Abstract

Drosophila Kc cells are ecdysone-responsive: hormone treatment leads rapidly to increased synthesis of several ecdysone-inducible polypeptides (EIPs) and to commitment to eventual proliferative arrest. Later, the treated cells undergo morphological transformation, cease to proliferate, and develop new enzymatic activities, notably, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity. These responses have proven useful as models for studying ecdysone action. Here we report the sensitivity of Kc cells to another important insect developmental regulator--juvenile hormone (JH). We find that JH inhibits some, but not all, aspects of the ecdysone response. When Kc cells are treated with ecdysone in the presence of either natural JHs or synthetic analogues, the morphological and proliferative responses are inhibited and AChE induction is blocked. Most striking is that JHs protect the cells from the rapid proliferative commitment induced by ecdysone alone. The JH effects exhibit reasonable dose-response curves with half-maximal responses occurring at very low JH concentrations. Nonetheless, even at high JH concentrations the inhibitory effects are incomplete. It is interesting that EIP induction appears to be refractory to JH. It seems clear that JH ...Continue Reading

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