Partially compromised specification causes stochastic effects on gut development in C. elegans

Developmental Biology
Hailey ChoiMorris F Maduro

Abstract

The C. elegans gut descends from the E progenitor cell through a series of stereotyped cell divisions and morphogenetic events. Effects of perturbations of upstream cell specification on downstream organogenesis have not been extensively investigated. Here we have assembled an allelic series of strains that variably compromise specification of E by perturbing the activation of the gut-specifying end-1 and end-3 genes. Using a marker that allows identification of all E descendants regardless of fate, superimposed with markers that identify cells that have adopted a gut fate, we have examined the fate of E lineage descendants among hundreds of embryos. We find that when specification is partially compromised, the E lineage undergoes hyperplasia accompanied by stochastic and variable specification of gut fate among the E descendants. As anticipated by prior work, the activation of the gut differentiation factor elt-2 becomes delayed in these strains, although ultimate protein levels of a translational ELT-2::GFP reporter resemble those of the wild type. By comparing these effects among the various specification mutants, we find that the stronger the defect in specification (i.e. the fewer number of embryos specifying gut), the str...Continue Reading

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