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Nature Cell Biology 11, 536 - 538 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ncb0509-536
Breaking a temporal barrier: signalling crosstalk regulates the initiation of border cell migration
Dorothea Godt1 & Ulrich Tepass1
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Dorothea Godt and Ulrich Tepass are in the Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G5, Canada.
e-mail: d.godt@utoronto.ca; e-mail: u.tepass@utoronto.ca
Abstract
Correct timing of developmental events is crucial for generating a normal organism. During oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster, migration of border cells occurs in a defined temporal window and requires Jak/Stat and steroid hormone signalling. The initiation of border-cell migration is now shown to be timed by Jak/Stat-mediated downregulation of the BTB domain transcriptional regulator Abrupt, which acts as a negative regulator of steroid hormone signalling.
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