Abstract
Tetraspanins are evolutionary conserved transmembrane proteins thought to facilitate cell proliferation, movement or fusion by acting as organizers of different signaling events. Despite their prevalence and conservation, their specific role and functions remain largely elusive, as their redundancy in various organisms has hindered loss of function studies. Here, we take a gain of function approach to study Drosophila tetraspanin Tsp68C and its effect on larval hemocytes. We recently characterized a lethal mutation in ytr, a conserved gene that encodes a nuclear arginine-rich protein of unknown function, which is accompanied by abnormal differentiation and proliferation of the larval hematopoietic tissue in flies. A hemolectin (hml)-Gal4 construct carried by hml-Gal4 transgenic flies was sufficient by itself to abrogate the hematopoietic defects in ytr mutant larvae. This rescue correlated with the overexpression of tsp68C, a tetraspanin gene nested in the hml promoter. The suppression of abnormal proliferation by the hml-Gal4 construct was not restricted to ytr-deficient hemocytes, but was also observed in hemocytes expressing the oncogenic forms of Raf or Ras proteins. However, it had no effect on overproliferation mediated by a constitutively active form of Jak. New hml-Gal4 lines, in which the tsp68C gene was silenced or deleted from the promoter, no longer rescued the hematopoietic defect in ytr mutants nor suppressed the activated Raf-induced overproliferation. Therefore, change in tetraspanin Tsp68C expression has a strong suppressor effect on abnormal proliferation and differentiation of hemocytes in the context of specific lesions, such as overactivation of the Ras/Raf/MAPK pathway.
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We thank Melissa Sackal, Pascal Manfruelli and members of the Perrimon laboratory for helpful discussion on this project and sharing fly stocks and reagents. We are grateful to Dr Norbert Perrimon, Dr Martin Hemler and Dr Utpal Banerjee for discussion and helpful comments about these studies. We thank for the expertise of C Villalta in performing embryo injections. We acknowledge the Bloomington Stock Center for providing us with numerous fly stocks. This work was supported in part by Grant R01 HL62434 and the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Cancer Research (BM-P) and David Abraham Fellowship (SAS)
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Sinenko, S., Mathey-Prevot, B. Increased expression of Drosophila tetraspanin, Tsp68C, suppresses the abnormal proliferation of ytr-deficient and Ras/Raf-activated hemocytes. Oncogene 23, 9120–9128 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1208156
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