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Rab11 polarization of the Drosophila oocyte: a novel link between membrane trafficking, microtubule organization, and oskar mRNA localization and translation
Dollar, Gretchen Struckhoff, Eric Charles Michaud, Jason Cohen, Robert S.
Dollar, Gretchen
Struckhoff, Eric Charles
Michaud, Jason
Cohen, Robert S.
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The Drosophila embryonic body plan is specified by asymmetries that arise in the oocyte during oogenesis. These asymmetries are apparent in the subcellular distribution of key mRNAs and proteins and in the organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton. We present evidence that the Drosophila oocyte also contains important asymmetries in its membrane trafficking pathways. Specifically, we show that a-adaptin and Rab11, which function critically in the endocytic. pathways of all previously examined animal cells, are localized to neighboring compartments at the posterior pole of stage 810 oocytes. Rab11 and alpha-adaptin localization occurs in the absence of a polarized microtubule cytoskeleton, i.e. in grk null mutants, but is later reinforced and/or refined by Osk, the localization of which is microtubule dependent. Analyses of germline clones of a rab11 partial loss-of-function mutation reveal a requirement for Rab11 in endocytic recycling and in the organization of posterior membrane compartments. Such analyses also reveal a requirement for Rab11 in the organization of microtubule plus ends and osk mRNA localization and translation. We propose that microtubule plus ends and, possibly, translation factors for osk mRNA are anchored to posterior membrane compartments that are defined by Rab11-mediated trafficking and reinforced by Rab11-Osk interactions.
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2002-01
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COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
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Oogenesis, Cell polarity, Membrane Trafficking, Membrane Recycling, Oskar, MRNA Localization, Microtubule Plus Ends, Drosophila, Rab11
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Dollar, G; Struckhoff, E; Michaud, J; Cohen, RS. Rab11 polarization of the Drosophila oocyte: a novel link between membrane trafficking, microtubule organization, and oskar mRNA localization and translation. DEVELOPMENT. January 2002. 129(2) : 517-526