DevelopmentPub Date : 2025-04-15Epub Date: 2025-04-28DOI: 10.1242/dev.204493
Zachary Fischer, Christopher Nauman, Shima Shayestehpour, Laramie Pence, Samuel Bouyain, Xiaolan Yao, Leonard L Dobens
{"title":"The Drosophila pseudokinase Tribbles translocates to the fat body membrane in response to fasting to modulate insulin sensitivity.","authors":"Zachary Fischer, Christopher Nauman, Shima Shayestehpour, Laramie Pence, Samuel Bouyain, Xiaolan Yao, Leonard L Dobens","doi":"10.1242/dev.204493","DOIUrl":"10.1242/dev.204493","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Drosophila pseudokinase Tribbles (Trbl) shares conserved functions with human TRIB3 to bind and inhibit Akt phosphorylation-activation by the Insulin Receptor (InR) to reduce insulin responses; consistent with this, increased levels of human TRIB3 are linked to type 2 diabetes. Here, we show that in fat body cells of well-fed Drosophila larvae, Trbl expression is low and predominantly in the nucleus while fasting or genetic reduction of insulin signaling resulted in increased Trbl expression and Trbl protein translocation to the plasma membrane. An E/G mutation in the Trbl pseudokinase kinase activation loop dominantly interfered with Trbl function leading to increased Akt activity, increased stability of Trbl substrates, including Trbl itself, and aberrant redistribution of Trbl multimers to the membrane. Several strategies designed to increase Akt activity were sufficient to translocate Trbl to the membrane, consistent with the notion that subcellular trafficking of Trbl to the fat body cell membrane acts a rheostat to reduce the strength of Akt-mediated insulin responses, counter to the InR, which has been shown to redistribute away from the membrane to modulate insulin signaling.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":"152 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12070071/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143989524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DevelopmentPub Date : 2025-04-15Epub Date: 2025-04-28DOI: 10.1242/dev.204831
{"title":"The people behind the papers - Tanner Robertson and Anna Huttenlocher.","authors":"","doi":"10.1242/dev.204831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204831","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The migration of leukocytes from their location of origin to diverse tissues during vertebrate development is crucial for blood cell formation and immunosurveillance. In their study, Anna Huttenlocher and colleagues characterise T-cell migration within diverse tissue environments in zebrafish. To know more about their work, we spoke to the first author, Tanner Robertson, and the corresponding author, Anna Huttenlocher, Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":"152 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143992795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DevelopmentPub Date : 2025-04-15Epub Date: 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1242/dev.204423
Shaylyn Clancy, Nicholas Xie, Tess Eluvathingal Muttikkal, Jasmine Wang, Aray Adylkhan, Esha Fateh, Margaret Smith, Phillip Wilson, Matthew Smith, Arielle Hogan, Ann Sutherland, Xiaowei Lu
{"title":"Rac1 and Nectin3 are essential for planar cell polarity-directed axon guidance in the peripheral auditory system.","authors":"Shaylyn Clancy, Nicholas Xie, Tess Eluvathingal Muttikkal, Jasmine Wang, Aray Adylkhan, Esha Fateh, Margaret Smith, Phillip Wilson, Matthew Smith, Arielle Hogan, Ann Sutherland, Xiaowei Lu","doi":"10.1242/dev.204423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204423","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) carry sound information from the cochlea to the hindbrain, and innervate either inner or outer hair cells. Type II SGNs (SGNIIs) extend peripheral afferents towards outer hair cells, which make a characteristic 90° turn towards the cochlear base and innervate multiple outer hair cells. It has been shown that the planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway acts non-autonomously in the cochlear epithelium to guide SGNII peripheral afferent turning. However, the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here, we show that PCP signaling regulates junctional localization of the small GTPase Rac1 and the cell adhesion molecule Nectin3 in mouse cochlear supporting cells (SCs), which serve as intermediate targets of SGNII peripheral afferents. Loss of Rac1 or Nectin3 partially phenocopied SGNII peripheral afferent turning defects in Vangl2 mutants. We present evidence that Rac1 plays a non-autonomous role in part by regulating the localization of core PCP proteins Vangl2 and Dvl3 at the SC-SC junctions, while Nectin3 likely serves a cell adhesion function to control SGNII afferent turning. Together, these experiments identify Nectin3 and Rac1 as regulators of PCP-directed SGNII axon guidance in the cochlea.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":"152 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12045628/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DevelopmentPub Date : 2025-04-15Epub Date: 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1242/dev.204795
{"title":"Transitions in development - an interview with Giulia Quattrocolo.","authors":"","doi":"10.1242/dev.204795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204795","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Giulia Quattrocolo is an Associate Professor at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway, where her group studies neural circuit development. Notably, Giulia's work is providing insight into the role of Cajal-Retzius cells, a transient population of cells that are present in the hippocampus during postnatal development. We met Giulia over Zoom to discuss her career path so far. She told us about how she first became interested in neural development, how she developed her research niche during her time in the USA, and her childhood ambitions to become a volcanologist.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":"152 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DevelopmentPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-10DOI: 10.1242/dev.204367
Jae-In Lee, Sumin Park, Hyunji Park, Youngbin Lee, JinYoung Park, Donghoon Lee, Moon Jong Kim, Kwang-Min Choe
{"title":"The matrix glycoprotein Papilin maintains the haematopoietic progenitor pool in Drosophila lymph glands.","authors":"Jae-In Lee, Sumin Park, Hyunji Park, Youngbin Lee, JinYoung Park, Donghoon Lee, Moon Jong Kim, Kwang-Min Choe","doi":"10.1242/dev.204367","DOIUrl":"10.1242/dev.204367","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Differentiation of prohaemocytes, the precursors of Drosophila blood cells (haemocytes), and the release of haemocytes from the lymph gland, a major larval haematopoietic organ, are vital responses to wasp infestation or tissue degeneration. Although cells and extracellular matrix (ECM) in the lymph gland are known to play a crucial role in haemocyte differentiation, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we show that the matrix glycoprotein Papilin (Ppn) is essential for maintaining the prohaemocyte population in lymph glands. In Ppn-depleted larvae, haemocyte differentiation increased with a reduction in the prohaemocyte-containing medullary zone, and lymph gland lobes dispersed prematurely. Ppn was synthesised by plasmatocytes, forming lamellae mainly in the medullary zone. Microbial infection or wasp infestation disrupted the Ppn meshwork within lymph glands. Ppn colocalised with collagen, laminin, nidogen and perlecan. Ppn depletion disrupted the ECM structure, including perlecan organisation. Phenotypes caused by Ppn depletion were partially rescued by perlecan overexpression or inactivation of the epidermal growth factor receptor pathway. Thus, Ppn is crucial for maintaining lymph gland architecture and regulating haemocyte differentiation, highlighting an intricate interaction between the ECM and signalling pathways in haematopoiesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12045604/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterization of shell field populations in gastropods and their autonomous specification mechanism independent of inter-quartet interactions.","authors":"Supanat Phuangphong, Hiroki Yoshikawa, Yune Kojima, Hiroshi Wada, Yoshiaki Morino","doi":"10.1242/dev.204538","DOIUrl":"10.1242/dev.204538","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The embryonic shell field of mollusks appears during gastrulation on the dorsal ectoderm and later develops into the adult shell-secreting mantle. Although several lines of evidence have revealed that the shell field is exclusively derived from the second quartet (2q) of 16-cell embryos, it is generally believed that its fate is established only after receiving inductive signals from cells derived from other quartets, such as the invaginated endoderm. However, the induction hypothesis remains questionable due to limited experimental evidence and contradictory results. Here, we re-investigated the induction hypothesis for shell field specification in the limpet. We identified three cell populations within the developing shell field using two-color in situ hybridization and single-cell transcriptome analysis, each characterized by distinct effector and transcription factor genes. The specification of each population was examined in 2q blastomeres isolated from 16-cell embryos. Even without inter-quartet interactions, marker gene expression for each shell field population was detected in the 2q-derived partial embryos. We conclude that the early specification of shell field in 2q-derived cells occurs largely independently of interactions with other quartets.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143656455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deletion of hepcidin disrupts iron homeostasis and hematopoiesis in zebrafish embryogenesis.","authors":"Wenyi Yang, Mingjian Peng, Youquan Wang, Xiaowen Zhang, Wei Li, Xue Zhai, Zhichao Wu, Peng Hu, Liangbiao Chen","doi":"10.1242/dev.204307","DOIUrl":"10.1242/dev.204307","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Iron is essential for cell growth and hematopoiesis, which is regulated by hepcidin (hamp). However, the role of hamp in zebrafish hematopoiesis remains unclear. Here, we have created a stable hamp knockout zebrafish model using the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated nuclease 9 system (CRISPR/Cas9 system). Our study revealed that hamp deletion led to maternal iron overload in embryos, significantly downregulating hemoglobin genes and reducing hemoglobin content. Single-cell RNA sequencing identified abnormal expression patterns in blood progenitor cells, with a specific progenitor subtype showing increased ferroptosis and delayed development. By crossing hamp knockout zebrafish with a gata1+ line (blood cells labeled fish line), we confirmed ferroptosis in blood progenitor cells. These findings underscore the crucial role of hamp in iron regulation and hematopoiesis, offering novel insights into developmental biology and potential therapeutic targets for blood disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143662536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DevelopmentPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-10DOI: 10.1242/dev.204347
Seung Woo Kang, Bryan R Helm, Yu Wang, Shiyun Xiao, Wen Zhang, Anusha Vasudev, Ken S Lau, Qi Liu, Ellen R Richie, Laura P Hale, Nancy R Manley
{"title":"Insulin-like growth factor 2 as a driving force for exponential expansion and differentiation of the neonatal thymus.","authors":"Seung Woo Kang, Bryan R Helm, Yu Wang, Shiyun Xiao, Wen Zhang, Anusha Vasudev, Ken S Lau, Qi Liu, Ellen R Richie, Laura P Hale, Nancy R Manley","doi":"10.1242/dev.204347","DOIUrl":"10.1242/dev.204347","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Like all organs, the thymus grows in size and function rapidly during development, but this growth comes to a halt after birth. However, the molecular mechanisms behind such a transition in the thymus remain obscure. Using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) of the murine thymic stroma, we identified that major transcriptomic changes occur in the endothelium and mesenchyme across the transition to homeostasis. Differentially expressed gene and intercellular network analyses of temporally resolved scRNA-seq data revealed fibroblast-derived insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) as a candidate driving neonatal thymic expansion. We demonstrated that IGF2 activity promotes a cortical thymic epithelial cell-specific proliferation and is tightly regulated at the thymic growth transition. Bulk RNA-seq of human thymi across the transition also revealed that IGF2 drives thymic expansion, suggesting an evolutionarily conserved role. Our study highlights the role of fibroblast-derived IGF2 in promoting cortical thymic epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation, resulting in early thymic expansion that is followed by downregulation to establish homeostasis.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12045631/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143662549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DevelopmentPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1242/dev.204801
{"title":"The people behind the papers - Ramya Ranganathan and Andrea Streit.","authors":"","doi":"10.1242/dev.204801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204801","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The transcription factor Six1 and its co-factor, Eya1, regulate inner ear development in vertebrates, and loss of Six1 or Eya1 causes developmental differences. In their study, Andrea Streit and colleagues find new gene targets of Six1 that overlap with known human deafness loci in the early inner ear. To know more about their work, we spoke to the first author, Ramya Ranganathan, and the corresponding author, Andrea Streit, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology and Head of the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology at King's College London, UK.</p>","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":"152 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143968847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DevelopmentPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1242/dev.204708
Saanjbati Adhikari
{"title":"The Company of Biologists' Workshops: supporting our community and inspiring new science.","authors":"Saanjbati Adhikari","doi":"10.1242/dev.204708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11375,"journal":{"name":"Development","volume":"152 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143794928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}