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| Status |
Public on Dec 31, 2020 |
| Title |
Maintenance of cell fate by the Polycomb Group gene Sex combs extra enables a partial epithelial mesenchymal transition in Drosophila (Pc dataset) |
| Organism |
Drosophila melanogaster |
| Experiment type |
Other
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| Summary |
Epigenetic silencing by Polycomb group (PcG) complexes can promote epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and stemness and is associated with malignancy of solid cancers. Here we report a role for Drosophila PcG repression in a partial EMT event that occurs during wing disc eversion, an early event during metamorphosis. In a screen for EMT genes required for eversion we identified the PcG genes Sex combs extra (Sce) and Sex combs midleg (Scm). Depletion of Sce or Scm resulted in internalised wings and thoracic clefts, and loss of Sce inhibited the EMT of the peripodial epithelium and basement membrane breakdown, ex vivo. Targeted DamID (TaDa) using Dam-Pol II showed that Sce knockdown caused a genomic transcriptional response consistent with maintenance of an epithelial fate. Surprisingly only 17 genes were significantly upregulated in Sce-depleted cells, including Abd-B, abd-A, caudal, and nubbin. Each of these loci were enriched for Dam-Pc binding. Of the four genes, only Abd-B was robustly upregulated in cells lacking Sce expression. RNAi knockdown of all four genes could partly suppress the Sce RNAi eversion phenotype, though Abd-B had the strongest effect. Our results suggest that in the absence of continued PcG repression peripodial cells express genes such as Abd-B which regulate epithelial state and thereby disrupt eversion. Our results emphasise the important role that PcG suppression can play in maintaining cell states required for morphogenetic events throughout development and suggest that PcG repression of Hox genes may affect epithelial traits that could contribute to metastasis.
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| Overall design |
Tada Dam-Pol2 and Dam-Pc on Drosophila Control and Sce RNAi wing disc peripodial cells
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| Contributor(s) |
Murray MJ |
| Citation missing |
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| Submission date |
Jul 07, 2020 |
| Last update date |
Dec 31, 2020 |
| Contact name |
Michael Joseph Murray |
| E-mail(s) |
murraym@unimelb.edu.au
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| Organization name |
University of Melbourne
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| Department |
School of BioSciences
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| Lab |
Murray
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| Street address |
Parkville
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| City |
Melbourne |
| State/province |
VIC |
| ZIP/Postal code |
3010 |
| Country |
Australia |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL19132 |
Illumina NextSeq 500 (Drosophila melanogaster) |
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| Samples (10)
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| GSM4658317 |
Drosophila wing disc Control Ubx-GAL4>Dam rep1 |
| GSM4658318 |
Drosophila wing disc Control Ubx-GAL4>Dam rep2 |
| GSM4658319 |
Drosophila wing disc Control Ubx-GAL4>Dam rep3 |
| GSM4658320 |
Drosophila wing disc Control Ubx-GAL4>DamPc rep1 |
| GSM4658321 |
Drosophila wing disc Control Ubx-GAL4>DamPc rep2 |
| GSM4658322 |
Drosophila wing disc Control Ubx-GAL4>DamPc rep3 |
| GSM4658323 |
Drosophila wing disc Sce RNAi Ubx-GAL4>Dam rep1 |
| GSM4658324 |
Drosophila wing disc Sce RNAi Ubx-GAL4>Dam rep2 |
| GSM4658325 |
Drosophila wing disc Sce RNAi Ubx-GAL4>DamPc rep1 |
| GSM4658326 |
Drosophila wing disc Sce RNAi Ubx-GAL4>DamPc rep2 |
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| This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries: |
| GSE153905 |
Maintenance of cell fate by the Polycomb Group gene Sex combs extra enables a partial epithelial mesenchymal transition in Drosophila |
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA644505 |
| SRA |
SRP270616 |
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