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Investigation of the cell-counting mechanism response to the “large-cell” phenotype in Drosophila melanogasterPhi Sigma Symposium Presentation Bryston Nham Advisor: Leslie Saucedo, Ph.DSpring 2015
Normal Development of a Cell (Conlon and Raff, 1999)•Cell Growth •Cell cycle progression •Terminal differentiation•Apoptosis
Normal Development of a Cell (Conlon and Raff, 1999)•Cell Growth •Cell cycle progression •Terminal differentiation•Apoptosis
Tumor Development
Cell – Counting Mechanism
•Recent Studies
•Problem
Abnormally large Amount of cells
Apoptosis initiated to decreasetissue size
Large-cell Phenotype:Normal amount of cells
Apoptosis not initiatedto decrease tissue size
Big Biological Question
•Can abnormal tissue growth from the large-cell phenotype be suppressed by forcing these cells into mitosis? •Could an increase the number of cells
possibly alert the cell-counting mechanism?
Pathways and Genes of Interest: Rheb-gene, myc-gene, and PI3K pathway.
Genes and Pathways of Interest
• Rheb/Myc-genes and the PI3K pathway • Overexpression = increase in cell mass with
failure to promote entry into mitosis. • CDC25 or stg (Drosophila melanogaster)• Phosphatase that activates mitotic cyclin-
dependent kinases, which force cells into mitosis.
+Rheb,myc,PI3K+Rheb,myc,PI3K +stg
Cell-Cycle Diagram
No entry in mitosis
= Cell Death (Apoptosis)
Normal Tissue
+Rheb,Myc, or PI3K+Rheb,Myc, or PI3K +stg
Cell-Counting Mechanism
Protocol Performed• UASGal4 driver system: localizes phenotypic effects to certain
region• enGal4: posterior compartment of wing
• Four sets of crosses:
• Wing tissue analysis based on two characteristics:• 1. Size of the posterior compartment• 2. Cell density in each compartment.
• Caspase stain to potentially identify apoptosis.
Wild-type x enGal4
x enGal + stg
Rheb, myc, or PI3K x enGal4
x enGal + stg
Results: Control Crosses enGal4 Anterior
Posterior
enGal4 (+stg) Anterior Posterior
Results: Rheb-gene crosses enGal4,Rheb Anterior Posterior
enGal4,Rheb (+stg) Anterior Posterior
Results: PI3K crosses enGal4, PI3K Anterior
Posterior
enGal4,PI3K (+stg) Anterior Posterior
Results: Myc-crosses enGal4,myc Anterior
Posterior
enGal4,myc (+stg) Anterior Posterior
Figure 4. The introduction of stg to cells overexpressing growth pathways increased the cell density within the posterior compartment. Cell density within a surface area of 40 μm2 in the posterior and anterior compartments. When stg is expressed the cell density in the posterior compartment is very similar to the anterior compartment, indicating an increase in mitotic activity.
enG4,WT enG4/stg,WT myc myc (+stg) Rheb Rheb (+stg) PI3K PI3K (+stg)0
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Interpretation of Results
• Overexpression of gene or pathway caused an increase in cell size and overall tissue size. • Cells did not enter mitosis
• When stg was introduced to each cross, tissue size decreased, but cell count increased. • Forced entry in mitosis may have alerted cell-
counting mechanism.
Ongoing and Future/Summer Work • Continue antibody staining• Negative controls showed no apoptosis. • Do antibody staining for stg-crosses.
• Verify apoptosis is biological process for decreased tissue size.• Inhibit apoptosis to see growth patterns.
• Look at tumor development from a different biological approach • Mutate a few cells rather than entire region.
References • Chen BJ, Wu YL, Tanaka Y, Zhang W (2014) Small Molecules
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• Cantley, L. (2002) The Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Pathway. Science 296 (1655).
• Shaw, RJ., Cantley, LC. (2006) Ras, PI(3)K and mTOR signaling controls tumour cell growth. Nature 441: 424-430.
• Nilsson, I., Hoffmann, I., (2000) Cell cycle regulation by the CDC25 phosphatase family. Prog Cell Cycle Res. 4: 107-114.
Thank you for your time! Questions?