Patent Application: US-25176902-A

Abstract:
the invention provides a novel method for analyzing cell motility by employing the wnt signaling pathway . cells and methods are described where wnt polypeptides have a pronounced and measurable effect on cell motility . agents that can be used to inhibit or induce cell motility can be screened for and identified .

Description:
each of the references ( publication , article , web page , information source , genbank or swissprot sequence , or patent document , for example ) referred to in this specification is hereby specifically incorporated herein by reference , in its entirety . references may be referred to in this document by first author and year , and a complete citation to the references is found at the end of the specification . furthermore , each reference or any combination of references can be relied on and used , in whole or in part , to make , use , and test embodiments of the invention or specific examples described here . as this statement applies to each and every reference , document , or source of information , this specification will not repeat the incorporation by reference . this statement operates to effectively incorporate by reference in their entirety each and every reference ( as defined above ) listed or referred to in the specification . in making and using aspects and embodiments of this invention , one skilled in the art may employ conventional molecular biology , cell biology , virology , microbiology , and recombinant dna techniques . exemplary techniques are explained fully in the literature and are well known in the art . for example , one may rely on the following general texts to make and use the invention : sambrook et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , second edition ( 1989 ) cold spring harbor laboratory press , cold spring harbor , n . y . and sambrook et al . third edition ( 2001 ); dna cloning : a practical approach , volumes i and ii ( d . n . glover ed . 1985 ); oligonucleotide synthesis ( m . j . gaited . 1984 ); nucleic acid hybridization ( b . d . hames & amp ; s . j . higgins eds . 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( 1991 ); and j . e . celis et al ., cell biology : a laboratory handbook , academic press ( 1994 ). dwnt4 is most closely related to vertebrate wnts 9 , 14 , and 15 ( bergstein et al ., 1997 ; graba et al ., 1995 ). therefore , the results we discuss with dwnt4 can be directly correlated to the mammalian wnts 9 , 14 , and 15 . we show that the same process of effecting cell motility characteristics , for example , occur in the human cancer cell line nih3t3 . thus , mammalian wnt pathways behave similarly to the model system in drosophila . we have used drosophilia here to take advantage of the genetic work already performed on wnt systems in drosophila . the primary feature that distinguishes vertebrate and mammalian wnt 9 , 14 , and 15 proteins from other wnt family members is an unusual spacing of conserved cysteine residues at the c termini of each protein . this feature , and the observation that dwnt4 can elicit a response that is distinct from that of wingless in the embryonic epidermis , led us to postulate that dwnt4 signals through a noncanonical signaling mechanism ( buratovich et al ., 2000 ; gieseler et al ., 1999 ; graba et al ., 1995 ). to analyze dwnt4 signaling genetically , we generated mutations at the locus ( see experimental procedures ). this resulted in the isolation of 3 mutant alleles , all of which display partial lethality . the cause of lethality has not been determined ; embryos hatch with no obvious defects , but the larvae die in the first or second instar . approximately 10 - 15 % of the mutant individuals survive to adulthood . sequence analysis of genomic dna from the mutants reveals that two of the alleles have changes in the dwnt4 coding region : a stop signal is generated at position 343 in dwnt4ems23 and a 3 bp deletion removes a highly conserved glutamate residue at position 299 in dwnt4c1 . the full length protein is 539 amino acids . for each of these alleles , the lethality of dwnt4 / dwnt4 is similar to that of dwnt4 / df , indicating that each allele is either amorphic or strongly hypomorphic . the third allele , dwnt4 × 1 does not contain a mutation in the coding region , suggesting that this allele contains a regulatory mutation . the dwnt4 mutant individuals that survive to adulthood are male and female sterile . here we have focused on the phenotype in the developing ovary . the drosophila adult ovary contains between 13 and 16 chains of developing egg chambers called ovarioles , each of which is contained within an ovariolar sheath ( king , 1970 ). the sheath that covers each ovariole is composed of a layer of squamous epithelium surrounded by bands of muscle . the sheath epithelium secretes a thick basement membrane which provides structural support to the ovariole . a specialized group of cells at the apical tip of the germarium , known as the terminal filament cells , are contiguous with the sheath epithelium . immediately basal to the terminal filaments are germ line and somatic stem cells . the germ line stem cells divide to produce the oocyte and supporting nurse cells ; the somatic stem cells give rise to a layer of follicle cells that surround the germ cells ( spradling , 1993 ). when the oocyte and nurse cells become enveloped by the follicle cells , they pinch off from the germarium to form an egg chamber , and oogenesis proceeds . this process is repeated so that each ovariole contains a chain of egg chambers with the germarium and young egg chambers at the apical end and mature oocytes at the basal end . the structure of the ovarioles is disrupted in dwnt4 mutants . wild type ovarioles exhibit a linear arrangement , with their germaria meeting at the apical tip of the ovary and mature oocytes at the basal end . in dwnt4 mutants , the germaria and younger egg chambers “ flop ” down beside the older cysts , frequently becoming positioned adjacent to the dorsal appendages of mature oocytes . we postulated that the disorganization of the mutant ovarioles results from a lack of structural support from the ovariolar sheath . we examined the sheath epithelium using an antibody against fasciclin iii , which marks the sheath epithelium and the follicle cells in the adult . in wild type , the sheath surrounds the ovariole as a glove surrounds a finger . in dwnt4 mutant females , the sheath is present but the ovariolar “ finger ” is folded , as if the “ glove ” is too small . when the sheath is manually removed , however , the ovarioles straighten out and are grossly normal . this suggests that the aberrant structure of the mutant ovaries is due to defects within the ovariolar sheath . to determine how dwnt4 contributes to the structure of the sheath , we first examined its expression during sheath morphogenesis . dwnt4 is expressed in cells that migrate to form the ovariolar sheath epithelium . ovarian morphogenesis begins in the third larval instar and continues through pupal stages ( king , 1970 ) ( fig2 a ). at 2 h after puparium formation ( apf ), the ovary is organized into four distinct cell populations . germ cells and follicle cell precursors are located in the central region of the ovary ( green and yellow , respectively ). the terminal filament cells ( red ) are organized into stacks ( godt and laski , 1995 ; king , 1970 ). the apical cell population ( blue ) begins to migrate basally between terminal filament stacks , secreting a thick basement membrane as it moves ( king , 1970 ). prior to and during their migration , the apical cells maintain close contact with each other and exhibit a roughly cuboidal morphology . by 24 h apf , the migrating apical cells have separated the central region of the ovary into individual germaria and have begun to divide the basal cells ( pink ) into distinct clusters called basal stalk precursors . by 36 h apf apical cell migration is complete , and the cells flatten to assume their final squamous morphology . by 48 h apf , the first egg chambers have pinched off from the germaria . dwnt4 is expressed in the migrating apical cells . at 2 h apf , it is expressed in the apical cells ( red ) as they migrate basally between terminal filament stacks ( green ; fig2 b ). in ovaries isolated 16 h apf , dwnt - 4 is localized to the migrating cells on either side of the terminal filaments and developing germaria ( fig2 c ). by 18 h apf , dwnt4 - expressing cells are observed in between the individual basal stalk clusters ( green ; fig2 d ). these data show that dwnt4 is present throughout the apical cell population during ovarian morphogenesis . the expression of dwnt4 in the apical cell population led us to examine the behavior of these cells during ovariolar sheath morphogenesis . two markers for the behavior of the apical cells are laminin , which is present in the basement membrane secreted by these cells as they migrate , and dwnt4 itself . in wild type ovaries isolated 16 h apf , laminin is highly concentrated in the basement membrane ( fig3 a ). lower levels of laminin are also observed surrounding individual apical cells . at this time , the apical population has migrated between clusters of basal cells . in dwnt4 mutant ovaries isolated 16 h apf , laminin - secreting cells are absent from the interior of the ovary ( fig3 b ). laminin secreting cells are observed at the periphery of the ovary , but these cells have failed to move between the basal cells ( fig3 c ). when the apical cells are visualized with the dwnt4 antibody , we also observe cells at the periphery of the ovary but not in the interior ( fig3 d ). this contrasts with the wild type , in which dwnt4 expressing cells separate clearly defined germaria ( refer to fig2 d ). these data suggest that movement of the apical cells is disrupted in dwnt4 mutants . however , since an epithelial sheath ultimately forms in mutant adults , we examined the apical cells 8 h later . at this stage in wild type ovaries , the basal stalks are well separated by the apical cells and are undergoing further morphogenesis to form columns ( fig3 e ). in dwnt4 mutants , sparse rows of laminin - secreting cells have begun to move into the central region of the ovary ( fig3 f ) but have not begun to divide the basal cells . this indicates that limited cell movement does occur in dwnt4 mutant ovaries . however , the paucity of moving cells and the delay in their movement results in epithelial sheaths that are not adequate to fully cover the mature adult ovariole . the expression of dwnt4 throughout the moving population of cells and the observation that the limited movement that does occur is in the appropriate direction suggests that the role of wnt signaling is not to provide a polarized cue for movement . an alternative role is suggested by the observation that interruption of wnt signaling inhibits the stabilization of lamellipodia at the leading edges of moving cells ( wallingford et al ., 2000 ). rather than providing a polarizing cue to specify direction of movement , wnt signaling could stabilize the lamellipodia by promoting attachment between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix . since the role of focal adhesions is to provide such an anchor , we examined the localization of fak as a marker of focal adhesions in migrating apical cells . in wild type ovaries at 2 h apf , fak is present diffusely throughout the cytoplasm but also accumulates in bright spots ( fig4 a ). these spots lie at the tips of v - shaped actin structures ( fig4 a ′, a ″) and so appear to represent focal complexes . in dwnt4 mutant ovaries , the level of diffuse fak within the apical cell population is reduced , and fak fails to accumulate in spots ( fig4 b ); however , we do see v - shaped actin - enriched structures ( fig4 b ′, b ″), suggesting that dwnt4 mutant cells can extend lamellipodia . the absence of fak can explain the failure of apical cell migration in dwnt4 mutants , since fak is required for cell motility in other contexts ( furuta et al ., 1995 ; ilic et al ., 1995 ; ilic et al ., 1996 ). our data indicate that wnt signaling promotes fak accumulation to facilitate cell movement . we therefore sought to determine whether this occurs through the canonical wnt signaling pathway , the planar polarity pathway , or a unique signaling mechanism . to determine whether dwnt4 signals through the canonical wnt signaling pathway , we tested whether canonical pathway - specific components are required in migrating apical cells . dfz2 functions redundantly with fz in canonical signaling but plays no role in planar polarity signaling ( chen and struhl , 1999 ; boutros et al ., 2000 ). dfz2c1 homozygotes are adult viable but sterile ( chen and struhl , 1999 ). the adult ovaries exhibit a “ flopped ” phenotype like those of dwnt4 mutants , suggesting that dfz2 functions as a dwnt4 receptor ( fig5 a ; see table 1 ). we also examined clones of cells expressing a dominant negative form of dfz2 [ dfz2 - gpi ] ( zhang and carthew , 1998 ). this form of dfz2 interrupts wg signaling but does not produce planar polarity defects . dfz2 - gpi expressing apical cells are found clustered in the apical region of the ovary ( fig5 b ). furthermore , when fak is examined in these ovaries , spots of fak are not observed in cells expressing dfz2 - gpi ( fig5 c ). this result confirms that the dfz2c1 adult phenotype is due to a lack of apical cell movement ( see also fig6 e ). it also demonstrates that dfz2 is required in the migrating apical cells to receive the dwnt4 signal . since dwnt4 is both expressed in and required by the migrating apical cells , it functions as an autocrine signal for cell movement . d - tcf is a transcription factor that mediates wg signaling but is not involved in planar polarity signaling ( van de wetering et al ., 1997 ). individuals lacking d - tcf die as embrys due to loss of wg signaling . to examine its potential role in cell movement , we therefore generated clones of cells that express an interfering form of this protein [ tcfdn ] ( van de wetering et al ., 1997 ). in contrast to dfz2 - gpi , tcfdn does not interrupt cell movement . clones of cells expressing tcfdn move between terminal filaments ( fig5 d ), and fak dots are readily observed within the cells ( fig5 e ). this demonstrates that tcf - mediated transcription is not required for apical cell migration . therefore , the effect of dwnt4 and dfz2 on apical cell movement is achieved via a noncanonical , tcf - independent mechanism . the dwnt4 signaling pathway is distinct from the planar polarity pathway . although neither dwnt4 mutants nor dfz2 mutants exhibit a planar polarity phenotype , they could engage the planar polarity pathway in the context of moving cells . to determine whether this is the case , we examined mutants that are defective in planar polarity signaling . dsh 1 encodes a protein that transduces canonical signals but is defective in planar polarity signaling ( klingensmith et al ., 1994 ; thiesen et al ., 1994 ). dsh 1 mutants are fertile , but we noticed that they exhibit reduced fecundity . when we examined the ovaries from these females , we observed a dwnt4 - like phenotype ( fig6 a ; see table 1 ). the penetrance of the phenotype is reduced compared to dwnt4 , presumably due to the fact that dsh 1 retains some signaling ability in the planar polarity pathway ( boutros et al ., 1998 ). the flopped ovarioles observed in dsh 1 mutants indicate that dsh is required for dwnt4 signaling in cell movement , and that the dsh 1 mutation disrupts dwnt4 signaling . to confirm that the flopped ovary phenotype of dsh 1 mutants is due to failed cell movement , we examined fak in dsh1 pupal ovaries ( fig6 d , d ′) and compared them to wild type ( fig6 c , c ′) and dfz2 c1 ( fig6 e , e ′) mutants . fak spots are visible in the wild type apical cells , but are absent in both dsh 1 and dfz2 c1 mutants . therefore , the dsh 1 lesion disrupts dwnt4 signaling through dfz2 . this is consistent with the idea that the planar polarity pathway is engaged by dwnt4 and dfz2 , but to test this further , we examined other planar polarity mutants . fz is the planar polarity receptor ( adler , 1992 ). although loss of fz activity in planar polarity signaling produces a phenotype similar to dsh1 mutants , we see only minor defects in fz mutant ovaries ( fig6 b , table 1 ). this suggested that the dwnt4 cell movement pathway uses a different receptor from the planar polarity pathway , but that it merges with planar polarity signaling at the level of dsh . to address this possibility , we examined additional planar polarity mutants . a subset of the planar polarity mutants exhibit planar polarity defects in all tissues examined ( referred to as “ primary polarity genes ”), while others affect polarity only in certain contexts ( referred to as “ secondary polarity genes ”) ( mlodzik , 2000 ). fz , dsh , and prickled ( pk ) are included in the primary group , while inturned ( in ) and fuzzy ( fy ) are included in the secondary group . we have examined the adult phenotype of prickled , inturned , and fuzzy mutants ( table 1 ). these mutants display only minor disruption of ovarian morphology , indicating that dwnt4 does not signal through the planar polarity pathway to facilitate cell movement . dwnt4 is the first wnt protein in drosophila shown to influence cell movement or to signal through a noncanonical mechanism . in the establishment of planar polarity and in cell movement , wnt signals have been proposed to provide a polarizing cue through a similar noncanonical pathway ( mcewen and peifer , 2000 ; tada and smith , 2000 ; wallingford et al ., 2000 ). the function of dwnt4 during cell movement allows us to relate wnt activity in cell movement to other factors that participate in this process , and to directly compare the cell movement pathway to the planar polarity pathway . our data reveal first that wnt signaling faciliates movement by promoting fak accumulation rather than by polarizing the cells , and second that the pathway employed by dwnt4 is distinct from both the canonical wnt pathway and the planar polarity pathway . since wnt proteins are secreted , they are attractive candidates for directional signals . however , our data are inconsistent with a role for dwnt4 in providing a directional cue . dwnt4 is expressed throughout the population of moving cells and acts as an autocrine signal for these cells ; it cannot therefore be the primary polarizing signal . the conclusion that wnt signaling does not provide direction to cell movement is also supported by the observation that loss of wntl 1 - mediated movement during zebrafish gastrulation can be rescued by ubiquitous expression of wnt11 ( heisenberg et al ., 2000 ). our data indicate that , rather than polarizing the cells , the role of dwnt4 during cell movement is to promote fak accumulation in focal complexes . in cultured cells , fak is localized to both focal contacts , which form at the tips of lamellipodia or filopodia , and to focal adhesions , which form at the ends of stress fibers located behind the leading edge of the cell ( parsons et al ., 2000 ). fak is activated upon localization to focal complexes and focal adhesions . this leads to phosphorylation of multiple targets and ultimately to focal adhesion disassembly , allowing the cell to move forward ( igishi et al ., 1999 ; parsons et al ., 2000 ; turner , 2000 ). fak is recruited to focal complexes when lamellipodia extend and establish contact with the extracellular matrix through integrin / matrix binding . our data indicate that wnt signaling is necessary for this recruitment to occur . in support of our observations , mouse dsh localizes to focal adhesions in response to wnt signaling in embryonic kidney cells ( torres and nelson , 2000 ). wnt signaling in these cells regulates the transition from mesenchymal morphology to epithelial morphology . this suggests that wnt regulation of fak accumulation may be relevant for cell and tissue organization as well as for cell movement . loss of dfz2 has no impact on planar polarity signaling whereas fz is required for it ( boutros et al ., 2000 ; rulifson et al ., 2000 ). replacing the cysteine rich ligand binding domain of dfz2 with that of fz does not confer upon dfz2 the ability to alter planar polarity . this has led to the suggestion that the intracellular domain of dfz2 can only engage the canonical pathway . similarly , the dsh1 mutation has been thought to specifically interfere with signaling from fz . our data show that neither of these suggestions are the case ; dfz2 can engage a noncanonical , cell movement pathway given the appropriate ligand and cellular environment , and dsh1 interferes with dfz2 signaling in this context . although dsh1 interferes with cell movement , the cell movement pathway is distinct from the planar polarity pathway . the planar polarity mutants , fz , pk , in , and fy have marginal effects in the ovary . the low penetrance defects that have been observed in these mutants indicates that they play only a peripheral role at best in cell movement . in contrast , fz and pk play fundamental roles in planar polarity , since they function in the eye and leg as well as in the wing and notum . in and fy are novel proteins that function only in the wing , abdomen , and notum to regulate hair and bristle orientation . since none of these mutants exhibit significant defects in the ovariolar sheath , the process of determining polarity within an epithelial plane seems to be fundamentally distinct from wnt facilitation of cell movement . protein kinase c has been implicated in wnt regulation of vertebrate gastrulation movements ( kuhl et al ., 2000 ), and it is possible that the cell movement pathway diverges from the planar polarity pathway to include regulation of pkc . given the observation that pkc can regulate fak activation and / or accumulation in fibroblasts ( mogi et al ., 1995 ; parsons et al ., 2000 ), specific targeting of protein kinase c and its effect on wnt regulation in mammalian cells can lead to additional methods for directly modifying cell motility characteristics . the rho family of small gtpases functions in planar polarity and has a well established role in the regulation of cell movement , so they are obvious candidates for downstream mediators of wnt signaling . alternatively , they may function in parallel to dwnt4 to regulate fak accumulation . an observation that may be important in elucidating the relationship between cdc42 / rac / rho and wnt signaling in motile cells is that actin protrusions appear to form in both dwnt4 mutants ( fig4 ) and in xenopus cells with disrupted dsh activity ( wallingford et al ., 2000 ). this suggests that extension of actin filaments and localization of fak to their ends are two separable events . cdc42 and rac regulate actin polymerization and the protrusion of filopodia and lamellipodia at the leading edge of the cell , whereas rho is activated behind the leading edge and induces formation of actin stress fibers ( chrzanowska - wodnicka and burridge , 1992 ; critchley , 2000 ; parsons et al ., 2000 ). lack of rho prevents localization of focal adhesion components to focal adhesions , but it also prevents stress fiber formation ( fincham et al ., 1996 ). the observation that actin - rich protrusions form in the absence of wnt signaling but fak fails to accumulate is suggestive of parallel functions for dwnt4 and small gtpases , but further genetic analyses of these factors are necessary to clarify their relationships . although we have examined wnt regulation of fak accumulation in the context of model systems and specific mammalian systems and cells , the near - ubiquitous expression of both fak and wnt family members suggests that regulation of fak accumulation in focal complexes by wnt proteins is be widespread . focal adhesions and fak are key regulators of cell movement and adhesion to the extracellular matrix in many contexts . they relay signals from the extracellular matrix for cell survival , migration , and proliferation . our demonstration that wnt signaling can regulate fak and other cytosleletal protein accumulation shows that wnt proteins exert some of their many effects through regulation of focal complexes and focal adhesions . this has implications not only for development but also in those adult tissues where wnt signaling may regulate cell morphology , viability , migration , or proliferation . as a primary example , the metastatic process involves cell motility and the changes in a cell &# 39 ; s motility characteristics . the methods described here can be adapted with specific cell types to analyze changes in cell motility characteristics that are directkly relevant to metastisis , the control or regulation of metastasis , and prognostic and diagnostic methods related to cancer in humans and mammals . in particular , the wnt pathway &# 39 ; s importance in gastrulation demostrates that the methods here can be combined with ovarian cancer cells , and metastatic events involving ovarian cancers , to develop particular prognostic and diagnostic assays for and methods for determining treatments for ovarian cancer . we can use wnt conditioned media as a source of wnt polypeptides and fragments of them in testing the ability of a cell to modify its cell motility characteristics . human or mouse , for example , wnt encoding sequences , such as those encoding mouse wnt 1 , mouse wnt 5a , human wnt 9 , human wnt 14 , and human wnt 15 , can be inserted into an appropriate mammalian expresison vector . after introducing the vector into a mammalian cell , such as human 293 cells , the growth media collected from the surface of the culture can be used directly as a source of wnt polypeptides and fragments of wnt polypeptides . these polypeptides and fragments are known to interact with wnt receptors on mammalian cells . to demonstrate that wnt polypeptides and fragments can modify the cell motility characteristics of a mammalian cell , we treated mammalian cancer cells , nih3t3 , with wnt conditioned media as discussed above . a number of different time points can be selected to test for cell motility changes . we chose 15 miunutes to demonstrate the fast and specific action of the wnt polypeptides . in fig1 we show the human cancer cells after the wnt treatment . in panels c and d in particular , antibodies to the cytoskeletal protein actin are used to illustrate increased filopodia formation . the increased numbers of filopodia mean these cells are now atively forming the cell structures to move , or the cell motility characteristics have changed from adherant to motile . the degree of motility can be measured through the number of filopodia , for example , or through assyas that measure the levels or increases in cytoskeletal proteins . a number of cytosleletal proteins can be seletected in such an assay , including any one or more of actin , fillimentin , fak , pak , src , paxillin , talin , vinculin , tensin , csk , crk , cas , pyk2 , and integrins . quantitave anitbody assyas can also be performed as known in the art . cell sorting techniques based on antibody binding can also be performed as known in the art . antibodies to cytoskeletal proteins can be purchased commercially from a number of sources , including santa cruz biotechnology and cell signal technology . various other cell lines can be assyaed as we have shown for the human cancer cell line nih3t3 . one of skill in the art is familiar with numerous cancer cell lines and with methods to harvest and culture primary cancer cells for use in the assys and methods we describe here . in a preferred example , ovarian cancer cells can be cultured or selected for use . various states of metastatic development or progression can be measured through the new use of wnt signalling pathways and the compounds and polypeptides and fragments of polypeptides that may interact with the wnt signalling pathway , and specifically the receptors of the wnt signalling pathway . thus , methods where one tests a number of compounds by contacting the compounds with a cell , and then measuring the change in cell motility characteristics of the cell , and determining the changes in the cell structure of protein levels effected by the wnt pathway can be devised . a primary example of the type of compounds that can be tested are wnt inhibitors . inhibitors of the wnt signalling pathway would inhibit increases in cell motility chracteristics of the cell . accordingly , wnt pathway inhibitors can be useful agents in treatments for cancer or reducing metastatic or cell proliferative events . various human diseases , inlcuding cancer and macular degeneration , involve cell proliferation . thus , the methods of the invention can be used to test for new drug candidates by using the heretofor unknown correlation between wnt pathways and focal adhesions in cells . df ( 2l ) rf , df ( 2l ) ade3 , and df ( 2l ) de were obtained from stanley tiong and david nash ( tiong and nash , 1990 ). gary struhl provided y w hsflp ; sp / cyo ; dfz2c1 ri frt2a / tm2 and the rescue stock y w hsflp ; tub & gt ; dfz2 / cyo ; dfz2c1 ri frt 2a / tm2 ( chen and struhl , 1999 ). these stocks were re - balanced over the compound balancer sm6a ; tm6b . this allows mutant larvae and pupae to be distinguished from wild type sibs on the basis of the tubby mutation on tm6b . the dfz2 deficiency df ( 3l ) dfz2 was provided by ken cadigan ( bhanot et al ., 1999 ) and also rebalanced over this balancer . xx / y ras dshl , y w dshv26 frt101 / fm7 , y w hsflp22 ; act5c & gt ; y +& gt ; gal4 , uas - gfpnls / cyo , pk cn 1 , pksplel , cp in 1 , kniri - 1 pp , y ; mwh 1 , and cl fy2 nub2 were obtained from the bloomington stock center . the null dsh allele dshva153 frt18a / fm7 was obtained from steve cohen . uas - dfz2gpi was provided by richard carthew ( zhang and carthew , 1998 ); uas - tcfdn ( dominant negative ) was provided by hans clevers ( van de wetering et al ., 1997 ). the gal4 line e22cgal4 drives fairly low levels of ubiquitous expression in the embryo ( brand , 1997 ). the uas - dwnt4 line has been described ( gieseler et al ., 1999 ). clones of cells expressing uas constructs were generated by crossing each stock to flies of the genotype y w hsflp22 ; act5c & gt ; y +& gt ; gal4 , uas - gfpnls / cyo ( ito et al ., 1997 ); progeny were heat shocked for 1 hr at 32 ° c . at second - third instar to enable gal4 to be expressed . clones were followed through the expression of uas - gfp . dwnt4 lies within the same region of the second chromosome that includes wg ( graba et al ., 1995 ). we mapped the breakpoints of two deficiencies in the region , df ( 2l ) ade3 and df ( 2l ) rf ( tiong and nash , 1990 ), and found that both have breakpoints within dwnt4 . df ( 2l ) ade3 removes dna distal to the first dwnt4 exon , and df ( 2l ) rf removes part of the first intron of dwnt4 and dna proximal to it , including wg . a third deficiency , df ( 2l ) de ( tiong and nash , 1990 ), completely removes the dwnt4 locus . three independent screens were conducted to isolate mutations that fail to complement these deficiencies . three semi - lethal alleles of one complementation group were isolated . during a screen for ems - induced lethal mutations that are uncovered by df ( 2l ) rf , we obtained one allele , ems23 , that was semi - lethal in combination with all three deficiencies . dwnt4 was the only gene predicted to be affected by all three deficiencies . we isolated additional alleles through two independent screens . in one screen , cn bw sp males were mutagenized with x - rays and crossed to cn bw sp / cyo females . males of the genotype cn bw sp */ cyo ( where * indicates a mutagenized chromosome ) were crossed to ems23 cn bw sp / sm5 females . approximately 8000 flies were screened for failure to complement the original ems23 mutation . one allele was recovered ( c1 ). in a second screen , w1118 males were mutagenized with ems and crossed to cyoen 1 / sli females . cyoen 11 is a balancer that includes a lacz insertion at the wingless locus and removes wg activity . males of the genotype w1118 ; */ cyoen11 were crossed to females of the genotype df ( 2l ) de / cyo . approximately 3000 chromosomes were screened for mutations resulting in failure to complement df ( 2l ) de . in this screen , we isolated three alleles that failed to complement the deficiency . two of these fell within the complementation group distal to dwnt4 ; one allele ( x1 ) failed to complement all three deficiencies in the region as well as the original ems23 mutation . this allele exhibits a slightly higher frequency of surviving mutant adults ( 20 - 25 %), and females occasionally lay eggs . this allele therefore appears to be hypomorphic . for all of the analyses of pupal ovaries , the dwnt4 mutant alleles were re - balanced over sm6a ; tm6b . to confirm that the complementation group defined by the ems23 mutation corresponded to dwnt4 , we sequenced the coding region from ems23 , c1 , and x1 . flies carrying each allele were crossed to df ( 2l ) de and dna was prepared from hemizygous escaper adults . primers were designed at approximately 500 bp intervals along the coding sequence with 50 bp of overlap between primer pairs . the sequences were compared to dna from the orginal strains , cn bw sp and w1118 . although a few polymorphisms were observed between these strains , none resulted in coding changes . the changes noted in the mutants are described in the text . we were also able to rescue partially the lethality associated with dwnt4 mutations by ubiquitously expressing low levels of dwnt4 through gal4 mediated expression . for these experiments , dwnt4ems23 e22cgal4 / cyo flies were crossed to df ( 2l ) de / cyo ; uasdwnt4 . in this experiment , the number of surviving mutants was increased to 60 % ( 92 / 471 or 20 % of the total progeny were hemizygotes , where full rescue would be 33 % of the total progeny ). the rescue by this gal4 driver did not include restoration of fertility . we discovered a sequencing error in the original dwnt4 cdna sequence . this error resulted in the predicted dwnt4 protein being 137 amino acids shorter than it actually is . we have confirmed this by examining the protein size produced by the full length cdna transfected into s2 cells to the protein produced by a cdna with the 5 ′ end truncated to the original predicted start of translation ( not shown ). the corrected sequence will be submitted to genbank . germ line clones were generated with the flp - dfs technique ( chou and perrimon , 1996 ) by crossing females of the genotype dwnt4ems23 or c1 frt40a / cyo to males of the genotype y w hs - flp22 ; p { ovod1 } frt40a / cyo . progeny were heat shocked at 37 ° c . for 2 hours as third instar larvae or early pupae . straight winged females were mated to dwnt4ems23 / cyo males . the females bearing clones were fertile , and their progeny hatched , indicating that dwnt4 is not required in the germline . to generate an antibody against dwnt4 , the entire coding region from the originally reported start site was cloned into pet28a ( novagen ) to produce a his - tagged protein . this protein was expressed in bacteria and purified on a nickel column . the protein was solubilized in guanidinium hydrochloride and injected into rabbits ( pocono rabbit farm ). igg from immune serum was isolated using a protein a column ; the antibody was then preadsorbed with s2 cell acetone powder prior to use . specificity of the antibody was evaluated by examining s2 cell - expressed proteins on westerns and by examining expression in dwnt4 deficiency embryos ( not shown ). in the s2 cell experiments , cells were transfected with a construct bearing the full length dwnt4 cdna , a construct bearing the cdna truncated at the originally predicted start of translation , or a construct bearing the wingless cdna . the antibody detected two bands ( presumably multiple glycoforms ) centered around 59 kd in extracts from full length dwnt4 cdna expressing cells , a pair of bands of approximately 43 kd in extracts from truncated dwnt4 cdna expressing cells , and no bands in extracts from wg - expressing cells . when the pattern of protein was examined in wild type embryos , a pattern similar to that of dwnt4 rna was detected ; in the central nervous system , the protein is localized to axons . in df ( 2l ) ade3 / df ( 2l ) de embryos , no protein is detected . larvae of the desired genotypes were sexed , and females aged in food vials . white pre - pupae were collected every 2 hours . to isolate ovaries 2 hours apf , the posterior half of these flies were immediately dissected , inverted and fixed for one hour with 4 % formaldehyde in phosphate buffered saline [ pbs ]. once fixed , samples were washed three times with 0 . 1 % tween - 20 dissolved in pbs [ pbst ] and the ovaries removed using tungsten needles . ovaries were then placed in collection nets . these nets were made from 2 ml cryo - tubes ( externally threaded ) that had their bases cut off and holes punched through their caps with an 18 gauge syringe . the caps held 25 mm polycarbonate filters with 8 . 0 micron pores ( osmonics cat # k80cp02500 ). this allowed the ovaries to be retained while liquid was forced out using pressure generated by a syringe barrel . after sufficient numbers of ovaries were isolated , immunofluorescence labeling was performed as described . for ovaries isolated between 16 and 72 hours apf , white pre - pupae were collected , placed on media filled plates and aged at 25 co . after incubation , the contents of the pupal cases were emptied into drosophila ringers solution and the ovaries isolated with tungsten needles under a dissecting microscope . ovaries were then placed in 4 well tissue culture dishes , fixed and stained . immunofluorescence was performed as described ( white , 1998 ) with the following modifications . all dissections were done in drosophila ringer &# 39 ; s solution . samples were fixed with 4 % formaldehyde dissolved in pbs . after fixation washes were done with pbst . samples were blocked with 2 % bovine serum albumin [ bsa ] and 5 % normal goat serum dissolved in pbst . all antibodies and anti - sera were diluted in pbst containing 2 % bsa and 5 % ngs . the mouse monoclonal antibodies 4d9 anti - engrailed / invected and 7g10 anti - fasciclin iii developed by dr . corey goodman were obtained from the developmental studies hybridoma bank and diluted 1 : 1 and 1 : 5 , respectively . rabbit polyclonal anti - sera raised against drosophila laminin was obtained from dr lisa fessler ( fessler et al ., 1987 ) and diluted 1 : 500 . guinea pig polyclonal antisera 1562 , raised against drosophila dfak56 ( fujimoto et al ., 1999 ), was provided by dr . richard hynes and diluted 1 : 5000 . rabbit anti - armadillo was provided by dr . eric wieschaus ( riggleman et al ., 1990 ). rabbit polyclonal anti - sera against dwnt4 were generated in our laboratory as described above . igg purified anti - serum was diluted 1 : 50 and preabsorbed several times with s2 cell acetone powder prior to use . since s2 cells do not produce dwnt4 protein ( data not shown ), this step significantly reduces background staining without affecting specific signal . alexa488 , alexa556 and cy5 conjugated secondary antibodies against mouse , rabbit and guinea pig were obtained from molecular probes and diluted 1 : 500 prior to use . when desired , 30 units / ml alexa556 conjugated phalloidin was added to the diluted secondary antibodies to stain filamentous actin . prior to mounting , samples were incubated for 10 minutes with 5 mg / ml hoechst 33342 dissolved in pbst to label cell nuclei . the invention described and exemplified above is not limited to the specific embodiments and examples presented here . one skilled in the art can use the techniques and knowledge available through the documents and references noted and specifically incorporated herein , or other documents or references , to make and use additional embodiments . thus , the description above should not be taken as a limitation of the scope or content of this invention . adler , p . n . 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