β-Spectrin regulates the hippo signaling pathway and modulates the basal actin network.

Publication Year
2015

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

Emerging evidence suggests functional regulation of the Hippo pathway by the actin cytoskeleton, although the detailed molecular mechanism remains incomplete. In a genetic screen, we identified a requirement for β-Spectrin in the posterior follicle cells for the oocyte repolarization process during Drosophila mid-oogenesis. β-spectrin mutations lead to loss of Hippo signaling activity in the follicle cells. A similar reduction of Hippo signaling activity was observed after β-Spectrin knockdown in mammalian cells. We further demonstrated that β-spectrin mutations disrupt the basal actin network in follicle cells. The abnormal stress fiber-like actin structure on the basal side of follicle cells provides a likely link between the β-spectrin mutations and the loss of the Hippo signaling activity phenotype.

Journal
J Biol Chem
Volume
290
Issue
10
Pages
6397-407
Date Published
03/2015
ISSN Number
1083-351X
Alternate Journal
J. Biol. Chem.
PMID
25589787