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Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2007, p. 2987-2996, Vol. 27, No. 8
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01685-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Proneural Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Coordinately Regulate Cell Type Specification and cdk Inhibitor Expression during Development{triangledown}

Madina J. Sukhanova, Dilip K. Deb, Gabriel M. Gordon, Miho Tanaka Matakatsu, and Wei Du*

Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, 924 E. 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Received 8 September 2006/ Returned for modification 27 December 2006/ Accepted 3 February 2007

Cell differentiation and cell cycle exit are coordinately regulated during development; however, the molecular logic underlying this regulation is not known. The Drosophila cdk inhibitor Dacapo (Dap) is one of the key cell cycle regulators that exhibit dynamic expression during development and contribute to the developmental regulation of the cell cycle. In this study, regulation of Dap expression during cell type specification was investigated. The expression of Dap in the R2 and R5 precursors of the developing eye and in the newly recruited leg disc femoral sense organ precursors was found to be controlled by the epidermal growth factor receptor signaling-regulated transcription factor Pointed (Pnt) and the proneural basic helix-loop-helix proteins Atonal (Ato) and Daughterless (Da). We show that Pnt, Ato, and Da regulate Dap expression directly through their respective binding sites precisely at the time when these transcription factors function to specify neural fates. These results show that Dap expression is directly regulated by developmental mechanisms that simultaneously control cell type specification. This is potentially a general mechanism by which the expression of key cell cycle regulators is coordinated with differentiation during normal development. The direct regulation of key cell cycle regulators by the differentiation factors ensures coordinated regulation of cell cycle and differentiation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, 924 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. Phone: (773) 834-1949. Fax: (773) 702-4394. E-mail: wdu{at}huggins.bsd.uchicago.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 12 February 2007.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2007, p. 2987-2996, Vol. 27, No. 8
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01685-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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