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Separable mechanisms drive local and global polarity establishment in the Caenorhabditiselegans intestinal epithelium.


ABSTRACT: Apico-basolateral polarization is essential for epithelial cells to function as selective barriers and transporters, and to provide mechanical resilience to organs. Epithelial polarity is established locally, within individual cells to establish distinct apical, junctional and basolateral domains, and globally, within a tissue where cells coordinately orient their apico-basolateral axes. Using live imaging of endogenously tagged proteins and tissue-specific protein depletion in the Caenorhabditiselegans embryonic intestine, we found that local and global polarity establishment are temporally and genetically separable. Local polarity is initiated prior to global polarity and is robust to perturbation. PAR-3 is required for global polarization across the intestine but local polarity can arise in its absence, as small groups of cells eventually established polarized domains in PAR-3-depleted intestines in a HMR-1 (E-cadherin)-dependent manner. Despite the role of PAR-3 in localizing PKC-3 to the apical surface, we additionally found that PAR-3 and PKC-3/aPKC have distinct roles in the establishment and maintenance of local and global polarity. Taken together, our results indicate that different mechanisms are required for local and global polarity establishment in vivo.

SUBMITTER: Pickett MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9845746 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Separable mechanisms drive local and global polarity establishment in the Caenorhabditiselegans intestinal epithelium.

Pickett Melissa A MA   Sallee Maria D MD   Cote Lauren L   Naturale Victor F VF   Akpinaroglu Deniz D   Lee Joo J   Shen Kang K   Feldman Jessica L JL  

Development (Cambridge, England) 20221116 22


Apico-basolateral polarization is essential for epithelial cells to function as selective barriers and transporters, and to provide mechanical resilience to organs. Epithelial polarity is established locally, within individual cells to establish distinct apical, junctional and basolateral domains, and globally, within a tissue where cells coordinately orient their apico-basolateral axes. Using live imaging of endogenously tagged proteins and tissue-specific protein depletion in the Caenorhabditi  ...[more]

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