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Functional interactions between the pelle kinase, Toll receptor, and tube suggest a mechanism for activation of dorsal.

Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.

Abstract

A complex signal transduction pathway functions in the early Drosophila embryo to establish dorsal-ventral polarity. Activation of this pathway results in the nuclear transport of the protein dorsal (dl), a member of the rel/NF-kappaB family of transcription factors. Genetic studies have identified three intracellular components whose activity is required for activation of dl: Toll, a transmembrane receptor; pelle (pll), a serine/threonine protein kinase; and tube, a protein of unknown function. Here we examine the activities of these proteins when coexpressed in Drosophila Schneider cells. Coexpression of pll with dl enhanced dl nuclear localization and resulted in a modest increase in transcriptional activity. However, when pll was coexpressed with a specific mutant derivative of Toll (TlNaeI), although not with wild-type Toll, a striking synergistic activation of dl was detected. Unexpectedly, coexpression of pll plus TlNaeI, in the absence of dl, resulted in a similar synergistic activation of a GAL4-tube fusion protein. Based on these and other results, we propose a model in which pll receives a signal from activated Toll and phosphorylates tube, which then participates directly in dl activation.

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