Genetic Determinants of Phosphate Response in Drosophila
| Title: | Genetic Determinants of Phosphate Response in Drosophila |
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Bergwitz, Clemens; Wee, Mark J.; Sinha, Sumi; Huang, Joanne Hyunjung; DeRobertis, Charles; Mensah, Lawrence; Cohen, Jonathan Brewer; Friedman, Adam Amiel Laufer; Kulkarni, Meghana; Hu, Yanhui; Vinayagam, Arunachalam; Schnall-Levin, Michael; Berger, Bonnie; Perkins, Lizabeth A.; Mohr, Stephanie; Perrimon, Norbert
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| Citation: | Bergwitz, Clemens, Mark J. Wee, Sumi Sinha, Joanne Huang, Charles DeRobertis, Lawrence B. Mensah, Jonathan Cohen, et al. 2013. Genetic determinants of phosphate response in drosophila. PLoS ONE 8(3): e56753. |
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| Abstract: | Phosphate is required for many important cellular processes and having too little phosphate or too much can cause disease and reduce life span in humans. However, the mechanisms underlying homeostatic control of extracellular phosphate levels and cellular effects of phosphate are poorly understood. Here, we establish Drosophila melanogaster as a model system for the study of phosphate effects. We found that Drosophila larval development depends on the availability of phosphate in the medium. Conversely, life span is reduced when adult flies are cultured on high phosphate medium or when hemolymph phosphate is increased in flies with impaired Malpighian tubules. In addition, RNAi-mediated inhibition of MAPK-signaling by knockdown of Ras85D, phl/D-Raf or Dsor1/MEK affects larval development, adult life span and hemolymph phosphate, suggesting that some in vivo effects involve activation of this signaling pathway by phosphate. To identify novel genetic determinants of phosphate responses, we used Drosophila hemocyte-like cultured cells (S2R+) to perform a genome-wide RNAi screen using MAPK activation as the readout. We identified a number of candidate genes potentially important for the cellular response to phosphate. Evaluation of 51 genes in live flies revealed some that affect larval development, adult life span and hemolymph phosphate levels. |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056753 |
| Other Sources: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592877/pdf/ |
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