The Notch pathway mediates cell-to-cell communication in a variety of tissues, developmental stages and organisms. Pathway activation relies on the interaction between transmembrane ligands and receptors on adjacent cells. As such, pathway activity could be influenced by the size, composition or dynamics of contacts between membranes. The initiation of Notch signalling in the Drosophila embryo occurs during cellularization, when lateral cell membranes and adherens junctions are first being deposited, allowing us to investigate the importance of membrane architecture and specific junctional domains for signaling. By measuring Notch dependent transcription in live embryos we established that it initiates while lateral membranes are growing and that signalling onset correlates with a specific phase in their formation. However, the length of the lateral membranes per se was not limiting. Rather, the adherens
Membrane architecture and adherens junctions contribute to strong Notch pathway activation
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Julia Falo-Sanjuan, Sarah J. Bray; Membrane architecture and adherens junctions contribute to strong Notch pathway activation. Development 2021; dev.199831. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199831
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