Abstract：
:Both types of Drosophila egg chamber germ cells, i.e. oocyte and nurse cells, have to control their nucleus positions in order to produce a viable gamete. Interestingly, while actin microfilaments are crucial to position the nuclei in nurse cells, these are the microtubules that are important for oocyte nucleus to migrate and adopt the correct position. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms underlying these positioning processes in the two cell types with respect to the organization and dynamics of the actin and microtubule skeleton. In the nurse cells it is essential to keep firmly the nuclei in a central position to prevent them from obstructing the ring canals when the cytoplasmic content of the cells is dumped into the oocyte cells toward the end of oogenesis. This is achieved by the assembly of thick filopodia-like actin cables anchored to the plasma membrane, which grow inwardly and eventually encase tightly the nuclei in a cage-like structure. In the oocyte, the migration at an early stage of oogenesis of the nucleus from a posterior location to an anchorage site at an asymmetric anterior position, is an essential step in the setting up of the dorsoventral polarity axis of the future embryo. This process is controlled by an interplay between MT networks that just start to be untangled. Although both mechanisms have evolved to fulfill cell-type specific cell processes in the context of fly oogenesis, interesting parallels can be drawn with other nuclear positioning mechanisms in the mouse oocyte and the developing muscle respectively.
journal_name
Semin Cell Dev Bioljournal_title
Seminars in cell & developmental biologyauthors
Bernard F,Lepesant JA,Guichet Adoi
10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.10.013subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-10-01 00:00:00pages
25-33eissn
1084-9521issn
1096-3634pii
S1084-9521(17)30356-7journal_volume
82pub_type
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