Innexin function dictates the spatial relationship between distal somatic cells in the Caenorhabditis elegans gonad without impacting the germline stem cell pool

Author:

Tolkin Theadora,Mohammed Ariz,Starich Todd,Schedl Tim,Albert Hubbard E. Jane,Greenstein David

Abstract

AbstractGap-junctional signaling mediates myriad cellular interactions in metazoans. Yet, how gap junctions control the positioning of cells in organs is not well understood. Innexins compose gap junctions in invertebrates and affect organ architecture. Here, we investigate the roles of gap-junctions in controlling distal somatic gonad architecture and its relationship to underlying germline stem cells in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We show that a reduction of soma-germline gap-junctional signaling causes displacement of distal sheath cells (Sh1) towards the distal end of the gonad. We show that a somatically expressed innexin fusion protein, which was used as marker in a prior study asserting that the wild type lacked a bare region between the distal tip cell (DTC) and Sh1, encodes a poisonous gap junction subunit. We determine that, contrary to the model put forth in the prior study based on this marker, Sh1 mispositioning does not markedly alter the position of the borders of the stem cell pool or of the progenitor cell pool. Together, these results demonstrate that gap junctions can control the position of Sh1, but that Sh1 position is neither relevant for GLP-1/Notch signaling nor for the exit of germ cells from the stem cell pool.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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