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Proliferation Control
O. Wartlick,1
* P. Mumcu,2
* A. Kicheva,1
*† T. Bittig,2
* C. Seum,1
F. Jülicher,2
‡ M. González-Gaitán1
‡
Morphogens, such as Decapentaplegic (Dpp) in the fly imaginal discs, form graded concentration
profiles that control patterning and growth of developing organs. In the imaginal discs,
proliferative growth is homogeneous in space, posing the conundrum of how morphogen
concentration gradients could control position-independent growth. To understand the
mechanism of proliferation control by the Dpp gradient, we quantified Dpp concentration and
signaling levels during wing disc growth. Both Dpp concentration and signaling gradients scale
with tissue size during development. On average, cells divide when Dpp signaling levels have
increased by 50%. Our observations are consistent with a growth control mechanism based on
temporal changes of cellular morphogen signaling levels. For a scaling gradient, this mechanism
generates position-independent growth rates.
G
rowth regulation of the Drosophila wing
imaginal disc critically depends on the
Dpp morphogen gradient (1–7). Dpp mu-
tant imaginal discs fail to grow, and ectopic
expression of Dpp in clones of wing cells or-
ganizes growth and elicits the formation of an
ectopic winglet (7). Growth of imaginal discs is
spatially homogeneous. How a graded Dpp sig-
nal can control homogeneous tissue growth is an
open question for which a number of models
have been proposed: For example, it has been
suggested that the steepness of the gradient (5, 8)
and/or mechanical feedback (9, 10) control pro-
liferation. However, little quantitative data sup-
ports these models. To address this, we quantified
spatial and temporal changes of Dpp concentra-
tion, signaling activity, and disc growth param-
eters during development.
The Dpp gradient scales with wing size. We
used a functional green fluorescent protein–Dpp
(GFP-Dpp) fusion (11, 12) expressed in the en-
dogenous Dpp source to quantify GFP-Dpp pro-
files as a function of distance x from the source at
different times t during larval development (Fig.
1, A to C), both with and without expression of
the endogenous Dpp gene (13) (fig. S1). During
the growth period, the Dpp gradient expands:
Both the gradient amplitude C0 (i.e., the concen-
tration at the source boundary) and the decay
length l (the distance l over which the gradient
decays) increase significantly (Fig. 1, D and E).
The decay length, l, is proportional to the target
constant; Fig. 2, A and B; n = two independent
data sets with l/L = 0.107 (n1 = 98 discs) and
l/L = 0.116 (n2 = 60 discs); table S3]. Further
analysis of Dpp gradient profiles, C(r,t), where
r = x/L is the relative distance to the source,
revealed that the relative concentration gradient,
C(r,t)/C0(t), is invariant during development (Fig.
2A); the gradient scales with the growing tissue.
Gradient scaling behaviors have been reported
in this and other systems (14–17), and possible
mechanisms have been discussed (18, 19) [sup-
porting online material (SOM) text S1.2]. Note
that the gradient of another morphogen, Hedgehog
(Hh), does not scale (fig. S2).
Decreasing degradation accounts for gradi-
ent expansion. Gradient expansion is not due to
stretching of the gradient by wing growth, be-
cause the Dpp degradation rate is much larger
than the disc growth rate; the gradient renews
itself faster than the tissue grows (SOM text S1.1).
Hence, gradient expansion is due to changes in
Dpp production (n), diffusion (D), or degradation
(k) (12, 20) (SOM text S1.1). Estimation of these
parameters by fluorescence recovery after photo-
bleaching (FRAP) (12) and a reporter assay [SOM
quantitative procedures (QP) 3] showed that Dpp
production and diffusion vary only slightly dur-
ing the growth phase (Fig. 2, C and D), whereas
the degradation rate decreases substantially as
k ~ 1/A with increasing posterior compartment
area A (Fig. 2E). This decrease of the degrada-
tion rate could account for the constant scaling
tors determine the cellular Dpp concentration:
changes of the gradient profile (Fig. 1) and
changes in cell position, xcell(t), in the growing
tissue. Proliferation is approximately homoge-
neous in space (22, 23) (figs. S3A and S4A), so
the relative position of a cell, rcell = xcell(t)/L(t),
remains constant as the tissue grows (fig. S3A;
SOM QP5). Because rcell is constant and the
relative concentration gradient C(r,t)/C0(t) is in-
variant (Fig. 2A), the relative cellular concentra-
tion, C(rcell,t)/C0(t), is constant during development.
Therefore, the average cellular Dpp concentra-
tion, Ccell(t) = C(rcell,t), increases proportionally
to the gradient amplitude, C0(t) (fig. S4C).
The Dpp concentration increases, on aver-
age, by 40% during each cell cycle. Does the
increase in cellular Dpp concentration correlate
with changes in the proliferation rate? We de-
termined the proliferation rate (fig. S5; SOM QP4)
from the area growth rate, g ¼ A˙=A, where A˙ is
the time derivative of the area A. This is a good
approximation for the cellular proliferation rate
because the cell density only shows a minor in-
crease during wing growth (fig. S5, B and D).
During the growth phase, the growth rate (g)
decreases (fig. S5D), which reflects an increasing
cell doubling time q (q ≈ ln2/g; SOM QP1),
mostly because of a lengthening of the G2 phase
(24) (fig. S6).
We found that area growth correlates with the
increase of the gradient amplitude by a power
law (Fig. 2G)
C0(t) ~ A(t)b
where b = 0.59 (n = two data sets; table S3). The
average cellular Dpp concentration, Ccell, is pro-
portional to the amplitude C0 (see above) and there-
fore, Ccell(t) ~ A(t)b
. Derivation of this expression
with respect to time reveals a correlation of the
average growth rate (g ¼ A˙=A) with average tem-
poral changes in the Dpp level (C˙cell) perceived
by cells: C˙cell=Ccell ¼ C˙0=C0 ¼ bðA˙=AÞ ¼ bg.
Because the area growth rate and the cellular
proliferation rate gcell are approximately equal
(see above), it follows that
gcell ≈
1
b
C˙
cell
Ccell
ð2Þ
i.e., the proliferation rate is proportional to rel-
ative temporal changes of Dpp.
To estimate the relative increase of the cellular
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Mad (P-Mad) (29), P-Mad/Medea complex forma-
tion, and brk and dad transcription [Fig. 3A and
fig. S7; SOM experimental procedures (EP) 1]
(30, 31). Of these, we systematically analyzed nu-
clear red fluorescent protein expressed under control
of the dad enhancer (dad-nRFP) as a transcriptional
readout reflecting cellular signaling activity, Scell.
With time-lapse analysis, we confirmed that
Dpp signaling increases in living wing discs (Fig.
3B and movie S1). Consistent with Eq. 2, relative
changes in signaling, S˙=S, are larger at early
times of development, when growth is faster.
Quantification of dad-nRFP profiles, S(r,t) (Fig.
3C), in fixed discs showed that (i) the signaling
gradient scales (Fig. 3D), i.e., the scaling ratio
ls/L is constant (Fig. 3E); and (ii) the amplitude
cellular signaling level is proportional to the
amplitude (Scell ~ S0). The power-law relation
between amplitude S0 and area A (Fig. 3F) in-
dicates that the proliferation rate correlates with
the average relative temporal increase of Dpp
signal, S˙cell=Scell ¼ S˙0=S0 (as in Eq. 2):
gcell ≈
ln2
as
S˙cell
Scell
ð4Þ
Here, as = 48% implies that the cellular Dpp
signaling level Scell increases by about 50% dur-
ing each cell cycle. On the basis of Eq. 4, we
propose a model of growth control where the cell
cycle length is determined by how fast an in-
crease of cellular Dpp signal by 50% is achieved.
growth, we analyzed three conditions with changed
Dpp source and/or transport parameters (SOM
EP2): (i) haltere discs, where we found that Dpp
production, diffusion, and degradation are smaller
(32, 33) (Fig. 2, C to F; SOM QP3.2); (ii) wing
discs with a Dpp source of haltere histotype
(dppUbx) (32, 33); and (iii) wing discs with a
constant one-cell-wide source [limiting Hh sig-
naling range to one cell with membrane-tethered
Hh (Hh-CD2)] (34).
In these tissues, the decay time of the growth
rate, the growth period, and final size differ from
that of the wild-type wing disc (table S2 and fig.
S8). However, growth and Dpp signaling still are
related by the same features: (i) Gradients scale
with tissue size. The scaling ratio l/L is constant,
Fig. 1. Dpp gradient parameters.
(A) dpp-Gal4/UAS-GFP-Dpp wing
(Wi), leg (Le), and haltere (Ha) discs
at different developmental times;
w, source width, L, target width. (B)
Images of GFP-Dpp gradients, cor-
responding to boxed areas in (A).
(C) Quantification of GFP-Dpp con-
centration as a function of the dis-
tance to the source (x). (D and E)
(D) Amplitude, C0 and (E) decay
length, l, over time. At the end of
the growth phase, in prepupal discs
(t 140 hours), C0 again decreases.
Error bars correspond to standard
errors (SEM) of averages frombinned
data, and one data set per graph is
shown. For fit functions, parame-
ters, number of data sets, and num-
ber of discs per data set, see tables
S1 to S3 and SOM QP1. For ex-
tended versions of figure legends,
see SOM.
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λµ
A B C
D E
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