Novel WRC interacting receptors transducing signals at the membrane to the actin cytoskeleton

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Sven Bogdan
• Subject Area: Developmental Biology
• Term: from 2016 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 316970849

• Final Report Year: 2022

Final Report Abstract

Changes in cell morphology and cell motility require the dynamic remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton. To study the dynamics and function of the actin cytoskeleton in vivo, we have established different genetically traceable Drosophila model systems that allow live-cell imaging combined with new advanced high-resolution microscopy techniques. Our data uncovered novel mechanisms but also new conserved molecules by which chemical or physical signals are transduced to the actin cytoskeleton to control directed single immune cell migration, but also collective cell migration during wound closure and organogenesis.

Publications

• (2017). Adherens Junctions on the Move-Membrane Trafficking of E-Cadherin. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 9
  Brüser L, Bogdan S
  
• (2017). Molecular Control of Actin Dynamics In Vivo: Insights from Drosophila. Handbook of experimental pharmacology 235: 285-310
  Brüser L, Bogdan S.
  
• (2018). Analysis of Cell Shape and Cell Migration of Drosophila Macrophages In Vivo. Methods Molecular Biology Vol. 1749, 978-1-4939
  Rüder M, Nagel BM, Bogdan S
  
• (2019). Transient localization of the Arp2/3 complex initiates neuronal dendrite branching in vivo. Development. Apr 4;146(7)
  Stuermer, T., Tatarnikova, A., Mueller, J., Schaffran, B., Cuntz, H., Zhang, Y., Nemetova, M., Bogdan, S., Small, V. and Tavosanis, G.
  
• (2021). CK1alpha protects WAVE from degradation to regulate cell shape and motility in the immune response. Journal of Cell Science 134
  Hirschhauser, A., M. van Cann, and Bogdan S.
  
• (2021). Collective cell migration driven by filopodia - New insights from the social behavior of myotubes. Bioessays 43, e2100124
  Bischoff, M.C., and Bogdan, S.
  
• (2021). Filopodia-based contact stimulation of cell migration drives tissue morphogenesis. Nature Communications 12:791
  Bischoff, M.C., S. Lieb, R. Renkawitz-Pohl, and S. Bogdan
  
• (2022). Analysis of collective cell behavior in migrating testis myotubes in Drosophila. Methods Molecular Biology
  Bischoff, M.C., and S. Bogdan