Abstracts
Wingless (Wg)/Wnt family proteins are essential for animal development and adult homeostasis. Drosophila Wg secreted from the dorsal-ventral (DV) midline in wing discs forms a concentration gradient that is shaped by diffusion rate and stability of Wg. To understand how the gradient of extracellular Wg is generated, we compared the secretion route of NRT-Wg, an artificial membrane-tethered form of Wg that is supposedly not secreted but still supports fly development, to that of wild-type Wg. We found that wild-type Wg is secreted by both conventional Golgi transport and via extracellular vesicles (EVs), and NRT-Wg can be also secreted via EVs. Furthermore, wild-type Wg secreted by Golgi transport diffused and formed Wg gradient but Wg-containing EVs did not diffuse at all. In case of Wg stability, Sol narae (Sona), a metalloprotease that cleaves Wg, contributes to generate a steep Wg gradient. Interestingly, Wg was also produced in the presumptive wing blade region, which indicates that NRT-Wg on EVs expressed in the blade allows the blade cells to proliferate and differentiate without Wg diffused from the DV midline. We propose that EV-associated Wg induces Wg signaling in autocrine and juxtaposed manners whereas Wg secreted by Golgi transport forms gradient and acts in the long-range signaling, and different organs differentially utilize these two types of Wg signaling for their own development.
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Introduction
Wnt family is a group of essential morphogens for animal development and homeostasis by governing multiple cellular functions such as cell proliferation, differentiation, cell survival, stem cell maintenance, and cell polarity [1,2,3,4,5]. Secreted Wnts form a concentration gradient that is shaped by diffusion and stability of Wnt [6]. This Wnt gradient is essential for embryonic muscle development, tail formation, and tissue polarity because the transcriptional induction of Wnt-responding genes is dependent on the concentration of gradient along the axis [7,8,9,10]. Fly Wg, a homolog of mammalian Wnt-1 [11,12,13,14], and the fly wing disc have been used to study Wnt gradient because Wg is heavily expressed at the DV midline of the wing pouch region, diffuses, and forms a concentration gradient [15]. Wg diffuses about ten cells and induces Wg effector genes such as distal-less (dll) and vestigial (vg) depending on the concentration of Wg [15,16,17].
NRT-Wg, an artificial membrane-tethered protein generated by the fusion of the transmembrane domain of Neurotactin and Wg, has been assumed not secreted [18]. Surprisingly, wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies that have NRT-wg gene in place of wild-type wg gene develop normally, so authors claimed that the secretion of Wg is not necessary for Wg signaling and cells exposed to Wg in earlier development have cellular memory for the later development [19]. However, wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies have defects in cell fate specification and proliferation, which lead to delayed organ development, malformed intestine, and sterility [19, 20]. Therefore, NRT-Wg cannot fully replace Wg for Wg signaling, and it is necessary to clarify differences between Wg and NRT-Wg.
Another factor to consider for Wg gradient is the stability of extracellular Wg. A hypothetical Wg-cleaving protease was proposed to explain the steepness of Wg gradient at the DV midline in a mathematical model [21]. A candidate for such protease is Sona belonged to a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin motif (ADAMTS) family. Sona generates N-terminal domain (NTD) and C-terminal domain (CTD) by cleaving two sites in the linker region of Wg, and the epitope of the well-known anti-Wg antibody 4D4 is present in between the two cleavage sites [22]. Wg-NTD required for secretion of Wg is homologous to a class of lipid-interacting proteins whereas Wg-CTD is homologous to cytokine groups that activate cellular signaling [23,24,25]. Transient expression of Wg-CTD but not Wg-NTD in flies induces Wg signaling, demonstrating that Wg-CTD has Wg signaling activity. However, Wg-CTD is more specialized for cell proliferation than full-length Wg, and is less stable than full-length Wg [22]. Spatiotemporal regulation of the ratio between the two forms of Wg by Sona may be essential for fly development.
Wnts are secreted by both conventional Golgi transport and exosome-mediated secretion pathways, but it is still largely unknown how these differentially secreted Wnts contribute to the formation of Wnt gradient [26,27,28]. Exosomes, a major EV population with about 100 nm diameter, are intraluminal vesicles in the multivesicular body (MVB) that are released to extracellular space by the fusion of MVB with the plasma membrane [29, 30]. We recently reported a new population of EVs that are smaller than exosomes [31]. Both exosomes and this small EV group contain the EV marker CD63, but another EV marker CD81 is present only in exosomes. Furthermore, exosomes enhance their own secretion while the other group promotes cell proliferation [31].
We studied both diffusion and stability of Wg and NRT-Wg to understand the extracellular Wg gradient, and found a few important features. Firstly, Wg is secreted by both Golgi transport and via EVs whereas NRT-Wg is secreted only via EVs as a membrane-bound form. Secondly, Wg secreted by Golgi transport diffuses about ten cells but Wg-containing EVs diffuse only one cell distance. Thirdly, Sona contributes to form a steep Wg gradient. Lastly, Wg expressed in the blade region is important for wing growth and development.
Results
Extracellular Wg/Wnts are present in soluble multi-protein complex, exosomes, and a new group of EVs
Proteins and EVs secreted to extracellular space in vivo are released to culture media in cell cultures, and can be fractionated from conditioned media [27, 32]. We recently reported a new fraction that contains EVs smaller than exosomes [31]. To examine whether Wg is also present in this new fraction, conditioned media from the tub-wg S2 cell culture were obtained, precleared and centrifuged at 100,000 × g to yield two different fractions: a pellet fraction (P100) containing exosomes and a supernatant fraction (SNΔ1). This SNΔ1 fraction was centrifuged at 200,000 × g, and a P200 pellet fraction and a supernatant fraction (SNΔ2) were obtained [31] (Fig. 1a).
Wg was present in all fractions including the P200 fraction (Fig. 1b). Syntaxin 1A, a fly exosome marker, and CD63, a mammalian exosome marker, were present in both P100 and P200 fractions in S2 cell culture similar to the results from mammalian cell culture (Fig. S1) [31, 33]. Human Wnt1, Wnt3a, and Wnt4 were also present in all three fractions with different proportions: Wnt1 and Wnt3a are predominantly present in P100 EVs whereas Wnt4 is mainly present in SNΔ2 fraction (Fig. 1c–e). Therefore, both Wg and Wnts are secreted by Golgi transport and via EVs.
NRT-Wg is present in both P100 and P200 EVs
NRT-HA-Wg has a transmembrane domain of NRT, so theoretically it should be secreted as a membrane-bound form on EVs [34, 35] (Fig. 1h). To test this, the fractions were prepared from conditioned media of S2 cells transfected with NRT-HA-wg cDNA (Materials and Methods). GFP-Wg as a positive control was detected in all three fractions whereas ~140 kDa NRT-HA-Wg was detected in P100 and P200 but not in SNΔ2 fraction (Fig. 1f’-f’’’). Sona cleaved GFP-Wg in P100, P200, and SNΔ2 fractions, indicating that Sona cleaves Wg regardless of secretion routes. Sona also cleaved NRT-HA-Wg in both P100 and P200 fractions, and generated a fragment corresponding to Wg-CTD (Figs. 1f-f”’ and S2) [22]. Furthermore, extracellular HA+ 4D4− (NRT-NTD-L1 like fragments) and HA− 4D4+ (CTD-L1 like fragments) puncta that are cleaved products of NRT-HA-Wg were detected in en > NRT-HA-wg, GFP, Gal80ts wing discs (Figs. 1g–i and S3). Therefore, NRT-HA-Wg tethered to EVs are secreted and cleaved by Sona.
EVs do not diffuse in wing discs
We then compared the patterns of Wg and NRT-Wg in Canton-S (CS) and wg[KO, NRT-Wg] wing discs, respectively. Both apical and basal extracellular Wg in CS discs was more broadly distributed than extracellular NRT-Wg in wg[KO, NRT-Wg] discs (Figs. 2a–d and S4), consistent with Chaudhary et al. [36]. NRT-Wg was localized mostly to the plasma membrane that may represent NRT-Wg tethered to the plasma membrane, and in some vesicular structures that may represent NRT-Wg-containing EVs.
To correlate the diffusion range of Wg and its activity, we transiently overexpressed HA-Wg and NRT-HA-Wg, and checked the expression range of Dll. As reported [18, 37,38,39], transiently overexpressed HA-Wg and GFP-Wg induced Dll in about ten cells from the source but NRT-HA-Wg induced Dll only at the source (Figs. 2e, f and S5). Consistent with this, extracellular HA+ or 4D4+ structures representing NRT-HA-Wg and its cleaved products also did not diffuse in both basal and apical regions (Figs. 1g and S6). These results raised two possibilities: EVs do not diffuse in general or only NRT-Wg-containing EVs do not diffuse. To distinguish these two, we examined the distribution pattern of the EV marker, CD63-GFP [33]. In fact, GFP signals were restricted to the CD63-GFP+ clone, and extracellular GFP signals were not detected in the anterior region of en > CD63-GFP, lacZ wing discs (Fig. 2g, h). Thus, EVs do not diffuse in wing discs.
The Wg-NTD domain may be essential for the long-range diffusion of Wg
If Wg tethered to EVs do not diffuse, Wg secreted by Golgi transport may be solely responsible for the formation of Wg gradient in wing discs. To prove this point and examine which domain of Wg is required for diffusion, we constructed two transgenes that encode Wg-NTD and Wg-CTD fragments, each containing the Wg signal peptide at the amino-terminus [22]. Both Wg-NTD and Wg-CTD fragments were present in all biochemical fractions, indicating that they are secreted by both Golgi transport and via EVs in S2 cells (Fig. 3a, b).
Based on the secretion of both Wg-NTD and Wg-CTD fragments by Golgi transport, we expected that both fragments may diffuse in wing discs. However, Wg-NTD diffused in en > GFP-wg-NTD wing discs whereas Wg-CTD did not diffuse at all in en > wg-myc-CTD wing discs (Figs. 3c–e and S7). This result is consistent with our previous report that the level of Dll increases only inside of the Wg-CTD-expressing clones [22]. In sum, the NTD domain may be essential for the diffusion of Wg.
Sona contributes to form a steep gradient of extracellular Wg
Wg gradient is also affected by stability of Wg, which is regulated by proteolytic enzymes. Sona is one of the strong candidates because it generates unstable Wg-CTD by cleaving stable full-length Wg [22]. We visualized the patterns of extracellular Wg at the basal region of wing discs in CS and two sona mutants (n = 7, each) (Fig. 4a, c, e). The intensity of extracellular Wg signals visualized by 4D4 was measured and plotted to generate Wg gradient curves. Several differences were detected between control and sona mutants (Fig. 4b, d, f). The peaks at the DV midline were higher and the areas under the gradient curves were larger in wild-type than sona mutants, which may be due to the promotion of Wg secretion by Sona [40]. Most importantly, the slopes of Wg gradient in sona mutants were shallower (a = 31.528 in sona13; a = 22.202 in sona18) than wild-type (a = 87.225). A similar phenomenon was observed in wg > sona RNAi wing discs (Fig. S8). This shallow gradient in sona mutants may be due to increase in the half-life of full-length Wg by lack of Wg-cleaving activity of Sona, which allows more diffusion of full-length Wg.
Wg is expressed in the presumptive wing blade region
We have shown that NRT-HA-Wg is tethered to EVs and cannot diffuse (Fig. 2). Then, the question still remains how NRT-Wg can support fly development in wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies. Although the long-term cellular memory by prior exposure to Wg may be an attractive explanation [19], we considered another possibility: Wg expressed in the presumptive wing blade region (‘blade’ hereafter) is important for the normal wing development of wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies.
It has been well documented that wg is expressed in both peripodial epithelium and disc proper in early larval wing discs [41,42,43,44], which are confirmed in sona > GFP/wg-lacZ flies using LacZ as a marker for wg transcription (Fig. 5a–c). The wg-lacZ was heavily expressed in the anterior ventral domain and at the DV midline in wing discs of early third instar larvae (Fig. 5a, b). After the mid-third instar stage, expression of wg became more prominent at the DV midline and the presumptive hinge region but became weaker in the blade (Fig. 5c–e). Interestingly, other wg reporters, wg-Gal4 and wg[KO, Gal4] [19, 45], were also expressed in the blade with similar patterns to the wg-lacZ reporter at a much higher level (Fig. 5e–g). Besides, a specific region near the anterior-posterior (AP) boundary did not express wg in all wg reporters (asterisks in Fig. 5a–g). In case of sona, it was expressed as a patchy pattern in the entire pouch during larval stages (Fig. 5a–c, h). Since Sona promotes Wg secretion as well as cleaves Wg, dynamic changes in the transcriptional patterns of wg and sona may be essential for optimizing the amount of full-length Wg and Wg-CTD in any given location of the wing disc.
To check whether the pattern of these wg reporters represents the transcription pattern of wg, a lineage analysis was performed using G-trace system with wg-Gal4 drivers [46]. In this cell-autonomous FLP-out marking system, cells expressing a given Gal4 at a sampling time are marked with RFP representing ‘real-time’ expression, while cells that have expressed the given Gal4 during the earlier developmental time are marked with GFP representing ‘lineage’. The ‘real-time' RFP patterns induced by these wg-Gal4 drivers were similar to the LacZ patterns induced by wg-Gal4 and wg[KO, Gal4] drivers (Fig. 5i”, j”). Besides, a region near AP boundary devoid of wg expression was also detected (asterisks in Fig. 5i”, j”). The ‘lineage’ GFP signals were present in almost all disc proper cells plus anterior peripodial epithelium, consistent with the wide expression of Wg in early larval wing discs (Fig. 5i’, j’). The patterns of these wg reporters were also fairly similar to those of Wg protein in the blade (Fig. S9). In sum, Wg expressed in the blade may be essential for the wing development of not only wg[KO, NRT-Wg] but also normal flies.
Patterns of vgQE and Delta in the wing blade correlate with that of wg
Pattern of wg in the blade suggests that the blade cells may express other genes similar or opposite pattern to wg, and we identified two such genes, vestigial (vg) and Delta (Dl). It has been shown that the expression of vg in the blade is carried out by the vgQE-enhancer [17, 47, 48]. Interestingly, GFP representing wg transcription and LacZ representing vg transcription in the blade of wg-Gal4/UAS-GFP; vgQE-lacZ wing discs were mutually exclusive (Fig. 6a, b). For instance, the region near the AP boundary had a low level of GFP but a high level of LacZ (asterisks in Fig. 6a’, a”). Similar results were obtained in wg[KO, Gal4]/UAS-GFP; vgQE-lacZ wing discs (Fig. S10).
Dl is a Notch ligand acting upstream of wg, and regulates wg transcription in regions for future wing margin and veins [49]. In fact, the level of wg-lacZ was increased by overexpression of Dl in the blade (Fig. 6c, d). Dl was also expressed at a higher level along the future vein regions in a similar pattern to GFP in wg > GFP wing discs, suggesting that Dl in the blade turns on wg transcription (Fig. 6e, f). Thus, expression of wg, vg, and Dl in similar or mutually exclusive pattern in the blade may be crucial to specify veins and interveins as well as to modulate the rate of cell proliferation in different parts of the blade.
Discussion
It had been widely accepted for decades that secreted Wg diffuses in the extracellular space, forms a concentration gradient, and induces gene expression in a concentration-dependent manner. Here, we report that Wg tethered to EVs does not diffuse and induces only a short-range Wg signaling in autocrine and juxtacrine manners (Fig. 7a). In contrast, soluble Wg in a multi-protein complex secreted by conventional Golgi transport diffuses, forms a gradient, and induces a long-range signaling (Fig. 7b). Furthermore, Sona contributes to the formation of steep Wg gradient in wing discs because it cleaves stable Wg and generates unstable Wg-CTD.
The secretion and diffusion of Wg tethered to EVs
EVs including exosomes have recently drawn a lot of attention because of their signaling activity and medical application [50, 51]. We found that Wg/Wnts are present in both P100 and P200 EV fractions (Fig. 1). These P100 and P200 fractions promote exosome production and cell proliferation, respectively [31]. In addition to Wnt activity as mitogens [17, 18, 52], Wnt3a and Wnt5b promote exosome production in primary cultured microglia and melanoma cells, respectively [53, 54]. Therefore, Wnts on EVs may be one of the key proteins that promote cell proliferation and exosome production in a juxtacrine manner.
Wnt1 and Wnt3a were abundantly present especially in the P100 fraction whereas Wnt4 was abundantly present in the SNΔ2 fraction (Fig. 1). Therefore, Wnt1 and Wnt3 may be preferentially secreted as tethered forms to EVs and act in a juxtacrine manner. Consistent with this speculation, Wnt3a expressed from Paneth cells induces a short-range Wnt signaling in the intestinal stem cell niche [55] and the majority of Wnt3a is secreted as a membrane-associated form in MDCK cell culture [56]. These Wnt/Wg secreted by multiple secretion routes may play distinct roles in different tissues. Since glycosyl groups in Wnts determine by which pathway Wnts are secreted [56], it will be interesting to find the potential link between glycosyl groups and the secretion route of Wg in various fly tissues. Moreover, NRT-Wg signaling to the Frizzled 2 (Fz2) rather than the Fz1 receptor plays an important role in cell viability [36]. Thus, each Fz receptor may exhibit differential binding affinity for Wg in multi-protein complex, Wg on EVs, or Wg-CTD.
Wing vs. other organ defects in wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies
wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies that lack Wg secreted by Golgi transport have normal wing margin bristles, so NRT-Wg on EVs seems to be fully responsible for the differentiation of wing margin bristles. However, the size of their wings is about 10–12% smaller than wild-type wings [19], suggesting that the diffusion of Wg secreted by Golgi transport is required for wing growth to about 10–12%, and Wg on EVs expressed in the blade is mainly responsible for wing growth of wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies. Based on these data on wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies, one can speculate that Wg on EVs plays more significant roles for wing growth and development than Wg secreted by Golgi transport in wild-type flies.
Although wings of wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies are almost normal, these flies show defects in cell proliferation and fate specification during gut development [20]. wg[KO, NRT-Wg] flies also show severe defects in proximo-distal patterning of Malphigian/ureter tubules and neuronal specification in the visual system [57, 58]. Thus, Wg secreted by Golgi transport and formation of Wg gradient seem to play more significant roles than Wg on EVs in these aforementioned organs compared to wings.
Wg-cleaving proteases in the formation of Wg gradient
The clear difference between the slope of Wg gradient in sona and wild-type discs demonstrates that Sona affects Wg gradient. The peak level of extracellular Wg at the DV midline of sona wing discs was lower than that in wild-type, which is consistent with the involvement of Sona in Wg secretion (Fig. 4) [22]. To interpret the slope of Wg gradient, it is necessary to consider that Wg signals detected by the 4D4 antibody are mostly from full-length Wg and Wg-NTD but little from unstable Wg-CTD [22]. The steep Wg gradient in wild-type wing discs indicates that only a small fraction of full-length Wg is diffused far from the DV midline probably because Sona efficiently cleaves full-length Wg. By the same token, the shallow Wg gradient in sona wing discs indicates that full-length Wg is increased in its level by lack of Sona activity, and diffuses farther.
Tiki is another Wnt-cleaving metalloprotease identified in Xenopus, and its homologs are found in vertebrates but not in flies [59, 60]. Tiki cuts the N-terminal residues of several Wnts, which minimizes receptor-binding capacity and reduces the solubility of extracellular Wnt [61, 62]. Whether Tiki affects Wnt gradient has not yet been reported. It is possible that other Wg-cleaving proteases besides Sona may exist and affect Wg signaling in flies because cleaved products of Wg are repeatedly detected in the absence of Sona in S2 cell culture [22].
Distinct expression patterns of Wg and Sona in the wing blade
It has been widely accepted that Wg secreted from the cells in the DV midline of the wing discs is responsible for the growth and differentiation of the entire wing. We and others have shown that Wg is expressed not only in the DV midline but also in the blade region. Wg is heavily expressed in the ventral region of wing discs during the early larval stage [41,42,43,44] (Fig. 5). We showed that wg is also expressed in the blade during the late third instar stage. Furthermore, wg is heavily expressed in all veins of adult wings [63], which is consistent with our finding that pattern of Wg is similar to that of Dl in the blade region of the wing disc in the late 3rd larval stage (Fig. 6).
Simple diffusion of Wg from the DV midline to the entire blade may not be adequate to finely control the activity of Wg signaling in the local environment. In line with this, wg and sona are expressed in patchy patterns in the blade (Fig. 5), which may allow modulation of the amount of full-length Wg and Wg-CTD at any given location. Such fine-tuning of full-length Wg vs. Wg-CTD may be essential for coordinating rates of cell proliferation and patterning [22]. We propose that Wg tethered to EVs is secreted from cells at the DV midline to initiate neuronal differentiation for the formation of wing margin bristles by the short-range signaling, whereas Wg secreted by Golgi transport diffuses to form Wg gradient and support the growth of cells about ten cells from the DV midline. Most importantly, the low amount of Wg secreted from the cells in the blade via EVs play important roles in growth and patterning of structures such as veins and interveins. It will be interesting to find out whether these findings on fly Wg are relevant to Wnts for the development and growth of other animals.
Materials and methods
Drosophila strains, transgenic lines, and DNA constructs
UAS-wg-mycCTD, UAS-GFP-wg-NTD, sona13, and sona18 flies are described elsewhere [22, 40]. UAS-CD63-GFP [33], UAS-GFP-wg [64], wg[KO; Gal4], wg[KO, NRT-Wg] [65], UAS-NRT-HA-Wg [18], wg-Gal4 [45], and vgQE-lacZ [66] were kindly provided from other labs. All other fly lines were obtained from the Bloomington stock center. Wnt cDNAs were obtained from J. W. Kim. pUAST-CD63-GFP was constructed with CD63-GFP cDNA in CD63-pEGFP C2 (Addgene). The pUAST-NRT-HA-wg was constructed by recombining the pUAST vector with NRT cDNA (WG35) and HA(flu)-wg cDNA (WG143). These WG35 and WG143 constructs were kindly provided by G. Struhl.
Cell lines, cell culture, and exosome preparation
Drosophila S2 tub-wg and S2 cell lines were obtained from DGRC. Drosophila S2 cell were grown in M3 media (Sigma-Aldrich) supplemented with 10% IMS (Sigma-Aldrich) at 25 °C. Stable cell lines were grown with hygromycin in 10% IMS M3 media, and S2 tub-wg cells were cultured in 10% FBS M3 media. Transfections were carried out with Cellfectin (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturerʼs instructions. For the preparation of EVs (P100, P200), 7–40 ml of conditioned media obtained from cultures (1.25 × 106 cells/ml) were used as described [31]. Human HEK293 cells obtained from KCBL were grown in RPMI 1640 media (Gibco) supplemented with 10% FBS (Gibco) at 37 °C with 5% CO2.
Immunocytochemistry and Western analysis
Fly larvae were cultured at 25 °C unless stated otherwise. Wing discs from the late third instar larvae were used for intracellular staining and extracellular staining [15]. For immunocytochemistry, we used 1:100; 4D4 (DSHB, mouse), 1:200; HA (Roche, rat), 1:200; GFP (Abcam, rabbit), 1:100; Dl (DSHB, mouse), 1:100; Dll (Santa Cruz, goat). For extracellular staining, we used ten times more antibodies than for intracellular staining. Fluorescent images were captured using a Zeiss LSM laser scanning confocal microscope and processed with Adobe Photoshop. Plot analysis and intensity measurements were performed on raw data processed with Zen 2012 and ImageJ under identical conditions. Western analysis was carried out as described [40]. For western analysis, we used 1:5,000; HA (Santa Cruz, rabbit), 1:1,000; HA (Roche, rat), 1:1,000; Wg (DSHB, mouse), 1:1,000; CD63 (SBI, rabbit), 1:1,000; CD63 (Santa Cruz, mouse), 1:1,000; GFP (Abcam, rabbit), and 1:1,000; Syx1A (DSHB, mouse).
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We thank J. Jung and J.Y. Kim for their critical reading of this paper. We are in debt to J. P. Vincent, K. Basler, S. Eaton, S. M. Cohen, L. S. Shashidhara, R. Holmgren for fly lines, Gary Struhl, J.W. Kim, K. Basler, and J. P. Vincent for DNA constructs, and two reviewers who helped to improve this report. We thank Bloomington Stock Center, Drosophila Genetic Resource Center, Korea Drosophila Resource Center, and Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank for fly strains and antibodies. This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2017R1A2B4009254, 2019R1H1A2039726, and 2019R1A6A1A10073887).
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Won, JH., Cho, KO. Wg secreted by conventional Golgi transport diffuses and forms Wg gradient whereas Wg tethered to extracellular vesicles do not diffuse. Cell Death Differ 28, 1013–1025 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-020-00632-8
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