PMID:18077345

Citation	Feng, Y and Irvine, KD (2007) Fat and expanded act in parallel to regulate growth through warts. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104:20362-7
Abstract	The conserved Drosophila tumor suppressors Fat and Expanded have both recently been implicated in regulating the activity of the Warts tumor suppressor. However, there has been disagreement as to the nature of the links among Fat, Expanded, and Warts and the significance of these links to growth control. We report here that mutations in either expanded or fat can be rescued to viability simply by overexpressing Warts, indicating that their essential function is their influence on Warts rather than reported effects on endocytosis or other pathways. These rescue experiments also separate the transcriptional from the planar cell polarity branches of Fat signaling and reveal that Expanded does not directly affect polarity. We also investigate the relationship between expanded and fat and show, contrary to prior reports, that they have additive effects on imaginal disk growth and development. Although mutation of fat can cause partial loss of Expanded protein from the membrane, mutation of fat promotes growth even when Expanded is overexpressed and accumulates at its normal subapical location. These observations argue against recent proposals that Fat acts simply as a receptor for the Hippo signaling pathway and instead support the proposal that Fat and Expanded can act in parallel to regulate Warts through distinct mechanisms.
Links	PubMed PMC2154436 Online version:10.1073/pnas.0706722105
Keywords	Animals; Cell Adhesion Molecules/analysis; Cell Adhesion Molecules/genetics; Cell Adhesion Molecules/metabolism; Drosophila/growth & development; Drosophila/metabolism; Drosophila Proteins/analysis; Drosophila Proteins/genetics; Drosophila Proteins/metabolism; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins/analysis; Membrane Proteins/genetics; Membrane Proteins/metabolism; Protein Kinases/genetics; Protein Kinases/metabolism; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism
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Gene product	Qualifier	GO Term	Evidence Code	with/from	Aspect	Extension	Notes	Status
DROME:FAT	involved_in	GO:0046621: negative regulation of organ growth	ECO:0000316: genetic interaction evidence used in manual assertion	FB:FBgn0011739	P		Seeded From UniProt	complete
DROME:FAT	involved_in	GO:0035332: positive regulation of hippo signaling	ECO:0000316: genetic interaction evidence used in manual assertion	FB:FBgn0011739	P		Seeded From UniProt	complete
DROME:FAT	involved_in	GO:0001736: establishment of planar polarity	ECO:0000315: mutant phenotype evidence used in manual assertion		P		Seeded From UniProt	complete
DROME:EXPA	located_in	GO:0016327: apicolateral plasma membrane	ECO:0000314: direct assay evidence used in manual assertion		C		Seeded From UniProt	complete
DROME:EXPA	involved_in	GO:0046621: negative regulation of organ growth	ECO:0000316: genetic interaction evidence used in manual assertion	FB:FBgn0011739	P		Seeded From UniProt	complete
DROME:EXPA	involved_in	GO:0035332: positive regulation of hippo signaling	ECO:0000316: genetic interaction evidence used in manual assertion	FB:FBgn0011739	P		Seeded From UniProt	complete

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