Genetics, Vol 139, 1553-1566, Copyright © 1995

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sli-1, a Negative Regulator of let-23-Mediated Signaling in C. elegans

G. D. Jongeward, T. R. Clandinin and P. W. Sternberg
Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0502.

By screening for suppressors of hypomorphic mutations of let-23, a receptor tyrosine kinase necessary for vulval induction in Caenorhabditis elegans, we recovered >/=12 mutations defining the sli-1 (suppressor of lineage defect) locus. sli-1 mutations suppress four of five phenotypes associated with hypomorphic alleles of let-23 but do not suppress let-23 null alleles. Thus, a sli-1 mutation does not bypass the requirement for functional let-23 but rather allows more potent LET-23-dependent signaling. Mutations at the sli-1 locus are otherwise silent with respect to vulval differentiation and cause only a low-penetrance abnormal head phenotype. Mutations at sli-1 also suppress the vulval defects but not other defects associated with mutations of sem-5, whose product likely interacts with LET-23 protein during vulval induction. Mutations at sli-1 suppress lin-2, lin-7 and lin-10 mutations but only partially suppress lin-3 and let-60 mutations and do not suppress a lin-45 mutation. The sli-1 locus displays dosage sensitivity: severe reduction of function alleles of sli-1 are semidominant suppressors; a duplication of the sli-1 (+) region enhances the vulvaless phenotype of hypomorphic mutations of let-23. We propose that sli-1 is a negative regulator that acts at or near the LET-23-mediated step of the vulval induction pathway. Our analysis suggests that let-23 can activate distinct signaling pathways in different tissues: one pathway is required for vulval induction; another pathway is involved in hermaphrodite fertilty and is not regulated by sli-1.

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