Tissue growth and tumorigenesis in Drosophila: cell polarity and the Hippo pathway

- Different modes of cell polarity interact with the Hippo pathway.
- In planar cell polarity, Vam and FbxL7, regulate Ds-Ft-D-Wrt signaling.
- In apico-basal polarity, Slimb-SCF regulates Crb-mediated Ex degradation.
- Wts phosphorylates Cno and Mud to regulate asymmetric cell division.
- Wts regulates Ena and F-actin polymerisation to control front-rear polarity.

Cell polarity regulation is critical for defining membrane domains required for the establishment and maintenance of the apical-basal axis in epithelial cells (apico-basal polarity), asymmetric cell divisions, planar organization of tissues (planar cell polarity), and the formation of the front-rear axis in cell migration (front-rear polarity). In the vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, cell polarity regulators also interact with the Hippo tissue growth control signaling pathway. In this review we survey the recent Drosophila literature linking cell polarity regulators with the Hippo pathway in epithelial tissue growth, neural stem cell asymmetric divisions and in cell migration in physiological and tumorigenic settings.