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We find that the Breathless pathway upregulates singed at the tip of tracheal branches, and that this regulation is functionally relevant. singed encodes Drosophila Fascin, which belongs to a conserved family of actin-bundling proteins involved in cancer progression and metastasis upon misregulation. We show that singed is required for filopodia stiffness and proper morphology of tracheal tip cells, defects that correlate with an abnormal actin organisation. We propose that singed-regulated filopodia and cell fronts are required for timely and guided branch migration and for terminal branching and branch fusion. We find that singed requirements rely on its actin-bundling activity controlled by phosphorylation, and that active Singed can promote tip cell features. Furthermore, we find that singed acts in concert with forked, another actin cross-linker. The absence of both cross-linkers further stresses the relevance of tip cell morphology and filopodia for tracheal development. In summary, our results on the one hand reveal a previously undescribed role for forked in the organisation of transient actin structures such as filopodia, and on the other hand identify singed as a new target of Breathless signal, establishing a link between guidance cues, the actin cytoskeleton and tracheal morphogenesis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1242\/dev.103218","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,2,4]],"date-time":"2014-02-04T12:25:39Z","timestamp":1391516739000},"page":"929-939","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Fascin links Btl\/FGFR signalling to the actin cytoskeleton during <i>Drosophila<\/i> tracheal morphogenesis"],"prefix":"10.1242","volume":"141","author":[{"given":"Pilar","family":"Okenve-Ramos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC, Parc Cient\u00edfic de Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac, 4-8, 08028 Barcelona, Spain."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marta","family":"Llimargas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC, Parc Cient\u00edfic de Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac, 4-8, 08028 Barcelona, Spain."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"237","reference":[{"key":"2021042607545143500_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2345","DOI":"10.1091\/mbc.8.11.2345","article-title":"Characterization of cell-matrix adhesion requirements for the formation of fascin microspikes","volume":"8","author":"Adams","year":"1997","journal-title":"Mol. 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