Reaching a genetic and molecular understanding of skeletal development.

abstract：:Caspase proteases execute apoptosis but also function in development. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Weaver et al. report that C. elegans CED-3 caspase promotes animal growth through PMK-1/p38 kinase cleavage, and at the expense of pathogen and stress immunity, revealing an unexpected homeostatic relationship be...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Yarychkivska O,Shaham S

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:BMP signaling is essential for promoting self-renewal of mouse embryonic stem cells and Drosophila germline stem cells and for repressing stem cell proliferation in the mouse intestine and skin. However, it remains unknown whether BMP signaling can promote self-renewal of adult somatic stem cells. In this study, we sh...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Kirilly D,Spana EP,Perrimon N,Padgett RW,Xie T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone protein synthesis is activated as cells enter S phase to allow packaging of the newly replicated DNA into chromatin. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Takayama and coworkers elucidate a mechanism for silencing histone expression at the end of S phase in S. pombe. Failure to shut off histone expression disru...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Marzluff WF

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Netrin-1 was recently proposed to play an important role in embryonic and pathological angiogenesis. However, data reported led to the apparently contradictory conclusions that netrin-1 is either a pro- or an antiangiogenic factor. Here, we reconcile these opposing observations by demonstrating that netrin-1 acts as a...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Castets M,Coissieux MM,Delloye-Bourgeois C,Bernard L,Delcros JG,Bernet A,Laudet V,Mehlen P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strigolactones secreted by plant roots are exploited by parasitic plants as germination triggers, making their synthesis and signaling important targets for crop protection. Meanwhile, genetic analyses have identified several genes required for the synthesis and signaling of an unknown shoot branching inhibitor. Two r...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Leyser O

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many different intercellular signaling pathways are known but, for most, it is unclear whether they can generate oscillating cell behaviors. Here we use time-lapse analysis of Drosophila embryogenesis to show that oenocytes delaminate from the ectoderm in discrete bursts of three. This pulsatile process has a 1 hour p...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Brodu V,Elstob PR,Gould AP

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CLIPs are microtubule plus end-associated proteins that mediate interactions required for cell polarity and cell division. Here we demonstrate that budding yeast Bik1, unlike its human ortholog CLIP-170, is targeted to the microtubule plus end by a kinesin-dependent transport mechanism. Bik1 forms a complex with the k...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Carvalho P,Gupta ML Jr,Hoyt MA,Pellman D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric cell divisions generate cellular diversity. In Drosophila, embryonic neuroblasts target cell fate determinants basally, rotate their spindles by 90 degrees to align with the apical-basal axis, and divide asymmetrically in a stem cell-like fashion. In this process, apically localized Bazooka recruits Inscute...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Petritsch C,Tavosanis G,Turck CW,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression often requires interaction between promoters and distant enhancers, which occur within the context of highly organized topologically associating domains (TADs). Using a series of engineered chromosomal rearrangements at the Shh locus, we carried out an extensive fine-scale characterization of the facto...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Symmons O,Pan L,Remeseiro S,Aktas T,Klein F,Huber W,Spitz F

更新日期：2016-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The NAD+-dependent deacetylase Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) is down-regulated in triple-negative breast cancer. To determine the mechanistic basis by which reduced SIRT1 expression influences processes related to certain aggressive cancers, we examined the consequences of depleting breast cancer cells of SIRT1. We discovered tha...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Latifkar A,Ling L,Hingorani A,Johansen E,Clement A,Zhang X,Hartman J,Fischbach C,Lin H,Cerione RA,Antonyak MA

更新日期：2019-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of left-right asymmetry in mouse embryos is established by a leftward fluid flow that is generated by clockwise rotation of node cilia. How node cilia achieve stable unidirectional rotation has remained unknown, however. Here we show that brief exposure to the microtubule-stabilizing drug paclitaxel (Tax...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Shinohara K,Chen D,Nishida T,Misaki K,Yonemura S,Hamada H

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The myogenic regulatory genes Myf5, Mrf4, Myod, and Myogenin likely arose by gene duplications during evolution, presumably to address the more demanding requirements of the vertebrate body plan. Two cell lineages were proposed to be regulated independently by Myf5 and Myod to safeguard against tissue failure. Here we...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Comai G,Sambasivan R,Gopalakrishnan S,Tajbakhsh S

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent issue of Molecular Cell, Cairo et al. (2013) report that the spindle checkpoint protein Mad1 shuttles between unattached kinetochores and nuclear pores. Mobile Mad1 inhibits the import receptor Kap121p, thus indirectly changing spindle dynamics. This adds nuclear transport control to the mitotic roles of M...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Dasso M

更新日期：2013-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids (BRs), are perceived by a cell surface receptor kinase, BRI1, but how BR binding leads to regulation of gene expression in the nucleus is unknown. Here we describe the identification of BZR1 as a nuclear component of the BR signal transduction pathway. A dominant mutation bzr1-...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Wang ZY,Nakano T,Gendron J,He J,Chen M,Vafeados D,Yang Y,Fujioka S,Yoshida S,Asami T,Chory J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-molecular-weight hyaluronan, a major component of the extracellular matrix, is anti-oncogenic, whereas low-molecular-weight hyaluronan is pro-oncogenic, though the mechanisms underlying the size-dependent opposite bioactivities of hyaluronan remain uncertain. We show here that treatment with high-molecular-weight...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Ooki T,Murata-Kamiya N,Takahashi-Kanemitsu A,Wu W,Hatakeyama M

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarity is a prominent feature of both chemotaxis and cytokinesis. In chemotaxis, polarity is established by local accumulation of PI(3,4,5)P3 at the cell's leading edge, achieved through temporal and spatial regulation of PI3 kinases and the tumor suppressor, PTEN. We find that as migrating D. discoideum cells round...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Janetopoulos C,Borleis J,Vazquez F,Iijima M,Devreotes P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branching morphogenesis is a key process in the formation of vascular networks. To date, little is known regarding the molecular events regulating this process. We investigated the involvement of synectin in this process. In zebrafish embryos, synectin knockdown resulted in a hypoplastic dorsal aorta and hypobranched,...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Chittenden TW,Claes F,Lanahan AA,Autiero M,Palac RT,Tkachenko EV,Elfenbein A,Ruiz de Almodovar C,Dedkov E,Tomanek R,Li W,Westmore M,Singh JP,Horowitz A,Mulligan-Kehoe MJ,Moodie KL,Zhuang ZW,Carmeliet P,Simons M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulating cell proliferation and differentiation in CNS development requires both extraordinary complexity and precision. Neural progenitors receive graded overlapping signals from midline signaling centers, yet each makes a unique cell fate decision in a spatiotemporally restricted pattern. The Nde1-Lis1 complex reg...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Lanctot AA,Peng CY,Pawlisz AS,Joksimovic M,Feng Y

更新日期：2013-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine threonine kinase Akt is a core survival factor that underlies a variety of human diseases. Although regulatory phosphorylation and dephosphorylation have been well documented, the other posttranslational mechanisms that modulate Akt activity remain unclear. We show here that tetratricopeptide repeat domain ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Suizu F,Hiramuki Y,Okumura F,Matsuda M,Okumura AJ,Hirata N,Narita M,Kohno T,Yokota J,Bohgaki M,Obuse C,Hatakeyama S,Obata T,Noguchi M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromeres form the site of chromosome attachment to microtubules during mitosis. Identity of these loci is maintained epigenetically by nucleosomes containing the histone H3 variant CENP-A. Propagation of CENP-A chromatin is uncoupled from DNA replication initiating only during mitotic exit. We now demonstrate that ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Silva MC,Bodor DL,Stellfox ME,Martins NM,Hochegger H,Foltz DR,Jansen LE

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a comprehensive dataset that samples the mouse transcriptome every 6 hr, from gastrulation through organogenesis. We observe an abrupt increase in overall transcript diversity at the onset of organogenesis (e8.0); the genes that comprise these changes are preferentially clustered along chromosome 7 and co...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Mitiku N,Baker JC

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conserved Hedgehog signaling pathway is essential for embryonic development and tissue homeostasis and is tightly regulated. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Ma et al. (2016) demonstrate that sumoylation works in parallel with phosphorylation to stabilize Smoothened, antagonizing its ubiquitination and subsequ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Qi Y,Liu H,Lin X

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis of wavy epidermal pavement cells in plants has fascinated researchers for decades. A mechanical mechanism had been proposed in which the anticlinal cell walls, forming the in-plane cell borders, feature contiguous stiff and soft zones that generate waves upon stretching. We replicated this model as desig...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Bidhendi AJ,Geitmann A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoskeleton is a major determinant of cell-shape changes that drive the formation of complex tissues during development. Important roles for actomyosin during tissue morphogenesis have been identified, but the role of the microtubule cytoskeleton is less clear. Here, we show that during tubulogenesis of the saliv...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Booth AJR,Blanchard GB,Adams RJ,Röper K

更新日期：2014-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Trunk neural crest cells are generated at the border between the neural plate and nonneural ectoderm, where they initiate a distinct program of gene expression, undergo an epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and delaminate from the neuroepithelium. Here, we provide evidence that members of three families of trans...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Cheung M,Chaboissier MC,Mynett A,Hirst E,Schedl A,Briscoe J

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell constriction promotes epithelial sheet invagination during embryogenesis across phyla. However, how this cell response is linked to global patterning information during organogenesis remains unclear. To address this issue, we have used the Drosophila eye and studied the formation of the morphogenetic furrow (MF),...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Corrigall D,Walther RF,Rodriguez L,Fichelson P,Pichaud F

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of the embryonic heart tube requires the medial migration and merger of bilateral precursor populations. A new study of zebrafish cardiogenesis published in this issue of Developmental Cell indicates that precursor migration involves formation of a coherent epithelium and that fibronectin plays an important ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Glickman NS,Yelon D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of Oskar protein occurs coincident with localization of oskar mRNA to the posterior pole of the Drosophila oocyte, and earlier accumulation of the protein is prevented by translational repression. We find that the nascent polypeptide-associated complex (NAC) is required for correct localization of oskar...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Braat AK,Yan N,Arn E,Harrison D,Macdonald PM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presenilins are components of the gamma-secretase protein complex that mediates intramembranous cleavage of betaAPP and Notch proteins. A C. elegans genetic screen revealed two genes, aph-1 and pen-2, encoding multipass transmembrane proteins, that interact strongly with sel-12/presenilin and aph-2/nicastrin. Human ap...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Francis R,McGrath G,Zhang J,Ruddy DA,Sym M,Apfeld J,Nicoll M,Maxwell M,Hai B,Ellis MC,Parks AL,Xu W,Li J,Gurney M,Myers RL,Himes CS,Hiebsch R,Ruble C,Nye JS,Curtis D

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metazoans express three unfolded protein response transducers (IRE1, PERK, and ATF6) ubiquitously to cope with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. ATF6 is an ER membrane-bound transcription factor activated by ER stress-induced proteolysis and has been duplicated in mammals. Here, we generated ATF6alpha- and ATF6beta-k...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Yamamoto K,Sato T,Matsui T,Sato M,Okada T,Yoshida H,Harada A,Mori K

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00