Wnt3a plays a major role in the segmentation clock controlling somitogenesis.

abstract：:Hedgehog (Hh) signaling during development and in postembryonic tissues requires activation of the 7TM oncoprotein Smoothened (Smo) by mechanisms that may involve endogenous lipidic modulators. Exogenous Smo ligands previously identified include the plant sterol cyclopamine (and its therapeutically useful synthetic mi...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Myers BR,Sever N,Chong YC,Kim J,Belani JD,Rychnovsky S,Bazan JF,Beachy PA

更新日期：2013-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have yielded a number of important insights into the mechanisms of hair follicle development and cycling and have highlighted the particularly important roles played by stem cells and Wnt signaling pathways. ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Fuchs E,Merrill BJ,Jamora C,DasGupta R

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated adhesion between cells and their environment is critical for normal cell migration. We have identified mutations in a gene encoding the Drosophila hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂)-degrading enzyme Jafrac1, which lead to germ cell adhesion defects. During gastrulation, primordial germ cells (PGCs) associate tightly w...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： DeGennaro M,Hurd TR,Siekhaus DE,Biteau B,Jasper H,Lehmann R

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Axillary meristems (AMs) give rise to lateral shoots and are critical to plant architecture. Understanding how developmental cues and environmental signals impact AM development will enable the improvement of plant architecture in agriculture. Here, we show that ARGONAUTE10 (AGO10), which sequesters miR165/166, promot...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Zhang C,Fan L,Le BH,Ye P,Mo B,Chen X

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Multinucleate cells are widespread in nature, yet the mechanism by which cells fuse their plasma membranes is poorly understood. To identify animal fusogens, we performed new screens for mutations that abolish cell fusion within tissues of C. elegans throughout development. We identified the gene eff-1, which is expre...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Mohler WA,Shemer G,del Campo JJ,Valansi C,Opoku-Serebuoh E,Scranton V,Assaf N,White JG,Podbilewicz B

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent issue of Nature, Bohnert and Kenyon (2017) describe a signaling pathway that prevents transgenerational inheritance of cytoplasmic protein aggregates. Fertilizing sperm trigger aggregate clearance in the ovum by a microautophagy-like effector mechanism mediated by inter-organelle communication between lyso...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Patil CK,Denic V

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermis of aerial plant organs is thought to be limiting for growth, because it acts as a continuous load-bearing layer, resisting tension. Leaf epidermis contains jigsaw puzzle piece-shaped pavement cells whose shape has been proposed to be a result of subcellular variations in expansion rate that induce local ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Majda M,Grones P,Sintorn IM,Vain T,Milani P,Krupinski P,Zagórska-Marek B,Viotti C,Jönsson H,Mellerowicz EJ,Hamant O,Robert S

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the death ligand TRAIL to induce tumor cell apoptosis has led to the development of TRAIL-based cancer therapies. Reporting recently in Molecular Cell, Lu et al. (2014) show that the basis for differential TRAIL responses involves clustering of death receptor complexes by E-cadherin and the actin cytosk...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Gallegos LL,Brugge JS

更新日期：2014-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many promoters in eukaryotes have nucleosome-depleted regions (NDRs) containing transcription factor binding sites. However, the functional significance of NDRs is not well understood. Here, we examine NDR function in two cell cycle-regulated promoters, CLN2pr and HOpr, by varying nucleosomal coverage of the binding s...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Bai L,Charvin G,Siggia ED,Cross FR

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomes promote cellular homeostasis through macromolecular hydrolysis within their lumen and metabolic signaling by the mTORC1 kinase on their limiting membranes. Both hydrolytic and signaling functions require precise regulation of lysosomal cholesterol content. In Niemann-Pick type C (NPC), loss of the cholestero...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Davis OB,Shin HR,Lim CY,Wu EY,Kukurugya M,Maher CF,Perera RM,Ordonez MP,Zoncu R

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane subdomains enriched in sphingolipids, cholesterol, and signaling proteins are critical for organization of actin, membrane trafficking, and cell polarity, but the role of such domains in cytokinesis in animal cells is unknown. Here, we show that eggs form a plasma membrane domain enriched in gangliosid...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Ng MM,Chang F,Burgess DR

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:T-box genes encode DNA binding transcription factors known to regulate a wide variety of developmental processes during embryogenesis and are present in the genomes of all multicellular animals. Indeed, alongside other more familiar families of developmental regulators such as Hox, Sox, and Pax, T-box genes constitute...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Gibson-Brown JJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the genetic makeup of an organism can extend lifespan significantly if they promote tolerance to environmental insults and thus prevent the general deterioration of cellular function that is associated with aging. Here, we introduce the Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling pathway as a genetic determinant ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Wang MC,Bohmann D,Jasper H

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mbl is a bacterial actin homolog that controls cell morphogenesis in Bacillus subtilis. A functional GFP-Mbl fusion protein was used to examine the behavior of the helical cables formed by Mbl protein in live B. subtilis cells. The cables undergo dynamic changes during cell cycle progression. They are stable but not r...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Carballido-López R,Errington J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large GTPase Dynamin 2 (Dyn2) is markedly upregulated in pancreatic cancer, is a potent activator of metastatic migration, and is required for Rac1-mediated formation of lamellipodia. Here we demonstrate an unexpected mechanism of Dyn2 action in these contexts via direct binding to the Rac1 guanine nucleotide exch...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Razidlo GL,Wang Y,Chen J,Krueger EW,Billadeau DD,McNiven MA

更新日期：2013-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the thermodynamic costs of development? In this issue of Developmental Cell, Rodenfels et al. (2019) demonstrate that the high energetic cost of coordinated cell division that is regulated by phospho-signaling gives rise to a measurable periodicity in the heat dissipated during zebrafish embryogenesis. ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Foster PJ,Razo-Mejia M,Phillips R

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic beta cell proliferation is high at birth and then rapidly declines. In this issue of Developmental Cell,Stolovich-Rain et al. (2015) show that β cells' capacity to increase proliferation in response to injury is unexpectedly not acquired until after weaning-related nutritional changes trigger a metabolic an...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Rovira M,Ferrer J

更新日期：2015-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:For 20 years, researchers have thought that circadian clocks are defined by feedback loops of transcription and translation. The rediscovery of posttranslational circadian oscillators in diverse organisms forces us to rethink this paradigm. Meanwhile, the original "basic" feedback loops of canonical circadian clocks h...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Brown SA,Kowalska E,Dallmann R

更新日期：2012-03-13 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 connection between cell fate transitions and metabolic shifts is gaining momentum in the study of cell differentiation in embryonic development, adult stem cells, and cancer pathogenesis. Here, we explore how metabolic transitions influence post-translational modifications (PTMs), which play central roles in the a...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Tarazona OA,Pourquié O

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules are normally organized at centrosomes, but other sites can also serve as microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs). In this issue of Developmental Cell, Procter et al. (2018) show that the human cytomegalovirus virion assembly compartment acts as a dynamic Golgi-derived MTOC where EB3 nucleates microtubules ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Lyon SM,Kalejta RF

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:TORC1 is arguably the best-studied regulator of cellular growth in eukaryotes. However, its activity has not been assessed in vivo in developing multicellular organisms. Two studies in this issue of Developmental Cell (Kim et al., 2017; Romero-Pozuelo et al., 2017) surprisingly reveal a patchy, cell-cycle-controlled p...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Stocker H

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood brain barrier (BBB) is critical to ensure proper nervous system function and organismal health. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Babatz and colleagues explore the mechanisms of BBB maintenance and uncover a potential evolutionary link by which BBB glia construct paracellular barriers to ensure uninterrup...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Coutinho-Budd J

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The intricate interplay between NF-kappaB and JNK determines TNF-alpha cytotoxicity. In a recent Cell paper, report that prolonged JNK1 activation promotes TNF-alpha killing via E3 ligase-mediated degradation of the caspase 8 inhibitor cFLIP(L). On the other hand, Ventura et al. (2006) show in their recent Molecular C...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Lin A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial cells acquire mesenchymal characteristics during development, wound healing and inflammation, and in cancer and fibrosis. With increasing appreciation of different roles of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), we address the question of how to define and recognize EMT processes and discuss their propert...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Derynck R,Weinberg RA

更新日期：2019-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate hematopoiesis first produces primitive (embryonic) lineages and ultimately generates the definitive (adult) blood. Whereas definitive hematopoiesis may produce many diverse blood types via a common multipotent progenitor, primitive hematopoiesis has been thought to produce only erythrocytes or macrophages v...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Warga RM,Kane DA,Ho RK

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Localization of the actin crosslinking protein, alpha-actinin, to the cleavage furrow has been previously reported. However, its functions during cytokinesis remain poorly understood. We have analyzed the functions of alpha-actinin during cytokinesis by a combination of molecular manipulations and imaging-based techni...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Mukhina S,Wang YL,Murata-Hori M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of breast biology, there is a growing appreciation for the "gatekeeping function" of basal cells during development and disease processes yet mechanisms regulating the generation of these cells are poorly understood. Here, we report that the proliferation of basal cells is controlled by SLIT/ROBO1 signali...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Macias H,Moran A,Samara Y,Moreno M,Compton JE,Harburg G,Strickland P,Hinck L

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Piwi family protein Aubergine (Aub) maintains genome integrity in late germ cells of the Drosophila ovary through Piwi-associated RNA-mediated repression of transposon activities. Although it is highly expressed in germline stem cells (GSCs) and early progeny, it remains unclear whether it plays any roles in early GSC...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Ma X,Zhu X,Han Y,Story B,Do T,Song X,Wang S,Zhang Y,Blanchette M,Gogol M,Hall K,Peak A,Anoja P,Xie T

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00