The Life Cycle of the Nephron Progenitor.

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：:Under conditions of homeostasis, dynamic changes in the length of individual adherens junctions (AJs) provide epithelia with the fluidity required to maintain tissue integrity in the face of intrinsic and extrinsic forces. While the contribution of AJ remodeling to developmental morphogenesis has been intensively stud...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Curran S,Strandkvist C,Bathmann J,de Gennes M,Kabla A,Salbreux G,Baum B

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions are present in most tissues and play essential roles in various biological processes. However, we know surprisingly little about the molecular mechanisms underlying gap junction formation. Here, we uncover the essential role of a conserved EGF- and laminin-G-domain-containing protein nlr-1/CASPR in the r...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Meng L,Yan D

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial fission mediated by the GTPase dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) is an attractive drug target in numerous maladies that range from heart disease to neurodegenerative disorders. The compound mdivi-1 is widely reported to inhibit Drp1-dependent fission, elongate mitochondria, and mitigate brain injury. Here...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Bordt EA,Clerc P,Roelofs BA,Saladino AJ,Tretter L,Adam-Vizi V,Cherok E,Khalil A,Yadava N,Ge SX,Francis TC,Kennedy NW,Picton LK,Kumar T,Uppuluri S,Miller AM,Itoh K,Karbowski M,Sesaki H,Hill RB,Polster BM

更新日期：2017-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The 6th European Meiosis Workshop, sponsored by EMBO and organized by Franz Klein of the University of Vienna, met in mid-September. More than 150 participants who have not discovered anything more interesting than sex gathered in a bucolic Alpine valley near the town of Obertraun, Austria, surrounded by granite massi...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Dernburg AF

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:Tight junctions contribute to epithelial barrier function by selectively regulating the quantity and type of molecules that cross the paracellular barrier. Experimental approaches to evaluate the effectiveness of tight junctions are typically global, tissue-scale measures. Here, we introduce Zinc-based Ultrasensitive ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Stephenson RE,Higashi T,Erofeev IS,Arnold TR,Leda M,Goryachev AB,Miller AL

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:During early embryonic development, cells are organized as cohesive epithelial sheets that are continuously growing and remodeled without losing their integrity, giving rise to a wide array of tissue shapes. Here, using live imaging in chick embryo, we investigate how epithelial cells rearrange during gastrulation. We...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Firmino J,Rocancourt D,Saadaoui M,Moreau C,Gros J

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell differentiation involves a delicate balance of gene expression and transposon repression. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Shibata et al. (2016) show that a PIWI protein expressed in planarian stem cells is inherited by their differentiating descendants to ensure regenerative capacity of the flatworm via...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Tharp ME,Bortvin A

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient receptor potential melastatin-like 7 (TRPM7) is a channel protein that also contains a regulatory serine-threonine kinase domain. Here, we find that Trpm7-/- T cells are deficient in Fas-receptor-induced apoptosis and that TRPM7 channel activity participates in the apoptotic process and is regulated by caspa...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Desai BN,Krapivinsky G,Navarro B,Krapivinsky L,Carter BC,Febvay S,Delling M,Penumaka A,Ramsey IS,Manasian Y,Clapham DE

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal cell performance depends on cell size and the appropriate relative size, i.e., scaling, of the nucleus. How nuclear scaling is regulated and contributes to cell function is poorly understood, especially in skeletal muscle fibers, which are among the largest cells, containing hundreds of nuclei. Here, we presen...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Windner SE,Manhart A,Brown A,Mogilner A,Baylies MK

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and Angiopoietin 1 (Ang1) are both potent proangiogenic factors, but, whereas VEGF causes vascular permeability, Ang1 stabilizes blood vessels and protects them from VEGF-induced plasma leakage. The antivascular permeability mechanisms deployed by Ang1 are still undefined. Her...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Gavard J,Patel V,Gutkind JS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of mitochondria in Drosophila programmed cell death remains unclear, although certain gene products that regulate cell death seem to be evolutionarily conserved. We find that developmental programmed cell death stimuli in vivo and multiple apoptotic stimuli ex vivo induce dramatic mitochondrial fragmentation ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Goyal G,Fell B,Sarin A,Youle RJ,Sriram V

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of myoblast fusion in Drosophila have revealed numerous signaling and structural proteins that regulate this critical event in muscle development. A paper by Chen et al. published in the September 19 issue of Cell adds ARF6, a GTPase, and one of its guanine nucleotide exchange factors to this set of players. ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Donaldson JG

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TC10, a Rho family GTPase, has been shown to play an important role in the exocytosis of GLUT4 and other proteins, primarily by tethering the vesicles at the plasma membrane. Using a newly developed probe based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer, we found that TC10 activity at tethered vesicles dropped immediat...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Kawase K,Nakamura T,Takaya A,Aoki K,Namikawa K,Kiyama H,Inagaki S,Takemoto H,Saltiel AR,Matsuda M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large intergenic noncoding (linc) RNAs constitute a new dimension of posttranscriptional gene regulation. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Wang et al. (2013) find that linc-RoR maintains human embryonic stem cell self-renewal by functioning as a sponge to trap miR-145, thus regulating core pluripotency factors Oct...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Cheng EC,Lin H

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reporting in Nature, Sanders et al. (2013) implicate filopodial projections in Sonic hedgehog (Shh) patterning of the limb. Actin-based filopodia transport Shh from producing cells, while filopodia of responding cells bear Cdon and Boc: coreceptors in the Shh pathway. These findings suggest a new mechanism of ligand m...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： McMahon AP,Hasso SM

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomes perform protein synthesis but are also involved in signaling processes, the full extent of which are still being uncovered. We report that phenotypes of mutating ribosomal proteins (Rps) are largely due to signaling. Using Drosophila, we discovered that a bZip-domain protein, Xrp1, becomes elevated in Rp mut...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Lee CH,Kiparaki M,Blanco J,Folgado V,Ji Z,Kumar A,Rimesso G,Baker NE

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Septins are polymerizing GTP binding proteins required for cortical organization during cytokinesis and other cellular processes. A mammalian septin gene Sept4 is expressed mainly in postmitotic neural cells and postmeiotic male germ cells. In mouse and human spermatozoa, SEPT4 and other septins are found in the annul...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Ihara M,Kinoshita A,Yamada S,Tanaka H,Tanigaki A,Kitano A,Goto M,Okubo K,Nishiyama H,Ogawa O,Takahashi C,Itohara S,Nishimune Y,Noda M,Kinoshita M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptor complex AP-2 plays an important role in cargo selection and clathrin lattice formation during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. In a recent issue of Molecular Cell, Honing et al. demonstrate that high-affinity AP-2 membrane association is achieved through a combination of low-affinity interactions with membra...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Gaidarov I,Keen JH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut absorbs dietary nutrients and provides a barrier to xenobiotics and microbiome metabolites. To cope with toxin exposures, the intestinal epithelium is one of the most rapidly proliferating tissues in the body. The stem cell niche supplies essential signaling factors including Wnt proteins secreted by subepithe...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Chee YC,Pahnke J,Bunte R,Adsool VA,Madan B,Virshup DM

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants assemble beneficial root-associated microbiomes to support growth, especially in nutrient-poor conditions. To do so, however, plants have to suppress their immune system. Reporting in Nature, Castrillo et al. (2017) identified PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE1 (PHR1) as a central regulator in this balance between ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Motte H,Beeckman T

更新日期：2017-04-10 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：:It is intuitive to speculate that nutrient availability may influence differentiation of mammalian cells. Nonetheless, a comprehensive complement of the molecular determinants involved in this process has not been elucidated yet. Here, we have investigated how nutrients (glucose) affect skeletal myogenesis. Glucose re...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Fulco M,Cen Y,Zhao P,Hoffman EP,McBurney MW,Sauve AA,Sartorelli V

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastomas are associated with KIF1Bβ mutations within tumor suppressor region 1p36. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Li et al. (2016) show that KIF1Bβ binding releases calcineurin autoinhibition, leading to dephosphorylation of the DRP1 GTPase and subsequent mitochondrial fragmentation. KIF1Bβ impairment caus...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Blackstone C

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo/Yki and RB/E2F pathways both regulate tissue growth by affecting cell proliferation and survival, but interactions between these parallel control systems are poorly defined. In this study, we demonstrate that interaction between Drosophila E2F1 and Sd disrupts Yki/Sd complex formation and thereby suppresses ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Zhang P,Pei C,Wang X,Xiang J,Sun BF,Cheng Y,Qi X,Marchetti M,Xu JW,Sun YP,Edgar BA,Yuan Z

更新日期：2017-12-04 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：:beta-Catenin signaling determines the proximal-distal axis of the C. elegans gonad by promoting distal fate in asymmetrically dividing somatic gonad precursor cells (SGPs). Impaired function of the Wnt effector POP-1/TCF, its coactivator SYS-1/beta-catenin, and of upstream components including beta-catenin WRM-1 cause...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Asahina M,Valenta T,Silhankova M,Korinek V,Jindra M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway smooth muscle is best known for its role as an airway constrictor in diseases such as asthma. However, its function in lung development is debated. A prevalent model, supported by in vitro data, posits that airway smooth muscle promotes lung branching through peristalsis and pushing intraluminal fluid to branch...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Young RE,Jones MK,Hines EA,Li R,Luo Y,Shi W,Verheyden JM,Sun X

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Developmental Cell, Yao et al. (2019) disrupt mitochondrial respiration in limb skeletal progenitors by conditionally deleting Tfam in the mouse embryo. They discover that not only is mitochondrial respiration dispensable for embryonic cartilage development, but also its elimination obviates the need ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Long F

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00