Reverse Genetics in Zebrafish: Mutants, Morphants, and Moving Forward.

abstract：:Members of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) family play pivotal roles in development and disease. These cytokines elicit their pleiotropic effects on cells, including endothelial and mural cells, through specific type I and type II serine/threonine kinase receptors and intracellular Smad transcription fa...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Pardali E,Goumans MJ,ten Dijke P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin is an ancient and abundant protein with well-established roles in fundamental processes ranging from cell migration to membrane transport. Most eukaryotic cells also contain at least eight actin-related proteins (ARPs) that are, themselves, conserved between organisms as divergent as yeast and mammals. Although ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Blessing CA,Ugrinova GT,Goodson HV

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas physics seeks for universal laws underlying natural phenomena, biology accounts for complexity and specificity of molecular details. Contemporary biological physics requires people capable of working at this interface. New programs prepare scientists who transform respective disciplinary views into innovative ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Riveline D,Kruse K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the Golgi apparatus has resulted in major advances in understanding its structure and functions, but many important questions remain unanswered. The history of the Golgi apparatus has been marked by arguments and controversies, some of which have been resolved, whereas others are still ongoing. This articl...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Farquhar MG,Palade GE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientific research relies on a range of technologies, many of which are developing at a fast pace. Technical experts able to advise researchers on experimental design and validate the performance1 of shared instruments are increasingly recognized as critical members of the research community. Here I describe a novel ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Waters JC

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases are typically late-onset, progressive disorders that affect neural function and integrity. Although most attention has been focused on the genetic underpinnings of familial disease, mechanisms are likely to be shared with more predominant sporadic forms, which can be influenced by age, envir...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Abe M,Bonini NM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of invited women speakers at scientific meetings is much less than their proportion in a field. This means that women have fewer venues to present their research, less opportunity to increase their professional network, and smaller chances of promotion and financial support. The paucity of women speakers al...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Masur SK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules have been regarded as essential structures for stable neuronal morphology but new studies are highlighting their role in dynamic neuronal processes. Recent work demonstrates that the microtubule cytoskeleton has an active role during different phases of neuronal polarization - microtubules and their stabi...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Hoogenraad CC,Bradke F

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem (ES) cells, like all cell types, are defined by their unique transcriptional signatures. The ability of ES cells to self-renew or exit the pluripotent state and enter differentiation requires extensive changes in their transcriptome and epigenome. Remarkably, transcriptional programs governing each cell...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Fong YW,Cattoglio C,Yamaguchi T,Tjian R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial electron transport chain is the major source for the production of oxygen radicals. Mitochondria-generated reactive oxygen species (mROS) have been implicated in decreasing the life span and contributing to age-related diseases (known as the free radical theory of aging). Recently, the serine/threoni...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Storz P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins reggie-1 and reggie-2 were originally discovered in neurons during axon regeneration. Subsequently, they were independently identified as markers of lipid rafts in flotation assays and were hence named flotillins. Since then, reggie/flotillin proteins have been found to be evolutionarily conserved and are...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Stuermer CA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, the cell biology of mammalian muscle repair following damage appeared to be completely different from the formation of new muscles in regenerated appendages of Amphibia. Mammalian muscle repair occurs through the mobilization of muscle satellite cells, whereas the new muscle in amphibian appendage rege...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Slack JM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ran is an abundant GTPase that is highly conserved in eukaryotic cells and has been implicated in many aspects of nuclear structure and function, especially determining the directionality of nucleocytoplasmic transport during interphase. However, cell-free systems have recently shown that Ran plays distinct roles in m...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Clarke PR,Zhang C

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncoding RNAs are emerging as central players in gene expression regulation through the targeting of a plethora of mRNAs. Several recent papers report on the regulation of the epithelial phenotype by the miR-200 (200 family of miRNAs) family and a natural antisense transcript, both acting on the E-cadherin repressors...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Cano A,Nieto MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromere formation is a complex process that involves the packaging of DNA into a centromere-unique chromatin, chemical modification and the seeding of kinetochore and associated proteins. The early steps in this process, in which a chromosomal region is marked for centromerization (that is, to become resolutely com...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Choo KH

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum contains a number of proteins involved in the processing of secretory polypeptides. These include BiP, which is an Hsp70-family member highly conserved throughout evolution. BiP is known to be intimately involved in several aspects of protein biogenesis, but our understanding of these events ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： A R,Tyson JR,Stirling CJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggrecan is a large and highly complex macromolecule, uniquely structured to fill space in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of cartilage. Lethal chondrodystrophies resulting from mutations in the structural gene for aggrecan demonstrate the serious consequences of the absence of aggrecan. Other chondrodystrophies are te...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Vertel BM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear envelope (NE) breaks down reversibly and reassembles at mitosis. Two models of mitotic nuclear membrane disassembly and reformation have emerged from studies of NE dynamics in somatic cells and egg extracts. One model suggests that nuclear membranes fragment reversibly by vesiculation, producing NE-derived...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Collas P,Courvalin JC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If eukaryotes arose through a merger between archaea and bacteria, what did the first true eukaryotic cell look like? A major step toward an answer came with the discovery of Lokiarchaeum, an archaeon whose genome encodes small GTPases related to those used by eukaryotes to regulate membrane traffic. Although 'Loki' c...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Dey G,Thattai M,Baum B

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why are women so under-represented at the top echelons of science? Why do so many drop out just as their careers should be blossoming? Are women in science being actively discriminated against by their peers, and, if, so what can be done about this? These were just a few of the puzzles reflected upon at a recent Europ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Wilson EK

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural plasticity of excitatory synapses is a vital component of neuronal development, synaptic plasticity and behavior, and its malfunction underlies many neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. However, the molecular mechanisms that control dendritic spine morphogenesis have only recently emerged. We summa...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Penzes P,Cahill ME,Jones KA,Srivastava DP

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphological diversity of animals, fungi, plants, and other multicellular organisms stems from the fact that each lineage acquired multicellularity independently. A prerequisite for each origin of multicellularity was the evolution of mechanisms for stable cell-cell adhesion or attachment. Recent advances in comp...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Abedin M,King N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal species undergoing determinate growth, the making of a full-size adult body requires a series of coordinated growth events culminating in the cessation of growth that precedes sexual maturation. The merger between physiology and genetics now coming to pass in the Drosophila model allows us to decipher these ...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Andersen DS,Colombani J,Léopold P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why some genes are more popular than others remains an open question, but one example of this phenomenon involves the genes controlling planar cell polarity (PCP), the polarization of cells within a plane of a tissue. Indeed, the so-called 'core' PCP genes such as dishevelled, frizzled, and prickle have been extensive...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Adler PN,Wallingford JB

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolae are ampullate (flask-shaped) invaginations that are abundant in the plasma membrane of many mammalian cell types. Although caveolae are implicated in a wide range of processes including endothelial transcytosis, lipid homeostasis and cellular signalling, a detailed molecular picture of many aspects of their f...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Hansen CG,Nichols BJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms underlying targeted deposition of new membrane at the advancing furrow of a dividing cell have long been intriguing to cell biologists. Three recent studies have made use of Drosophila cellularization to explore current questions in this field. These findings indicate that both the secretory p...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Strickland LI,Burgess DR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cas family of multiadaptor and scaffold molecules has an essential role in intracellular signaling events. Although these proteins do not have enzymatic or transcriptional activity, they spatially and temporally control signaling events through their ability to undergo changes in phosphorylation and to associate w...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Defilippi P,Di Stefano P,Cabodi S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle checkpoint is an evolutionarily conserved mitotic regulatory mechanism that ensures that anaphase is not attempted until chromosomes are properly aligned on the spindle. Two different cell-cycle transitions must be inhibited by the spindle checkpoint to arrest cells at metaphase and prevent mitotic exit. T...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Gardner RD,Burke DJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulated WNT signaling has been shown to favor malignant transformation, tumor progression, and resistance to conventional cancer therapy in a variety of preclinical and clinical settings. Accumulating evidence suggests that aberrant WNT signaling may also subvert cancer immunosurveillance, hence promoting immunoev...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Galluzzi L,Spranger S,Fuchs E,López-Soto A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary movement is powered by axonemal dynein. This article considers how a signal transduction cascade initiated at the cell membrane may activate outer dynein arms to change the velocity of microtubule sliding and the swimming speed of ciliated cells. For Paramecium, a critical event in the cascade is the cAMP-depe...

journal_title：Trends in cell biology

authors： Satir P,Barkalow K,Hamasaki T

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00