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：:We present the Real-time Accurate Cell-shape Extractor (RACE), a high-throughput image analysis framework for automated three-dimensional cell segmentation in large-scale images. RACE is 55-330 times faster and 2-5 times more accurate than state-of-the-art methods. We demonstrate the generality of RACE by extracting c...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Stegmaier J,Amat F,Lemon WC,McDole K,Wan Y,Teodoro G,Mikut R,Keller PJ

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancers are the primary determinants of cell identity, but the regulatory components controlling enhancer turnover during lineage commitment remain largely unknown. Here we compare the enhancer landscape, transcriptional factor occupancy, and transcriptomic changes in human fetal and adult hematopoietic stem/progeni...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Huang J,Liu X,Li D,Shao Z,Cao H,Zhang Y,Trompouki E,Bowman TV,Zon LI,Yuan GC,Orkin SH,Xu J

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The proper positioning of organs during development is essential, yet little is known about the regulation of this process in mammals. Using murine tooth development as a model, we have found that cell migration plays a central role in positioning of the organ primordium. By combining lineage tracing, genetic cell abl...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Prochazka J,Prochazkova M,Du W,Spoutil F,Tureckova J,Hoch R,Shimogori T,Sedlacek R,Rubenstein JL,Wittmann T,Klein OD

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle assembly checkpoint ensures that mitotic cells only segregate their sister chromatids once all chromosomes are attached via kinetochores by microtubules of the mitotic spindle. Reporting in Developmental Cell, Silió et al. (2015) show that in human cells the signaling cascade controlling the checkpoint ope...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Meraldi P

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells track gradients of pheromones to locate mating partners. Intuition suggests that uniform distribution of pheromone receptors over the cell surface would yield optimal gradient sensing. However, yeast cells display polarized receptors. The benefit of such polarization was unknown. During gradient tracking, ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： McClure AW,Minakova M,Dyer JM,Zyla TR,Elston TC,Lew DJ

更新日期：2015-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin-like peptide (ILP) family plays key biological roles in the control of body growth. Although the functions of ILPs are well understood, the mechanisms by which organisms sense their nutrient status and thereby control ILP production remain largely unknown. Here, we show that signaling relay and feedback me...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Okamoto N,Nishimura T

更新日期：2015-11-09 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 Par polarity complex creates mutually exclusive cortical domains in diverse animal cells. Activity of the atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) is a key output of the Par complex as phosphorylation removes substrates from the Par domain. Here, we investigate how diverse, apparently unrelated Par substrates couple phosp...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Bailey MJ,Prehoda KE

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although we know that mesenchymal progenitors give rise to nephrons in the kidney, how they balance self-renewal versus differentiation is still unclear. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Chen et al. (2015) show that nephron progenitors age, but not necessarily irreversibly: old progenitors can be "rejuvenated" by ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Little MH

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Migrating fibroblasts undergo contact inhibition of locomotion (CIL), a process that was discovered five decades ago and still is not fully understood at the molecular level. We identify the Slit2-Robo4-srGAP2 signaling network as a key regulator of CIL in fibroblasts. CIL involves highly dynamic contact protrusions w...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Fritz RD,Menshykau D,Martin K,Reimann A,Pontelli V,Pertz O

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of multicellular organisms requires the precisely coordinated regulation of an evolutionarily conserved group of signaling pathways. Temporal and spatial control of these signaling cascades is achieved through networks of regulatory proteins, segregation of pathway components in specific subcellular co...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Balmer S,Dussert A,Collu GM,Benitez E,Iomini C,Mlodzik M

更新日期：2015-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel body structures are often generated by the redeployment of ancestral components of the genome. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Glassford et al. (2015) present a thorough analysis of the co-option of a gene regulatory network in the origin of an evolutionary novelty. ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Preger-Ben Noon E,Frankel N

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells that undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions (EMTs) commonly switch from expressing E-cadherin to N-cadherin. But why this occurs is not well understood. In the current issue of Developmental Cell, Scarpa et al. (2015) identify a reason: cadherin switching controls Rac signaling to determine how cell locom...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Priya R,Yap AS

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated turnover of integrin receptors is essential for cell adhesion and migration. Pathways selectively regulating β1-integrin recycling are implicated in cancer invasion and metastasis, yet proteins required for the internalization of this pro-invasive integrin remain to be identified. Here, we uncover formin-lik...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Wang Y,Arjonen A,Pouwels J,Ta H,Pausch P,Bange G,Engel U,Pan X,Fackler OT,Ivaska J,Grosse R

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation is associated with tumorigenesis, but how acute inflammation affects the tumor microenvironment is less known. Recently, Antonio et al. (2015) found that neutrophils attracted to an acute wound such as a biopsy drive cell proliferation of nearby pre-neoplastic cells, suggesting that acute wounds m...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Rosowski EE,Huttenlocher A

更新日期：2015-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin is essential in vertebrates for the rapid propagation of action potentials, but the molecular mechanisms driving its formation remain largely unknown. Here we show that the initial stage of process extension and axon ensheathment by oligodendrocytes requires dynamic actin filament assembly by the Arp2/3 complex...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Zuchero JB,Fu MM,Sloan SA,Ibrahim A,Olson A,Zaremba A,Dugas JC,Wienbar S,Caprariello AV,Kantor C,Leonoudakis D,Lariosa-Willingham K,Kronenberg G,Gertz K,Soderling SH,Miller RH,Barres BA

更新日期：2015-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericytes are critical for cerebrovascular maturation and development of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), but their role in maintenance of the adult BBB, and how CNS pericytes differ from those of other tissues, is less well understood. We show that the forkhead transcription factor Foxf2 is specifically expressed in pe...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Reyahi A,Nik AM,Ghiami M,Gritli-Linde A,Pontén F,Johansson BR,Carlsson P

更新日期：2015-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient regeneration following injury is critical for maintaining tissue function and enabling organismal survival. Cells reconstituting damaged tissue are often generated from resident stem or progenitor cells or from cells that have dedifferentiated and become proliferative. While lineage-tracing studies have defi...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Iyengar S,Kasheta M,Ceol CJ

更新日期：2015-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynein recruitment to the nuclear envelope is required for pre-mitotic nucleus-centrosome interactions in nonneuronal cells and for apical nuclear migration in neural stem cells. In each case, dynein is recruited to the nuclear envelope (NE) specifically during G2 via two nuclear pore-mediated mechanisms involving Ran...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Baffet AD,Hu DJ,Vallee RB

更新日期：2015-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional mediators of cell stress pathways, including HIF1α, ATF4, and p53, are key to normal development and play critical roles in disease, including ischemia and cancer. Despite their importance, mechanisms by which pathways mediated by these transcription factors interact with one another are not fully unde...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Guimarães-Camboa N,Stowe J,Aneas I,Sakabe N,Cattaneo P,Henderson L,Kilberg MS,Johnson RS,Chen J,McCulloch AD,Nobrega MA,Evans SM,Zambon AC

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposing cells to folding stress causes a subset of their proteins to misfold and accumulate in inclusion bodies (IBs). IB formation and clearance are both active processes, but little is known about their mechanism. To shed light on this issue, we performed a screen with over 4,000 fluorescently tagged yeast proteins...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Moldavski O,Amen T,Levin-Zaidman S,Eisenstein M,Rogachev I,Brandis A,Kaganovich D,Schuldiner M

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine CXCL12 and its receptor CXCR4 have many functions during embryonic and post-natal life. We used murine models to investigate the role of CXCL12/CXCR4 signaling in cardiac development and found that embryonic Cxcl12-null hearts lacked intra-ventricular coronary arteries (CAs) and exhibited absent or mispl...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Ivins S,Chappell J,Vernay B,Suntharalingham J,Martineau A,Mohun TJ,Scambler PJ

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:TORC1 regulates growth and metabolism, in part, by influencing transcriptional programs. Here, we identify REPTOR and REPTOR-BP as transcription factors downstream of TORC1 that are required for ∼ 90% of the transcriptional induction that occurs upon TORC1 inhibition in Drosophila. Thus, REPTOR and REPTOR-BP are major...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Tiebe M,Lutz M,De La Garza A,Buechling T,Boutros M,Teleman AA

更新日期：2015-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular signals and corresponding receptors that align the mitotic spindle of symmetrically dividing cells within an epithelial sheet are largely unknown. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Xia et al. (2015) identify semaphorin-plexin signaling as a regulator of spindle orientation critical for kidney deve...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Humbert PO,Gödde NJ

更新日期：2015-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to environmental teratogenic pollutant leads to severe birth defects. However, the biological events underlying these developmental abnormalities remain undefined. Here, we report a molecular link between an environmental stress response pathway and key developmental genes during craniofacial development. Str...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Zalc A,Rattenbach R,Auradé F,Cadot B,Relaix F

更新日期：2015-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically identical cells in culture often exhibit significant variations, or noise, in gene expression, largely due to transcriptional bursting. Halpern et al. (2015) have developed methods to study gene bursting in tissues to find that this transcriptional bursting also occurs in the mammalian liver and may contri...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Lam A,Deans TL

更新日期：2015-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease remains a formidable challenge for therapeutic management. In a recent report in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Cohen et al. (2015) present intriguing results showing that "designer" molecular chaperones may hold the key to an evolutionarily conserved program for management of toxic oligo...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Singh JK,Balch WE

更新日期：2015-03-23 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：:Although many features of neurogenesis during development and in the adult are intrinsic to the neurogenic cells themselves, the role of the microenvironment is irrefutable. The neurogenic niche is a melting pot of cells and factors that influence CNS development. How do the diverse elements assemble and when? How doe...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Bjornsson CS,Apostolopoulou M,Tian Y,Temple S

更新日期：2015-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox proteins gain specificity by interacting with TALE-class cofactors. In a recent issue of Cell and in this issue of Developmental Cell, Crocker et al. (2015) and Amin et al. (2015), respectively, demonstrate that non-canonical Hox/TALE binding sequences play a major role in the regionalized regulation of target gen...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Merabet S,Lohmann I

更新日期：2015-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are abundant in animal genomes, yet little is known about their functions in vivo. Here, we report the production of 80 new Drosophila miRNA mutants by targeted homologous recombination. These mutants remove 104 miRNAs. Together with 15 previously reported mutants, this collection includes 95 mutants deletin...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Chen YW,Song S,Weng R,Verma P,Kugler JM,Buescher M,Rouam S,Cohen SM

更新日期：2014-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory pathways protect the body from infection and promote healing following injury. Recent reports demonstrate the surprising involvement of these pathways during hematopoietic stem cell emergence from the hemogenic endothelium in both zebrafish and mice. ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Veldman MB,Lin S

更新日期：2014-12-08 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：:Cells entering mitosis become rounded, lose attachment to the substrate, and increase their cortical rigidity. Pivotal to these events is the dismantling of focal adhesions (FAs). How mitotic reshaping is linked to commitment to divide is unclear. Here, we show that DEPDC1B, a protein that accumulates in G2, coordinat...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Marchesi S,Montani F,Deflorian G,D'Antuono R,Cuomo A,Bologna S,Mazzoccoli C,Bonaldi T,Di Fiore PP,Nicassio F

更新日期：2014-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic networks that govern vertebrate development are well studied, but how the interactions of trans-acting factors with cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) are integrated into spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression is not clear. The transcriptional regulator HAND2 is required during limb, heart, and branchial ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Osterwalder M,Speziale D,Shoukry M,Mohan R,Ivanek R,Kohler M,Beisel C,Wen X,Scales SJ,Christoffels VM,Visel A,Lopez-Rios J,Zeller R

更新日期：2014-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding cells as integrated systems requires that we systematically decipher how single genes affect multiple biological processes and how processes are functionally linked. Here, we used multiprocess phenotypic profiling, combining high-resolution 3D confocal microscopy and multiparametric image analysis, to si...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Graml V,Studera X,Lawson JLD,Chessel A,Geymonat M,Bortfeld-Miller M,Walter T,Wagstaff L,Piddini E,Carazo Salas RE

更新日期：2014-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of epithelial tissues containing lumens requires not only the apical-basolateral polarization of cells, but also the coordinated orientation of this polarity such that the apical surfaces of neighboring cells all point toward the central lumen. Defects in extracellular matrix (ECM) signaling lead to inve...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Bryant DM,Roignot J,Datta A,Overeem AW,Kim M,Yu W,Peng X,Eastburn DJ,Ewald AJ,Werb Z,Mostov KE

更新日期：2014-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as hydrogen peroxide are generated at wound sites and act as long-range signals in wound healing. The roles of other ROS in wound repair are little explored. Here, we reveal a cytoprotective role for mitochondrial ROS (mtROS) in Caenorhabditis elegans skin wound healing. We show that...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Xu S,Chisholm AD

更新日期：2014-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Connecting phosphorylation events to kinases and phosphatases is key to understanding the molecular organization and signaling dynamics of networks. We have generated a validated set of transgenic RNA-interference reagents for knockdown and characterization of all protein kinases and phosphatases present during early ...

journal_title：Developmental cell

authors： Sopko R,Foos M,Vinayagam A,Zhai B,Binari R,Hu Y,Randklev S,Perkins LA,Gygi SP,Perrimon N

更新日期：2014-10-13 00:00:00