Molecular mechanisms controlling vertebrate retinal patterning, neurogenesis, and cell fate specification

X Zhang, P Leavey, H Appel, N Makrides… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
This review covers recent advances in understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling
neurogenesis and specification of the developing retina, with a focus on insights obtained …

[HTML][HTML] A Fish Eye View: Retinal Morphogenesis from Optic Cup to Neuronal Lamination

C Norden - Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The neural retina, at the back of the eye, is a fascinating system to use to discover how cells
form tissues in the context of the developing nervous system. The retina is the tissue …

Neural stem cells to cerebral cortex: emerging mechanisms regulating progenitor behavior and productivity

ND Dwyer, B Chen, SJ Chou… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
This review accompanies a 2016 SFN mini-symposium presenting examples of current
studies that address a central question: How do neural stem cells (NSCs) divide in different …

[HTML][HTML] The symmetry of neural stem cell and progenitor divisions in the vertebrate brain

G Casas Gimeno, JTML Paridaen - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Robust brain development requires the tight coordination between tissue growth, neuronal
differentiation and stem cell maintenance. To achieve this, neural stem cells need to balance …

[HTML][HTML] An eye on the Wnt inhibitory factor Wif1

L Poggi, S Casarosa, M Carl - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The coordinated interplay between extrinsic activating and repressing cell signaling
molecules is pivotal for embryonic development and subsequent tissue homeostasis. This is …

Anillin is an emerging regulator of tumorigenesis, acting as a cortical cytoskeletal scaffold and a nuclear modulator of cancer cell differentiation

NG Naydenov, JE Koblinski, AI Ivanov - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2021 - Springer
Remodeling of the intracellular cytoskeleton plays a key role in accelerating tumor growth
and metastasis. Targeting different cytoskeletal elements is important for existing and future …

Deterministic and probabilistic fate decisions co‐exist in a single retinal lineage

E Nerli, J Kretzschmar, T Bianucci… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Correct nervous system development depends on the timely differentiation of progenitor
cells into neurons. While the output of progenitor differentiation is well investigated at the …

Cortical PAR polarity proteins promote robust cytokinesis during asymmetric cell division

SN Jordan, T Davies, Y Zhuravlev, J Dumont… - Journal of Cell …, 2016 - rupress.org
Cytokinesis, the physical division of one cell into two, is thought to be fundamentally similar
in most animal cell divisions and driven by the constriction of a contractile ring positioned …

[HTML][HTML] ANLN enhances triple-negative breast cancer stemness through TWIST1 and BMP2 and promotes its spheroid growth

A Maryam, YR Chin - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
ANLN is frequently upregulated in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and its high
expression in tumors are significantly associated with poor survival and recurrence, thereby …

[HTML][HTML] Anillin regulates breast cancer cell migration, growth, and metastasis by non-canonical mechanisms involving control of cell stemness and differentiation

D Wang, NG Naydenov, MG Dozmorov… - Breast Cancer …, 2020 - Springer
Background Breast cancer metastasis is driven by a profound remodeling of the
cytoskeleton that enables efficient cell migration and invasion. Anillin is a unique scaffolding …