Regulatory mechanisms of cytoneme-based morphogen transport

CA Daly, ET Hall, SK Ogden - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
During development and tissue homeostasis, cells must communicate with their neighbors
to ensure coordinated responses to instructional cues. Cues such as morphogens and …

Actin-based protrusions at a glance

S Belian, O Korenkova, C Zurzolo - Journal of Cell Science, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Actin-based protrusions are at the base of many fundamental cellular processes, such as
cell adhesion, migration and intercellular communication. In recent decades, the discovery …

[HTML][HTML] Cytoneme signaling provides essential contributions to mammalian tissue patterning

ET Hall, ME Dillard, ER Cleverdon, Y Zhang, CA Daly… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
During development, morphogens pattern tissues by instructing cell fate across long
distances. Directly visualizing morphogen transport in situ has been inaccessible, so the …

Immersion fixation and staining of multicubic millimeter volumes for electron microscopy–based connectomics of human brain biopsies

N Karlupia, RL Schalek, Y Wu, Y Meirovitch, D Wei… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Connectomics allows mapping of cells and their circuits at the nanometer scale in volumes
of approximately 1 mm 3. Given that the human cerebral cortex can be 3 mm in thickness …

Direct cell-cell communication via membrane pores, gap junction channels, and tunneling nanotubes: medical relevance of mitochondrial exchange

E Eugenin, E Camporesi, C Peracchia - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of direct cell-cell communication has evolved in several small steps. First
discovered in the 1930s in invertebrate nervous systems, it was thought at first to be an …

Invaginating structures in synapses–Perspective

RS Petralia, PJ Yao, D Kapogiannis… - Frontiers in synaptic …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Invaginating structures are common in the synapses of most animals. However, the details of
these invaginating structures remain understudied in part because they are not well …

Cytonemes coordinate asymmetric signaling and organization in the Drosophila muscle progenitor niche

A Patel, Y Wu, X Han, Y Su, T Maugel, H Shroff… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Asymmetric signaling and organization in the stem-cell niche determine stem-cell fates.
Here, we investigate the basis of asymmetric signaling and stem-cell organization using the …

Regulated delivery controls Drosophila Hedgehog, Wingless, and Decapentaplegic signaling

R Hatori, BM Wood, G Oliveira Barbosa, TB Kornberg - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Morphogen signaling proteins disperse across tissues to activate signal transduction in
target cells. We investigated dispersion of Hedgehog (Hh), Wnt homolog Wingless (Wg), and …

Curbing Rhes Actions: Mechanism-based Molecular Target for Huntington's Disease and Tauopathies

S Subramaniam, S Boregowda - CNS & Neurological Disorders …, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
A highly interconnected network of diverse brain regions is necessary for the precise
execution of human behaviors, including cognitive, psychiatric, and motor functions …

Striatal Induction and Spread of the Huntington's Disease Protein: A Novel Rhes Route

S Subramaniam - Journal of Huntington's Disease, 2022 - content.iospress.com
The CAG/CAA expansion encoding polyQ huntingtin (mutant huntingtin [mHTT]) causes
Huntington's disease (HD), which is characterized by atrophy and loss of striatal medium …