Primary cilia as dynamic and diverse signalling hubs in development and disease

P Mill, ST Christensen, LB Pedersen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Primary cilia, antenna-like sensory organelles protruding from the surface of most vertebrate
cell types, are essential for regulating signalling pathways during development and adult …

Emerging mechanistic understanding of cilia function in cellular signalling

KI Hilgendorf, BR Myers, JF Reiter - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Primary cilia are solitary, immotile sensory organelles present on most cells in the body that
participate broadly in human health, physiology and disease. Cilia generate a unique …

Establishing and regulating the composition of cilia for signal transduction

MV Nachury, DU Mick - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The primary cilium is a hair-like surface-exposed organelle of the eukaryotic cell that
decodes a variety of signals—such as odorants, light and Hedgehog morphogens—by …

Cholesterol access in cellular membranes controls Hedgehog signaling

A Radhakrishnan, R Rohatgi, C Siebold - Nature chemical biology, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway coordinates cell–cell communication in
development and regeneration. Defects in this pathway underlie diseases ranging from birth …

Mechanism and regulation of centriole and cilium biogenesis

DK Breslow, AJ Holland - Annual review of biochemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The centriole is an ancient microtubule-based organelle with a conserved nine-fold
symmetry. Centrioles form the core of centrosomes, which organize the interphase …

Cilium structure, assembly, and disassembly regulated by the cytoskeleton

M Mirvis, T Stearns, W James Nelson - Biochemical Journal, 2018 - portlandpress.com
The cilium, once considered a vestigial structure, is a conserved, microtubule-based
organelle critical for transducing extracellular chemical and mechanical signals that control …

Rhythmic cilia changes support SCN neuron coherence in circadian clock

HQ Tu, S Li, YL Xu, YC Zhang, PY Li, LY Liang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) drives circadian clock coherence through intercellular
coupling, which is resistant to environmental perturbations. We report that primary cilia are …

Oxidative polymerization in living cells

Y Dai, T Li, Z Zhang, Y Tan, S Pan… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Intracellular polymerization is an emerging technique that can potentially modulate cell
behavior, but remains challenging because of the complexity of the cellular environment …

The regulation of cilium assembly and disassembly in development and disease

L Wang, BD Dynlacht - Development, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The primary cilium is an antenna-like organelle assembled on most types of quiescent and
differentiated mammalian cells. This immotile structure is essential for interpreting …

Ciliary signalling in cancer

H Liu, AA Kiseleva, EA Golemis - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Although tumours initiate from oncogenic changes in a cancer cell, subsequent tumour
progression and therapeutic response depend on interactions between the cancer cells and …