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 …

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling

Y Zhang, PA Beachy - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The Hedgehog signalling pathway has crucial roles in embryonic tissue patterning,
postembryonic tissue regeneration, and cancer, yet aspects of Hedgehog signal …

Autophagy in kidney homeostasis and disease

C Tang, MJ Livingston, Z Liu, Z Dong - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2020 - nature.com
Autophagy is a conserved lysosomal pathway for the degradation of cytoplasmic
components. Basal autophagy in kidney cells is essential for the maintenance of kidney …

The molecular structure of IFT-A and IFT-B in anterograde intraflagellar transport trains

SE Lacey, HE Foster, G Pigino - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Anterograde intraflagellar transport (IFT) trains are essential for cilia assembly and
maintenance. These trains are formed of 22 IFT-A and IFT-B proteins that link structural and …

[HTML][HTML] Ciliopathies and the kidney: a review

DJ McConnachie, JL Stow, AJ Mallett - American Journal of Kidney …, 2021 - Elsevier
Primary cilia are specialized sensory organelles that protrude from the apical surface of most
cell types. Over the past two decades, they have been found to play important roles in tissue …

Spatially resolved transcriptomics reveals the architecture of the tumor-microenvironment interface

MV Hunter, R Moncada, JM Weiss, I Yanai… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
During tumor progression, cancer cells come into contact with various non-tumor cell types,
but it is unclear how tumors adapt to these new environments. Here, we integrate spatially …

Pathophysiological implications of hypoxia in human diseases

PS Chen, WT Chiu, PL Hsu, SC Lin, IC Peng… - Journal of biomedical …, 2020 - Springer
Oxygen is essentially required by most eukaryotic organisms as a scavenger to remove
harmful electron and hydrogen ions or as a critical substrate to ensure the proper execution …

[HTML][HTML] A serotonergic axon-cilium synapse drives nuclear signaling to alter chromatin accessibility

SH Sheu, S Upadhyayula, V Dupuy, S Pang, F Deng… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Chemical synapses between axons and dendrites mediate neuronal intercellular
communication. Here, we describe a synapse between axons and primary cilia: the axo …

First contact: the role of respiratory cilia in host-pathogen interactions in the airways

LE Kuek, RJ Lee - … Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Respiratory cilia are the driving force of the mucociliary escalator, working in conjunction
with secreted airway mucus to clear inhaled debris and pathogens from the conducting …

The Hippo pathway, YAP/TAZ, and the plasma membrane

V Rausch, CG Hansen - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
The plasma membrane allows the cell to sense and adapt to changes in the extracellular
environment by relaying external inputs via intracellular signaling networks. One central …