Cell-matrix adhesion and cell-cell adhesion differentially control basal myosin oscillation and Drosophila egg chamber elongation

X Qin, BO Park, J Liu, B Chen… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Pulsatile actomyosin contractility, important in tissue morphogenesis, has been studied
mainly in apical but less in basal domains. Basal myosin oscillation underlying egg chamber …

Cell and tissue manipulation with ultrashort infrared laser pulses in light-sheet microscopy

G de Medeiros, D Kromm, B Balazs, N Norlin… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Three-dimensional live imaging has become an indispensable technique in the fields of cell,
developmental and neural biology. Precise spatio-temporal manipulation of biological …

The STIM-Orai Pathway: Light-Operated Ca2+ Entry Through Engineered CRAC Channels

G Ma, S Wen, Y Huang, Y Zhou - Store-Operated Ca²⁺ Entry (SOCE) …, 2017 - Springer
Ca 2+ signals regulate a plethora of cellular functions that include muscle contraction, heart
beating, hormone secretion, lymphocyte activation, gene expression, and metabolism. To …

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of bHLH transcription factors reveal their putative regulatory effects on petal nectar spur development in Aquilegia

X Li, H Huang, ZQ Zhang - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors (TFs) control a diversity of organ
morphogenesis involved in cell division and cell expansion processes. The development of …

Building light-inducible receptor tyrosine kinases

N Kim, H Park, D Woo, WD Heo - 2018 - books.rsc.org
Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are members of a superfamily of surface receptors
consisting of 20 subfamilies that transmit environmental signaling cues into cells. 1 Binding …

Linking cellular tensional force dynamics with actin architecture

T Andersen - 2018 - theses.hal.science
The structural stability and mechanical integrity are key elements for the proper functioning
and preservation of complex living systems. Being in constant interaction with their …

Optogenetic Tools for Quantitative Biology: The Genetically Encoded PhyB–PIF Light-inducible Dimerization System and Its Application for Controlling Signal …

S Oda, Y Uda, Y Goto, H Miura, K Aoki - 2018 - books.rsc.org
Signal transduction is a mechanism by which the cell responds to an extracellular input such
as growth factor and finally outputs a phenotype to adapt to the constantly changing …