Control of tissue development by morphogens

A Kicheva, J Briscoe - Annual review of cell and developmental …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Intercellular signaling molecules, known as morphogens, act at a long range in developing
tissues to provide spatial information and control properties such as cell fate and tissue …

Morphogen rules: design principles of gradient-mediated embryo patterning

J Briscoe, S Small - Development, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
The Drosophila blastoderm and the vertebrate neural tube are archetypal examples of
morphogen-patterned tissues that create precise spatial patterns of different cell types. In …

Species-specific pace of development is associated with differences in protein stability

T Rayon, D Stamataki, R Perez-Carrasco… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION What determines the pace of embryonic development? Although the
molecular and cellular mechanisms of many developmental processes are evolutionarily …

[PDF][PDF] Single cell transcriptomics reveals spatial and temporal dynamics of gene expression in the developing mouse spinal cord

J Delile, T Rayon, M Melchionda, A Edwards… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The coordinated spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression in the vertebrate neural
tube determines the identity of neural progenitors and the function and physiology of the …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing neuronal diversity in the spinal cord: a time and a place

A Sagner, J Briscoe - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The vertebrate spinal cord comprises multiple functionally distinct neuronal cell types
arranged in characteristic positions. During development, these different types of neurons …

Modeling ALS with motor neurons derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells

S Sances, LI Bruijn, S Chandran, K Eggan, R Ho… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Directing the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells into motor neurons has allowed
investigators to develop new models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However …

Single-cell transcriptome profiling of the human developing spinal cord reveals a conserved genetic programme with human-specific features

T Rayon, RJ Maizels, C Barrington, J Briscoe - Development, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
The spinal cord receives input from peripheral sensory neurons and controls motor output by
regulating muscle innervating motor neurons. These functions are carried out by neural …

A shared transcriptional code orchestrates temporal patterning of the central nervous system

A Sagner, I Zhang, T Watson, J Lazaro… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The molecular mechanisms that produce the full array of neuronal subtypes in the vertebrate
nervous system are incompletely understood. Here, we provide evidence of a global …

Gain and loss of function variants in EZH1 disrupt neurogenesis and cause dominant and recessive neurodevelopmental disorders

C Gracia-Diaz, Y Zhou, Q Yang, R Maroofian… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic variants in chromatin regulators are frequently found in neurodevelopmental
disorders, but their effect in disease etiology is rarely determined. Here, we uncover and …

Decoding of position in the developing neural tube from antiparallel morphogen gradients

M Zagorski, Y Tabata, N Brandenberg, MP Lutolf… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Like many developing tissues, the vertebrate neural tube is patterned by antiparallel
morphogen gradients. To understand how these inputs are interpreted, we measured …