Developmental Biology

Integrated transcriptomic analysis of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived osteogenic differentiation reveals a regulatory role of KLF16

1. Ying Ru
2. Meng Ma
3. Xianxiao Zhou
4. Divya Kriti
5. Ninette Cohen
6. Sunita D’Souza
7. Christoph Schaniel
8. Susan M Motch Perrine
9. Sharon Kuo
10. Oksana Pichurin
11. Dalila Pinto
12. Genevieve Housman
13. Greg Holmes
14. Eric Schadt
15. Harm van Bakel
16. Bin Zhang
17. Ethylin Wang Jabs
18. Meng Wu

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  eLife Assessment

  The authors investigated KLF Transcription Factor 16 (KLF16) as an inhibitor of osteogenic differentiation, which plays a critical role in bone development, metabolism and repair. The results of the study are valuable as they could help to facilitate future research on the regulation of osteogenesis in vitro and in vivo. However, the evidence overall is incomplete, as validation by knockout mouse models would help to strengthen the conclusions.

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BCAS2 promotes primitive hematopoiesis by sequestering β-catenin within the nucleus

1. Guozhu Ning
2. Yu Lin
3. Haixia Ma
4. Jiaqi Zhang
5. Liping Yang
6. Zhengyu Liu
7. Lei Li
8. Xinyu He
9. Qiang Wang

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  eLife Assessment

  This important work supports the role of breast carcinoma amplified sequence 2 (Bcas2) in positively regulating primitive wave hematopoiesis through amplification of beta-catenin-dependent (canonical) Wnt signaling. The study is convincing: it uses appropriate and validated methodology in line with the current state-of-the-art, and there is a first-rate analysis of a strong phenotype with highly supportive mechanistic data. The findings shed light on the controversial question of whether, when, and how canonical Wnt signaling may be involved in hematopoietic development. The work will be of interest to hematologists and developmental biologists.

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A myofilament lattice model of Drosophila flight muscle sarcomeres based on multiscale morphometric analysis during development

1. Péter Görög
2. Tibor Novák
3. Tamás F. Polgár
4. Péter Bíró
5. Adél Gutheil
6. Csaba Kozma
7. Tamás Gajdos
8. Krisztina Tóth
9. Alexandra Tóth
10. Miklós Erdélyi
11. József Mihály
12. Szilárd Szikora

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The PIDDosome controls cardiomyocyte polyploidization during postnatal heart development

1. M Leone
2. N Kinz
3. F Eichin
4. D Obwegs
5. VC Sladky
6. VZ Braun
7. D Rizzotto
8. L Englmaier
9. C Manzl
10. K Moos
11. Julia Mergner
12. P Giansanti
13. MN Garcia
14. MM Marques
15. ED Jacotot
16. C Savko
17. M Boerries
18. MA Sussman
19. A Villunger

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A conserved differentiation program facilitates inhibitory neuron production in the developing mouse and human cerebellum

1. Jens Bager Christensen
2. Alex P.A. Donovan
3. Marzieh Moradi
4. Giada Vanacore
5. Mohab Helmy
6. Adam J. Reid
7. Jimmy Tsz Hang Lee
8. Omer Ali Bayraktar
9. Andrea H. Brand
10. N. Sumru Bayin

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Stimulatory and inhibitory G-protein signaling relays drive cAMP accumulation for timely metamorphosis in the chordate Ciona

1. Akiko Hozumi
2. Nozomu M Totsuka
3. Arata Onodera
4. Yanbin Wang
5. Mayuko Hamada
6. Akira Shiraishi
7. Honoo Satake
8. Takeo Horie
9. Kohji Hotta
10. Yasunori Sasakura

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  eLife Assessment

  This important work substantially advances our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the timing of the initiation of metamorphosis of the Ciona ascidian tadpole larva. Through the combination of gene knockdown experiments and fluorescent molecular reporters the authors provide compelling evidence about a crosstalk between different G protein mediated signalling pathways and are able to place different signalling molecules within a signalling network. The work will be of interest to molecular, developmental and marine biologists and to scientists working on animal metamorphosis.

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Mouse scalp development requires Rac1 and SRF for the maintenance of mechanosensing mesenchyme

1. Bharath H. Rathnakar
2. Alex Rackley
3. Hae Ryong Kwon
4. William L. Berry
5. Lorin E. Olson

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Glycolytic flux controls retinal progenitor cell differentiation via regulating Wnt signaling

1. Joseph Hanna
2. Yacine Touahri
3. Alissa Pak
4. Lauren Belfiore
5. Edwin van Oosten
6. Luke Ajay David
7. Sisu Han
8. Yaroslav Ilnytskyy
9. Igor Kovalchuk
10. Deborah Kurrasch
11. Satoshi Okawa
12. Antonio del Sol
13. Robert A Screaton
14. Isabelle Aubert
15. Carol Schuurmans

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  eLife Assessment

  This fundamental study advances our understanding of the role that energy metabolism, specifically anaerobic glycolysis, plays during retinal development. Convincing in vitro genetic and pharmacological evidence demonstrates that glycolytic flux controls retinal progenitor cell proliferation rates and the timing of photoreceptor maturation. Interesting evidence suggests potential downstream roles for intracellular pH and Wnt/β-catenin signaling; however, more direct evidence is needed to show they are the key mechanisms through which glycolytic flux regulates retinogenesis in vivo. This work is expected to stimulate broad interest and possible future studies investigating the link between metabolism and development in other tissue systems.

  [Editors’ note: Primary data for this manuscript are not available due to a corrupted hard drive that occurred during the course of peer review. However, preprocessed data are available.]

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A library of lineage-specific driver lines connects developing neuronal circuits to behavior in the Drosophila ventral nerve cord

1. Jelly HM Soffers
2. Erin Beck
3. Daniel J Sytkowski
4. Marianne E Maughan
5. Devasri Devarakonda
6. Yi Zhu
7. Beth A Wilson
8. Yu-Chieh David Chen
9. Ted Erclik
10. James W Truman
11. James B Skeath
12. Haluk Lacin

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  eLife Assessment

  This work presents an important genetic toolkit for Drosophila neurobiologists to access and manipulate neuronal lineages during development and adulthood. The evidence supporting the fidelity of this toolkit after revision is compelling. This work will interest Drosophila neurobiologists in general, and some of the genetic tools may be used outside the nervous system. The conceptual approaches used in this paper are likely transferable to other fields as comparable data and genomic methods are obtained.

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Planar cell polarity coordination in a cnidarian embryo provides clues to animal body axis evolution

1. Julie Uveira
2. Antoine Donati
3. Marvin Léria
4. Marion Lechable
5. François Lahaye
6. Christine Vesque
7. Evelyn Houliston
8. Tsuyoshi Momose

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  eLife Assessment

  This analysis of the formation of the oral-aboral body axis in cnidarians, the sister group of bilaterians, is a significant and fundamental contribution to the field of Wnt signalling and planar cell polarity, particularly in or understanding in gradient formation, non-canonical Wnt signalling and Wnt-Frizzled interactions in cnidarians. The evidence supporting the conclusions is compelling and has the potential to contribute to a deeper understanding of the origin and evolution of Wnt signalling in cnidarians and metazoans in general. These findings, which are presented in a thoughtful and scholarly manner, will be of broad interest to developmental and evolutionary biologists.

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