Developmental Biology

Bidirectional redistribution of actomyosin drives epithelial invagination in ascidian siphon tube morphogenesis

1. Jinghan Qiao
2. Pengyu Yu
3. Hongzhe Peng
4. Wenjie Shi
5. Bo Li
6. Bo Dong

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  This useful study uses a combination of experimental and modeling approaches to investigate the role of actomyosin in epithelial invagination during Ciona siphon tube morphogenesis. Several types of solid quantitative analyses and modeling approaches are presented that support a model in which bidirectional relocation of actomyosin drives invagination. Since epithelial invagination contributes to the morphogenesis of many developing organs, this work has the potential to appeal to both cell biologists and developmental biologists.

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Spatial activation of Kinesin-1 by Ensconsin shapes microtubule networks via ncMTOCs recruitment

1. Anne-Marie Berisha
2. Aude Pascal
3. Marine Guelle
4. Clément Bousquet
5. Denis Chrétien
6. Laetitia Bataillé
7. Régis Giet

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Hox – Meis -relayed gene regulatory transition underlies cardiopharyngeal neural crest diversification

1. Akiyasu Iwase
2. Yasunobu Uchijima
3. Daiki Seya
4. Mayuko Kida
5. Hiroki Higashiyama
6. Kazuhiro Matsui
7. Akashi Taguchi
8. Yukihiro Harada
9. Yunce Wang
10. Shogo Yamamoto
11. Shiro Fukuda
12. Seitaro Nomura
13. Takahide Kohro
14. Chisa Shukunami
15. Haruhiko Akiyama
16. Masahide Seki
17. Akinori Kanai
18. Yutaka Suzuki
19. Teruhisa Kawamura
20. Osamu Nakagawa
21. Hiroto Katoh
22. Shumpei Ishikawa
23. Youichiro Wada
24. Hiroyuki Aburatani
25. Yukiko Kurihara
26. Sachiko Miyagawa-Tomita
27. Hiroki Kurihara

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Genotype-phenotype correlations and de novo induction of cancer stem cells in Wilms tumor initiation

1. N.S. Pop
2. D. Koot
3. C.M. Brouwers
4. M.M. Linssen
5. J.W.C. Claassens
6. C.W.J. Cartlidge
7. D.D. Özdemir
8. K.S. Dolt
9. P. Hohenstein

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The neurotrophin DNT-2 regulates cell survival and connectivity via the Toll-2 receptor during visual system development of Drosophila

1. Naser Alshamsi
2. Francisca Rojo-Cortés
3. Bangfu Zhu
4. Samaher Fahy
5. Guiyi Li
6. Anna Lassota
7. Marta Moreira
8. Alicia Hidalgo

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The co-repressor Groucho limits progression through the early transcription elongation checkpoint in vivo

1. María Lorena Martínez Quiles
2. Barbara H Jennings

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Functional Separation of mRNA Domains Coordinates Pluripotent Cell Behavior

1. Ze Yang
2. Shaoyi Ji
3. Kristina Ivanov
4. Priyanka Kadav
5. Mengmeng Song
6. Leonardi Gozali
7. Sophie Parsa
8. Barry Behr
9. Mary A Hynes

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  This study provides fundamental insights by demonstrating that the Nanog mRNA coding sequence (CDS) and 3′UTR domains are spatially segregated and functionally distinct in pluripotent stem cells and blastocysts, with 3′UTR-enriched border cells primarily influencing morphogenesis and CDS-enriched inner cells largely regulating transcription and epigenetic programs. The work opens a novel conceptual avenue for understanding how separable mRNA domains can differentially control cell behavior and differentiation. However, the evidence is incomplete, as key aspects of the molecular nature, biogenesis, and precise characterization of the separated 3′UTR and CDS RNA species, as well as causal links between their perturbation and the observed phenotypes (e.g., via rescue and deeper characterization of 3′UTR elements), remain to be fully established.

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