Retinoic acid signaling and neuronal differentiation

A Janesick, SC Wu, B Blumberg - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2015 - Springer
The identification of neurological symptoms caused by vitamin A deficiency pointed to a
critical, early developmental role of vitamin A and its metabolite, retinoic acid (RA). The …

Visualizing spatiotemporal dynamics of multicellular cell-cycle progression

A Sakaue-Sawano, H Kurokawa, T Morimura, A Hanyu… - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
The cell-cycle transition from G 1 to S phase has been difficult to visualize. We have
harnessed antiphase oscillating proteins that mark cell-cycle transitions in order to develop …

[HTML][HTML] Licensing of DNA replication, cancer, pluripotency and differentiation: an interlinked world?

SC Tsaniras, N Kanellakis, IE Symeonidou… - Seminars in cell & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent findings provide evidence for a functional interplay between DNA replication and the
seemingly distinct areas of cancer, development and pluripotency. Protein complexes …

Adult neural stem cells and multiciliated ependymal cells share a common lineage regulated by the geminin family members

G Ortiz-Álvarez, M Daclin, A Shihavuddin, P Lansade… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Adult neural stem cells and multiciliated ependymal cells are glial cells essential for
neurological functions. Together, they make up the adult neurogenic niche. Using both high …

Mcidas and GemC1 are key regulators for the generation of multiciliated ependymal cells in the adult neurogenic niche

C Kyrousi, M Arbi, GA Pilz, DE Pefani… - …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Multiciliated cells are abundant in the epithelial surface of different tissues, including cells
lining the walls of the lateral ventricles in the brain and the airway epithelium. Their main …

GemC1 controls multiciliogenesis in the airway epithelium

M Arbi, DE Pefani, C Kyrousi, ME Lalioti… - EMBO …, 2016 - embopress.org
Multiciliated cells are terminally differentiated, post‐mitotic cells that form hundreds of motile
cilia on their apical surface. Defects in multiciliated cells lead to disease, including …

Rapid initiation of cell cycle reentry processes protects neurons from amyloid-β toxicity

S Ippati, Y Deng, J van der Hoven… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Neurons are postmitotic cells. Reactivation of the cell cycle by neurons has been reported in
Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains and models. This gave rise to the hypothesis that reentering …

MCM9 binds Cdt1 and is required for the assembly of prereplication complexes

M Lutzmann, M Méchali - Molecular cell, 2008 - cell.com
Prereplication complexes (pre-RCs) define potential origins of DNA replication and allow the
recruitment of the replicative DNA helicase MCM2-7. Here, we characterize MCM9, a …

[PDF][PDF] Cdt1 and Geminin in cancer: markers or triggers of malignant transformation

C Petropoulou, P Kotantaki, D Karamitros… - Front …, 2008 - article.imrpress.com
Introduction 3. A role for Cdt1 and Geminin in regulating genomic integrity and cancer
promotion in tumor cells 4. Geminin and Cdt1 as markers for cancer prognosis 5 …

[HTML][HTML] foxD5 plays a critical upstream role in regulating neural ectodermal fate and the onset of neural differentiation

B Yan, KM Neilson, SA Moody - Developmental biology, 2009 - Elsevier
foxD5 is expressed in the nascent neural ectoderm concomitant with several other neural-
fate specifying transcription factors. We used loss-of-function and gain-of-function …