The molecular basis for cellular function of intrinsically disordered protein regions

AS Holehouse, BB Kragelund - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered protein regions exist in a collection of dynamic interconverting
conformations that lack a stable 3D structure. These regions are structurally heterogeneous …

Integrating old and new paradigms of G1/S control

SM Rubin, J Sage, JM Skotheim - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The Cdk-Rb-E2F pathway integrates external and internal signals to control
progression at the G1/S transition of the mammalian cell cycle. Alterations in this pathway …

Fundamental trade-offs between information flow in single cells and cellular populations

R Suderman, JA Bachman, A Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Signal transduction networks allow eukaryotic cells to make decisions based on information
about intracellular state and the environment. Biochemical noise significantly diminishes the …

A precise Cdk activity threshold determines passage through the restriction point

C Schwarz, A Johnson, M Kõivomägi, E Zatulovskiy… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
At the restriction point (R), mammalian cells irreversibly commit to divide. R has been viewed
as a point in G1 that is passed when growth factor signaling initiates a positive feedback …

Spatial and temporal signal processing and decision making by MAPK pathways

O Atay, JM Skotheim - Journal of Cell Biology, 2017 - rupress.org
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways are conserved from yeast to man and
regulate a variety of cellular processes, including proliferation and differentiation. Recent …

Learning of signaling networks: molecular mechanisms

P Csermely, N Kunsic, P Mendik, M Kerestély… - Trends in biochemical …, 2020 - cell.com
Molecular processes of neuronal learning have been well described. However, learning
mechanisms of non-neuronal cells are not yet fully understood at the molecular level. Here …

Bistability of somatic pattern memories: stochastic outcomes in bioelectric circuits underlying regeneration

G Pezzulo, J LaPalme, F Durant… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nervous systems' computational abilities are an evolutionary innovation, specializing and
speed-optimizing ancient biophysical dynamics. Bioelectric signalling originated in cells' …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic inheritance of gene silencing is maintained by a self-tuning mechanism based on resource competition

O Karin, EA Miska, BD Simons - Cell systems, 2023 - cell.com
Biological systems can maintain memories over long timescales, with examples including
memories in the brain and immune system. It is unknown how functional properties of …

CDK and MAPK synergistically regulate signaling dynamics via a shared multi-site phosphorylation region on the scaffold protein Ste5

MV Repetto, MJ Winters, A Bush, W Reiter… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
We report an unanticipated system of joint regulation by cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) and
mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), involving collaborative multi-site phosphorylation …

The genetics of epigenetic inheritance: modes, molecules, and mechanisms

S Schaefer, JH Nadeau - The Quarterly review of biology, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
Organisms adapt developmental and physiological features to local and transient conditions
in part by modulating transcription, translation, and protein functions, usually without …