Charles E MacKay, Miranda Floen ... Jonathan H Jaggar
Flow stimulates PC-1/PC-2 clusters in the plasma membrane of endothelial cells, leading to Ca2+ influx, NOS, SK channel, and IK channel activation, vasodilation, and a reduction in blood pressure.
Ethan Ozment, Arianna N Tamvacakis ... Nagayasu Nakanishi
Developmental genetics of sea anemone mechanosensory neurons provides insights into the deep evolutionary history of mechanoreceptor development in animals.
Expansion microscopy combined with light-sheet and STED microscopy elucidated the spatial organization and subcellular composition of two distinct GABAergic CSF-c neuronal subtypes in the lamprey spinal cord.
Genetic analysis identifies the origins of midface defects in mouse models of ciliopathies, revealing a role for ciliary Hedgehog signaling in cell survival.
Disposal of ciliary proteins via ectosomes budding from cilia tip or cilia base acts as a safeguard mechanism when cilia trafficking functions are impaired.
Karla Marie Márquez-Nogueras, Miryam Andrea Hortua Triana ... Silvia NJ Moreno
A transient receptor channel in Toxoplasma gondii that conducts calcium represents the first molecular element that initiates upstream calcium signals that activate parasite pathogenic pathways.
Soluble fragments cleaved from the N-terminus of PC-1 activate the PC-1/PC-2 heteromeric polycystin channel, describing for the first time that the N-terminus itself is an endogenous ligand.
Charles E MacKay, M Dennis Leo ... Jonathan H Jaggar
PKD2 (polycystin-2) channels are a major component of a flow-sensing signaling mechanism in endothelial cells that stimulates vasodilation and reduces blood pressure.