Browse the search results

Page 2 of 4
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A plasma membrane-localized polycystin-1/polycystin-2 complex in endothelial cells elicits vasodilation

    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.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Cnidarian hair cell development illuminates an ancient role for the class IV POU transcription factor in defining mechanoreceptor identity

    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.
    1. Neuroscience

    ExSTED microscopy reveals contrasting functions of dopamine and somatostatin CSF-c neurons along the lamprey central canal

    Elham Jalalvand, Jonatan Alvelid ... Ilaria Testa
    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.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Ciliary Hedgehog signaling regulates cell survival to build the facial midline

    Shaun R Abrams, Jeremy F Reiter
    Genetic analysis identifies the origins of midface defects in mouse models of ciliopathies, revealing a role for ciliary Hedgehog signaling in cell survival.
    1. Cell Biology

    Ectocytosis prevents accumulation of ciliary cargo in C. elegans sensory neurons

    Adria Razzauti, Patrick Laurent
    Disposal of ciliary proteins via ectosomes budding from cilia tip or cilia base acts as a safeguard mechanism when cilia trafficking functions are impaired.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Targeting an anchored phosphatase-deacetylase unit restores renal ciliary homeostasis

    Janani Gopalan, Mitchell H Omar ... John D Scott
    An anchored phosphatase-deacetylase complex participates in primary cilia development.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Calcium signaling through a transient receptor channel is important for Toxoplasma gondii growth

    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.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The heteromeric PC-1/PC-2 polycystin complex is activated by the PC-1 N-terminus

    Kotdaji Ha, Mai Nobuhara ... Markus Delling
    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.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Intravascular flow stimulates PKD2 (polycystin-2) channels in endothelial cells to reduce blood pressure

    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.