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Bone morphogenetic protein 4

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Identification of Signaling Mechanisms Determining the Development of Large Excitatory Synapses in the Lower Auditory System

Le Xiao

In the brainstem auditory circuit of mammals and birds, excitatory synapses with extraordinarily large size have evolved, which ensure fast membrane potential signaling mediated by large, multiquantal excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs). The so-called ...

EPFL2011

The Role of Nodal Processing in Pluripotent Progenitors

Anja Dietze

Nodal and its co-receptors of the EGF-CFC family are essential during chordate development, both to maintain pluripotent progenitor cells and to subsequently coordinate their allocation to the different germ layers. How these distinct Nodal activities are ...

EPFL2011

The microenvironment patterns the pluripotent mouse epiblast through paracrine Furin and Pace4 proteolytic activities

Daniel Constam, Christophe Fuerer

The fate of pluripotent cells in early mouse embryos is controlled by graded Nodal signals that are activated by the endoproteases Furin and Pace4. Soluble forms of Furin and Pace4 cleave proNodal in vitro and after secretion in transfected cells, but dire ...

2011

Pore-forming toxins induce multiple cellular responses promoting survival

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Mirko Bischofberger, Sylvia Ho, Rodrigo Manuel Gonzalez

Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are secreted proteins that contribute to the virulence of a great variety of bacterial pathogens. They inflict one of the more disastrous damages a target cell can be exposed to: disruption of plasma membrane integrity. Since thi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Genetic dissection of differential signaling threshold requirements for the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway in vivo

Jörg Hülsken

Contributions of null and hypomorphic alleles of Apc in mice produce both developmental and pathophysiological phenotypes. To ascribe the resulting genotype-to-phenotype relationship unambiguously to the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway, we challenged the allele c ...

Public Library of Science2010

Key roles for transforming growth factor beta in melanocyte stem cell maintenance

Friedrich Beermann

Melanocyte stem cells in the bulge area of hair follicles are responsible for hair pigmentation, and defects in them cause hair graying. Here we describe the process of melanocyte stem cell entry into the quiescent state and show that niche-derived transfo ...

2010

Reciprocal requirements for EDA/EDAR/NF-kappaB and Wnt/beta- catenin signaling pathways in hair follicle induction

Yi Zhang, Jörg Hülsken

Wnt/beta-catenin and NF-kappaB signaling mechanisms provide central controls in development and disease, but how these pathways intersect is unclear. Using hair follicle induction as a model system, we show that patterning of dermal Wnt/beta-catenin signal ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2009

A self-regulatory system of interlinked signaling feedback loops controls mouse limb patterning

Felix Naef, Mirko Bischofberger

Embryogenesis depends on self-regulatory interactions between spatially separated signaling centers, but few of these are well understood. Limb development is regulated by epithelial-mesenchymal (e-m) feedback loops between sonic hedgehog (SHH) and fibrobl ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2009

The role of TIF1 gamma during adult murine hematopoiesis

Transforming Growth Factor beta (TGFβ) signaling plays an important role in a variety of cellular processes during embryonic development, adult tissue homeostasis and cancer. TGFβI ligand is a potent inhibitor of early hematopoietic progenitor [1] cells in ...

EPFL2009