A reference cell tree will serve science better than a reference cell atlas

S Domcke, J Shendure - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Single-cell biology is facing a crisis of sorts. Vast numbers of single-cell molecular profiles
are being generated, clustered and annotated. However, this is overwhelmingly ad hoc, and …

Neurogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

RJ Poole, N Flames, L Cochella - Genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Animals rely on their nervous systems to process sensory inputs, integrate these with
internal signals, and produce behavioral outputs. This is enabled by the highly specialized …

High-throughput functional characterization of combinations of transcriptional activators and repressors

AX Mukund, J Tycko, SJ Allen, SA Robinson… - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
Despite growing knowledge of the functions of individual human transcriptional effector
domains, much less is understood about how multiple effector domains within the same …

Transcription factor condensates and signaling driven transcription

R Mann, D Notani - Nucleus, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Transcription Factor (TF) condensates are a heterogenous mix of RNA, DNA, and multiple
co-factor proteins capable of modulating the transcriptional response of the cell. The …

Integration of spatial and temporal patterning in the invertebrate and vertebrate nervous system

YC Chen, N Konstantinides - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The nervous system is one of the most sophisticated animal tissues, consisting of thousands
of interconnected cell types. How the nervous system develops its diversity from a few neural …

Mechanisms of lineage specification in Caenorhabditis elegans

J Liu, JI Murray - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The studies of cell fate and lineage specification are fundamental to our understanding of
the development of multicellular organisms. Caenorhabditis elegans has been one of the …

A modified TurboID approach identifies tissue-specific centriolar components in C. elegans

E Holzer, C Rumpf-Kienzl, S Falk… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Proximity-dependent labeling approaches such as BioID have been a great boon to studies
of protein-protein interactions in the context of cytoskeletal structures such as centrosomes …

Recent advances in understanding microRNA function and regulation in C. elegans

K Kotagama, K McJunkin - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) were first discovered in C. elegans as essential post-transcriptional
regulators of gene expression. Since their initial discovery, miRNAs have been implicated in …

What is an enhancer?

HF Thomas, C Buecker - Bioessays, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tight control of the transcription process is essential for the correct spatial and temporal
gene expression pattern during development and in homeostasis. Enhancers are at the core …

Single-cell transcriptomics in the Drosophila visual system: Advances and perspectives on cell identity regulation, connectivity, and neuronal diversity evolution

F Simon, N Konstantinides - Developmental biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The Drosophila visual system supports complex behaviors and shares many of its
anatomical and molecular features with the vertebrate brain. Yet, it contains a much more …