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Notch Signaling: Cell Fate Control and Signal Integration in Development

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, +2 more
- 30 Apr 1999 - 
- Vol. 284, Iss: 5415, pp 770-776
TLDR
Notch signaling defines an evolutionarily ancient cell interaction mechanism, which plays a fundamental role in metazoan development, providing a general developmental tool to influence organ formation and morphogenesis.
Abstract
Notch signaling defines an evolutionarily ancient cell interaction mechanism, which plays a fundamental role in metazoan development. Signals exchanged between neighboring cells through the Notch receptor can amplify and consolidate molecular differences, which eventually dictate cell fates. Thus, Notch signals control how cells respond to intrinsic or extrinsic developmental cues that are necessary to unfold specific developmental programs. Notch activity affects the implementation of differentiation, proliferation, and apoptotic programs, providing a general developmental tool to influence organ formation and morphogenesis.

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Fat facets and Liquid facets promote Delta endocytosis and Delta signaling in the signaling cells

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Notch Signaling and the Skeleton.

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Notch signaling: the demise of elegant simplicity.

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A developmental perspective on developmental instability: theory, models and mechanisms

TL;DR: A number of molecular models, which hold many possibilities for experimental studies of the mechanisms involved, point toward a promising new approach to understanding developmental instability that can reunite this field with developmental biology.
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Notch1 represses osteogenic pathways in aortic valve cells.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that Notch1 signaling in aortic valve cells represses osteoblast-like calcification pathways mediated by Bmp2, which is part of a highly conserved signaling pathway involved in cell fate decisions, cell differentiation, and cardiac valve formation.
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Notch-1 signalling requires ligand-induced proteolytic release of intracellular domain.

TL;DR: It is shown that signalling by a constitutively active membrane-bound Notch-1 protein requires the proteolytic release of the Notch intracellular domain (NICD), which interacts preferentially with CSL.
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Signalling downstream of activated mammalian Notch.

TL;DR: It is shown that activated forms of mNotch associate with the human analogue of Su(H), KBF2/RBP-JK and act as transcriptional activators through theKBF2-binding sites of the HES-1 promoter and block MyoD-induced myogenesis5-7.
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Notch signaling : Signal transduction

TL;DR: The Notch/Lin-12/Glp-1 receptor family mediates the specification of numerous cell fates during development in Drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans and putative components of the signaling cascade are identified, including a conserved family of extracellular ligands and two cellular factors that may associate with the Notch Intracellular domain.
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