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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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Down-regulation of the Notch Pathway in Human Airway Epithelium in Association with Smoking and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

TL;DR: Microarray analysis demonstrated that 45 of 55 Notch-related genes are expressed in the small airway epithelium of adults, which is consistent with the hypothesis that the Notch pathway likely plays a role in the human adult airways, with down-regulation of Notch pathways gene expression in association with smoking and COPD.
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Symbolic reachable set computation of piecewise affine hybrid automata and its application to biological modelling: Delta-notch protein signalling

TL;DR: An iterative refinement algorithm is proposed for computing discrete abstractions of a class of hybrid automata with piecewise affine continuous dynamics and forced discrete transitions, defined completely in terms of symbolic variables and parameters.
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Binding of Delta1, Jagged1, and Jagged2 to Notch2 rapidly induces cleavage, nuclear translocation, and hyperphosphorylation of Notch2.

TL;DR: Data indicate that all of these DSL proteins function as ligands for Notch2, and the findings of rapid cleavage, nuclear translocation, and phosphorylation of notch2 after ligand binding facilitate the understanding of the Notch signaling.
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Novel Notch alleles reveal a Deltex-dependent pathway repressing neural fate.

TL;DR: New alleles of Notch are described that specifically display loss of microchaetae sensory precursors, and it is shown that the loss of sensory organs associated with this phenotype results from a constitutive activation of a Deltex-dependent Notch-signaling event.
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Continuing role for mouse Numb and Numbl in maintaining progenitor cells during cortical neurogenesis

TL;DR: It is proposed that Numb-mediated asymmetric cell divisions, which diversify many cell fates in Drosophila melanogaster, represent a general mechanism in mammals for stem cells to balance self-renewal and differentiation.
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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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