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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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Histone deacetylase 1 is required to repress Notch target gene expression during zebrafish neurogenesis and to maintain the production of motoneurones in response to hedgehog signalling

TL;DR: It is shown that hdac1 is specifically required in the zebrafish embryonic CNS to maintain neurogenesis, and this requirement for hdAC1 is epistatic to the requirement for Notch signalling.
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Ex vivo whole-embryo culture of caspase-8-deficient embryos normalize their aberrant phenotypes in the developing neural tube and heart

TL;DR: Results suggest that caspase-8 is indispensable for embryonic development, and homozygous mutant neural and heart defects were rescued by ex vivo whole-embryo culture during E10.5–E11.5, suggesting that these defects are most likely secondary to a lack of physiological casp enzyme-8 activity.
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Alzheimer’s disease and Notch signaling

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Notch Activation Enhances the Microglia-Mediated Inflammatory Response Associated With Focal Cerebral Ischemia

TL;DR: Findings establish a role for Notch signaling in modulating the microglia innate response and suggest that inhibition of Notch might represent a complementary therapeutic approach to prevent reactive gliosis in stroke and neuroinflammation-related degenerative disorders.
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Cancer stem cells and tumor-associated macrophages: a roadmap for multitargeting strategies

TL;DR: The recent molecular data concerning the multilayered relationship between cancer stem cells and tumor-associated macrophages that form a key component of the tumor microenvironment are summarized.
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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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