scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

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.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Alzheimer's Disease: Genes, Proteins, and Therapy

TL;DR: Evidence that the presenilin proteins, mutations in which cause the most aggressive form of inherited AD, lead to altered intramembranous cleavage of the beta-amyloid precursor protein by the protease called gamma-secretase has spurred progress toward novel therapeutics and provided discrete biochemical targets for drug screening and development.
Journal ArticleDOI

Signaling--2000 and beyond.

TL;DR: The important findings in the history of signal transduction are adequately covered in many reviews, and I have therefore cited reviews that discuss the seminal papers.
Journal ArticleDOI

Notch signalling: a simple pathway becomes complex

TL;DR: Although the intracellular transduction of the Notch signal is remarkably simple, with no secondary messengers, this pathway functions in an enormous diversity of developmental processes and its dysfunction is implicated in many cancers.
Journal ArticleDOI

Out of Eden: Stem Cells and Their Niches

TL;DR: Both intrinsic and extrinsic signals regulate stem cell fate and some of these signals have now been identified and can be exploited in the application of stem cells to tissue replacement therapy.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Antineurogenic phenotypes induced by truncated Notch proteins indicate a role in signal transduction and may point to a novel function for Notch in nuclei.

TL;DR: The activities of the dominant, gain-of-function proteins indicate that Notch functions as a signal transducing receptor during ectoderm development and production of antineurogenic Notch proteins in embryos deficient for the other neurogenic genes allowed functional dependencies to be established.
Journal ArticleDOI

Alterations in Notch signaling in neoplastic lesions of the human cervix

TL;DR: The evidence suggests that Notch expression is associated with cell populations that are undergoing cell fate changes and that notch activity can be used to monitor cell fate abnormalities in cervical as well as other epithelial neoplasias.
Journal ArticleDOI

Notch signaling inhibits muscle cell differentiation through a CBF1-independent pathway

TL;DR: It is proposed that Notch signaling activates at least two different pathways: one which involves CBF1 as an intermediate and one which does not, and Jagged-Notch interactions that prevent the expression of muscle cell specific genes do not involve the upregulation of endogenous HES-1.
Journal ArticleDOI

Serrate signals through Notch to establish a Wingless-dependent organizer at the dorsal/ventral compartment boundary of the Drosophila wing

TL;DR: It is reported here that Serrate and Notch mediate the interaction between dorsal and ventral cells to direct localized expression of Wingless at the D/V boundary.
Journal ArticleDOI

Correlating Notch Signaling with Thymocyte Maturation

TL;DR: The constitutively active intracellular fragment of murine Notch-1 is identified as capable of rendering thymomas resistant to glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis, and activation of the Notch signaling pathway upregulated a number of other markers that correlate with DP maturation into both the CD4 and CD8 lineages.
Related Papers (5)